What's New in Oracle Internet Directory?

New and Changed Features for Oracle Internet Directory 12c (12.2.1.4.0)

Oracle Internet Directory 12c (12.2.1.4.0) has the following key new features:

Quality of Service: Provides the capability to restrict the number of user connections or operations possible in a given duration of time. See Managing Quality of Service Configuration.
Monitoring Oracle Internet Directory Server using LDAP: Query and monitor details of the current state of a server using LDAP for debugging or troubleshooting purposes. See Monitoring Oracle Internet Directory Server Using LDAP.

New and Changed Features for Oracle Internet Directory 12c (12.2.1.3.0)

This section provides a concise summary of the new features in this release, and contains the following topics:

WebLogic Management Framework: This release of Oracle Internet Directory introduces the WebLogic Management Framework, a set of tools that leverage on Oracle WebLogic 12c interfaces to provide a simple, consistent and distributed framework for managing Oracle products that require basic administrative capabilities. Its capabilities include start, stop, configuration settings, and other such basic product lifecycle operations through a common command line, API and user interface. For more information on the WebLogic Management Framework, see What is the WebLogic Management Framework? in Understanding Oracle Fusion Middleware.
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 in Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Internet Directory Debug Logs.
Replication Improvements: Improved diagnostic log messages have been provided to help resolve runtime issues. Replication server now has support for one-way or two-way authentication SSL mode. See Use of SSL Encryption in Oracle Internet Directory Replication.
Changes in Secure Socket Layer Configuration: The out-of-box default SSL configuration of OID server instances has the value of orclcryptoversion set to 24. This means, only TLSv1.2 and TLSv1.1 are enabled. For any other desired configuration setting, see Configuring Secure Sockets Layer. In this release, no-auth mode of SSL is disabled out-of-box in Oracle Internet Directory.To enable no-auth mode of SSL, anonymous cipher should be configured. See Configuring ODSM Connection with SSL Enabled
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New and Deprecated Terminology for Oracle Internet Directory 12c

This section provides a brief description of the features that are changed in the current release (12.2.1.3.0).

Table -1 Deprecated and New Terminology for 12c

Terminology Used in 11g	Terminology Used in 12c
OPMN	No more supported in 12c release. Instead, Weblogic Management Framework is used to manage the components.
ORACLE_HOME	ORACLE_HOME
MW_HOME	DOMAIN_HOME
In 11g the Middleware home is a container for the Oracle WebLogic Server home, and, optionally, one Oracle Common home and one or more Oracle homes.	ORACLE_HOME The Oracle home that is created for all the Oracle Fusion Middleware products on a host computer. It includes binary and library files, the Oracle common directory and the individual product directories for each Oracle Fusion Middleware product you install.
Oracle Web Cache 11g	Oracle Web Cache is no longer available
Oracle home PRODUCT_ORACLE_HOME	Product directory PRODUCT_DIR The product directories within the Middleware home are no longer Oracle homes. They are simply directories within the Oracle home that are created for all the Oracle Fusion Middleware products. Most Oracle Fusion Middleware components should be installed in the same Oracle home. The names of the product homes are predefined and can no longer be modified by the user during the installation.
Oracle instance	This term is eliminated in 12c. The installer will no longer create a separate instance directory for system components, such as Oracle HTTP Server. Instead, you can use the Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard to configure your system components, just as you do for Java components. Instance information about each system component will be stored in the domain home.
Oracle Fusion Middleware farm	This term is eliminated in 12c. The term "farm" is no longer necessary for 12c. It was used in 11g to refer to a container for a WLS domain and its associated system component instances when presented in Fusion Middleware Control.