Friday, March 8, 2013

OIM 11g R2: Exporting and Importing MDS Data

MDS Data Purpose: Some configurations for Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) are now stored in an MDS repository rather than on a file system on the OIM Server. Troubleshooting configuration issue can sometimes require exporting MDS data.

Follow below step to Export and Import MDS Data

  • Weblogic Server should be running while doing following operation

1) Create directory where you want to export your MDS Data.


2) Go to IDM_HOME/common/bin folder and run wlst.cmd (in windows) or wlst.sh (in unix)


3) Run "connect()" command


4) Enter following details

Please enter your username: weblogic (Enter weblogic username)
Please enter your password:  ****** (Enter weblogic Password)
Please enter your server URL: t3://localhost:7001 (Enter weblogic server URL)


5) Run the following command to export data.

exportMetadata(application='OIMMetadata', server='oim_server1', toLocation='provide full location')


6) Data will be exported to given directory as shown below.


Below are steps for importing MDS Data.

1) Add or Modify files (below I have added one file, I used it for creating custom schedule task)


2) Run below command to import.


3) Out put looks like this


4) use "disconnect()" to disconnect.


5 comments:

  1. Thanks for the detailed steps with screenshots.
    I tried the same steps but I am getting below mentioned error

    SyntaxError: invalid syntax
    wls:/idm/serverConfig>
    Traceback (innermost last):
    (no code object) at line 0
    File "", line 1

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  2. Hi Sheetal,


    Try the following Command...

    exportMetadata(application='OIMMetadata', server='oim_server1', toLocation='/tmp/OIM/MDSData')



    braces are (,) not < or > and use exportMetadata command.



    Thanks,
    Chinni

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  3. Thanks Chinni... It worked.. :)

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  4. Nice. I suppose this is an alternative way compare to EM Fusion Midleware Control.
    Thanks for sharing.

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  5. Yup Didier... we can see it this way :)

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