FileNet P8 Platform, Version 5.2.1            

Overview (Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition)

FileNet® P8 supports Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition as a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory service.

One instance of Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition can have multiple data naming contexts. Because each Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition data naming context is mapped to a Content Platform Engine realm, one Oracle Directory Server Enterprise Edition can be mapped to multiple Content Platform Engine realms.

For each realm, you need to create an application server authentication provider and a DirectoryConfigurationSunOne object, so that there is a one-to-one relationship between Realm object and authentication provider, and also a one-to-one relationship between Realm object and DirectoryConfigurationSunOne object.

For each DirectoryConfiguration object, FileNet P8 extracts the realm name from the specified UserBaseDN property value by comparing it with each data naming context. For example, if the UserBaseDN for this DirectoryConfiguration object is ou=people, o=isp , and there are two data naming contexts: o=isp and dc=filenet,dc=com, then you know the realm name for this DirectoryConfiguration object is o=isp.

Important: It is an IBM best practice to configure SSL between your application server that hosts Content Platform Engine and your directory server. This will include making changes in the application server to the authentication provider's DirectoryConfigurationSunOne object that was created while running Configuration Manager. Consult your application server's documentation for instructions.


Last updated: October 2015
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