Role Management in Oracle !!

Friends ,
I have the follwoing two questions about the Oracle's Role Management ,
1)
Suppose I create a role 'role1' and give the below privileges :
SQL> grant select on scott.dept to role1;
Grant succeeded.
SQL> grant update on scott.dept to role2;
Grant succeeded.Now , would anybody please tell me , using which view I can see these privileges or from which views , I can see the privileges which contains 'role1' /'role2'? I try to use the views like , dba_role_privs, role_role_privs, dba_sys_privs, role_sys_privs, role_tab_privs BUT I cannot find .
2)
I need an example How I can manage a ROLE externally ( by using O/S authentication ) . I set OS_ROLES=TRUE , but cannnot connected to the databaes . It shows following error :
SQL> grant role1 to aaron;
grant role1 to aaron
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01956: invalid command when OS_ROLES are being usedWould anybody plz give me a proper documentation from where I can get a proper example ?
I am using LINUX O/S .
Waiting for kind reply ... ...
Edited by: shipon_97 on Dec 2, 2009 6:26 PM

1. select from dba_tab_privs
2. You can find documentation at tahiti.oracle.com
You would get better answers if you listed the Oracle version you are using.

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#1.5 #0050568C003D001B00000002000026540004A12E7B3058F9#1303120914164#com.sap.sl.ut##com.sap.sl.ut####n/a##e362b43069a211e0c20e0050568c003d#SAPEngine_System_Thread[impl:5]_29##0#0#Info#1#/System/Server#Plain### Location :<com.sap.sl.ut> is initialized!#
#1.5 #0050568C003D001B00000004000026540004A12E7B3059B1#1303120914164#com.sap.sl.ut##com.sap.sl.ut####n/a##e362b43069a211e0c20e0050568c003d#SAPEngine_System_Thread[impl:5]_29##0#0#Info#1#/System/Server#Plain### Cotegory :</System/Server> is initialized and bound to Location: <com.sap.sl.ut>#
#1.5 #0050568C003D001B00000006000026540004A12E7B3076F4#1303120914172#com.sap.sl.ut##com.sap.sl.ut####n/a##e362b43069a211e0c20e0050568c003d#SAPEngine_System_Thread[impl:5]_29##0#0#Info#1#/System/Server#Plain###Establishing db connection...#
#1.5 #0050568C003D002400000297000026540004A12E7CC1E87F#1303120940477#com.sap.portal.prt.sapj2ee.error##com.sap.portal.prt.sapj2ee.error####n/a##39c1422069a211e08b030050568c003d#SAPEngine_System_Thread[impl:5]_86##0#0#Error#1#/System/Server#Java###Exception while starting: sap.com/ccxsysbgear
[EXCEPTION]
#1#com.sap.engine.services.deploy.container.DeploymentException: <Localization failed: ResourceBundle='com.sap.engine.services.deploy.DeployResourceBundle', ID='Exception while starting: SAPJ2EE::sap.com/grc~ccxsysejbear', Arguments: []> : Can't find resource for bundle java.util.PropertyResourceBundle, key Exception while starting: SAPJ2EE::sap.com/grc~ccxsysejbear
     at com.sap.portal.prt.sapj2ee.SAPJ2EEPortalRuntime.getAndStartSAPJ2EEApplicationItem(SAPJ2EEPortalRuntime.java:876)
     at com.sap.portal.prt.sapj2ee.PortalRuntimeContainer.prepareStart(PortalRuntimeContainer.java:511)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.startApplicationLocalAndWait(DeployServiceImpl.java:4361)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.ReferenceResolver.processReferenceToApplication(ReferenceResolver.java:589)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.ReferenceResolver.processMakeReference(ReferenceResolver.java:399)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.ReferenceResolver.beforeStartingApplication(ReferenceResolver.java:328)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.StartTransaction.beginCommon(StartTransaction.java:162)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.StartTransaction.beginLocal(StartTransaction.java:141)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.ApplicationTransaction.makeAllPhasesLocal(ApplicationTransaction.java:356)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.ParallelAdapter.runInTheSameThread(ParallelAdapter.java:132)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.application.ParallelAdapter.makeAllPhasesLocalAndWait(ParallelAdapter.java:250)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.startApplicationLocalAndWait(DeployServiceImpl.java:4450)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.startApplicationsInitially(DeployServiceImpl.java:2610)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.DeployServiceImpl.clusterElementReady(DeployServiceImpl.java:2464)
     at com.sap.engine.services.deploy.server.ClusterServicesAdapter.containerStarted(ClusterServicesAdapter.java:42)
     at com.sap.engine.core.service630.container.ContainerEventListenerWrapper.processEvent(ContainerEventListenerWrapper.java:144)
     at com.sap.engine.core.service630.container.AdminContainerEventListenerWrapper.processEvent(AdminContainerEventListenerWrapper.java:19)
     at com.sap.engine.core.service630.container.ContainerEventListenerWrapper.run(ContainerEventListenerWrapper.java:102)
     at com.sap.engine.frame.core.thread.Task.run(Task.java:64)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl5.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:81)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl5.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:152)
Caused by: com.sapportals.portal.prt.runtime.PortalRuntimeException: [ExternalApplicationItem.prepare]: SAPJ2EE::sap.com/grc~ccxsysejbear
     at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.ExternalApplicationItem.prepare(ExternalApplicationItem.java:188)
     at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.SAPJ2EEApplicationItem.prepare(SAPJ2EEApplicationItem.java:232)
     at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.SAPJ2EEApplicationItem.start(SAPJ2EEApplicationItem.java:192)
     at com.sapportals.portal.prt.service.sapj2ee.Mediator.getAndStartExternalApplication(Mediator.java:132)
     at com.sap.portal.prt.sapj2ee.StartPortalApplication.coreRun(StartPortalApplication.java:59)
     at com.sap.portal.prt.sapj2ee.StartPortalApplication.run(StartPortalApplication.java:36)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.ActionObject.run(ActionObject.java:37)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.execute(SingleThread.java:102)
     at com.sap.engine.core.thread.impl3.SingleThread.run(SingleThread.java:172)
Caused by: com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalApplicationNotFoundException: Could not find portal application ccxsysbgear
     at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.PortalApplicationItem.prepare(PortalApplicationItem.java:415)
     at com.sapportals.portal.prt.core.broker.ExternalApplicationItem.prepare(ExternalApplicationItem.java:180)
     ... 9 more
#1.5 #0050568C003D00750000003B000026540004A12E88C693CF#1303121142088#com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl#sap.com/grc~reear#com.sap.engine.services.servlets_jsp.server.HttpHandlerImpl#J2EE_ADMIN#117##YDSAPGRC_MGD_2172750#J2EE_ADMIN#4bfa377069a311e0b9230050568c003d#SAPEngine_Application_Thread[impl:3]_1##0#0#Error#1#/System/Server/WebRequests#Plain###application [RE] Processing HTTP request to servlet [REController] finished with error.
The error is: java.lang.NullPointerException: null
Exception id: [0050568C003D007500000039000026540004A12E88C68DAE]#
waiting for your responses as soon as possible because the system has to be up and running till wednesday.
Tahnx in advance

