This figure shows test and production environments. The test environment contains a middle-tier instance and Oracle Identity Management; the production environment contains only Oracle Identity Management with a Metadata Repository.

It shows the flow of tasks to moving an application to a production environment. The test Oracle Identity Management bears the number 1, and the test middle-tier instances bears the number 2, both representing the creation of those entities. An arrow with a label of LDAP Replication points from the production Oracle Identity Management to the test Oracle Identity Management, showing that replication takes place from the production Oracle Internet Directory to the test Oracle Internet Directory. The test middle-tier instance also bears the number 3, representing the reassociation of the test middle-tier instance from the test Oracle Identity Management to the production Oracle Identity Management. The test middle-tier instance and the production middle-tier instance are connected by a dotted arrow .