Category Archives for Oracle Access Manager

Oracle Access Manager: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

One of the trainee from our previous batch encountered issue while accessing the oamconsole URL:   http//<Hostname>:<Admin Port>/oamconsole. To find the root cause check the Admin Server log file located at $DOMAIN_HOME/servers/AdminServer/logs and in our case, it was showing below error messages: <Error> <HTTP> <hostname> <AdminServer> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: ’14’ for queue: ‘weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)’> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <0000wJ81aCT7y0G6yzYfMG000024000F0n> <1424169946099> […]

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Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11g : Architecture

This post covers Oracle Access Manager (OAM) Architecture / components from our Oracle Access Manager (OAM) 11g training   Note: Image from Oracle A-Team’s blog (must read blog) Oracle Access Manager 11g consists of 1. Database for OAM : Database hosts OAM’s metadata and policies defined by Administrators to secure business application. You use RCU to create OAM […]

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Oracle Identity & Access Management (IDAM) 11gR2 PS3 – 11.1.2.3 is now available

  Oracle Identity & Access Management 11g R2 PS3 (11.1.2.3) is now available (released on 18th May 2015) Documentation for Identity & Access Management 11gR2 PS3 11.1.2.3.0 is here Download Oracle IdM 11gR2 PS3 (11.1.2.3) software from here     Products available as part of Identity & Access Management 11gR2 Ps3 (11.1.2.3) are Oracle Access […]

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OAM 11g: Resource URL

Just in case if you have a requirement to retrieve the resource URL or the original URL the user accessed during authentication process in OAM 11g, then this post is for you. If you wish to redirect the user to different page post authentication/authorization success or failure and you would like to know the original […]

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Register OAM WebGate from WebGate host

Hi All, In this post I will explain how one can register a webgate from webgate host rather than registering the webgate from OAM Admin Console or OAM Admin Host. Refer these posts 1, 2 to understand concepts of WebGate registration in OAM 11g. Inband registration mode is used when Web Server Administrator and OAM […]

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Apache 11g WebGate for OAM 11gR2

Apache WebGate is one of the widely used webgates in most of the enterprises. Oracle has been releasing OHS 11g webgates for OAM 11gR1, R2 PS1 and R2 PS2 releases. However Oracle has released Apache 11g R2 PS1 webgate with OAM 11g R2 PS1 release and it can be downloaded from edelivery.oracle.com -> Oracle Fusion […]

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New OAMConsole in OAM 11gR2 PS2 : Enabling Federation, STS, Mobile & Social in Oracle Access Management Suite 11.1.2.2

I discussed about availability of IAM 11gR2 PS2 (11.1.2.2), installation changes in 11.1.2.2 here and lessons learned to upgrade to 11gR2 PS2 here . I also discussed new feature OAM High Availability across Data Centres introduced in 11gR2 PS2 (11.1.2.2). OAMConsole (Admin Console to configure & manage OAM) has changed in OAM 11GR2 PS2 (11.1.2.2), more information here […]

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Unprotecting URIs without using OAM Anonymous authentication

I am pretty sure you might have had the requirement to unprotect certain URI context in an application URL using OAM. This is in regards to OAM 10.1.4.3. The usual procedure to unprotect an URI context is to define the resource in OAM Policy Domain. Create a separate policy for that URI and specify Anonymous […]

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Deploying OAM in high availability across data centres in Active Active cluster : New Feature in OAM 11gR2 PS2

I discussed about IAM (OAM, OIM, OES, OAAM) 11gR2 PS2 (11.1.2.2) availability here  and changes introduced in installation of 11gR2 PS2 (11.1.2.2) here In this post I am going to cover new feature introduced in Oracle Access Manager i.e. to deploy OAM in high availability (Active-Active) across Data Centres. For list of all the new features introduced in […]

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Troubleshooting : 11g WebGate with OHS 11g integrated with OAM 11g : OBWebGate_AuthnAndAuthz: Oracle AccessGate API is not initialized

I discussed about issue Oracle AccessGate API is not initialized with OAM 11g with WebGate 10g where CERTIFICATES expired . In this post I am going to cover similar issue but in OAM 11g version. After integrating OAM 11g WebGate for OHS with OAM 11g Server version configured in SIMPLE (this issue could be with […]

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