This technical illustration shows the process flow for the one-hop upgrade of Oracle Identity Manager to 12c (12.2.1.4). The one-hop upgrade process comprises the following high-level steps:

1. Installing the 12c (12.2.1.4) setup
2. Exporting the OPSS encryption keys from 11g (11.1.2.3.0) setup
3. Cloning the 11g OIM database
4. Taking backups
5. Shutting down the 11g and 12c servers
6. Upgrading the OIM 11g database schema
7. Rewiring the 12c OIM domain
8. Restarting the servers, configuring the endpoints, and discarding the original 12c OIM DB/schema