1. Reference for Oracle Identity Management
  2. What’s New In This Guide

What’s New In This Guide

This section provides a brief description of the new features introduced with the latest release of Oracle Internet Directory and points you to more information about each new feature.

Follow the pointers into this guide to get more information about the features and how to use them.

Updates in January 2021 Documentation Refresh for 12c (12.2.1.3.0)

This revision of Oracle® Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Identity Management contains feature updates and addresses bug fixes.

Support for Running the Oracle Internet Directory Server Diagnostic Command-Line Tool without SYS User Password

You can now run the Oracle Internet Directory Server Diagnostic command-line tool (oiddiag) without providing the SYS database user password. When you do so, the tool only collects diagnostics data that does not require sysdba privileges. See About Oracle Internet Directory Server Diagnostic Command-Line Tool for more information about the tool.

New and Changed Features for 12c (12.2.1.3.0)

This section provides a concise summary of the new features in this release.

  • Improvements in the diagnostic tool: The Alert logging feature captures the log messages for the events related to the OID deployment. The corresponding detailed dignostic log messages related to each of the events are captured in OID server log files that include database SQL statements and other operational time metrics. Starting from this release, the oiddiag tool is capable of generating HTML summary report that contains vital diagnostic information about the health of the deployed OID server. For more information, see About Oracle Internet Directory Server Diagnostic Command-Line Tool.

For a comprehensive listing of the new Oracle Internet Directory features introduced in this release, see New and Changed Features for Oracle Internet Directory 12c (12.2.1.3.0) in Administering Oracle Internet Directory.