1 Introduction to Identity Management Provisioning

This chapter provides an introduction to Identity Management Provisioning.

This chapter contains the following sections:

• Section 1.1, "Introduction to Administration for Identity Management Provisioning"

• Section 1.2, "Who Should Use this Guide"

• Section 1.3, "Understanding Identity Management Provisioning Concepts"

• Section 1.4, "Basic Tasks for Identity Management Provisioning"

1.1 Introduction to Administration for Identity Management Provisioning

The Identity Management Provisioning Wizard and related tools were developed to automate Identity Management Provisioning and reduce the time required to configure Identity Management for Oracle Fusion Applications.

1.2 Who Should Use this Guide

You should use this guide if you are configuring a simple, single host Oracle Identity Management topology. This Identity Management configuration is a prerequisite for installing Oracle Fusion Applications, as described in the Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide.

If you are configuring a multiple host topology, such as those described in "Introduction to the Enterprise Deployment Reference Topologies" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management (Oracle Fusion Applications Edition), and your hosts are running Linux, you should use the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management (Oracle Fusion Applications Edition) instead of the current guide and Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide.

If you are configuring a multiple host topology, but you are using a platform other than Linux, you should use Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Deployment Guide for Oracle Identity Management (Oracle Fusion Applications Edition), but you should refer to the current guide for non-Linux platform-specific information.

Also see the Technical Release Notes for Oracle Fusion Applications 11g Release 7 (11.1.7) for more information.

1.3 Understanding Identity Management Provisioning Concepts

Oracle Identity Management consists of a number of products, which can be used either individually or collectively. The section "Oracle Identity Management" in Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide lists the Identity Management products used with Oracle Fusion Applications. The section "Installing Oracle Identity Management Components" in Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide describes how to install them.

In previous releases, configuring the individual Identity Management products and integrating them to create an Identity Management environment required you to perform several steps, using several consoles and commands. In the current release, these steps are automated.

1.4 Basic Tasks for Identity Management Provisioning

Before you attempt to perform Identity Management Provisioning, there are a number of preliminary tasks you must perform. These are described in Chapter 2, "Installing the Software" and Chapter 3, "Preparing for Identity Management Provisioning."

The Identity Management Provisioning process itself consists of two tasks:

1. Running the Identity Management Provisioning Wizard, a graphical user interface that uses an interview process to gather information about the environment and store it in a Provisioning Response file. This task is described in Chapter 4, "Creating a Provisioning Profile."

2. Executing command-line tools to set up the environment on the selected host machines. In many cases, you can monitor the progress of the command-line tools by using the wizard. This task is described in Chapter 5, "Performing Oracle Identity Management Provisioning."

After provisioning, perform the tasks in Chapter 6, "Post Provisioning Tasks."