Oracle® Access Manager Deployment Guide 10g (10.1.4.2.0) Part Number E10353-01 |
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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:
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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.
A new chapter has been added to discuss deployment types and tiers, deployment scenarios and environments, deployment categories, and deployment guidelines.
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Chapter 1The chapter that describes capacity planning has been updated to provide even more helpful details.
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Chapter 2Several enhancements have been made to directory tuning documentation.
To optimize performance, you should ensure that your directory performance is optimal. In this release, information on directory tuning has been enhanced.
New guidelines for configuring the directory connection pool size has been added.
This release provides a new parameter for clearing the LDAP connection cache.
New parameters enable a component to fail over to a secondary directory server if the primary server takes too long to respond or too long to process a request.
Guidelines have been provided on configuring threads and queues.
Guidelines have been provided on optimizing directory searches that users perform with the Identity System applications.
Guidelines have been provided on optimizing performance of the Group Manager application in the Identity System.
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.
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"Tuning Workflows".There are best practices for optimizing network and Oracle Access Manager performance.
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"Tuning Your Network".If you do not use nested groups in your directory, you can improve group membership searches by turning off nested group evaluation.
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.
Information on configuring failover for Policy Manager data has been added.
You can change basic components that you specified during Oracle Access Manager installation, such as the person object class or the directory server host.
A new application has been released to assist with Oracle Access Manager configuration data migration in Oracle Access Manager 10g (10.1.4.0.1) deployments.
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Chapter 8