16 Managing Role Categories
This chapter describes the Role Categories in Oracle Identity Manager.
Note:
Role categories exist in this release of Oracle Identity Manager only for the purpose of backward compatibility. Using role categories is not recommended.
This section describes the following topics:
16.1 About Role Category
There are two default role categories, OIM Roles and Default. If you are using a fresh deployment of Oracle Identity Manager, then use the Category attribute in the access catalog. If you are using an upgraded deployment of Oracle Identity Manager, then update the Catalog category attribute with the role category information.
The default role categories in Oracle Identity Manager are:
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OIM Roles: All the predefined roles in Oracle Identity Manager are assigned to this category. These are roles that exist in Oracle Identity Manager by default and are primarily used for managing permissions. There will not be any corresponding entity in catalog for these predefined roles.
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Default: A newly created role must have a role category. Therefore, if a role category is not specified at the time of creating the role, then the role is assigned to this category by default.
Note:
The default role categories cannot be localized.
16.2 Creating a Role Category
Use the Create Role Category page to create a new role category.
To create a role category:
16.3 Searching Role Categories
Use the Search Role Categories page to search for existing role categories. You can search by specifying a value or wildcard character, and also use various search operators.
To search for role categories:
16.4 Modifying a Role Category
Use the role category details page to edit the basic attributes of an existing role category.
To modify a role category: