How to install WebGate in Oracle Identity Management environment

WebGate

A WebGate is a web-server plug-in for Oracle Access Manager (OAM) that intercepts HTTP requests and forwards them to the Access Server for authentication and authorization. Specifically an OHS WebGate, i.e. Oracle HTTP Server WebGate is a Web server plug-in that intercepts HTTP requests and forwards them to an existing Oracle Access Manager (OAM) instance for authentication and authorization.

Installing WebGate

There are two important steps for installing OHS WebGate, first is configuring the OHS WebGate and then Registering the OHS WebGate with OAM. See below 

Configuring Oracle HTTP Server WebGate

Registering the Oracle HTTP Server 12c WebGate with Oracle Access Manager


Since 12c version, there is no need for installing WebGate separately. If you have installed OHS 12c server then WebGate comes pre-bundled with it. (In prior versions, 11g and 10g one had to first install WebGate binaries.)


For overview of register/manage webgate in 12c, read  For 12c version  - Register and Manage OAM Agents (aka the WebGate)

If you have a new application, first you will need OHS Server/WebGate which protects this application. Next you will register this WebGate with OAM. There are two ways you can register this OHS/webgate in OAM (see below (1) and (2)). WebGate is an agent (a web server plugin for OAM) which will protect access to the application by intercepting all HTTP requests and forward to OAM for authentication/authorization.


Follow all the steps in Chapter 2 of this Oracle guide - Configuring OHS WebGate for OAM.

 

Register WebGate

There are two ways to register the agent (or WebGate) -

(1) one is via the OAM Console (GUI) and the second (2) via rreg tool via command line, see below both links.

 

15.3 Registering an OAM Agent Using the Console

(1) This step is done through OAM GUI console.

 

15.6 Remote Registration Tool, Modes, and Process

(2) As an alternative to using the console for agent registration, you can use the remote registration utility, oamreg, with Oracle-provided templates.

There are two modes of running the rreg tool, one in-band and other out of band mode. If you have admin access to OAM then use the in-band mode for rreg tool (which is convenient).

 

Read note about WebGate here. Refer these two more blogs, here and here, which provide you steps of configuring webgate/application domain for 12c.

 

In case, you are in 11gR2/R3 versions, refer - Installing and Configuring 11g WebGate for OAM (Apache)


References

[1] Configuring OHS WebGate for OAM (Oracle documentation)


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