43.3 Enabling and Disabling Security Token Service

The following topics describe how to enable and disable Security Token Service:

43.3.1 About Security Token Service and the Oracle Access Management Console

Elements in the Oracle Access Management Console enable Administrators to easily configure the Token Service to exchange WS Trust tokens with partners. All Security Token Service system configuration is done using the Oracle Access Management Console.

Token Service elements provide for creation, viewing, modification, and removal of partners, endpoints, validation templates, issuance templates, and data store connections. The configuration includes the following common tasks covered in Managing Common and System Configurations of this book:

  • Registering and managing common OAM Servers and proxy information

  • Registering and managing the common Default User Identity Store

  • Configuring the OAM Keystore, which differs from the OWSM Keystore used for WSS processing

  • Certificate Validation and Revocation

The Oracle Access Management Console enables Administrators to perform the following Security Token Service-specific tasks:

  • Manage validation token templates: The validation templates include configuration properties to validate a Web Services Security/WSTrust token, and map it to a Requester Partner or a User record in the Default User Identity Store.

  • Manage issuance templates: The issuance templates contain rules on how a token will be created

  • Manage Partner Data: A partner represents a partner trusted by Security Token Service. Security Token Service defines three types of partners: Requester, Relying Party and Issuing Authority. Each partner entry is associated to a partner profile. The partner entry contains signing and encryption certificates and identifiers used to uniquely identify a partner

  • Manage Partner Profile: A partner profile contains configuration properties that are common to a set of partners:

    • Claim Mapping

    • Token Types definition

    • Issuance and Validation templates defined for the token Types

    • Override Validation Template rules for Issuing Authorities(Other STS)

  • Manage Security Token Service Endpoints

  • Manage Token Issuance Policies (authorization policies that will be evaluated to determine if a Requester Partner can request a token based on the Relying Party referenced in the request)

  • Security Token Service Global Settings

  • Custom tokens

43.3.1.1 About Security Token Service Administrators

Users with administrative access to the Oracle Access Management Console, have access to Security Token Services.

Initially, administrative users must log in to the Oracle Access Management Console using the WebLogic Administrator credentials set during initial configuration. However, your enterprise may require independent sets of Administrators: one set of users responsible for Access Manager and another for Security Token Service.

43.3.1.2 About Logging In To, and Signing Out Of, Security Token Service

When using Security Token Service with Access Manager, logging in to, and signing out of the Oracle Access Management Console is the same.

For more information on logging in and out of Oracle Access Management Console,

See About Logging Into the Oracle Access Management Console.

See Logging Out of the Oracle Access Management Console.

43.3.2 About Enabling Services for Security Token Service

By default Security Token Service is disabled. If you want to use Security Token Service, both Security Token Service and Access Manager must be enabled.

A green check mark in the Status field beside the service name indicates the service is enabled. A red circle with a line through it indicates that the corresponding service is disabled.

43.3.3 Enabling and Disabling Services for Security Token Service

The following topics explain how to enable and disable services for Security Token Service:

43.3.3.1 Prerequisites for Enabling and Disabling Services for Security Token Service

Oracle Access Manager service must be enabled.

By default Security Token Service is disabled. You need to enable the Oracle Access Manager service before enabling and disabling services for Security Token Service.

43.3.3.2 Enabling or Disabling Security Token Service

You can enable and disable a Security Token Service using Oracle Access Management Console.

To enable or disable Security Token Service:

  1. In the Oracle Access Management Console, click Configuration at the top of the window.
  2. In the Configuration console, click Available Services.
  3. Enable Security Token Service: Beside Security Token Service, click Enable (or confirm that the Status check mark is green) and confirm that the Access Manager Service is also enabled.
  4. Disable Security Token Service: Beside Security Token Service, click Disable (or confirm that the Status check mark is red).