Oracle Identity Manager: Administration and Implementation

The Oracle Identity Manager: Administration and Implementation course covers how to install the product and use it to manage company’s users, organizational units, resources and privileges. This includes the five fundamental actions an administrator performs with a resource-related account: creating, disabling, reinstating, modifying, and deleting the account. Students also learn how Oracle Identity Manager 10g (Product version 9.1) retrieves user and organizational records from both trusted and nontrusted sources, including how to implement workflows to detect rogue accounts from nonauthorized resources.

Students then create reports in Oracle Identity Manager 10g that capture users present and life cycle relationships with resources. Next, students set up, create, manage, and review an attestation workflow, from end-to end. This workflow notifies reviewers of a report they must review to verify users have access to the appropriate resources and privileges within these resources. Lastly, students learn how to customize the look and feel and functionality of Oracle Identity Manager, as well as modify its code to extend its capabilities.

Learn To:

• Manage resources Oracle Identity
• Work with the Oracle Identity Manager Design Console and Oracle Identity Manager Administrative and User Console
• Configure, create, and manage workflows for trusted source reconciliation and target resource reconciliation
• Create and manage users, user groups, and organizations
• Customize both the “look and feel” and the functionality of the Oracle Identity Manager Administrative and User Console
• Install, configure, and start Oracle Identity Manager and its Diagnostic Dashboard

Benefits to You

Secure your organization's critical applications and sensitive data to lower operational costs. Manage the entire user identity life cycle across all enterprise resources using your new skills to create and manage users, user groups and organizations.

Audience

• Application Developers
• Business Analysts
• Business Intelligence Developer
• Technical Administrator
• End Users
• Web Administrator
• Technical Consultant

Course Topics Introduction

• Learn about the course units and lessons

Identity Management: Overview

• Explain the importance of identity management
• Discuss identity management benefits, terminology, and functional aspects

Understanding Oracle Identity Manager

• Identify the suite of Oracle Identity and Access Management products; explain the role of Oracle Identity Manager in identity management
• Discuss the business challenges and solutions that Oracle Identity Manager addresses
• Identify the tiers and components of the Oracle Identity Manager architecture
• Explain key features of Oracle Identity Manager for identity management: reconciliation and provisioning
• Explain how Oracle Identity Manager manages reconciliation and provisioning
• Describe an Oracle Identity Manager connector and how it performs provisioning and reconciliation actions
• List the mandatory connector components
• Explain how to build an Oracle Identity Manager connector

Configuring Oracle Application Server

• Set Oracle Application Server environment variables
• Specify a Remote Method Invocation (RMI) port for Oracle Identity Manager
• Start and stop application server–specific processes

Installing and Configuring Oracle Identity Manager

• Prepare a predefined database for Oracle Identity Manager
• Install and deploy the Oracle Identity Manager Diagnostic Dashboard
• Use the dashboard to test the Oracle Database installation
• Install Oracle Identity Manager Server
• Install the Oracle Identity Manager Design Console
• Perform postinstallation tasks for the Design Console
• Use the Diagnostic Dashboard to verify connectivity with Oracle Database, and ensure correct loading and configuration of Oracle Identity Manager

Starting and Understanding Oracle Identity Manager Consoles

• Launch Oracle Identity Manager Server
• Start the Administrative and User Console and the Design Console
• Compare the two consoles
• Identify Design Console forms and folders
• Explain Administrative and User Console forms and folders

Managing Users and User Entities

• Explain three types of Oracle Identity Manager users: system administrators, Oracle Identity Manager connector administrators, and end users
• Discuss Oracle Identity Manager user membership in organizations and user groups
• Compare similarities and differences between organizations and user groups
• Create records for an organization, three types of Oracle Identity Manager users, and a user group
• Assign an Oracle Identity Manager user to a user group
• Explain how proxies function for administrative substitution
• View and Modify Profiles
• Change challenge questions and reset passwords

Using Predefined Connectors

• Identify an Oracle Identity Manager connector
• Describe the ways to transfer connectors from one environment to another
• Take advantage of the benefits and best practices of using connectors
• List the connectors in the Oracle Identity Manager Connector Pack
• Identify the Deployment Manager
• Explain how the Deployment Manager is used to import connectors for external resources
• Configure a connector to make it operable

