Oracle Identity Manager

Oracle Identity Manager



Oracle Identity Manager is a world class leading Identity provisioning server which helps in

• Creation of User
• Managing Users
• Revoking Access

History- Oracle purchased Thor technologies and bundled Identity Provisioning Server and Audit and Compliance Module as Oracle Identity Manager

Few Services in Identity Manager

1. Access Right Management - Granting and Revoking access rights for a resource(URL,site,services,server,database..)
2. Provisioning - Process that grants users , groups appropriate access rights
3. Deprovisioning 
4. Attestation - confirming from authorized user that access right or other privileges are correct or not

Architecture of ORACLE IDENTITY MANAGER

OIM uses a 3 tier architecture

1. Presentation tier - consists of Admin console, Design console and custom client
2. Server tier - consists of Oracle Identity Manager server application with various other components and acts as a bridge between Presentation tier and Data and Enterprise Integration tier
3. Data and Enterprise Integration tier-Consists of Database server which contains OIM data

Components in Identity Manager-

• Oracle Identity Manager server
• Oracle Identity Manager Remote Manager
• Oracle Identity Manager Design Console (Windows only)

Requirement for installing OIM-

• A supported Application server. Following can be used--Oracle Application Server/JBOSS/Weblogic/Websphere..)
• A supported JVM (use Sun JDK)
• A supported Database ( Oracle DB, MS-SQL)