1. REST API for administration of configuration
  2. Quick Start

Quick Start

Set up your environment and discover your first source using the Oracle Access Management (OAM) REST API by performing the following tasks.

Step 1: Obtain Account Information

From your account administrator, obtain the appropriate account credentials to enable you to access Oracle Access Management. Specifically, you will need:

  • The username and password for your Oracle Access Management account.

  • The URL of your Oracle Access Management instance.

Step 2: Install cURL

The examples within this document use the cURL command line tool to demonstrate how to access the Oracle Access Management REST APIs.

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:

The following procedure demonstrates how to install cURL on a Windows 64-bit system.

  1. In your browser, navigate to the cURL home page at http://curl.haxx.se and click Download in the left navigation menu.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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 OAM using cURL.

Step 3: Discover Your First Source

Here is an example cURL command to discover an OAM source named src1: 

curl -u jsmith:<password> -H "Content-Type:application/json"
 -H "Accept:application/json"
 -X GET http://example.com/oam/rest/v1/sources?searchFilter=src1