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.