Oracle Identity Management is intended for anyone who needs to integrate Oracle Unified Directory, Oracle Internet Directory, or Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition with applications and other directories—including third-party LDAP directories. You need to be familiar with either the UNIX/Linux operating systems or Microsoft Windows to understand the commands and examples in this guide.

To use this guide, you need some familiarity with the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

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For more information, see:

• Online help available through Oracle Directory Services Manager and Oracle Enterprise Manager.

• The Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Database, and Oracle Identity Management documentation sets, especially:

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Installing Oracle Unified Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle Unified Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Developing Plug-Ins for Oracle Unified Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Reference for Oracle Unified Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Java API Reference for Oracle Unified Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Installing and Configuring Oracle Internet Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Administering Oracle Internet Directory

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Application Developer's Guide for Oracle Identity Management

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Reference for Oracle Identity Management

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Developer's Guide for Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware WLST Command Reference for WebLogic Server

  • Oracle Fusion Middleware Understanding the WebLogic Scripting Tool

For additional information, see:

• Chadwick, David. Understanding X.500—The Directory. Thomson Computer Press, 1996.

• Howes, Tim and Mark Smith. LDAP: Programming Directory-enabled Applications with Lightweight Directory Access Protocol. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1997.

• Howes, Tim, Mark Smith and Gordon Good, Understanding and Deploying LDAP Directory Services. Macmillan Technical Publishing, 1999.

• Internet Assigned Numbers Authority home page at http://www.iana.org for information about object identifiers.

• Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) documentation available at: http://www.ietf.org, especially:

  • LDAPEXT charter and LDAP drafts

  • LDUP charter and drafts

  • RFC 2254, "The String Representation of LDAP Search Filters"

  • RFC 1823, "The LDAP Application Program Interface"

• The OpenLDAP Community at http://www.openldap.org

The following text conventions are used in this document: