Preface

The Oracle Identity Management Concepts and Deployment Planning Guide describes concepts pertaining to identity management and provides deployment planning information for administrators and applicaton developers.

This preface contains these topics:

Intended Audience

Structure

Related Documents

Conventions

Documentation Accessibility

Intended Audience

This document is intended for the following audience:

• Identity management administrators

• Oracle applications administrators

• Enterprise application developers

Structure

The Oracle Identity Management Concepts and Deployment Planning Guide provides the conceptual framework required to understand and deploy the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure in an enterprise. Details on how to deploy and administer specific components of the Oracle Identity Management infrastructure are covered in their respective administrator’s guides.

This document contains the following chapters:

Chapter 1, " Introduction to Identity Management"

This chapter introduces identity management and and describes why it is needed in an enterprise.

Chapter 2, " Oracle Identity Management Concepts and Architecture"

This chapter discusses Oracle Identity Management concepts and architecture.

Chapter 3, "Oracle Identity Management Deployment Planning"

This chapter discusses Oracle Identity Management deployment.

Chapter 4, " Oracle Identity Management Administration and Usage"

This chapter discusses Oracle Identity Management administration and usage.

Chapter 5, " Integrating with Other Identity Management Solutions"

This chapter discusses integrating Oracle Identity Management with other identity management solutions.

Chapter 6, " Integrating Enterprise Applications"

This chapter discusses integrating enterprise applications with Oracle Identity Management.

Appendix A, "Oracle Internet Directory Default Settings"

This appendix discusses the defaults available upon installation of Oracle Internet Directory.

Related Documents

For more information, see the following manuals:

• Oracle Application Server 10g Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Application Server 10g Security Guide

• Oracle Application Server 10g High Availability Guide

• Oracle Application Server 10g Installation Guide

• Oracle Application Server Certificate Authority Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Internet Directory Administrator's Guide

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

Convention	Meaning	Example
Bold	Bold typeface indicates terms that are defined in the text or terms that appear in a glossary, or both.	When you specify this clause, you create an index-organized table.
Italics	Italic typeface indicates book titles or emphasis.	Oracle9i Database Concepts Ensure that the recovery catalog and target database do not reside on the same disk.
UPPERCASE monospace (fixed-width) font	Uppercase monospace typeface indicates elements supplied by the system. Such elements include parameters, privileges, datatypes, RMAN keywords, SQL keywords, SQL*Plus or utility commands, packages and methods, as well as system-supplied column names, database objects and structures, usernames, and roles.	You can specify this clause only for a NUMBER column. You can back up the database by using the BACKUP command. Query the TABLE_NAME column in the USER_TABLES data dictionary view. Use the DBMS_STATS.GENERATE_STATS procedure.
lowercase monospace (fixed-width) font	Lowercase monospace typeface indicates executables, filenames, directory names, and sample user-supplied elements. Such elements include computer and database names, net service names, and connect identifiers, as well as user-supplied database objects and structures, column names, packages and classes, usernames and roles, program units, and parameter values. Note: Some programmatic elements use a mixture of UPPERCASE and lowercase. Enter these elements as shown.	Enter sqlplus to open SQL*Plus. The password is specified in the orapwd file. Back up the datafiles and control files in the /disk1/oracle/dbs directory. The department_id, department_name, and location_id columns are in the hr.departments table. Set the QUERY_REWRITE_ENABLED initialization parameter to true. Connect as oe user. The JRepUtil class implements these methods.
lowercase italic monospace (fixed-width) font	Lowercase italic monospace font represents placeholders or variables.	You can specify the parallel_clause. Run Uold_release.SQL where old_release refers to the release you installed prior to upgrading.

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