5.1.6.1 General OAM Requirements

This section lists the general requirements for Oracle Access Management.

  1. An installation of Oracle Access Management (OAM) 12.2.1.4.0 is required. For Oracle Universal Authenticator (OUA) you must have OAM 12.2.1.4.0 installed with the April 24 Bundle Patch or later. Supported Architectures shows the OAM architecture required.

    Note:

    If using OUA, and are protecting applications with WebGate(s), it is not supported for those OHS/WebGate(s) to run on the same machine as OAM.
  2. The Kubernetes cluster where OAA, OARM, and OUA is to be deployed:
    • Must have network connectivity to the OAM deployment.
    • Must be time synchronized with the OAM server. It is recommended to use the same time server for both.
    • Must be able to resolve the fully qualified hostnames of the OAM server.
  3. Take a backup of the existing OAM configuration. See, Performing Backup and Restore and Migration using Snapshot Tool.