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Why use Identity Management Grid Control Plug-in ?

For a while i am working with Oracle Identity Management as a central user store for all my Oracle products.To monitor this environment Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control offers a rich information interface to help you do so. However i am missing information on the Directory Integration Platforms which is used to connect to 3rd party Ldap Directories such as OpenLdap , Edirectory and Active Directory. This important information should be available in the Grid Control Montoring tool as it could happen that the synchronization runs into a problem without us noticing.

To take the monitoring capabilities to a higher level and provide such information , Oracle provides the “Identity Management Grid Control Plug-in”. This Plug-in must be installed into your Monitoring Grid and on every Agent which monitors and Oracle Identity Management.

After doing so you will have a new group next to your host , databases , etc called “Identity Management” which provides us with a complete overview of our Identity Management. It also collects administrative pages and offers you a direct link from within EM Grid to User Management, Group Management , Manage Services , Scope Settings and Session Setting.

I would recommend using this plug-in on top of a basic installation of Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

Here is a quick impression of how these pages would look like :

DIP Impression


DAS Administrative Links

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This entry was posted by John Paul van Helvoort on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 10:29:29 and is filed under Administration. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

5 Responses to “Why use Identity Management Grid Control Plug-in ?”

  1. Fernando Jose Andrade Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 11:31:10

    Could you provide a link to see the captions bigger?
    Have you try another plugings, as SOA management plugin?
    Thanks.

  2. John Paul van Helvoort Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 12:36:43

    Captions should be more visible now.
    As of now i am not aware of any such plugin.
    If you know one i am very interested to test this aswell.

  3. Fernando Jose Andrade Says:
    July 3rd, 2008 at 17:10:44

    Thanks. Captions are great now.
    Seeing Thomas Kurian webcast about BEA+Oracle he mentions SOA plugins for OEM, but I havent try em yet. I´ll let you know.

  4. Arjan Goos Says:
    July 4th, 2008 at 08:08:07

    Fernando,

    Last month I logged a SR on metalink to request documentation about the SOA management plugin. But this documentation was not availible at that time.

    So it is difficult to determine if the plugin is useful.

  5. Eric Elzinga Says:
    July 7th, 2008 at 19:31:53

    Arjan,

    Information can be found overhere :
    http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/oem/prod_focus/soa_mgmt.html

    See the best practices and the webcast

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