Oracle Identity Management Connector Overview
- by Darin Pendergraft
Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) is a complete Identity Governance system that automates access rights management, and provisions IT resources. One important aspect of this system is the Identity Connectors that are used to integrate OIM with external, identity-aware applications.
New in OIM 11gR2 PS1 is the Identity Connector Framework (ICF) which is the foundation for both OIM and Oracle Waveset.Identity Connectors perform several very important functions:
On boarding accounts from trusted sources like SAP, Oracle E-Business Suite, & PeopleSoft HCM
Managing users lifecycle in various Target systems through provisioning and recon operations
Synchronizing entitlements from targets systems so that they are available in the OIM request catalog
Fulfilling access grants and access revoke requests
Some connectors may support Role Lifecycle Management
Some connectors may support password sync from target to OIM
The Identity Connectors are broken down into several families:
The BMC Remedy Family
BMC Remedy Ticket Management
BMC Remedy User Management
The Microsoft Family
Microsoft Active Directory
Microsoft Active Directory Password Sync
Microsoft Exchange
The Novell Family
Novell eDirectory
Novell GroupWise
The Oracle E-Business Suite Family
Oracle e-Business Employee Reconciliation
Oracle e-Business User Management
The PeopleSoft Family
PeopleSoft Employee Reconciliation
PeopleSoft User Management
The SAP Family
SAP CUA
SAP Employee Reconciliation
SAP User Management
The UNIX Family
UNIX SSH
UNIX Telnet
As you can see, there are a large number of connectors that support apps from a variety of vendors to enable OIM to manage your business applications and resources.
If you are interested in finding out more, you can get documentation on these connectors on our OTN page at: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/id-mgmt/downloads/connectors-101674.html
