OES 10gR3 CP4 Now Available

New Certifications

9057333 Certify WLP 10.3 SSM
9383690 Certify OES Admin and WLS SSM on WLS 10.3.2
9198055 OES 10gR3 Admin/SSM certification for Tomcat 5.5.26
9471409 Certify 10gR3 ON HPUX 11.31 64 bit OS 

Some bug fixes

9361693 Backport config tool to support scoped and non scoped policies. 
    The properties file used as input for ConfigTool now includes a new 
    configuration (scope.policy.model = true) to indicate if one requires 
    organization scoped policies or use the non organization scoped ALES 30
    style policies. If scoped model is set to true, the config tool prompts
    for organization name to scope the policy entities, otherwise thie tool
    prompts for the resource root to scope the policies.
    
9248336 Policy distribution takes too long for large policy sets
    A new configuration PD.simpleDistributionThreshold=1000 is included as 
    part of the the WLESblm.properties file. If the calculated delta to distribute 
    exceeds the configured value, a full policy distribution is made.
    
9367053 BLM API has slow performance with large resource datasets
    BLM API now uses lazy loading for handling resources and attributes. 
    To turn off lazy loading and work in the older mode, a new configuration 
    BLM.lazyLoadResource=false is added to the WLESblm.properties configuration 
    file.
    
9207105  Removal of wsdl4j from OES
    Replace wsldl4j.jar with oracle wsdl implementation to meet common code 
    compliance requirements across oracle products.
        
8826278 Policies imported from resource discovery no visible under EUI
    Fixed resource discovery modules.
         
9328300 Using SYS_DEFINED aborted ATZ evaluation for missing attribute retriever 
        attribute
    Fixed attribute retriever modules.
    
9081515 Audit logging does not log granted role names
    Fixed audit modules to log role names.
        
9025166 Caching does not see to be working for policies created from EUI
    Fixed caching modules.

I wanted to call attention to a few items. The first is the certification for OES on WLS 10.3.2. As Chris pointed out previously, since the certification is in the CP, you need to patch to the CP first, and then do then do the install.

The next item is the enhancements to the config tool. As people will recall from this summer, there were a number of issues around the scoped orgs and apps and the config tool. These are all fixed.

Finally, the policy distribution for large policy sets. As we've discussed on this blog, there are some times where you do want to model a lot (read: thousands) of resources in OES, and this can result in some very large policy distributions. CP4 has some enhancements for these types of models.

So, my advice is to take a look at CP4, and if it makes sense go a head and upgrade. The engineering team has done a really good job of simplifying the patching process.