Security Realms

Management of the over arching system security will take place in the Security Realms area. A Security Realm is basically a configuration area to manage how WLS resources are protected. This is where you configure users, groups, and other security profiles that determine how access to applications deployed on the WLS server and the WLS administration console itself is achieved. More than one Security Realm can exist, but only one can be used as the active realm from which the security configuration for the application server is sourced. Thus, during the Oracle BI installation configuration, only one Security Realm, myrealm, is created. It is within this realm that we will configure and manage authentication providers such as a company's LDAP directory and so on.

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Note that WLS itself contains an Embedded LDAP directory. This is also referred to as the DefaultAuthenticator. It follows the open standard LDAP v3 protocol, and could indeed support custom build directories for...