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After our lovely install on WebLogic, we found that the password that was set for xelsysadm wasn’t functioning. Could it have been the fact that there were special characters in the password during the installation such as “$” or “*”? At any rate, the reset process is pretty simple, provided that you have a base … Continue reading Xelsysadm – password not working?
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Well it seems as though there are a couple of lessons learned here. First and foremost, when the Oracle Certification matrix says “support 10.3” that means that it only supports 10.3 – and not 10.3.x. Who would have known that a dot release could make such a big difference?
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I was trying to get the design console installed on my Virtual Machines and was annoyed about having to have Windows and Linux running at the same time (My base operating system is Leopard). This took a little while to figure out (minutes, not hours) and is by no way magical – just took a … Continue reading OIM Design Console on RHEL
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My friend Rob (from Indigo Consulting) was having issues with Mail.app and stopped by to find out what to do. Having had the same problem in the past, I looked up some handy dandy commands that will hopefully fix the problems (like crashing, slowness, etc.). If you’re having the same issue, or just curious, here’s … Continue reading Fixing Mail.app
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In the Sun Identity Manager documentation, there’s reference to JMX hooks that can be used to monitor the health of your Sun Identity Manager Deployment and its related components. My goal was to figure out how to do this and here’s the steps that I used: 1. Login to the admin interface of IDM and … Continue reading Using JMX to monitor Sun Identity Manager Services
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I had a question come to me about the ORM API, albeit I haven’t had that much exposure to it, I do have some information for folks looking to use it: Basic program flow: 1) use JNDI to get a hold of a running ORM server object 2) login to the server (credentials do matter!) … Continue reading Using the ORM API
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I know I’m a little late to the game, but I’ve been reading about SOA, what it is, how it’s implemented, etc. Here are some really useful links: http://www.whatissoa.com – A book publishers high-level overview, the author covers the big basics like: * Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) * Services and Service-Orientation Service Compositions * Service Inventory … Continue reading Oracle SOA
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As you can tell I’m working on an OIM-ORM integration, but who isn’t right? Okay so my mission is to have attributes flow from OIM to ORM.. this should be fairly easy right? Well, it’s not working, and if you were to look at the posts on http://forums.oracle.com, I’ve found that there are a lot … Continue reading Moving Attributes between OIM and ORM
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Oracle acquired this word “polyarchy” when they acquired the Role Manager product. I’m not too sure why they kept the term, perhaps it was to differentiate themselves from the crowd, or was there another motivation? At any rate, if you have a “Reporting Organization” Hierarchy in ORM, the Integration Library allows you to place folks … Continue reading Oracle Role Manager – Polyarchy anyone?
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We at IDMWorks have never been a huge fan of blogs, until now. Lately we’ve had the desire to document things that we are learning at my various client site(s), focusing on the technology, industry and anything else that has an effect on what we are doing. With that said, let’s get things started!
