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A Quick Introduction To OAM, OIM and OID
A Quick Introduction To OAM, OIM and OID
Authentication
Authorization
Auditing
Policy Administration
Flaws in conventional security model.
Individual authentication/authorization for each independent
Effective Security
Cost
Inconsistence
Security Complainces
The manager raises various user ids crations for this new employee
for email, timesheet app, crm, leave mgmt app etc. With OIM this
provisionting can be done automatically or manually at single point.
OIM provides a unified access control for all the applications in the
enterprize. Once the employee quits, the manager need only to log
onto OIM and delete (soft/hard) the employee from various
applications.
OIM integrates with other application using SOA suite with
respective JCA adapters.
Oracle Internet Directory (OID)
This is a directory of objects. For e.g in case of employees in an
organization, this directory will hold employees details like name,
designation, enterprize roles, applicaiton specific roles, security
credentials like password, password reminder questions.
This is typically a single source of truth for information about
employees in an organization.
Various applications access OID to authenticate and authorize users.
Typically, OID is integrated with OAM.
OID is Oracle's LDAP implementation. Active Directory or AD is
similar implementation for the same solution from Microsoft.
OID generally uses oracle database for storage of all the said
information above.