Oracle Identity Manager

Oracle Identity Manager

Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) enables enterprises to manage the entire user life cycle across all enterprise resources both within and beyond a firewall. An Oracle identity management solution provides a mechanism for implementing the user management aspects of a corporate policy. It can also be a means to audit users and their access privileges.

Oracle Identity Manager Version

Oracle Identity Manager has evolved in recent times based on the needs of an enterprise user. It was earlier a Thor product and after acquisition of Thor by Oracle, OIM 9i was released. OIM 9i was based on struts framework. Later Oracle released OIM 11g R1 based on Oracle Application Development Framework. Recently Oracle released OIM 11g R2.

Oracle Identity Manager Components

• IT Resource Type Def:This is used to define the connection details of a target system

• IT Resource:It stores actual connection data.(Password is always encrypted)

• Resource Object: The Logical representation of target system.

• Process Definition:This defines the flow of actual tasks.

• Process Form: Table within OIM Database to hold data for a given resource object

• Process Task: Different task associated with a target system

There are five different type of adapters used for different task as listed below:

1. Process Task Adapter
2. Pre Populate Adapter
3. Task Assignment Adapter
4. Rule Generator Adapter
5. Entity Adapter