{"id":6232,"date":"2014-01-06T13:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/?p=6232"},"modified":"2014-01-06T13:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-01-06T17:39:56","slug":"oim-administrators-is-your-oim-database-growing-do-you-purge-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2014\/01\/06\/oim-administrators-is-your-oim-database-growing-do-you-purge-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"OIM Administrators : Is your OIM database Growing ? Do you purge enough ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you manage <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2007\/05\/02\/oracle-identity-manager-user-provisioning-thor\/\">Oracle Identity Manager<\/a> (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">OIM &#8211; is Identity Management and Account Provisioning Software and is part of Oracle Identity Manageemnt Suite<\/span>) and if you see OIM database growing then this post is for you. This post covers, type of data in OIM database\u00a0 (OIM purge in detail to follow soon).<\/p>\n<p>In Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) there is mainly <strong>four type<\/strong> <strong>of data<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>a) Reconciliation Data<\/strong> (Reconciliation Events): During <a href=\"https:\/\/onlineappsdba.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/01\/resource-reconciliation-provisioning-and-connector-in-oracle-identity-manager-oim\/\">reconciliation<\/a>, reconciliation manager reconciles data in reconciliation tables (<strong>RECON_%<\/strong>, <strong>RA_%<\/strong>) . This data is <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>not<\/strong><\/span> cleared from reconciliation tables automatically and you must purge\/archive these tables periodically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>b) Task Data<\/strong> : Task data refers to activities that make Provisioning Process (OSI, OSH, SCH). This data is <strong>not<\/strong> cleared from reconciliation tables automatically and you must purge\/archive these tables periodically.<\/p>\n<p><strong>c) Platform Data<\/strong> : Data for Orchestration Events or Context Data is referred as Platform Data and is stored in table <strong>ORCHPROCESS<\/strong>, <strong>ORCHEVENTS<\/strong>, <strong>CONTEXT<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>CONTEXTVALUE<\/strong>. There is schedule task <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/E14571_01\/doc.1111\/e14308\/scheduler.htm#BABECJFD\">&#8220;Orchestration Process Cleanup Task scheduled task&#8221;<\/a> to delete completed Orchestration Process . However, this task does not delete Orchestration Process that are not yet complete . <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> More on how to purge OIM Orchestration Events whose status is not COMPLETE in next post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>d) Request Data<\/strong> : Requests in OIM are stored in database in tables <strong>REQUEST%<\/strong>, <strong>WF_INSTANCE<\/strong>. The data in these tables must be purged regularly for better performance.<\/p>\n<p>This information is covered in OIM documentation <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.oracle.com\/cd\/E37115_01\/admin.1112\/e27149\/archival_utilities.htm#CHDJBFEA\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You must also look at Oracle Support Note #<strong> 1331331.1<\/strong> Using the Audit Archival and Purge Utility for OIM(Oracle Identity Manager)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you manage Oracle Identity Manager (OIM &#8211; is Identity Management and Account Provisioning Software and is part of Oracle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[185],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oim"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>OIM Administrators : Is your OIM database Growing ? 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