Let me explain what I mean by "Stand Alone OIM with a Cluster..." . As we all know that a new OIM instance can be pointed to an existing OIM DB schema just by copying some config files (e.g. .xlDatabaseKey, etc) used by an already running OIM cluster or stand alone instance.In one of the recent enagements due to some reasons(guess what? :)) it was decided to add one more OIM instance not being part of the existing OIM cluster but just using the same database.This new OIM instance was erected for a very specific purpose which had a huge dependency on SOA server.After the new instance was brought up we saw below issues :(
1) Some how the SOA url ( You can see this in EM) pointed to the new stand alone soa server. Now think what could be the adverse effect?
2) Since the weblogic password was different for this new instance an authentication error was thrown in case when a soa call is made from any of the cluster server.
There are some workarounds that can be used but this architecture is at all not advisable.
If you are trapped in such situation or want to learn how to come out of it please email me at zubair.jamia@gmail.com
