15.1 What are the Oracle Provisioning Events?

The Oracle provisioning event engine sends USER_ADD, USER_MODIFY and USER_DELETE events, depending the operation performed on the user entries in Oracle Internet Directory. Since the user will be represented by multiple entries containing base user and application specific user information, applications can subscribe to all of the attributes in the event.

The user events are also sent when a base entry or application entry is updated. However, no events are sent when an application entry is deleted because when an administrator requests the deprovisioning of a user from an application, a USER_MODIFY event is sent to the application with a provisioning status of DEPROVISIONING_REQUIRED. Once the application acknowledges the event by returning a value of SUCCESS, the application entry is deleted by the Oracle directory integration and provisioning server.

In order to receive notification of provisioning status changes, an application must subscribe to the orclUserApplnProvStatus;Application_Name attribute. For example to subscribe to the provisioning status change to an application named CORP_EMAIL, an application must subscribe to the orclUserApplnProvStatus; CORP-EMAIL attribute.