Hi Bilge,
did you put your text in a blender before sending it?
I understood everything works fine except the miscellaneous menu item in the configuration tab of ERM?
Have you already tried to clear all browser cache, close all browsers and try it again?
Best,
Frank

Enterprise Manager for Oracle 8.1.5 Win NT 4.0

Anyone know where can I download the Enterprise Manager for Oracle 8.1.5 running Windows NT 4.0?
The one in the Oralce download is for 8.1.6?
Thanks
Eng Wah

Depends on how big is your database.
For small database, doing a export and import is quick and dirty.
For larger database, I would suggest migrate the database. But this means a lot of work and test. This is what I would do if I am doing amigration:
1. Do a cold backup of your 815 database
2. On your new test box, try to install 815 and start your old database
3. Upgrade your database to 8174
4. Install 10gr2 on your new test box
5. Migrate your 8174 database to 10gr2.
6 Test a lot
7. Repeat steps 1-6 2-3 times
8. Document tthe process and your test results completely.
9. Repeat what you document on your production box.

How to install Oracle BPEL Process Manager for OracleAS Middle Tier

hi,
i need to install BPEL process manager, so i download the following file from otn
1.soa_windows_x86_101310_disk1
2.soa_windows_x86_bpel_101310
here i read the document named b28980.pdf from bpel\doc\pc.1012 to install BPEL PM
so i start to complete the pre-installation task
1.installed Oracle database 10g
2.Run the Integration Repository Creation Assistant on the Database
3.Install Oracle Application Server 10g Release3 (10.1.3.1.0) and select either the J2EE Server installation type or the J2EE and Web Server installation type. selected J2EE and Web Server installation type
and installed according to the Oracle application server installation guide.
installed OracleAS in the path : D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1
4.Install the current release of Oracle BPEL Process Manager for OracleAS Middle Tier
here they mention to select the J2EE and Web Server installation type because that type is selected in Oracle AS installed in Oracle Application Server
so i start to install the BPEL PM by selecting the setup.exe-->and shows the location source and destination
default destination is : D:\product\10.1.3.1\OraBPEL_1 selected next on the screen
the next screen is select installation type here there are two types named
1.BPEL process Manager for Developer (371MB)
2.BPEL process manager for Oracle AS Middle tier (107MB)
i selected 2.BPEL process manager for Oracle AS Middle tier (107MB) and click next
pop up window opens with title dependencies
error:
BPEL Process manager for oracle AS Middle tier will run on top of a supported Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.1.0 J2EE server and Web Server Or J2EE server instance. this location does not contain this instance. Please select new Oracle home that contains a supported instance.
so i changed the destination path to : D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\BIN then also i got the same error.
please any one mention the path for J2EE and Web Server instance for installing the BPEL PM for Oracle AS Middle Tier.
Thanks in Advance
Aswath Thaniga

