This section describes the contents and organization of this guide.
Note:
Oracle Entitlements Server was previously known as BEA Aqualogic Enterprise Security. Some items, such as schema objects, paths, and so on may still use the term “ALES."
This document is a resource for system administrators, database administrators, and software developers who need to install and configure Oracle Entitlements Server Security Service Modules (SSMs). It contains information that is relevant during the design, staging, and production deployment phases of a software project.
Guide to this Document
This document is organized as follows:
Overview provides a summary of installation and configuration tasks.
Installing SSMs describes installation requirements, pre-installation tasks, and gives step-by-step instructions for installing SSMs.
Running an SSM Without an SCM provides criteria for deciding whether to provision the SSM with configuration updates using an SCM or an export file. It also gives pertinent instructions.
Silent Mode Installations describes how to perform silent-mode SSM installs. This can be useful when installing multiple SSMs on many machines.
Related Documentation
For information about installing and configuring the Administration Server, see Installing the Administration Server. For information about other aspects of Oracle Entitlements Server, see the following documents:
Introduction to Oracle Entitlements Server provides overview, conceptual, and architectural information of this product.
Getting Started withOracle Entitlements Server provides a number of tutorials that show how to use the Entitlements Administration Application to secure application resources.
Securing OES Production Environments—Contains information about security practices that should be considered when moving OES from a development to a production system.
Policy Managers Guide defines the policy model and describes how to manage, generate, import, and export policy data.
Programming Security for Java Applications describes how to implement security in Java applications. It includes descriptions of the security service APIs and provides programming instructions.
Developing Security Providers provides security vendors, administrators, and application developers with information needed to develop custom security providers.
For API documentation in Javadoc format, see the
documentation
home page.
