The following section will give you a high level overview of the components present in the Oracle Identity and Access Management suite,.
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1 Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
Oracle Identity Manager is a user
provisioning and administration solution, which automates the process of
adding, updating, and deleting user accounts from applications and directories.
It also improves regulatory compliance by providing granular reports that
attest to “who has access to what”.
Oracle Identity Manager is available as a stand-alone product or as part of
Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite.
Automating user identity
provisioning can reduce Information Technology (IT) administration costs and
improve security. Provisioning also plays an important role in regulatory
compliance.
Key features of Oracle Identity
Manager include password management,
workflow and policy management, identity reconciliation, reporting and
auditing, and extensibility.
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2 Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
Oracle Access Manager 11g provides a
full range of Web perimeter security functions that include Web single sign-on;
authentication and authorization; policy administration; auditing, and more.
Single sign-on (SSO) enables users
and groups of users, to access multiple applications after authentication. SSO
eliminates multiple sign-on requests. Oracle Access Manager 11g is the Oracle
Fusion Middleware 11g single sign-on solution
Oracle Access Manager 11g is a Java
Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)-based enterprise-level security
application that provides restricted access to confidential information and
centralized authentication and authorization services.
A Web server, Application Server, or
any third-party application must be protected by a “Webgate” or “mod_osso”
instance that is registered with Oracle Access Manager as an agent. To enforce
policies, the agent acts as a filter for HTTP requests. Oracle Access Manager
enables administrators to define authentication and authorization policies.
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3 Oracle Internet Directory (OID)
Oracle Internet Directory serves as the central user
repository for Oracle Identity Management, simplifying user administration in
the Oracle environment and providing a standards-based general purpose
directory for the diverse enterprise.
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4 Oracle Virtual Directory (OVD)
Oracle Virtual Directory is a LDAP version 3 enabled service
that provides virtualized abstraction of one or more
enterprise data sources into a single directory view. Oracle Virtual Directory
provides the ability to integrate LDAP-aware applications into diverse
directory environments while minimizing or eliminating the need to change
either the infrastructure or the applications. Oracle Virtual Directory
supports a diverse set of clients, such as Web Applications and portals, and it
can connect to directories, databases, and Web Services as shown in
5 Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle WebLogic Server is an enterprise-ready Java
application server that supports the deployment of many types of distributed
applications in a robust, secure, highly available, and scalable environment.
Oracle WebLogic Server is an ideal foundation for building and deploying
enterprise Java EE applications based on service-oriented architecture (SOA).
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6 Oracle HTTP Server (OHS)
Oracle HTTP Server is a web server based on the Apache HTTP
Server infrastructure. It provides a web listener for applications and the
framework for hosting static and dynamic pages and applications over the web.
Oracle HTTP Server includes significant enhancements that facilitate load
balancing, administration, and configuration. Features such as single sign-on,
clustered deployment, and high availability enhance the operation of Oracle
HTTP Server.
Oracle HTTP Server enables developers to program their site
in a variety of languages and technologies, such as Perl, C, C++, PHP, and
Oracle PL/SQL. It can also be a proxy server, both forward and reverse.
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7 Oracle HTTP Server WebGate
Oracle HTTP Server WebGate is a web server plug-in that is
shipped ready-to-use with Oracle Access Manager. Oracle HTTP Server WebGate
intercepts HTTP requests from users for web resources and forwards them to the
access server for authentication and authorization.
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8 Oracle SOA Suite
Oracle SOA Suite is a single process platform for
human-centric, system-centric, and document-centric business processes. It is
also a complete and integrated process foundation that connects IT, business
users, customers, and partners with the applications and processes that drive
business. Oracle SOA Suite offers developers drag and drop composition and
revision of business processes, resulting in reuse, faster application
development, assembly, and solution delivery. The event delivery network of
Oracle SOA Suite unifies business events and services in a single declarative
environment.
Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive, hot-pluggable software
suite for building, deploying, and managing a service-oriented architecture
(SOA). The components of the suite benefit from common capabilities that
include consistent tooling, a single deployment and management model,
end-to-end security, and unified metadata management.
Oracle SOA Suite includes the components like Oracle
Business Rules, Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (Oracle BAM), Oracle B2B
and Oracle BPEL Process Manager.
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