Oracle® Access Manager Deployment Guide 10g (10.1.4.0.1) Part Number B25344-01 |
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This section describes new features of Oracle Access Manager 10g (10.1.4.0.1) and provides pointers to additional information within this book. Information from previous releases is also retained to help those users migrating to the current release.
The following sections describe the new features in Oracle Access Manager that are reflected in this book:
Note: For a comprehensive list of new features and functions in Oracle Access Manager 10g (10.1.4.0.1), and a description of where each is documented, see the chapter on What's New in Oracle Access Manager in the Oracle Access Manager Introduction. |
The original product name, Oblix NetPoint, has changed to Oracle Access Manager. Most component names remain the same. However, there are several important changes that you should know about, as shown in the following table:
All legacy references in the product or documentation should be understood to connote the new names.
To optimize performance, you should ensure that your directory performance is optimal. In this release, information on directory tuning has been enhanced. This release provides a new parameter for clearing the LDAP connection cache. Also, new guidelines for configuring the directory connection pool size has been added.
Guidelines have been provided on configuring threads and queues.
There are best practices for optimizing workflow performance.
To minimize the impact that workflows have on server performance, you can tune various parameters in workflowdbparams.xml. You can also tune various workflow search parameters to enhance performance.
There are best practices for optimizing network and Oracle Access Manager performance.
Information has been added on load balancing of LDAP data.
A "heartbeat" polling mechanism facilitates immediate failover to a secondary directory server when the number of connections in the connection pool falls below the specified threshold level. Information has been added on setting the polling interval for failover.
You can change basic components that you specified during Oracle Access Manager installation, such as the person object class or the directory server host.