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Oracle Adaptive Access Manger  is an Access Management product from Oracle Access Management Suite Plus (other products from Access Management Suite plus are OAM, OES, OIF, eSSO, OpenSSO Fedlet, OWSM, and STS ).  To know more about OAAM check Mahendra’s post and for OAAM version 11.1.1.5 my previous post here. For list of all Oracle Identity and Access Management products click here

This post covers OAAM 11g R1 (11.1.1.*) for beginners and highlight overview of OAAM installation, configuration, and accessing OAAM for first time .

1. OAAM 11g is a J2EE application deployed on Oracle WebLogic Server. If you are new to Oracle WebLogic Server then check  WebLogic Domain, Admin Server and Managed Server

2. OAAM 11g includes two components
a) OAAM Online : For Real-time risk analysis
b) OAAM Offline : For offline risk analysis

3. OAAM is part of Identity and Access Management software (IAM) same software that contains OAM, OIM, OES, and OIN .

4. OAAM’s deployed applications for OAAM 11g are

a) OAAM Server: OAAM Server is a run-time component that includes rules engine and end user interface flows deployed on WebLogic Managed Server. OAAM server provides Adaptive Risk Manager, Adaptive Strong Authenticator, Web Services etc.

b) OAAM Admin Console : Administration console (Web Application aka OAAM Admin) that contains customer service and security analyst case management functionality.

High Level Installation Steps for OAAM 11g:

1. Install Database for OAAM schema
2. Use RCU  to load OAAM schema

3. Install WebLogic Server, for 64 bit O.S. use steps mentioned here

4. Install Identity and Access Management Software as mentioned here  (Steps here are for 11.1.1.3. Use same steps but install version 11.1.1.5 Note: 11.1.1.5 is latest OAAM version as of May 2012)

5. Configure OAAM by running $MW_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/config.sh

• when prompted for schema name, provide schema details creating using RCU

• OAAM configuration in online mode will create Admin Server and two Managed Servers (one for OAAM Admin Server and second for OAAM Server)

6. Start Node Manager, Admin Server, and Managed Servers (Do Not forget to set StartScriptEnabled=true in nodemanager.properties)

7. Create User for OAAM and add user in OAAM* group (to grant OAAM Role) using WebLogic Console

8. Access OAAM Admin Console http://host:OAAMAdmin_ManagedServer_port/oaam_admin

9. Access OAAM Server http://host:OAAMServer_ManagedServer_port/oaam_server

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I’m just back now from Atlanta, having been over there for the past week helping run the second week of the RM BI Forum 2012. Around 55 BI professionals from around the USA (and with a few from Europe) got together over four days to network, share tips and techniques around Oracle BI development, meet the Oracle PMs, and enjoy themselves downtown in Atlanta, GA.

The format of the US BI Forum followed the same structure as the UK one, with Kevin McGinley providing the masterclass on the Tuesday, the main conference running on Wednesday and Thursday, and the NDA BI Developer day on the Friday organized in conjunction with Oracle. Kevin’s session was if anything even better received than in Brighton, with topics ranging from the Action Framework through Oracle Scorecard & Strategy Management, UI customization and of course BI Mobile. Thanks again to Kevin for taking the time to develop the materials, and then join us over two weeks to deliver the masterclass and then take part in the event itself.

The main conference then kicked-off with Tim and Dan Vlamis talking about dashboard best practices, then went on to cover Endeca, OBIEE performance tuning, security, Exalytics, RPD data modeling, big data and the new 11.1.1.6.2 SampleApp. As with Brighton, we ran a number of 10-minute sessions over the two days, including some Ignite-style sessions that had slides that auto-advanced every thirty seconds, and TED-style sessions where the speaker covered a controversial or counter-intuitive topic with minimal slides and sometimes props. Here’s Christian Screen, from Cap Gemini and ArtofBI.com, delivering his Ignite session on how to become an Oracle ACE.

The Best Presentation Award went in the end to our own Jordan Meyer, who talked about the wider world of data visualizations including examples such as the Billion Dollar Gram, a facebook network visualization created using R, and other examples created using Oracle’s R toolkit and embedded in Oracle BI dashboards. Jordan had a great relaxed but engaging presenting manner, covered some hot new technology and even managed to create a visualization based on Stewart’s comments about Apple on our internal mailing list, shown in the photo below along with the subject.