If you choose the developer version you will be fine.
If you have installed J2EE and Web Server installation into D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1 then this is the location you install your BPEL PM into, not D:\product\10.1.3.1\OraBPEL_1 or D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\BIN.
D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1 is what we call the ORACLE_HOME, generally we create a new home for each install, but in this case there is a dependency on 10.1.3.1 OC4J container. So it needs to be installed into 10.1.3.1 oracle home.
The bin directory is just the executables for that home, its not the actual. home.
cheers
James

GRC AC 10.0 Risk Analysis -Risk Terminator Vs BRM-Role Management

Hi All,
After having seen the configuration for Risk Analysis- Risk Terminator and Role Management , I observed that there is very little difference for eg parameters 1085 and 3011 ,3014 . If we configure all three parameters to TRUE which one would take effect ?Can anyone let us know under what circumstances we must configure RT and Role Management . BRM to has a whole lot of new features which supercede RT.
Best Regards,
Vishal

Hi Vishal,
The parameters will be invoked in different scenarios. 1085 is specific to when roles are generated in the SAP Backend system using risk terminator and therefore this will have no impact if you are using BRM to generate the roles.
3011 & 3014 are specific to BRM and govern different behaviours. 3011 will facilitate the risk analysis prior to triggering the generation steps in the methodology and 3014 will allow the roles to be generated despite any permission risks that are returned.
They are not exclusive and actually work together. For instance, you may want to have a block on generation of roles when there are open conflicts identified and therefore you should have 3011 set to YES and 3014 set to NO. If both are set to YES, then you could propagate conflicts in the roles.
You can use Risk Terminator if you wish to continue to develop roles within the SAP system itself rather than to rely on the GRC BRM system wholly.
There are still wide discussions and differing opinions about which represents the best approach for this and so it depends on your organisation as to which process you follow.
The parameter descriptions in question are:
1085 - Stop Role Generation if violations exist
3011 - Conduct Risk Analysis before Role Generation
3014 - Allow role generation with Permission Level violations
Regards, Simon

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Hi All -
Does anyone know if it is possible to propagate the authorization data from multiple parent roles to their relevant child derived roles in mass in GRC 10?
Using the standard 'Role Management -> Role Maintenance' feature you can propagate one parent role's auth data to all it's children derived roles; or alternatively if accessing one child role you can copy the auth data from the parent role. Either of these options would require you to open each parent role or each child role to push/pull auth data from a parent role to a child role.
If this is not possible, it seems to leave a gap in the process of creating derived roles in mass?
Via the 'Role Mass Maintenance -> Role Derivation' feature you can create derived roles in mass across multiple parent roles with multiple levels of derivation from each using Org Maps. This will crate my derived roles and populate the organizational values only in PFCG. You can also update the derived role's org values in mass if they change by updating your Org Maps and using the 'Role Mass Maintenance -> Derived Role Org values Update' feature.
However these features do not propagate the non-org authorizations from the parent roles. Without a way to push/pull the non-org authorizations from the parent to the child, creating all the derived roles in mass doesn't quite actually create usable roles.
I've noticed when propagating authorization on a one-by-one basis, GRC creates a background job "Auth Data Propagate". I'm really just hoping there is a way to do this in mass and I am just missing the obvious. I also know it would be possible via an eCATT script directly in SAP, but I'm looking specifically for options via the GRC tool.
Thanks for the help!

Nick -
I actually just received a "final" response from SAP OSS support on this one. Had a note open for the past 9 months or so where apparently the product management & development teams were discussing this issue. The last update I received was about 10 days ago and essentially said this is not currently part of the tool:
"This is an enhancement and is not currently supported. We will take it up in a future release. Please log this in the ideaplace under Access Controls"
While I respect the decision, I can't necessarily say I agree that a "Mass Derivation" tool is working as intended if it cannot push / copy authorizations from a parent to a child role. If it can't create roles that are actually usable it would seem to be an issue with the current solution rather than a future enhancement imo.
The best workaround to this, is to utilize an eCATT script to go through all your derived roles you create in mass via GRC and have it go into PFCG and 'copy from' the parent authorizations and then regenerate the profiles. That will give you actually complete & usable roles in a semi-automated fashion.

