VMWare’s ESXi is a freely available type 1 (bare metal) hypervisor, here we will step through installing ESXi version 5.1. Before Installing The target machine needs a x86 64-bit CPU with at least two cores and a large amount of RAM. VMWare requires 2GB and suggests at least 8GB to take advantage of all features of ESXi, but most applications of virtual machine hosts will need much more than this. Our target machine has 32GB RAM. If your target machine supports booting from USB, then load the ISO onto a thumb drive at least 1GB in size and install at … Read More
Identity & Access Management – Vendor & Product Matrix
As with any packaged suite, finding the best Identity Management products for your enterprise is a not a trivial task. This is especially true when different products from different vendors, that accomplish different objectives or services have remarkably similar (and therefore confusing) naming conventions. To help layout the current Identity Management vendor / product landscape as we see it, we’ve put together the following matrix of products by vendors. Service Identity Governance User Life Cycle, Self-Service, Request / Role Based, Provisioning & Deprovisioning, Password Management, Attestation & Compliance / Separation of Duties Oracle Identity Manager IBM® Security Identity Manager CA … Read More
Oracle Identity Management 11gR1 vs. 11gR2 Packages
Many of our customers get hung up on the release cycles, version numbers, and included products of Oracle’s Identity Management offerings. Following is a quick breakdown of the latest versions of Oracle’s Identity Management products included in both 11gR1 and 11gR2 organized as the downloadable software packages. Most of Oracle’s Identity Management products can be licensed as either a part of a suite or individually, however, some can only be licensed individually. The packages have changed significantly between 11gR1 and 11gR2 and some 11gR2 licensing suites include 11gR1 products….confused yet? Don’t worry, we can help. Let’s Talk. Oracle Identity Management … Read More
OIM AD Trusted Recon Job – java.naming.factory.initial Exception
Recently, we configured OIM 11.1.1.5 with MTS (Multiple Trusted Sources) by making AD the authoritative source for the email address attribute. As per requirements, we also added an additional domain attribute to the AD reconciliation process and provisioned additional attributes to AD. Shortly thereafter our email address updates from AD stop propagating and our AD Trusted Recon job started throwing the following exception……. [2012-04-19T17:56:23.032-04:00] [oim_server1] [ERROR] [] [OIMCP.ADCS] [tid: OIMQuartzScheduler_Worker-10] [userId: oiminternal] [ecid: 0000JRBfdRo7y0lqwsFg6G1F^4pi000002,0] [APP: oim#11.1.1.3.0] com.thortech.xl.integration.ActiveDirectory.tcADUtilLDAPController : searchResultPageEnum [2012-04-19T17:56:23.032-04:00] [oim_server1] [ERROR] [] [OIMCP.ADCS] [tid: OIMQuartzScheduler_Worker-10] [userId: oiminternal] [ecid: 0000JRBfdRo7y0lqwsFg6G1F^4pi000002,0] [APP: oim#11.1.1.3.0] Need to specify class name in … Read More
Disorienting Data Visualizations
Visualizing data has always been valuable, but in the ever growing world of “big data”, it is necessary for visualizations to be both aesthetically pleasing and easy to understand. Today, it is common to see visualizations that — though they “look good from a distance” — are entirely too complicated and leave the audience confused once they actually begin trying understand the information presented.
