What's New

This section describes new features of the Oracle Access Manager 11g Release 1 (11.1.1).

Product and Component Name Changes

The original product name, Oblix NetPoint, was changed to Oracle Access Manager and OAM 7.x releases were available from Oracle as part of Oracle Application Server 10g Release 2 (10.1.2).

Many component names remain the same. However, there are several important changes that you should know about, as shown in the following table:

	OAM 10g	OAM 11g
Deployment	Stand alone server	Deployed in a container
Component Names	Access Server Policy Manager WebGate AccessGate Identity Server WebPass	OAM Server OAM Administration Console OAM Agent OAM Agent N/A N/A
Agents	WebGate AccessGate	OAM Agent OAM Agent
Console Names	Policy Manager Identity System Console Access System Console	OAM Administration Console N/A N/A
Directory Profiles	Directory Profiles	User-Identity Stores
Identity Administration	Identity Server	Identity agnostic (Oracle Identity Manager 11g is used by default)
Administrators	Master Administrator Master Identity Administrator Master Access Administrator Delegated Administrators	OAM Administrator N/A N/A N/A
Agent and partner application registration	N/A	OAM Administration Console Remote registration tool provides automated Agent registration and application domain creation with default security policies
Automated creation of OAM 10g form-based authentication scheme, policy domain, access policies, and WebGate profile for the Identity Asserter for single sign-on	OAMCfgTool Platform-agnostic tool and scripts	N/A
Configuration Store	LDAP	XML file
Policy Store	LDAP	XML file or RDBMS
Policy Model	Open (default allow)	Closed (default deny)
Policy Domain	Policy Domain	Application Domain
Session management	Stateless, stored in a cookie	Stateful, stored on the server
Authentication to LDAP	LDAP defined system wide	LDAP defined in an authentication scheme
Resource Types	Resource Type	Resource Type
Resources	Resource	Resource
Host Identifiers	Host Identifiers	Host Identifiers
Authentication	Authentication Authentication Scheme Authentication Plug-ins Authentication Rule	Authentication Authentication Scheme Authentication Modules Authentication Policy
Authorization	Authorization Authorization Rule Authorization Expression	Authorization Constraint Authorization Policy
Actions	Actions	Responses
Software Developer Kit	Access Manager SDK	Access Manager SDK
Access Protocol	NetPoint Access Protocol (NAP)	Oracle Access Protocol (OAP)
Access Protocol port number	6021	5575 (assigned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA))

New Features for Release 11g Release 1 (11.1.1)

See Chapter 1, "Introduction to Oracle Access Manager 11g and Administration"