All posts by Masroof Ahmad

How to Create/Apply a Custom Password Policy in OIM 11g

This post covers steps on how to create a new password policy in Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) 11g and how to  set the criteria to enforce this custom password policy based on defined rules. OIM 11g comes with a development tool call “DESIGN CONSOLE” to perform various user management , resource management, administration and development tasks […]

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User not synced from OID (LDAP) to OIM (LDAPsync) : Account Locked in OAM is not locked in OIM

When you enable LDAPSync (More on LDAPSYnc here, here, and here ) in OIM 11g (LDAPSync is mandatory to integrate OIM with OAM for SSO), users updated in LDAP (OID) are synced to OID using scheduled task “LDAP User Create and Update Reconciliation” When user types wrong passwords 5 times in OAM or OAAM login […]

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ODL-52049 DMS-Startup oracle.core. ojdl.logging. LogUtil log cannot create instance of class ‘oracle. dfw. incident.Incident DetectionLog Filter’

Oracle Fusion Middleware Components (WebCenter, SOA, Identity Management, OBIEE etc) write Diagnostic Log files in Oracle Diagnostic Loader (ODL) format. Configuration file for Logging are stored in $DOMAIN_HOME/ config/ fmwconfig/ [weblogic_server_name]/ logging.xml & dfw_config.xml . To define logging level, you use Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager control (/em). If you see error like below while starting […]

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oracle_common missing from Oracle Fusion Middleware Home MW_HOME

  Oracle_Common (aka COMMON ORCALE_HOME ) contains the binary and library files required for Fusion Middleware Control (/em) and Java Required Files (JRF). It is created in the Middleware Home (MW_HOME) directory after we install Fusion Middleware Components such as SOA, Webcenter, UCM, or Identity Management (IdM). There can be only one Oracle Common home within […]

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Your account is locked. You can unlock your account by going to Forgot Password

If you login to application protected by Oracle Access Manager (OAM for Single Sign-On/SSO) and you see screen like above “Your account is locked. You can unlock your account by going to Forgot Password” , This error means your account is locked in Oracle Access Manager (OAM) Q: How OAM 11g treats account as locked […]

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Business Structure (Business Unit) in OIA : Basics you must know

I discussed about Resource Type, Resource, Policies and OIA vs Global Users, In this post I am going to cover Business Structure (aka Business Unit – BU) in Oracle Identity Analytics (OIA) Users in an Organization can be categories in departments/sub-department, In OIA department/sub-department are represented by Business Structure (aka Business Unit) 1. Business Structure can have departments […]

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500 Internal server accessing OIM application : com.bea. security.MicroSM. getInstance oracle.iam. platform. authz.impl

Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) is a J2EE application deployed on Oracle Weblogic Server (In OIM 11g WebLogic is mandatory, in previous versions You could deploy OIM on other application servers like IBM WebSphere, TomCat, IAS etc). In this post I am going to cover an issue that I encountered while accessing OIM application and fix […]

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Weekend Batch – Online Oracle Apps DBA R12 Training industry experts commencing on 01st December 2012

Join now to reap the benefits of Oracle Apps DBA R12 Training which is constantly in great demand. This is a course tailor made for you keeping in mind the latest in the world of Oracle.   Please find the course details mentioned below:   Commencement Date :  01st December 2012 Training Schedule :  01, 02, […]

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Policies in OIA and association with Role, Resource Type, Resource

Policies in OIA define account attributes and privileges (entitlements) that users have on different platforms or applications. For example in OIA, if you want to create users in Active Directory including member of a group in AD (assumption is that AD is integrated with provisioning server like OIM and provisioning server is integrated with OIA) then a) […]

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Target Resource (or Managed Resource) vs Trusted Source (or Authoritative Source) Mode : OIM integration with applications (AD, OID, OVD, EBS, SAP, HR, LDAP)

In this post I am going to cover two modes (Target Resource or Trusted Source) that OIM uses to integrate with applications like LDAP (OID, AD, OVD, iPlanet), HR (EBS, SAP, etc), Unix (Linux, Solaris), etc. 1. Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) can be integrated with Applications (LDAP, AD, OID, HR etc) in one of two […]

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