How to use OAM 11g Access Tester

OAM 11g has an inbuilt Access Tester which is used to test connectivity and troubleshooting with the actual physical deployment. Unlike OAM 10g Access Tester, OAM 11g Access Tester will verify the connectivity at run time. I would like to talk about the steps for using Access Tester in OAM 11g.

  1. Copy the jars oamtest.jar and nap-api.jar located at $ORACLE_HOME/oam/server/tester in OAM deployed machine to your localĀ  system where you want to test the policies.
  2. Ensure that Java 1.6 is present in your environment. Test it using command line statement java -version.
  3. Locate the command prompt to the directory where OAM tester related jars are copied in Step1.
  4. Execute the command java -jar oamtest.jar as shown below.
  5. Tester wizard will display as shown below.
  6. Enter the following attribute values and click Connect as shown below:
    1. IP Address: IP address or Hostname of OAM server.
    2. Port: OAM Server Port. Default port is 5575.
    3. Max Conn: No. of max connections from WebGate to OAM Server.
    4. Agent ID: WebGate Profile ID.
    5. Agent Password: WebGate password
  7. Observe the connection result as shown below.
  8. Enter the values for fields Resource Hostname, Port, Resource URI and operation and click Validate. Observe the result as shown below.
  9. Enter the values for fields Username and Password to authenticate to the resource URI specified in step 8. Observe the result as shown below.
  10. Test the authorization by clicking Authorization button and observe the results as shown below.

That’s it. Please post your queries if you have any.

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