Preface

This Installation Guide provides information about basic installation and setup of Oracle Access Manager components on supported platforms. Included are considerations, prerequisites, preparation worksheets that you can complete to help streamline your experience, and step-by-step instructions to help ensure your success.

Note: Oracle Access Manager was previously known as "Oblix NetPoint" and "Oracle COREid".

This Preface covers the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This guide is intended for administrators who are responsible for installing any Oracle Access Manager component.

This guide assumes that you are familiar with the following concepts:

• Operating and file systems (Windows or UNIX-based)

• Sites connected to the Internet and networking protocols

• Network security: building firewalls, deploying authentication systems, and so on.

• Host security: passwords, uids, file permissions, file system integrity, and so on.

• Network security: building firewalls, deploying authentication systems, and so on.

• Web server, Web browser, and configuration details

• Database administration and your LDAP directory

Documentation Accessibility

For information about Oracle's commitment to accessibility, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program website at http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=docacc.

Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Access Manager Release documentation set:

• Oracle Access Manager Introduction—Provides an introduction to Oracle Access Manager, a road map to Oracle Access Manager manuals, and a glossary of terms.

• Oracle Access Manager Release Notes—Read these for the latest Oracle Access Manager information.

• Oracle Access Manager Release Notes for Release 10g (10.1.4.3.0) For All Supported Operating Systems. It provides the system requirements and instructions needed to install or de-install the patch set itself, a list of enhancements, bug fixes, and known issues related to the patch set.

• Oracle Access Manager Installation Guide—Explains how to prepare for, install, and set up each Oracle Access Manager component.

• Oracle Access Manager Upgrade Guide—Explains how to upgrade earlier releases to the latest major Oracle Access Manager release using either the in-place component upgrade method or the zero downtime method.

• Oracle Access Manager Identity and Common Administration Guide—Explains how to configure Identity System applications to display information about users, groups, and organizations; how to assign permissions to users to view and modify the data that is displayed in the Identity System applications; and how to configure workflows that link together Identity application functions, for example, adding basic information about a user, providing additional information about the user, and approving the new user entry, into a chain of automatically performed steps. This book also describes administration functions that are common to the Identity and Access Systems, for example, directory profile configuration, password policy configuration, logging, and auditing.

• Oracle Access Manager Access Administration Guide—Describes how to protect resources by defining policy domains, authentication schemes, and authorization schemes; how to allow users to access multiple resources with a single login by configuring single- and multi-domain single sign-on; and how to design custom login forms. This book also describes how to set up and administer the Access System.

• Oracle Access Manager Deployment Guide—Provides information for people who plan and manage the environment in which Oracle Access Manager runs. This guide covers capacity planning, system tuning, failover, load balancing, caching, and migration planning.

• Oracle Access Manager Customization Guide—Explains how to change the appearance of Oracle Access Manager applications and how to control Oracle Access Manager by making changes to operating systems, Web servers, directory servers, directory content, or by connecting CGI files or JavaScripts to Oracle Access Manager screens. This guide also describes the Access Manager API and the authorization and authentication plug-in APIs.

• Oracle Access Manager Developer Guide—Explains how to access Identity System functionality programmatically using IdentityXML and WSDL, how to create custom WebGates (known as AccessGates), and how to develop plug-ins. This guide also provides information to be aware of when creating CGI files or JavaScripts for Oracle Access Manager.

• Oracle Access Manager Integration Guide—Explains how to set up Oracle Access Manager to run with other Oracle and third-party products.

• Oracle Access Manager Schema Description—Provides details about the Oracle Access Manager schema.

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
boldface	Boldface type indicates run-in headings and information that you should pay close attention to. In some cases, boldface type indicates graphical user interface elements associated with an action.
italic	Italic type indicates book titles, emphasis, or placeholder variables for which you supply particular values.
monospace	Monospace type indicates commands within a paragraph, URLs, code in examples, text that appears on the screen, or text that you enter.