1 Overview

This chapter provides a brief overview of Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) and Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). This chapter includes the following topics:

1.1 What is Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Identity and Access Management?

Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Identity and Access Management enables enterprises to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources—both within and beyond the firewall. With Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Identity and Access Management, you can deploy applications faster, apply the most granular protection to enterprise resources, automatically eliminate latent access privileges, and much more.

Oracle Corporation leads the industry with award-winning Identity Management offerings that constitute the most comprehensive solution offered by any vendor, including:

  • Web Access Control

  • Adaptive Access Control

  • Identity Federation

  • Identity Administration

  • User Access Provisioning

  • Role Management

  • Authorization Policy Management

  • Directory Services

For more information about Oracle Identity Management, refer to the Identity Management home page on Oracle Corporation's Web site at:

http://www.oracle.com/identity

For Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1), there are two separate installers:

Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.0)

This installer includes the following components:

  • Oracle Internet Directory

  • Oracle Directory Integration Platform

  • Oracle Virtual Directory

  • Oracle Identity Federation

  • Oracle Directory Services Manager

Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.5.0)

This installer includes the following components:

  • Oracle Access Manager

  • Oracle Adaptive Access Manager

  • Oracle Identity Manager

  • Oracle Entitlements Server

  • Oracle Identity Navigator

1.2 What is Upgraded to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

You can upgrade the following Oracle Identity Management 10g components to Oracle Identity Management 11g:

  • Oracle Internet Directory

  • Oracle Virtual Directory

  • Oracle Identity Federation

For upgrading to Oracle Identity Management 11g, you must follow the procedures described in Part II, "Upgrading Your Oracle Identity Management Environments".

Note:

You can also upgrade your High Availability (HA) configurations for Oracle Identity Management 10g Release 2 (10.1.2) and 10g (10.1.4.0.1) to Oracle Identity Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1). For more information, see Part IV, "Upgrading Oracle Identity Management High Availability Environments".

1.3 What is Upgraded to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

You can upgrade the following Oracle Identity Management 10g components to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g:

  • Oracle Adaptive Access Manager

  • Oracle Identity Manager

Note:

Oracle Single Sign-On and Oracle Delegated Administration Services Release 10g are required components for Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports, and Discoverer in 10g Release and 11g Release.

There are no 11g Release 1 (11.1.1) versions of Oracle Single Sign-On and Oracle Delegated Administration Services.

If you are running Oracle Single Sign-On or Oracle Delegated Administration Services Release 10g, you can upgrade to Oracle Access Manager 11g, as described in Chapter 11, "Upgrading Oracle Single Sign-On Environment".

For upgrading to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g, you must follow the procedures described in Part III, "Upgrading Your Oracle Single Sign-On and Oracle Identity and Access Management Environments".