All posts by Mahendra
Oracle Portal 11.1.1.1.0 is not certified with OAM 10.1.4.3
Well, people might find it a bit stupid about the Post Title, but there are some surprises. In our production environment, we have Oracle Portal 11.1.1.1.0 and OAM 10.1.4.3. As usual, using the traditional approach we have used OSSO 10g to integrate Oracle Portal with OAM 10.1.4.3. The surprise here is that: Oracle Portal 11.1.1.1.0 […]
Read MoreHow to install Oracle Internet Directory 10.1.4.0.1 in an existing cluster that is already upgraded to 10.1.4.3
There is one main production environment where we have OID 10.1.4.0.1 installed and upgraded to 10.1.4.3 later. We have been setting up another production environment for disaster recovery purpose and had to use the same OID DB schema used in main production server. So we just replicated the database from main prod to disaster recovery […]
Read MoreHow to close the webgate to access server connection before firewall drops it
This is a very important item when you deploy your IDM system in real time. Let us assume there is a WebServer in DMZ zone you will see a firewall between WebGate installed on WebServer and the Access server which will be in the Application Zone. When you create a WebGate profile, a parameter Maximum […]
Read MoreHow to prevent users from cookie reply attacks, especially reading cookie contents from Java Script?
Today, I read a small note on OAM encrypted cookie and I thought to share it. Everyone is concerned about the security when they are accessing banking or any other secured applications though it is surrounded by Oracle Access Manager. Most often the problem arises with Cookie Reply attacks and it happens to be in […]
Read More“There is an error. Please Try again. configureWebGateMsg.xml: No such file or directory” error while installing Apache22 WebGate
I was trying to install an Apache 2.2 WebGate on Windows server and suddenly an error popped up after entering WebGate specific details. The error is There is an error. Please Try again. configureWebGateMsg.xml: No such file or directory I just tried to skip that section and pointed the httpd.conf of Apache Server. When I […]
Read MoreOracle SSO Failure – Unable to process request error while accessing BPEL worklist integrated with OSSO
This is purely a BPEL worklist and OSSO integration issue. To know more about the integration aspects, check this. While registering the SOA application with OSSO, we specified the fully qualified hostname as hostname.domain.com:7777 as shown below. ./ssoreg.sh -oracle_home_path $ORACLE_HOME -site_name hostname.oracle.com:7777 -config_mod_osso TRUE -mod_osso_url http://hostname.oracle.com:7777 -remote_midtier -config_file $ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/conf/osso/worklist/osso.conf -sso_partner_version v1.4 The osso.conf gets generated […]
Read MoreOIDDAS console looping while logging in
We were trying to sort out OIDDAS console login issue for a long time. Tired of troubleshooting as we could not find the root cause. However, we could see the below messages generating in OC4J logs unremittingly. <diagnostic> sessionId=c0a80b2e30d56d2985ead25746d7955fcbb30f13c0a0 sourcePageName=oiddashome sourcePageEventName=ssologin destinationPageName=OSSO_4LOGIN stamp=1301412378117 duration=0 </diagnostic> 11/03/29 20:56:18 [info] diagnostic record for the current request: <diagnostic> […]
Read MoreCould not login to OIDDAS console: Multiple Users found with Simple Name error
This issue is simple but good to know the root cause. There is a container in OID cn=Employee,cn=users,dc=oracle,dc=com apart from cn=users,dc=oracle,dc=com. I was trying to login to OIDDAS console as an Employee container user and it was throwing an error 401 Unauthorized. By the way, the OSSO (OID) was integrated with OAM already. When I […]
Read More“OCI failed to begin session” error while creating DB instance for DB auditing in Oracle Access Manager
The previous post talks about one issue occured during configuration of DB auditing in Oracle Access Manager. This post also talks about another issue of same feature. For configuring the DB Audit of Oracle Access Manager, an sql script has to be executed which creates 4 tables and one index. In our case, it is […]
Read More“OCI server connect failed” error while creating Database instance for DB Auditing in Oracle Access Manager
I have come across an error while creating a DB instance for configuring the DB auditing in Oracle Access Manager. The error message shown in identity server oblog is this: 2011/03/07@11:50:00.796402 14540 14540 SQL_ADAPTER ERROR 0x00000066 ../ocierrormap.cpp:53 “OCI server connect failed” method^OCIConnection::OCIConnection ociRetCode^OCI_ERROR Diagnostic Record number^1 Error Message^ORA-12154: TNS:could not resolve the connect identifier specified%0a […]
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