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I am installing Sun Role Manager 5.0 on Tomcat 6.0.2
I am facing context initialization error when i deploye rbacx.war filerbacx.log file's content is as shown below. (This log file gets created in log folder of the tomcat server after deployment)
12:19:34,289 ERROR [ContextLoader] Context initialization failedorg.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'certificationEventListener' defined in ServletContext resource [WEB-INF/idc-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'rbacxIDCService' while setting bean property 'rbacxIDCService'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rbacxIDCService' defined in ServletContext resource [WEB-INF/idc-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'rbacxIDWService' while setting bean property 'rbacxIDWService'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'rbacxIDWService' defined in ServletContext resource [WEB-INF/idw-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'mLRbacxRoleMiningService' while setting bean property 'roleMiningService'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mLRbacxRoleMiningService' defined in ServletContext resource [WEB-INF/rolemining-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'roleMiningServiceTarget' while setting bean property 'target'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'roleMiningServiceTarget' defined in ServletContext resource [WEB-INF/rolemining-context.xml]: Cannot create inner bean 'mLRbacxRoleMiningServiceImpl' of type [com.vaau.rbacx.rolemining.service.impl.MLRbacxRoleMiningServiceImpl] while setting bean property 'rbacxRoleMiningService'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'mLRbacxRoleMiningServiceImpl' defined in ServletContext resource [WEB-INF/rolemining-context.xml]: Cannot resolve reference to bean 'roleMiningConfigurationManager' while setting bean property 'roleMiningConfigurationManager'; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean with name 'roleMiningConfigurationManager' defined in ServletContext resource [WEB-INF/rolemining-context.xml]: Error setting property values; nested exception is org.springframework.beans.PropertyBatchUpdateException; nested PropertyAccessExceptions (1) are:
PropertyAccessException 1: org.springframework.beans.MethodInvocationException: Property 'normalize' threw exception; nested exception is com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : only whitespace content allowed before start tag and not \u0 (position: START_DOCUMENT seen \u0... @1:1)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveReference(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:275)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.BeanDefinitionValueResolver.resolveValueIfNecessary(BeanDefinitionValueResolver.java:104)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.applyPropertyValues(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1245)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.populateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:1010)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.doCreateBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:472)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory$1.run(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:409)
     at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.createBean(AbstractAutowireCapableBeanFactory.java:380)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory$1.getObject(AbstractBeanFactory.java:264)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.getSingleton(DefaultSingletonBeanRegistry.java:222)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.doGetBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:261)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:185)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.AbstractBeanFactory.getBean(AbstractBeanFactory.java:164)
     at org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeansOfType(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:308)
     at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.getBeansOfType(AbstractApplicationContext.java:947)
     at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.registerListeners(AbstractApplicationContext.java:701)
     at org.springframework.context.support.AbstractApplicationContext.refresh(AbstractApplicationContext.java:377)
     at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.createWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:255)
     at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader.initWebApplicationContext(ContextLoader.java:199)
     at org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener.contextInitialized(ContextLoaderListener.java:45)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3934)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4429)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:526)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWAR(HostConfig.java:850)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:724)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:493)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1206)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:314)
     at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:722)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
     at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:583)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:288)
     at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Edited by: chhavi.saluja on Jan 25, 2010 2:35 AM

is com.thoughtworks.xstream.io.StreamException: : only whitespace content allowed before
start tag and not \u0 (position: START_DOCUMENT seen \u0... @1:1) Well, looks like one of these xml thingies is broken.

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Hi
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Is Oracle Promoting both the products?
What I understand is that Oracle Rules Manager comes a part of the Oracle Database 10g R2 (and 11g) and Oracle Business Rules is a part of the SOA suite.
Is there any difference in the positioning of both these products?
Our client is evaluating various Rules engines in the market and we want to make sure that we choose the correct product.
Thanks, Srini

Igor S. wrote:
He solves the same problem with rules and without. My question was what would be better? Why would you chose one over the other. I prefer rules that is easy to state, easy to read, and easy to implement. Clear text rules in Prolog being a firm favourite. :-)
Using a rules engine, with a fairly complex API, in order to define rules? I would want very sound and very robust justification for that.
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As for the issue of updating AddEmp() with new rules. Edition redefinition takes care of versioning database objects. And in a far more controlled fashion than dealing with a rules engine that is dynamically update now! while the database is in use - and you have no real idea or real control over when exactly now! was.

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Hi all,
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