Although the event is primarily community organized, we had some exceptional support from the Oracle BI product management/development team again this year in Atlanta, including Matt Bedin who heads-up developer outreach for Oracle BI, Philippe Lions who demonstrated the new 11.1.1.6.2 SampleApp and provided a beta version for delegates to take away with them, and Pravin Janardanam who recently joined the product management team and is responsible for the metadata elements of the BI Server. We were also privileged to be joined for the second year by Jean-Pierre Dijcks who ran a whiteboarding session on big data, and Adam Ferrari, ex-CTO of Endeca who talked about the Oracle Endeca Information Discovery platform and analyzed, live, the tweet stream from this week’s, and the previous week’s, attendees. Thanks again to everyone from Oracle, especially for staying around for all four days and taking part in all of the sessions.

Friday, as with the Brighton week, was a special BI Developer day organized in conjunction with Oracle BI product development and held under NDA (non-disclosure agreement), where we were taken through the product roadmap in more detail and looked in particular at a couple of significant changes/developments in the OBIEE product architecture. Of course I can’t go into any detail now, but thanks again to Oracle for this and watch this space for insight and analysis once things become public.

So that’s it for now. I’ll do one final blog post early next week to post all of the presentation PDFs, and photos from the US event can be viewed in this BI Forum Atlanta 2012 Flickr set. Thanks again to everyone, and no doubt we’ll start planning the 2013 event very soon!

The utilities are available for download from http://support.oracle.com search for patch name 13602094.

It's a small 2.5Mb zip file which you should install on the manager node and unzip in /u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3. There are manpages for the utilities as well. These are installed in /u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3/ovm_utils/man/man8. To make it easy, simply add this to your MANPATH : export MANPATH=/u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3/ovm_utils/man.

To use the utilities you need the admin username and password for the manager instance and in general you can just use localhost as the hostname. If you want to be able to connect to a remote manager instance, you have to first enable SSL on the manager node. By default we listen only on 127.0.0.1. There is an option in the utils to make a secure connection, use -X, but again, you first have to enable SSL for this. You can enable secure connections using ovm_utils and the addkeystore command. We have a support note for this.

So the format is something like : ./ovm_managercontrol -u admin -p mypassword -h localhost -c [options...]..
There are quite a few commands in the various utilities at this point. I broke the utilities up into categories :br

Here a a few (hopefully) useful examples:

# ovm_managercontrol -u admin -p Manager -h localhost -c getsessiontimeout

# ovm_managercontrol -u admin -p Manager -h localhost -c setsessiontimeout -T 60

Session timeout is the Oracle VM Console session timeout (connect to a Virtual Machine console). When you have a slow network, the default timeout of 30 seconds might be too short and this lets you set this to a longer (or shorter value).

# ovm_servercontrol -u admin -p Manager -h localhost -c listnfsexports -s server1
Oracle VM Server Control utility 0.5.1.
Connected.
Command : listnfsexports
NFS Exports :
        id         : 0004fb0000230000978a28e2dc85e06b
        client     : ca-srs1
        options    :
        repository : SATA_ST3500320AS_5QM1EYTX
        path       : /OVS/Repositories/0004fb000003000031fac25b24740cca/
---
        id         : 0004fb00002300004b161fd1a0d106b7
        client     : ca-vdi1
        options    : rw,no_root_squash
        repository : SATA_ST3500320AS_5QM1EYTX
        path       : /OVS/Repositories/0004fb000003000031fac25b24740cca/
---
Exit... 

nfs exports are very useful and new in 3.1. It is now possible to export a local ocfs2 repository on a FC, iscsi or local disk device to be exported from an Oracle VM server to the outside world. You define which repository and which client can mount the repository. listnfsexports lists the exports defined on a specific Oracle VM Server.

# ovm_servercontrol -u admin -p Manager -h localhost -c createnfsexport -s server1 
-C ca-vdi1 -o rw,no_root_squash -r SATA_ST3500320AS_5QM1EYTX
Oracle VM Server Control utility 0.5.1.
Connected.
Command : createnfsexport
Creating nfs export for repository 'SATA_ST3500320AS_5QM1EYTX' on server.
Created repository export
Exit... 

Here I have a repository named SATA_ST3500320AS_5QM1EYTX (this happens to be a local disk on server1) and I am exporting that repo through nfs to external server ca-vdi1. So now, on ca-vdi1, I can do mount server1:/OVS/Repositories/0004fb000003000031fac25b24740cca /mnt and I can backup(or restore) files.

# /ovm_servercontrol -u admin -p Manager -h localhost -c deletenfsexport -s server1 
-i 0004fb0000230000978a28e2dc85e06b
Oracle VM Server Control utility 0.5.1.
Connected.
Command : deletenfsexport
Deleting nfs export with ID '0004fb0000230000978a28e2dc85e06b'
Deleted repository export
Exit... 

