How to start learning about Oracle identity mgmt

Question

Hi All,
I want to learn OID, Can any one suggest from where to start learning this topic and practising it.
Thnaking You,
Rakesh.

Answer 1

It seems a good approach, although I think SSO can be learned independently (although it can use an LDAP dir to store credentials, it can be done without learning much about it).
In all the IdM world, I think the basic start point is to learn about LDAP. And as OIM has not a ldap backend like other provisioning solutions, you will interact a lot with directories. This is the first step I always ask for people who starts working with me. SSL/TLS and certs should be studied later, gaining a complete understand of directories world.
Every Directory differs only in their own admin console, but if you use pure LDAP, all dirs are the same. OID has its things, but with strong LDAP knowledgement, there will be no problem in understand it.
OIM is the last stand, because it integrates everything. I suggest that first, you try to learn how to use it, as if you were an administrator (this can be done if you get some VM with oim preinstalled with at least 2 connectors working). Then, when you get all oim concepts (users, orgs, groups, access policies, process, etc), you can begin with implementing your own stuff, like making your own installation, deploying connectors, extending their functionality, etc.
OIM has the power of being extended with java code, so after all of it, I recommend as the very final step, to get inside the java world and begun writing your own code, decompiling the connectors code so you can figure how oim works, etc etc