Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)

LDAP Stands for Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) directory. All user accounts information is maintained in LDAP directory.

LDAP also holds information about roles provisioned to users.

During Implementation, any existing information about users and their roles must be copied from LDAP directory to Oracle Fusion application tables.

As part of LDAP, below processes are involved:

1.Run User and Roles Synchronization Process:

We need to run this process when we need to copy existing information about users and their roles to oracle fusion application tables from LDAP directory.

To run this process, Go to Setup and Maintenance

Click on Run and Roles Synchronization Process.

Click on Submit.

2. Send Pending LDAP Requests Process:

This process is used to send information to LDAP directory.

Whenever we run this process, it will send following items to LDAP directory:

(A) Requests to create, suspend and reactivated user accounts.

(B) The process sends work mails to LDAP directory when we create person records with work emails.

(C) Role Provisioning and deprovisioning request.

(D) Changes to person attributes for individual users.

All these items are sent to the LDAP directory automatically unless they are either future-dated or generated by bulk data upload. You run the process Send Pending LDAP Requests to send future-dated and bulk requests to the LDAP directory.

Only one instance of Send Pending LDAP Requests can run at a time.

3. Retrieve Latest LDAP changes:

Information about users and roles in LDAP directory is available automatically to oracle cloud applications. We can run this process in case of any data-integrity or synchronization issue between oracle cloud applications and LDAP directory.

Only one instance of Retrieve Latest LDAP Changes can run at a time.

4.Import User and Role Application Security Data:

This process copies users, roles, privileges and data security policies from LDAP directory, policy stores and application core grants schema to Oracle Fusion application Security tables.