Assigning Oracle Identity Manager Connectors to Users

• Identify resources and Oracle Identity Manager connectors
• Explain how Oracle Identity Manager connectors differ from resources
• Discuss three ways to assign a connector to an Oracle Identity Manager user

Provisioning User Resources Manually

• View a graphical representation of an approval or provisioning workflow
• Build and run a connector that Oracle Identity Manager uses to create a new user account in an external resource

Provisioning User Resources Automatically

• Compare manual provisioning with autoprovisioning
• Modify an Oracle Identity Manager connector to automatically provision a user with an external resource
• Autoprovision a user with this resource

Expanding the Provisioning Workflow

• Discuss the key provisioning functions of an Oracle Identity Manager connector administrator, including permanently revoking the access rights that a user has with a resource

Approving the Provisioning Workflow

• Define approval processes and approval process tasks
• See how approval processes and tasks affect a provisioning workflow
• Add an approval process and task to this workflow
• Identify requests
• Create a request to approve and provision a resource to a user

Understanding Reconciliation

• Define reconciliation
• Identify and compare two types of reconciliation associated with Oracle Identity Manager
• Explain trusted source reconciliation and target resource reconciliation conceptually
• Discuss three reconciliation events that Oracle Identity Manager can perform with a resource
• List the steps and components that are required to build a reconciliation workflow
• Identify reconciliation classes, scheduled tasks, and reconciliation rules
• Discuss the roles that these entities have with trusted source reconciliation and target resource reconciliation
• Explain how build a reconciliation workflow

Performing Reconciliation

• Explain how trusted source reconciliation can recognize new and modified user-related information on an authoritative source
• Discuss how trusted source reconciliation can transfer this information into Oracle Identity Manager

Creating Reports

• Identify, list, and compare the three types of reports that are available with Oracle Identity Manager
• Explain how to access these reports
• Discuss the custom reports that can be created by using a third-party tool
• Configure Oracle Identity Manager to display exception reports
• Create operational, historical, and exception reports

Understanding and Using Attestation Processes

• Define attestation and attestation processes, including the fundamental components of an attestation process
• Describe the types of users who analyze, create, and manage attestation processes
• Identify the types of data to be attested
• Discuss an attestation process schedule
• Explain an attestation process workflow from beginning to end
• Configure your Oracle Identity Manager environment to manage attestation processes
• Create an attestation process with the Administrative and User Console
• Access the Administrative and User Console as a reviewer or process owner to act on an attestation process or view information about it

Customizing the Oracle Identity Manager Administrative and User Console

• Identify customization levels for the Administrative and User Console
• Configure Oracle Identity Manager to modify this console
• Modify the console “look and feel” to brand it for your company
• Change console functionality without modifying Oracle Identity Manager code

Customizing Oracle Identity Manager Using Java APIs

• Identify an application programming interface (API)
• Discuss the advantages of using Oracle Identity Manager APIs
• Identify and use three types of Oracle Identity Manager APIs: utility classes, factory classes, and result set interfaces
• Extend the capabilities of a connector
• Describe a task assignment adapter
• Explain how this type of adapter automates the allocation of an approval process task to an Oracle Identity Manager user or group
• Compare lookup fields and user-defined fields
• Create a request for a resource to be approved and provisioned for a user

Transferring Oracle Identity Manager Connectors

• Transferring Oracle Identity Manager Connectors
• Identify the Deployment Manager
• Describe methods, advantages, and best practices for transferring connectors from one Oracle Identity Manager environment to another
• Explain how to export connectors

Oracle Identity and Access Management Products:

• Describe the features, benefits, and functional aspects of the suite of Oracle Identity and Access Management products

Course Objectives

• Create, Configure, Manage workflows for trusted target reconciliation
• Create and Manage Users, User Groups and Organizations
• Create Operational, Historical and Exception Reports
• Handle administrative functions
• Install, Configure, and Start Oracle Identity Manager and its Diagnostic Dashboard
• Manage resources that Oracle Identity Manager assigns to its users
• Modify Oracle Identity Manager to extend its provisioning capabilities
• Set up, create, manage, and review an attestation workflow
• Transfer connectors between environments
• Create, Configure, Manage workflows for trusted source reconciliation