IAM's New Playground Blockchain

As we all are hearing buzzword bitcoin and blockchain everyday and every industry is evaluating use cases where Blockchain can be leveraged to solve conventional problems. IAM industry has also been started to use this new technology to build identity products and platforms.

Please click on below link to know more how Blockchain is complementing IAM (Identity & Access Management) domain:

Can IAM solutions benefit from Blockchain?

Get started using Oracle Identity Manager 11gR2 PS3

Learn Oracle Identity Manager 11gR2 PS3

• This introductory series of short Oracle by Example tutorials will help you get started using Oracle Identity Manager 11gR2 PS3. The tutorials in this series will help you learn how to:
• Install and prepare an Oracle Database for Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite
• Setup an Oracle Identity Manager 11gR2 PS3 environment
• Work with Oracle Identity Manager entities
• Provision Oracle Identity Manager accounts using a connector

Click below link to open up tutorial - 

https://apexapps.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=44785:24:8981898114856::NO:24:P24_CONTENT_ID,P24_PREV_PAGE:12333,16

Setting-up an Oracle Identity Manager 11gR2 PS3 environment

http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/oim/oim_11g/OIM_Getting_Started_Series/setup_oim_environment/setup_oim_11gr2ps3_environment.html

Propagate Changes from OIM User Profile to Target (Resources)

Propagate the changes from OIM User profile to a target (resource e.g. OID or ODSEE)

Go to Design Console and then open up the lookup table 'Lookup.USR_PROCESS_TRIGGERS' and map the OIM User profile attributes with corresponding tasks e.g. 'USR_FIRST_NAME' is a user profile attribute and 'Change First Name' task is corresponding target Task name. With this configuration when you make changes to 'First Name' then the changes automatically propagates to Target e.g. ODSEE or OID.

Trusted User Recon Setup for OID-11.1.1.5.0 ICF Based Connector

Oracle launched OID-11.1.1.5.0 ICF connector which supports the following directory servers

Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition (ODSEE), Oracle Internet Directory (OID), Oracle Unified Directory (OUD), and Novell eDirectory.

By default the connector is configured for Target User reconciliation if you want to configure the connector for Trusted User recon then make the following changes

1. Go to the design console and search for the lookup table 'Lookup.LDAP.Configuration'.

2. Update the decode value with 'Lookup.LDAP.UM.Configuration.Trusted' of 'User Configuration Lookup' code key as shown in picture.

3. Save the changes.

4. Run the Trusted User Recon job 'LDAP Connector Trusted User Reconciliation'.

java.io.InvalidClassException: org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectList

Due to Eclipselink.jar incompatibility within JDeveloper I faced the following exception:


Exception in thread "main" javax.ejb.EJBException: failed to unmarshal interface java.util.List; nested exception is: 
java.io.InvalidClassException: org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectList; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 4038061360325736360, local class serialVersionUID = -494763524358427112; nested exception is: java.io.InvalidClassException: org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectList; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 4038061360325736360, local class serialVersionUID = -494763524358427112
java.io.InvalidClassException: org.eclipse.persistence.indirection.IndirectList; local class incompatible: stream classdesc serialVersionUID = 4038061360325736360, local class serialVersionUID = -494763524358427112

Solution:

Replace the Eclipselink.jar with the JAR file found at the following location:

 Middleware_Home\oracle_common\modules\oracle.toplink_11.1.1\eclipselink.jar

Compile and Run the program again and it will run without any problem.

Get OIM DB Connection

We have OIM APIs to get connection to OIM DB and we can fire up a query to get data from OIM DB tables.

           
/**
* OIM DB Table: UPA_UD_FORMFIELDS
*Column Name: OLD_VALUE

*/

String query =
               "select * from UPA_UD_FORMFIELDS";

Connection connection = Platform.getOperationalDS().getConnection();

PreparedStatement prepared_statement = connection.prepareStatement(query);

ResultSet resultSet = prepared_statement.executeQuery();

String  field_old_value = resultSet.getString("OLD_VALUE");
            
            System.out.println("field_old_value: "+field_old_value);


List of OIM DB tables:

http://www.reachdba.com/showthread.php?701-OIM-List-of-Tables-and-Description