{"id":3007,"date":"2012-04-01T13:05:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-01T17:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2016-07-17T12:04:12","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T16:04:12","slug":"oracle-identity-federation-oif-for-beginners-idp-sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2012\/04\/01\/oracle-identity-federation-oif-for-beginners-idp-sp\/","title":{"rendered":"Oracle Identity Federation (OIF) for beginners : IdP \/ SP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post covers basics of Federation and few points on OIF<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.<\/strong> Identity Federation is process of exchanging identity information between two enterprise (domains) <strong>Identity Provider<\/strong> (IdP) and <strong>Service Provider<\/strong> (SP). Assume that there are two companies<\/p>\n<p><strong>a)<\/strong> Your Company with name myCorp &#8211; domain1<br \/>\n<strong>b)<\/strong> Travel company (travelCorp) which provide car\/flight booking for employees of company myCorp &#8211; domain2<\/p>\n<p>Exchange of identity information between domain1 (myCorp) and domain2 (travelCorp) is called as <strong>Federation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2.<\/strong> Typically in Federation there are two parties<br \/>\n<strong>a) IdP <\/strong>(Identity Provider) &#8211; provides Identity<br \/>\n<strong>b) SP<\/strong> (Service Provider) &#8211; receives identity and provides service<\/p>\n<p>In above example &#8211; If you are employee of <strong>myCorp<\/strong> and you takes travel service (flight or car) from travelCorp then in this case myCorp will be treated as Identity Provider (<strong>IdP<\/strong>) and travelCorp will act as Service Provider (<strong>SP<\/strong>)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3.<\/strong> Oracle&#8217;s Federation Solution is <strong>Oracle Identity Federation<\/strong> (OIF) and is one of the component of Oracle Identity Management Suite.<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.<\/strong> OIF can act as <strong>IdP only<\/strong>, <strong>SP only<\/strong>, or <strong>both SP &amp; IdP<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>5.<\/strong> Federation can be<br \/>\n<strong>a) Browser-based<\/strong> &#8211; user accessing web application from browser on HTTP : Oracle Identity Federation (OIF) provides <strong>browser-based<\/strong> Federation Solution .<\/p>\n<p><strong>b) Document-based<\/strong> &#8211; application to application communication on SOAP : Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) provides <strong>document-based<\/strong> Federation solution.<\/p>\n<p><strong>6.<\/strong> Federation can be configured in following ways or use cases<br \/>\n<strong>a) Transient Federation<\/strong> : user <strong>may or may not<\/strong> have account in both federation partners i.e. IdP and SP. <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">SP simply relies on session asserted by IdP<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>b) Mapped Federation (Account Mapping)<\/strong> : user has account on both federation partners i.e. in IdP and SP. Account in IdP is mapped to account in SP based on common attribute. There is <strong>1-to-1 linking<\/strong>\u00a0of account between IdP and SP based on shared information like email, DN, uid etc.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nc) Linked Federation<\/strong>\u00a0(<strong>Account Linking<\/strong>): is an extension to mapped federation where user has account in both federation partners but there is <strong>no common attribute<\/strong> for mapping. This is also <strong>1-to-1 linking<\/strong> of account between IdP and SP (similar to Mapped Federation) . Example of linked federation is where user attribute employeeNumber(or something else)\u00a0at IdP side is linked to different attribute (like uid or email) at SP.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nd) Role based federation (attribute based)<\/strong> : IdP can send non-unique attribute in place of specific attribute like role of identity i.e. manager or developer.<\/p>\n<p><strong>7.<\/strong> OIF 11g is<strong> J2EE application<\/strong> deployed on WebLogic Server. OIF is deployed under managed server in <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/24\/domain-administration-managed-server-cluster-in-oracle-weblogic\/\" target=\"_blank\">WebLogic Domain<\/a>\u00a0and is tightly integrated with Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager Control (em)<\/p>\n<p><strong>8.<\/strong>\u00a0OIF 11g is installed using <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2009\/08\/21\/installing-oracle-fusion-middleware-fmw-11g-identity-management-components-oid-dip-ovd-oif\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oracle Identity Management software<\/a>\u00a0(same software that contains OID &amp; OVD).<\/p>\n<p><strong>9.<\/strong> Latest available <strong>OIF version<\/strong> (as of April 2012) is 11.1.1.6 (<strong>11g R1 PS5<\/strong>) . 11g R1 PS5 (11.1.1.6) is patch set only that means <strong>it must be installed on base version<\/strong> 11.1.1.2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>10.<\/strong>\u00a0Default <strong>Identity Store<\/strong> for OIF is <strong>WebLogic&#8217;s embedded LDAP<\/strong> <strong>server<\/strong> which can be changed to external LDAP server (OID, AD, ODSEE&#8230;) either at initial configuration statgeor later using enterprise manager (em)<\/p>\n<p>In next post, I&#8217;ll cover <strong>installation of Oracle Identity Federation<\/strong> including <strong>Authentication Type<\/strong>, <strong>User Store<\/strong>, <strong>Federation Store<\/strong>, <strong>Session\/Message Store<\/strong>, and<strong> Configuration Store<\/strong> in OIF<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post covers basics of Federation and few points on OIF 1. 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