Preface

This Upgrade Guide provides information about upgrading using either the in-place upgrade method (from 6.x and 7.x to 10g (10.1.4.0.1)) or the zero downtime upgrade method (from 6.x and 7.x to 10g (10.1.4.2.0)). Included are considerations, prerequisites, step-by-step instructions, and summaries to help ensure your success. After the upgrade, you can apply the latest patch sets.

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

This book covers upgrades for Oracle Access Manager components only. For details about upgrading Oracle Application Server components, see Oracle Application Server Upgrade and Compatibility Guide. Using the zero downtime upgrade method is described in Part VI.

This Preface covers the following topics:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

This Upgrade Guide primarily uses new product and component names. For more information, see "What's New in Oracle Access Manager?".

Audience

This guide targets the needs of anyone who is responsible to upgrade any Oracle Access Manager component to the latest release. If Oracle Access Manager is not installed, see the Oracle Access Manager Installation Guide.

This document assumes that you are familiar with your network architecture, your LDAP directory, and firewall and internet security.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible to all users, including users that are disabled. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/.

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

Deaf/Hard of Hearing Access to Oracle Support Services

To reach Oracle Support Services, use a telecommunications relay service (TRS) to call Oracle Support at 1.800.223.1711. An Oracle Support Services engineer will handle technical issues and provide customer support according to the Oracle service request process. Information about TRS is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/trs.html, and a list of phone numbers is available at http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/dro/trsphonebk.html.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents in the Oracle Access Manager 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 Patchset Notes Release 10.1.4 Patchset 2 (10.1.4.3.0) For All Supported Operating Systems—Read this document if you want to apply the 10g (10.1.4.3) patch set to an existing 10g (10.1.4.2.0) deployment. It includes 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. Note that 10g (10.1.4.3) cannot be used for either an in-place upgrade or a zero downtime upgrade method. However, any earlier environment can be upgraded using either method: in-place method using 10g (10.1.4.0.1) packages or zero downtime method using 10g (10.1.4.0.1) and 10g (10.1.4.2.0). Then you apply the 10g (10.1.4.3) patch.

• 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 graphical user interface elements associated with an action, or terms defined in text or the glossary.
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.