2 Supported Starting Points for Upgrading Oracle Identity Management

This chapter describes the supported starting points for Oracle Internet Directory, Oracle Virtual Directory, and Oracle Identity Federation upgrade processes. This chapter contains the following sections:

Supported Starting Points for Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Directory Integration Platform Upgrade
Supported Starting Points for Oracle Virtual Directory Upgrade
Supported Starting Points for Oracle Identity Federation Upgrade

Note:

The starting point patchsets listed in this chapter were the latest patchsets available at the time this guide was published.

For a list of the latest patchsets available for your installation, refer to My Oracle Support.

2.1 Supported Starting Points for Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Directory Integration Platform Upgrade

This guide provides instructions for upgrading from Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Directory Integration Platform that is installed as part of the Oracle Application Server 10g releases and installation types described in Table 2-1.

Note:

Note that there is no upgrade path supported for Oracle Single Sign-On or Oracle Delegated Administration Services 10g.

For more information, see Section 4.1, "Task 1: Understand Your Upgrade Options for SSO and Oracle Delegated Administration Services".

Table 2-1 Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Directory Integration Platform Releases Supported By This Guide

Release	Installation Type	Description or Notes	Latest Patchset
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)	Oracle Identity Management and OracleAS Metadata Repository	This installation type includes the Identity Management software, as well as a database populated with the required Oracle Application Server Identity Management schemas.	10g Release 2 (10.1.2.3)
10g Release 2 (10.1.2)	Oracle Identity Management	This installation type installed only the Oracle Internet Directory software. It is assumed that you installed the required Identity Management schemas in an existing database by using the Repository Creation Utility (RCU).	10g Release 2 (10.1.2.3)
10g (10.1.4.0.1)	Oracle Identity Management and OracleAS Metadata Repository	This installation type includes the Identity Management software, as well as a database populated with the required Oracle Application Server Identity Management schemas.	10g (10.1.4.3)
10g (10.1.4.0.1)	Oracle Identity Management	This installation type installed only the Oracle Internet Directory software. It is assumed that you installed the required Identity Management schemas in an existing database by using the Repository Creation Utility (RCU).	10g (10.1.4.3)

2.2 Supported Starting Points for Oracle Virtual Directory Upgrade

This guide provides instructions for upgrading from the Oracle Virtual Directory releases described in Table 2-2.

Table 2-2 Oracle Virtual Directory Releases Supported By This Guide

Release	Description or Notes	Latest Patchset
10g (10.1.4.0.1)	This version of Oracle Identity Federation was available as part of Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.4.0.1). It was installed using a separate installation procedure and installation guide.	10g (10.1.4.3)

2.3 Supported Starting Points for Oracle Identity Federation Upgrade

This guide provides instructions for upgrading from the Oracle Identity Federation releases described in Table 2-3.

Table 2-3 Oracle Identity Federation Releases Supported By This Guide

Release	Description or Notes	Latest Patchset
10g (10.1.4.0.1)	This version of Oracle Identity Federation was available as part of Oracle Application Server 10g (10.1.4.0.1).	10g (10.1.4.3)