Simply deleting a repository. You need to specify the UUID of the nfs export, which you can find using listnfsexports.

# ovm_repocontrol -u admin -p Manager -h localhost -c create -r foo -s wopr5 
-i 3600144f057ef8a0000004fb3194b0001
Oracle VM Repository Control utility 0.5.1.
Connected.
Command : create
Found LUN with id '3600144f057ef8a0000004fb3194b0001'
Creating Filesystem...
Creating repository... Please wait...
Create repository completed.
Exit... 

Create a repository on the LUN with a specific UUID. This works around slow storage where we hit a 2 minute timeout.

# ovm_vmcontrol -u admin -p Manager -h ovmm -c vcpuget -v apitest
Oracle VM VM Control utility 0.3.9.
Connected.
Command : vcpuget
Current pinning of virtual CPUs to physical threads : 2,3

Pinning virtual CPU's to physical threads.

# ovm_vmcontrol -u admin -p Manager -h ovmm -c vcpuset -v apitest -s 5,6
Oracle VM VM Control utility 0.3.9.
Connected.
Command : vcpuset
Pinning virtual CPUs
Pinning of virtual CPUs to physical threads '5,6' 'apitest' completed.
A restart of Virtual Machine 'apitest' is required. 

# vm_servercontrol  -u admin -p Manager -h localhost -s server -c events -A all
Oracle VM Server Control utility 0.3.10.
Connected.
Command : events
Server Events
Acknowledging Virtual Machine events
        Virtual Machines on this server :
VM : el5u4_32_pvm_1
VM : el6u1_64_hvm_1
VM : el5u7_64_hvm_1
VM : el5u7_64_pvm_1
VM : el6u1_64_pvm_1
VM : el6u2bd5_32_pvhvm_1
VM : el6u1_32_pvm_1
VM : uek-boot-el5-64
Exit..

Acknowledging events on a given server, including any guest events.

Harbingers is the tenth book in the Repairman Jack series by F. Paul Wilson.

The last of Jack’s relatives are gone. Are his girlfriend (Gia), her daughter (Vicky) and Jack’s unborn child the next in line? Is there anything Jack can do to protect them?

This book focuses more on Jack’s relationship to “The Otherness” and “The Ally”. We see a more aggressive side of Jack, as well as the cold calm detachment when he’s doing his job. Dark, dark, dark, but also kinda exciting.

Cheers

Tim…

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Today’s guest post comes from a member of our WebCenter Evangelist team, Noël Jaffré, a Principal Technologist based in France.

Today’s public websites are no longer purely content driven informational sites and today’s extranets are no longer strictly transactional in nature.  In many cases, your online engagement strategy may require a combination of both informational marketing content as well as online services, to engage your customers and to enable them to do business with you effectively.

For example, financial institutions require marketing content, say on different investment options, that is designed to help convert prospects into customers, as well as robust and secure capabilities that allow customers to conduct their financial transactions.  In this case, a combination of capabilities including web experience management and portal are required to make this type of online initiative successful with the ultimate goal of creating an experience that is seamless and consistent from the customer’s perspective.

Deliver Seamless Marketing Sites and Self-Service Extranets with Oracle WebCenter

So whether you take content created and managed in your web experience management solution and embed it in a transactional application using portal or native APIs, or whether transactional applications are embedded in the web experience, Oracle WebCenter provides a complete platform to design and build the best online experiences across public marketing sites, self-service extranets and intranets.

With WebCenter you can:

• Drive sales and loyalty with engaging cross-channel online experiences
• Enable self-service extranets, intranets and custom application dashboards
• Enhance productivity with social collaboration
• Optimize information access with content management
  

Want to learn more about how to do more with Oracle WebCenter, view our recent webcast.

Do More with Oracle WebCenter: Expand Beyond Web Experience Management

Are you providing your customers with engaging online experiences using Oracle? If so, you probably realize that there's more to exceptional customer engagement than just Web experience management. You must also empower your business by engaging and enabling employees and partners to deliver on customers' expectations. View this on demand webcast and learn how to meet your engagement goals by doing more with Oracle WebCenter.

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Quite a few enhancements went into this release :

The advantage for customers is that we do an incredible amount of testing on uek2 in terms of performance, network, disk io and scalability/stability in general and now Oracle VM automatically benefits from this additional testing. On top of that, for our partners, they do not have to worry about testing 2 different products in terms of drivers, since we share the exact same code base we have the exact same drivers for our hardware/storage vendors.

You can find more information in the documentation set and in the release notes.