Identifying and overcoming monitoring and management challenges in the SOA

Centralized monitoring and management of the SOA platform

Performance monitoring and management

Managing composite application lifecycles

Understanding the Oracle Fusion Middleware landscape

The Oracle SOA Suite 12c infrastructure stack

New features of Oracle SOA Suite 12c

Summary

Discovering the consoles

Accessing Fusion Middleware Control

• Presenting the dashboard
• Navigating the console through the navigator
  • Java EE applications
  • Service Bus
  • The SOA infrastructure
  • WebLogic Domain
  • Metadata Repositories
  • User Messaging Service (UMS)

Summary

Preparing the environment

• Setting up the environment
• Disabling the prompt of the WebLogic password

Starting up the infrastructure

• Using the command line
  • Starting up Node Manager
  • Starting up AdminServer
  • Starting up the managed servers
• Using the console
  • Starting up Node Manager
  • Starting up AdminServer
  • Starting up the managed servers
• Using WLST
  • Starting up Node Manager
  • Starting up AdminServer
  • Starting up the managed servers

Verifying server startup

• Verifying Node Manager
• Verifying AdminServer
• Verifying the managed servers

Shutting down the infrastructure

• Using the command line
  • Shutting down the managed servers
  • Shutting down AdminServer
  • Shutting down Node Manager
• Using the console
  • Shutting down AdminServer and the managed servers
  • Shutting down Node Manager
• Using WLST
  • Shutting down the managed servers
  • Shutting down AdminServer
  • Shutting down Node Manager

Summary

Managing SOA composite lifecycles

Understanding revisions

• Changing the SOA composite default revision at runtime

Starting up and shutting down SOA composites

• Starting an SOA composite
• Shutting down an SOA composite

Retiring and activating SOA composites

• Retiring an SOA composite
• Activating an SOA composite

Deleting SOA composite instances

Structuring SOA composites with partitions

The default partition

Managing Partitions

• Creating a partition
• Deleting a partition

Grouping SOA composite applications into partitions

Considerations for partition management

Updating runtime properties for SOA composites

Assigning a partition to a Work Manager Group list

Securing access to partitions

Managing OSB service lifecycles

• Managing OSB service operations
• State
• Monitoring
• Aggregation Interval
• SLA Alerts
• Message Tracing
• Pipeline Alerts
• Logging
• Reports
• Execution Tracing
• Caching

Advanced debugging in OSB

Summary

Deploying SOA composites

• Deployment tools
• Path to deployment

Deploying from Fusion Middleware Control

• Deploying a composite
• Redeploying a composite
• Undeploying a composite

Deploying with Ant

• Setting up the environment
  • Setting up the environment path for Ant
• Packaging a composite
• Deploying a composite
• Undeploying a composite
  • Deploying with WLST
  • Setting up the environment
  • Packaging a composite
  • Deploying a composite
  • Undeploying a composite
• Using configuration plans
  • Why do we need configuration plans?
  • Understanding configuration plan contents
  • Attaching a configuration plan
  • The recommended approach to using configuration plans
  • Exemplying the usage of configuration plans

Deploying OSB projects

• Importing from the Oracle Service Bus Console
  • Importing an OSB service
  • Deleting an OSB service
• Deploying with WLST
  • Setting up the environment
  • Creating a customization file
  • Creating an import configuration file
  • Downloading the import.py script
  • Importing an OSB service
  • Deleting an OSB service
• Using customization files
  • Why do we need customization files?
  • Exporting a customization file through the OSB Console
  • Applying a customization file through the OSB Console
  • Attaching a customization file when deploying through WSLT

Deploying BAM artifacts

• Setting up the environment
  • Setting up the environment path
  • Updating the configuration file
• Exporting BAM artifacts
• Importing BAM artifacts

Deploying MDS artifacts

• Exporting MDS artifacts with Ant
• Importing artifacts to the MDS with Ant

Summary

SOA transaction monitoring

Monitoring composite instances

• Faulted instances
• Searching composite sensors
• Searching BPEL process sensors
• Understanding Flow IDs, Instance IDs, and ECIDs

Monitoring composite instance performance

• Last update time of instances
• Performance summary graphs and request processing metrics
• SQL queries for BPEL and BPMN metrics

