4 My Account

This section describes how to access information related to your Oracle Identity Manager. When you first log in, you will see the Welcome to Oracle Identity Manager page. To view your account information, click the My Account link. The following sections describe the tasks associated with managing your account in Oracle Identity Manager:

• Viewing and Modifying Your Account Profile

• Resetting Your Password

• Specifying Challenge Questions and Answers

• Specifying a Proxy

Viewing and Modifying Your Account Profile

You can modify the basic information associated with your Oracle Identity Manager user account as follows:

Note: The fields you will be able to edit within your own user profile will depend on how your administrator has configured Oracle Identity Manager.

1. Click My Account in the Explorer Menu. Then click the Modify Account Profile button in the Account Profile page. Oracle Identity Manager then displays the account information.

2. Make the desired changes and click Save Profile. If approvals are required for changes to the user profile, a request for this change will be submitted and you will be able to track the approval of that change using the request ID displayed. Otherwise, the change will take effect as soon as Oracle Identity Manager has processed your user profile edit request (depending on the load on your system, this may require several minutes) and the request is also created in Oracle Identity Manager for auditing purposes.

Resetting Your Password

Oracle Identity Manager provides you with the ability to change your system password. Also, depending on local system settings, you may be required to periodically reset your password (for example, to maintain system security).

1. Click My Account in the Explorer Menu. Then click Reset Password. Oracle Identity Manager then displays the Reset Password page.

2. Enter your current password in the Old Password field. Then enter your new password and confirm that password. When done, click Save. If your password satisfies the system-defined criteria, your Oracle Identity Manager password will be changed.

Specifying Challenge Questions and Answers

Oracle Identity Manager provides you with the ability to select personal verification questions and specify the answers to these questions. These questions are used to verify your identity if you have forgotten your password and would like to change it to a new one or are required by the system to reset your existing password. The number of questions you must answer and the list of potential questions from which you may select are defined by your Oracle Identity Manager system administrator.

Note: You will be prompted to select the questions to use and supply the answers the first time you log in with your Oracle Identity Manager account.

You can choose to change the questions you would like to supply answers to, change the answers to the questions or both.

1. Click My Account in the Explorer Menu. Then click Challenge Q&A.

2. You will then be prompted to enter your password. Enter it and click Continue.

3. The Select Challenge Question page appears.

4. Select your challenge questions (make sure you select at least the minimum number of questions). Then, click Select.

5. Oracle Identity Manager will display the Provide Challenge Answers page. Enter the correct answer to each question listed. Be sure to specify answers that you can easily remember. Click Save.

6. Click OK to confirm your answers. If you forget your password, you will be prompted to provide the correct answers (as specified here) to the questions you selected.

Specifying a Proxy

Use the My Proxy option to designate a user to whom to delegate your task approval responsibilities while you are unavailable due to illness, vacation, and so on. As an approver, you can select another user as a proxy for yourself. Thereby, any task that is normally assigned to you will be routed to the delegated proxy user.

When a proxy user is defined, the tasks that would be normally be assigned to a user, would be displayed in the proxy user's Pending Request list. Refer to the Pending Request section for more information. Also, when the proxy user logs into Oracle Identity Manager, the Home page will display the user for whom the logged in user is a proxy.

To use My Proxy, perform the following steps:

1. To assign a proxy user, click My Account in the Explorer Menu. Then click My Proxy.

2. The Proxy Details page appears. If no proxy is defined at this time, then click Assign to delegate a user. The Assign Proxy page appears.

3. Select either Your Manager or Other User radio button to define the Proxy Name. By default the Manager is selected if the user has a Manager defined. You can lookup other users by clicking on the magnifying glass icon at the end of this field. The Lookup Form page appears. It displays all the user names that are available for defining a proxy user.

4. Select the desired User ID radio button to define your proxy user. Then, click Select. The Assign Proxy page appears with the selected User ID.

5. In the Start Date field, click the calendar icon. Highlight the desired date you want to activate the proxy user. Optionally, you can define an End Date by clicking on the calendar icon. Highlight the desired date you want to de-activate the proxy user. Afterwards, click Assign. If the end date is not specified, the proxy functionality is active until the user removes the proxy. The Confirmation page appears with the selected User ID as defined for the proxy user.

6. If information in the Confirmation page is correct, then click Assign. The Proxy Details page appears with the proxy user information that you defined.

7. If you want to make changes to the information for this proxy user, click Modify. If you want to delete this user as a defined proxy user, then click Remove Proxy.