Quick Start
Use the information in this topic to help you get started with Oracle Identity Governance (OIG) Self Service REST APIs.
Prerequisites
| Prerequisite | More Information | 
| The installation of OIG | |
| An OIG account | An OIG account is required to use the REST API. | 
| Applying Oracle Identity Manager 11.1.2.3.161018 Bundle Patch | See Oracle Identity Manager Bundle Patch Notes for Release 11.1.2.3.161018 | 
| Install and configure the OIG REST service | See the Configuring the Self Service REST APIs (Optional) section in the Oracle Identity Manager Bundle Patch Notes for Release 11.1.2.3.161018 | 
Step 1: Install cURL
The examples within this document use the cURL command-line tool to demonstrate how to access the Self Service REST API.
To connect securely to the server, you must install a version of cURL that supports SSL and provide an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate file or bundle to authenticate against the Verisign CA certificate. For more information about:
-  Using cURL, see Using cURL. 
-  Authentication, see Authentication. 
-  In your browser, navigate to the cURL home page at http://curl.haxx.se and click Download in the left navigation menu. 
-  On the cURL Releases and Downloads page, locate the SSL-enabled version of the cURL software that corresponds to your operating system, click the link to download the ZIP file, and install the software. 
-  Navigate to the cURL CA Certs page at http://curl.haxx.se/docs/caextract.html and download the ca-bundle.crt SSL CA certificate bundle in the folder where you installed cURL. 
-  Open a command window, navigate to the directory where you installed cURL, and set the cURL environment variable, CURL_CA_BUNDLE, to the location of an SSL certificate authority (CA) certificate bundle. For example:C:\curl> set CURL_CA_BUNDLE=ca-bundle.crt
You are now ready to send requests to OIG using cURL.