This chapter provides an overview of Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0) product. This chapters also describes the supported upgrade, migration, and coexistence scenarios for 11.1.2.1.0.
This chapter includes the following topics:
Oracle Identity and Access Management components enable enterprises to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities across all enterprise resources - both within and beyond the firewall. With Oracle Identity and Access Management, you can deploy applications faster, apply the most granular protection to enterprise resources, automatically eliminate latent access privileges, and much more.
Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0) includes the following products:
Oracle Identity Manager
Oracle Access Management, which includes the following components:
Oracle Access Management Access Manager
Oracle Access Management Identity Federation
Oracle Access Management Mobile and Social
Oracle Access Management Security Token Service
Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
Oracle Identity Navigator
Oracle Entitlements Server
Oracle Privileged Account Manager
The term Upgrade in this document refers to the upgrade of existing Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 1 components to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0). For each of these upgrade scenarios, you use the Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0) installer to update your existing Oracle Home (IAM_HOME) to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0).
You can upgrade the following Oracle Identity and Access Management components to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11.1.2.1.0:
Oracle Access Manager 11.1.1.5.0
Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 11.1.1.5.0
Oracle Identity Manager 11.1.1.5.0
Oracle Entitlements Server 11.1.1.5.0
Oracle Identity Navigator 11.1.1.5.0
Oracle Identity Manager 9.x
Note:
Updating Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.0.0) environments to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0) involves applying patch as per Oracle Fusion Middleware standards. This procedure is covered in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Patching Guide for Oracle Identity and Access Management.
For information about patching Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.0.0) to 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0), see "Applying the Latest Oracle Fusion Middleware Patch Set" in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Patching Guide for Oracle Identity and Access Management.
The term Migration in this document refers to the scenarios where you migrate the following products to Oracle Identity and Access Management 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0). In these migration scenarios, you install a new 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0) Oracle Home (IAM_HOME) and then migrate your configuration data from your previous installation to the new 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0) Oracle Home.
Oracle Access Manager 10g
Oracle Adaptive Access Manager 10g
Oracle Single Sign-On 10g
Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0
Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1
During migration, you can have both the old and the new deployments coexisting, such that some applications are protected by the old server, and the others are protected by the new server. The coexistence mode allows you to have seamless single sign-on experience when you navigate between applications protected by different servers.
For example, Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 and Oracle Access Management Access Manager 11.1.2.1.0 servers can coexist and work together, so that the you have seamless single sign-on experience when you navigate between applications protected by Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 and Oracle Access Management Access Manager 11.1.2.1.0 Servers.
The following are the coexistence scenarios supported in 11g Release 2 (11.1.2.1.0):
Coexistence of Oracle Access Manager 10g with Oracle Access Management Access Manager 11.1.2.1.0
Coexistence of Sun OpenSSO Enterprise 8.0 with Oracle Access Management Access Manager 11.1.2.1.0
Coexistence of Sun Java System Access Manager 7.1 with Oracle Access Management Access Manager 11.1.2.1.0