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 who create and deploy security policies using Oracle Entitlements Server. Its topics are relevant during the staging, production deployment, and production use phases of a software project. For links to other documentation and resources, see Related Documentation.
Guide to this Document
This document is organized as follows:
Security Policies Overview, describes the different types of policies, describes how to design policies and provides general information about the components of policies: effects, actions, roles, resources, identities, delegation, and declarations.
Policy Simulation, describes how the Entitlements Administration Application’s policy simulation feature can be used to simulate and evaluate how policies are being enforced on a given SSM.
Introduction—Provides overview, conceptual, and architectural information about the Oracle Entitlements Server.
Securing OES Production Environments—Contains information about security practices that should be considered when moving OES from a development to a production system.