The following sections describe the content and organization of this document:
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Oracle Entitlements Server was previously known as BEA Aqualogic Enterprise Security. Some items, such as schema objects, paths, and so on may still use the term “ALES."
This document provides instructions for using Oracle Entitlements Server administrative utilities, provides information about writing provider extensions, and describes how to use the Custom Extensions API.
Chapter 4, “Configuration Files,” provides information about confiuration files provided when the Administration Server and SSMs are installed.
Chapter 5, “WLESblm.conf Reference,” describes the configuration parameters in the WLESblm.conf configuration file. You can edit this file to configure and tune this product after installation.
Chapter 6, “Out-of-Box Attribute Retrievers,” describes the OOTB attributes retrievers that can be used to return attributes values from external data sources. These values can then be used to determine policy outcomes.
Chapter 7, “Provider Extensions,” describes how to write custom security provider extensions. A provider extension is a plug-in function that extends the capabilities of the existing providers.
Chapter 8, “Audit Events,” describes how to extend the AuditContext interface. This interface provides a mechanism for passing additional audit information to Auditing providers.
Developing Security Providers —This document provides security vendors and security and application developers with the information needed to develop custom security providers.
