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Could 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 […]

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inetorgperson 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 […]

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“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 […]

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How 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 […]

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“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 […]

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Exporting 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 […]

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NTP 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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Exception thrown in UserDB::ReadConfigUIList. Please verify that the Directory Server is running.

I have come across this issue while accessing the Policy Manager/ Access System Consoles. The screen shot is given below. I have tried the following workarounds for this: 1. Restarting the Identity Server and WebServer will get rid of this issue, but this is not a recommended solution. 2. Here comes the nice solution. Goto […]

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How to add custom attribute in Oracle Internet Directory and make it visible in OIDDAS console

This post will cover the steps for adding a custom attribute (say ptycode) in Oracle Internet Directory (I am using OID 10.1.4.3) and make it visible in OIDDAS console. To do this, login to OID using Java based Admin tool i.e., oidadmin. Goto Schema Management as shown below. Select the attributes tab as shown below. […]

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The subscriber ‘myrealm’ contains multiple values for the attribute ‘orclCommonUserSearchBase’

Today I faced an issue with user search base entries in OID. While running the configure script for BPEL worklist to use OID as user store, I got the below error. [java]  The subscriber ‘myrealm’ contains multiple values for the attribute ‘orclCommonUserSearchBase’ [java] cn=users,dc=myrealm,dc=com [java] cn=Partner,dc=myrealm,dc=com [java] cn=Customer,dc=myrealm,dc=com [java] cn=Employees,dc=myrealm,dc=com It means that administrator has […]

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