1.143 IDENTITY_PROVIDER_TYPE

IDENTITY_PROVIDER_TYPE specifies an external identity provider for the database.

Property	Description
Parameter type	String
Syntax	IDENTITY_PROVIDER_TYPE = { AZURE_AD | OCI_IAM | NONE }
Default value	NONE
Modifiable	ALTER SYSTEM
Modifiable in a PDB	Yes
Basic	No
Oracle RAC	The same value must be used on all instances.

Values:

• AZURE_AD - Enables the database to use Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) as an external identity provider.

  When you specify this value, you must also specify configuration settings for Azure AD by setting the IDENTITY_PROVIDER_CONFIG initialization parameter.

• OCI_AM - Enables the database to use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Identity and Access Management (OCI IAM) as an external identity provider.

  When you specify this value, there is no need to specify configuration settings with the IDENTITY_PROVIDER_CONFIG initialization parameter.

• NONE - The database will not use Azure AD or OCI IAM as an external identity provider.

Note:

Setting the value of this parameter is only one step in a series of steps for configuring an external identity provider for the database. Refer to Oracle Database Security Guide for the complete set of steps for configuring Azure AD or OCI IAM before you set this parameter value.

Note:

This parameter is available starting with Oracle Database release 19c, version 19.16.

Note:

This parameter is not available to update directly for Oracle Autonomous Database Serverless.

See Also:

"IDENTITY_PROVIDER_CONFIG"