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Password Policy in OAM 11g R2
Introduction One of the features in the new 11G R2 (or 11.1.2) release of Oracle Access Manager that’s been most eagerly anticipated is the support for password policy within the OAM product; that is,...
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OAM 11g Custom Authentication Plugins: Collecting additional credentials
Introduction One of the things that OAM 11g does a very good job of is enabling LDAP-based user authentication, based on collecting username and password from a login form. I’ve seen a lot of questions...
View ArticleLoading unique passwords with OIM bulk load
Introduction Using Oracle Identity Manager’s bulk load tool is a great way to load large numbers of user records into OIM in an efficient and performant way. The standard and documented usage of the...
View ArticleOAM 11g Custom Authentication Plugins: Interacting with the Identity Store
Introduction The OAM 11g release includes a powerful authentication plugin framework, which can be used to extend the out-of-the-box authentication schemes, or to implement something completely custom....
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A first look at POST data preservation in OAM 11g R2 PS1
Introduction In this post, we have a quick look at POST data preservation, a new feature introduced in the 11g R2 PS1 (or 11.1.2.1) version of Oracle Access Manager. We’ll explain the problem that this...
View ArticleHow to (correctly) make manual edits to oam-config.xml
Introduction Occasionally, it is necessary to make changes to OAM 11g configuration by directly updating the oam-config,xml file, rather than using the OAM console. In this post, we describe the...
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OAM WebGate connections through firewalls
Introduction In this post, we investigate a complication that can occur if you require a firewall between your WebGate agents and your OAM 11g servers within your deployment topology. We provide some...
View ArticleOAM LDAP connections through firewalls
Introduction In a previous post, we discussed some of the complications that can occur when a firewall is placed between WebGates and OAM Servers in a typical deployment. This post follows on from that...
View ArticleStrategies for managing OAAM to OAM connections in production
Many Oracle Access Management 11g customers opt to deploy a combination of Oracle Access Manager and Oracle Adaptive Access Manager using the Advanced Integration option. This combination of product...
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Chained LDAP Authentication in OAM 11g
Introduction In this post, we look at a simple way to configure a chained LDAP authentication scheme in OAM 11g R2. This post is part of a larger series on Oracle Access Manager 11g called Oracle...
View ArticleIntegrating Oracle Access Management platform with Mobile Application Framework
Fellow A-Team blogger Andre Correa recently posted an article about integrating native IOS Apps with the OAM Mobile & Social SDK in order to do social identity federation within these apps. To...
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Retrieving the OAM SessionID for Fun and Profit!
Introduction I recently worked with a customer who needed to do some OAM session manipulation via custom code in order to implement a complex use case. While the focus of this post is not to go into...
View ArticleHTTPS and trust in Oracle Public Cloud
The shift to cloud computing offers a huge number of benefits, but also does introduce some potential risks; the most obvious of these is the need to enable integrations – and by implication, the need...
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Configuring HTTPS between Integration Cloud Service and Java Cloud Service
In a previous post, I discussed some general topics relating to the usage of HTTPS and certificates within Oracle Public Cloud. In this follow up piece, I will work through a concrete example and...
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Using OpenID Connect to delegate authentication to Oracle Identity Cloud Service
In this post, I will describe the process of using the Oracle Identity Cloud Service to provide authentication for a custom web application, using the OpenID Connect protocol. I will focus on the...
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