Preface

Welcome to Oracle Key Vault Administrator's Guide. This guide explains how to install, configure, and use Oracle Key Vault.

This preface contains:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

This document explains how to install and configure Oracle Key Vault. In addition, it explains how to perform operations such as:

• Managing security object attributes and their associated lifecycle policies

• Enrolling and managing Oracle Key Vault endpoints, which can be databases, middleware, and other data sources that contain security objects that Oracle Key Vault can manage

• Managing alert policies

• Administering the Oracle Key Vault server, including configuring high availability and backup operations

• Creating administrative users, setting password policies, and resetting passwords

• Reviewing and managing audit logs

Documentation Accessibility

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Access to Oracle Support

Oracle customers that have purchased support have access to electronic support through My Oracle Support. For information, visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=info or visit http://www.oracle.com/pls/topic/lookup?ctx=acc&id=trs if you are hearing impaired.

Related Documents

For more information, see these Oracle resources:

• Oracle Database Advanced Security Guide

• Oracle Database Security Guide

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Data Guard Concepts and Administration

• Oracle Real Application Clusters Administration and Deployment Guide

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http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/index.html

If you already have a user name and password for OTN, then you can go directly to the documentation section of the OTN website at

http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/index.html

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document:

Convention	Meaning
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