Identity Management (OIM): After 12c Upgrade, Domains that Authenticate using OIMAuthenticationProvider now Require Access to oimOperationsDB Datasource (Doc ID 2886694.1)

Last updated on JULY 29, 2022

Applies to:

Symptoms

Customer uses OIMAuthenticationProvider on a non-OIM managed server in an OIM domain.  In 11g, the authentication provider was able to establish a jdbc connection and authenticate users as expected.   After upgrading to 12c, calls to authenticate raise the following errors:

This was the front end error raised by the custom rest service at runtime:

Changes

Upgraded local OIM system to 12.2.1.4.  Upgraded the OIMAuthenticationProvider jar to the one included in OIM 12.2.1.4. 

Cause

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