All posts by Mahendra
How to invoke OIM from custom web application
One might want to use Oracle Identity Manager in their IDM projects for sure. Just in case if you wanted to access OIM functions at runtime in a custom web application, this post will help you. When you are writing custom connectors in OIM, you will create a java class that has your own methods […]
Read Moreinetorgperson objectclass disappeared in OID schema
We got into a panic situation yesterday for a while when the main objectclass inetorgperson disappeared all of a sudden in Oracle Internet Directory. All it happened like this: We had added a custom attribute in OID schema and specified this as an optional attribute in inetorgperson object class. We noticed that the attribute name […]
Read More“Cannot modify password” error while performing change password
I have configured the Password policies in OAM. While performing a change password function, I got the message “Cannot modify password” in the change password screen. Nothing suspicious in OID (OAM User store) for password related attributes. I have the seen the below error in the Identity Server logs: 2011/02/16@10:33:09.759368 317 317 LPM ERROR 0x00000901 […]
Read More“sgslunlListen: Bind failed (port=389), OS error=(13)” error in ldap log: Unable to bind to ldap
There are 2 nodes of OAM, OID in our production environment. When the first node services are down i.e., OAM and OID, the applications or webgate should talk to 2nd node OAM service which is already configured in OAM access servers for failover, but that is not happening. However, the status of services OAM, OID […]
Read More“localhost:6021: Connection refused” recurring in OAM system
The OAM components such as Identity server and Access Server are running on ports 6034 and 6035 respectively in my environment. As everyone know that port 6021 will be used for Access Server in general. So, if you are using a different port and configured Access Server flush in Identity Server, then you may witness […]
Read MoreHow to protect JSF application using Oracle Access Manager?
Many people are using JSF technology for developing the web applications. No doubt about that. What if you are asked to protect that JSF application using Oracle Access Manager? Is it certified? Yes – OAM is certified for JSF applications from 10.1.4.3 onwards. In our environment, OAM Access Server is 10.1.4.3 and WebGate is 10.1.4.2. […]
Read MoreHow to index an attribute in OID
This could be easy task but I thought it would be useful for somebody. I had to index an attribute in Oracle Internet Directory for some other purpose. First of all, not all attributes are indexed in OID by default. You can search whether your attribute is indexed or not using Oracle Directory Manager. You […]
Read More“ldap_modify: additional info: Attribute dn is not supported in schema.” while importing an ldif file to OID
Today I faced an error while importing the ldif file to Oracle Internet directory. Though the solution is totally unrelated to the error, one will get disguised easily that there is some issue with the ldif file data. All I am doing is creating 2 new attributes and 1 object class in OID using ldapmodify […]
Read MoreExporting and importing groups to OID
I got an opportunity to work on exporting and importing groups from/to OID excluding the members of the groups today. In our case, the development environment had groups with users as members of it already and need to move those users to production environment. We need to provision the roles/groups to users into OID using […]
Read MoreNTP configuration in Database servers caused issues
We know that NTP has to be configured in servers for time synchronization. So, in our production environment, we had done the time synch using NTP protocol in OAM, OID and DB servers. Earlier, the time was set manually in all the servers. Though none of the other configurations were changed, the Oracle Internet Directory […]
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