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This chapter provides a brief introduction to the Oracle Identity Manager product and its architecture.
Oracle Identity Manager is an advanced, secure enterprise provisioning system that helps streamline the creation of user accounts, management of those accounts, and revocation of user access rights and privileges. Oracle Identity Manager automates access rights management, security, and provisioning of IT resources.
Oracle Identity Manager instantly connects users to the resources they need to be productive. It also prevents unauthorized access to protected, sensitive corporate information.
Access rights management is the process that grants and revokes permissions to access enterprise resources.
Provisioning is the process that grants employees, customers, suppliers, and business partners appropriate access rights to enterprise systems and applications. The provisioning process involves setting up user accounts, groups, and attributes for each user, so that they can access the information they need to work within your company. The Oracle Identity Manager provisioning solution automates these time-consuming manual tasks and secures the correct approvals so that users are connected quickly and securely.
De-provisioning is the process of revoking access rights and privileges.
Oracle Identity Manager uses a three-tier architecture: the Presentation Tier, the Server Tier, and the Data and Enterprise Integration Tier.
The Presentation tier contains the following components:
Custom Client applications
Design Console
Administrative and User Console
The Server tier contains the Oracle Identity Manager Server component, which serves as a bridge between the Presentation and Data and Enterprise Integration tiers. All requests between the clients and the database are processed through the Server tier.
The Data and Enterprise Integration tier contains the database server, which holds the Oracle Identity Manager data structure.
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Note: Throughout this document, the Oracle Identity Manager Server is referred to as Òthe server.Ó The WebLogic application server that hosts the Oracle Identity Manager Server is referred to as Òthe application server.Ó |
Figure 1-1 illustrates the Oracle Identity Manager architecture:
The Oracle Identity Manager system consists of Oracle Identity Manager software deployed in combination with certain external software. These software components can be deployed on one or more host machines that meet the supported hardware and software requirements. See "Hardware and Software Requirements" for more information.
