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WebCenter Spaces Integrated with Identity Management (OID)

We have been having a lot of fun with the latest Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g stack. Are you having trouble getting WebCenter 11g properly integrated with Identity Management 11g and OID? We can help.

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WebLogic and WebCenter SSO with IIS – Windows Native Authentication (WNA), SPNEGO using Active Directory (AD)

Setting up Windows Native Authentication (with Kerberos) Single Sign-On (SSO) within WebLogic can be tricky. One way to accomplish this is to use IIS to front-end the WebLogic cluster. You need to use an IISIdentityAsserter in this scenario. Using an Identity Asserter based on HTTP headers has security implications and it’s important to ensure the communications are locked down between the IIS front-end to the WebLogic cluster. I don’t have much time to type more about this, but was excited about some recent work and wanted to get a quick post up in reference to this.

OID Install in Oracle Enterprise Linux (OEL) 5 – Shared Libraries Error

When installing 10g OID on OEL5, if you run into the following error, you can run the below commands to address the issue:

Error:

OPMN HTTP process fails to start.  When you look in the log file, it says:
/Apache/Apache/bin/httpd: error while loading shared libraries: libdb.so.2: cannot open shared object file:  No such file or directory





To fix, run the following commands:

# ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0 /usr/lib/libdb.so.2
# chmod 755 /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2.0.0
# chmod 755 /usr/lib/libdb.so.2

Complete Fusion Middleware 11g environment setup

We have recently been working on and completed an entire Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g environment setup for a customer:

  • Identity Management
  • WebCenter (Framework and Services)
  • SOA Suite
  • UCM

This article is part of the recent work short blurb series.

Oracle IdM – SAML SSO with Google Apps

We recently integrated Oracle IdM with the SAML SSO Service from Google Apps. Now customers can continue to authenticate against OID even while accessing Google Apps assets!

Fusion Middleware 11g Official Launch Event – July 1

I’m registered and attending the Official Fusion Middleware 11g Launch in DC on July 1.

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Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) – formerly Xellerate Identity Provisioning – Is Enhanced

In a recent press release, Oracle promoted Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) focusing on the hot-pluggable nature of the product and it’s ability to handle, among other challenges, compliance and demands of SAP.

Oracle has already made a few strategic moves in the identity management space, and…

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Supplier Portal – Oracle EBS and Middleware

The Challenge

ABC, a publicly traded services and manufacturing organization, has leveraged Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) to manage a variety of back-office functions, including their suppliers. Suppliers have been provided data from EBS manually by internal teams — the data sent has varied in both content and as well as format.

Internal teams spend valuable time generating reports manually for external supplier organizations and suppliers are left with the tedious process of generating their own reports. All the while, both groups may be relying on measures out of line with ABC’s priorities.

The Solution

We took a systematic approach to the issue, addressing:

  1. EBS/Data
  2. Discoverer/Reporting Logic
  3. Portal/UI

The Results

Finally, by setting up proper SSO and hooks from Portal to Discoverer and integrating end-to-end all the way down into the database, users in Portal (regardless of whether they are internal or external users) see only what their user account can see. Additionally, by leveraging the latest Portal 10.1.4 features, we were able to provide ABC with a portal that had a completely customized look-and-feel matching their external website exactly.

Within days, the entire solution was architected, designed, and developed. We were all excited about the quick progress and all of ABC’s expectations were exceeded.

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