Hello,I have a question regarding OIM. Does Oracle Identity Manager has its own database? At the time of configuration of weblogic domain for oim we have to provide the jdbc connection string url ( jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:orcl:1521/orcl) and as per my knowledge this connects the oracle database(in my case it is oracle database 11g) to OIM. So I want to know if this oracle database is used by oim then what is the need of its own database(if it has)?
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Of course it does have a DB. It saves all the information about
users/organizations/roles, as well as for the provision/reconciliation
mechanism components. There are tons of tables there, so you can go and
check each one of them. It also uses MDS schema and couple other ones
(biplatform, orasdpm, opss...)
OIM stores all its information, data as well as metadata in the Oracle database (ANSI sql 92-compliant relational database). The Oracle database is the repository which contains all the tables.
There are 3 categories for the data stored in these tables - 1) Entity data (about users, organizations, roles, resources etc), 2) Transactional data (Requests, Provisioning workflows, Approvals etc) and 3) Audit data (audit records for the entities and transaction occuring in OIM). The database is a critical component of OIM.
Here is an example of list of OIM tables OIM Tables
IdmSk confirms that you should be able to support 10g/11g/12c with OIM also OUD/LDAP database for actual accounts. - Hope this help bye...
So,OIM stores all its data in Oracle Database.And
Philipp Grigoryev says that OIM has its own database and it stores all the data there. Can you please say if it has its own database then why it needs Oracle Database to store all its data ?
I meant, OIM uses Oracle Database to store its own data in it.
In order to install OIM, you would had had to run RCU to create the OIM/SOA,etc.. schema in a database that holds the OIM/SOA configuration and data. This usually is an Oracle Database. It does not get installed by OIM. You need to install the database yourself or get your DBA to do and run RCU against it before you can actually install and configure OIM.
OIM uses Oracle database as the backend database. When you install OIM you will find that this is the first step of configuring the backend database as one of the poster said ie via using RCU. You run the RCU to create the various tables/schemas in the database which later OIM uses. Hence running RCU is the first step and then you proceed with installing OIM. Just fyi, for OIM install you also need SOA application as well. This is well documented in the Oracle install documents. Hope it is clear now.
Thank you all for this clarification.
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