Preface

Welcome to Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Internet Directory.

Audience

This document is intended for anyone who performs administration tasks for the Oracle Internet Directory. You should be familiar with either the UNIX operating system or the Microsoft Windows operating system to understand the line-mode commands and examples. You can perform all of the tasks through the line-mode commands, and you can perform most of the tasks through Oracle Directory Services Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager, which are operating system-independent.

To use this document, you need some familiarity with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

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Related Documents

For more information, see the following documents:

• Online help available through Oracle Directory Services Manager and Oracle Fusion Middleware

• The Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Database documentation sets, especially:

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Identity Management

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Getting Started with Oracle Identity Management

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Identity Management

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Directory Integration Platform

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Virtual Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Developer's Guide for Oracle Identity Management

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Database Net Services Administrator's Guide

  • Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

  • Oracle Database Advanced Replication

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Security Guide

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Identity Federation

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Security Developer Tools

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Overview

If you are using Oracle Delegated Administration Services or Oracle Single Sign-On 10g (10.1.4.3.0) or later, please refer to the following documents in the Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.4.0.1) library:

• Oracle Identity Management Guide to Delegated Administration

• Oracle Application Server Single Sign-On Administrator's Guide

For additional information, see:

• Chadwick, David. Understanding X.500—The Directory. Thomson Computer Press, 1996.

• Howes, Tim and Mark Smith. LDAP: Programming Directory-enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997.

• Howes, Tim, Mark Smith and Gordon Good, Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority home page, http://www.iana.org for information about object identifiers

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documentation available at: http://www.ietf.org, especially:

  • The LDAPEXT charter and LDAP drafts

  • The LDAP charter and drafts

  • RFC 2254, "The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters"

  • RFC 1823, "The LDAP Application Program Interface"

• The OpenLDAP Community, http://www.openldap.org

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