Oracle® Access Manager Identity and Common Administration Guide 10g (10.1.4.0.1) Part Number B25343-01 |
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This section describes new features of Oracle Access Manager 10g (10.1.4.0.1) and provides pointers to additional information within this book. Information from previous releases is also retained to help those users migrating to the current release.
The following sections describe the new features in Oracle Access Manager that are covered in this book:
Note: For a comprehensive list of new features and functions in Oracle Access Manager 10g (10.1.4.0.1), and a description of where each is documented, see the chapter on What's New in Oracle Access Manager in the Oracle Access Manager Introduction. |
The original product name, Oblix NetPoint, has changed to Oracle Access Manager. Most component names remain the same. However, there are several important changes that you should know about, as shown in the following table:
All legacy references in the product or documentation should be understood to connote the new names.
As part of the globalization support, some file formats have changed from the proprietary .lst format to .xml
Oracle Access Manager 10g Release 3 (10.1.4) has undergone a globalization process to provide multibyte support that enables processing of internationalized data and messages in the user's native language.
password.xml; globalparams.xml; obscoreboard; AppDBfailover.xml and AppDB.xml; ConfigDBfailover.xml and ConfigDB.xml; WebResrcDBfailover.xml -- now WebResrcDB.xml; snmp_agent_config_info.xml; obscoreboard_params.xml
See Also: References to these file names in this manual. |
Oracle Access Manager uses a locale-based case insensitive sorting method when you click the column heading (Full Name, for example) in the search results table.
In the Identity System Console, some display names are displayed incorrectly if the locale of the browser is different from the local of the characters used in the display name.
When generating a report for an Identity application, save the report file as .txt and re-import it for the characters to display correctly.
Password policies and Lost Password Management have been enhanced.
You can configure the minimum and maximum number of characters users can specify in a password. For lost password management, you can set multiple challenge-response pairs, create multiple style sheets, and configure other aspects of the user's lost password management experience. You can also redirect users back to the originally requested page after resetting a password.
This book contains expanded information on configuring Oracle Access Manager for multiple directory searchbases, also called disjoint domains or realms.
This book contains expanded information on configuring workflows for dynamic targets.
You can dynamically assign a user to a target on a create user workflow. For example, you can define a create user workflow that enables user A to log in under ou=users, invoke the workflow, and create user B whose entry is automatically determined to be in the same ou as user A. This ability always existed in the Identity System, and is now explicitly documented in the chapter on workflows.
The section on the QuickStart tool now mentions that only Master Administrators can use the QuickStart tool.
You can now audit to an Oracle Database as well as to Microsoft SQL Server. Support for MySQL is deprecated in this release.
The Crystal Reports package is no longer provided with the Oracle Access Manager package. You must obtain this product from the vendor.
Changes to logging parameters take effect within one minute, rather than requiring you to restart the server where the changes were made.
When you configure SSL mode for the directory server, only server authentication is supported. Client certificates are not supported.
The default value for the Maximum Session Time of 0 (no maximum) can cause LDAP caches to become too large. The recommended value is 600 (10 hours).
The samAccountNameLength parameter enables you to increase the number of characters permitted as a SamAccountName attribute value. For Active Directory environments that are running in native mode, you may want to increase the default value for this parameter.
Information on troubleshooting that was dispersed throughout this manual has been consolidated in a separate appendix.
New troubleshooting topics have been added.