Monitoring OSB instances

• Monitoring
• Message tracing
• SLA Alerts
• Reports
• Logging
• Execution tracing

The DMS Spy Servlet

Identifying and viewing log file entries

Relevant log files

Monitoring Service Engine instances and faults

Monitoring Event Delivery Network

Oracle WebLogic Server monitoring

• Managed servers
• JVM
• JMS destinations
• Data sources

OEM Cloud Control and the SOA Management Pack

Summary

Navigating key administration areas
Introduction to Change Center
Configuring infrastructure properties

• Managing server profiles
• Configuring composite lazy loading
• Configuring infrastructure thread pool
• Configuring the Global Transaction Retry settings

Configuring and administering SOA composites

• Composite instance tracking and flow instances
• Managing and recovering composite instance faults
• Managing and recovering instance faults
• Bulk recovery of instance faults
  • Configuring automatic message recovery through MBeans
  • Configuring error notification rules
• Configuring and administering JCA adapters and binding components
  • Configuring and managing service bindings
  • Configuring and managing reference bindings
• Administering BPEL process engine
  • Configuring BPEL service engine properties
• Administering the Mediator service engine
  • Configuring Mediator service engine properties
• Administering Oracle User Messaging Service
  • Describing UMS architecture and components
  • Configuring UMS for Human Workflow and BPEL process components
    • Configuring the e-mail messaging driver and notifications
    • Testing UMS notifications from Enterprise Manager
    • Configuring multiple send addresses with UMS
• Administering human workflow service engines
  • Describing human workflow components and applications
  • Managing workflow task configuration at runtime
  • Managing human task service component address
  • Seeding organizational users and groups
  • Mapping users and groups to application roles
  • Configuring multiple authentication providers for human workflow
  • Migrating human workflow data from test to production
• Administering and configuring Event Engine and Business Events
  • Administering and testing Business Events
• Administering domain values maps and cross-references
  • Administering DVMs
  • Administering XREFs
• Configuring infrastructure resources for developers
  • Providing role-based access to the SOA Infrastructure
  • Creating read-only MDS database accounts
  • Setting up custom XPath

Summary

Managing the dehydration store

• Configurations affecting the dehydration store
• Database objects of the SOA dehydration store
• Measuring database growth
• Purging strategies
  • Understanding what is purged
  • Setting up automatic purging
    • Understanding parallel purging
  • Monitoring the status of purging
  • Reclaiming disk and segment space
• Reducing audit levels
  • Understanding audit levels
  • The order of precedence for audit level settings
  • Modifying audit levels
• Modifying component audit levels
• Modifying composite audit levels
• Modifying service engine audit levels
  • Modifying SOA Infrastructure audit levels

Managing metadata repository partitions

• Creating a new partition
• Cloning a partition
• Exporting and importing composites from/to a partition

Purging the metadata version history
Summary

The art of troubleshooting – where do you start?
Troubleshooting infrastructure problems

• Extending logging
• Using logs
  • An infrastructure error – StackOverflowError
  • A composite instance error – SOAPFaultException
  • An infrastructure error – DeploymentException
  • A composite instance error – FabricInvocationException
  • An infrastructure error – Unable to allocate additional threads
  • An infrastructure or composite instance error – MDSException
  • An OSB instance error – BEA-380000
  • An infrastructure error – BeanInstantiationException
  • An infrastructure error – unable to extend lob segment
• Using thread dumps

Troubleshooting performance issues

• Server-wide performance issues
• SOA composite instance performance
  • Average, minimum, and maximum duration of BPEL/BPMN components
  • The duration of a single BPEL/BPMN component instance

Troubleshooting SOA composite instances

• Troubleshooting generic SOA composite instance errors

Troubleshooting OSB instances
Using selective tracing
Troubleshooting SOA deployment issues

• Knowing where to look
• Compilation issues
• Common deployment issues
• Undeploying corrupt composites

Troubleshooting OSB deployment issues
Summary

Understanding what needs to be backed up

• Static files
  • Oracle system files
  • JDK
  • Oracle SOA Home
• Runtime artifacts
  • Database
  • JMS file stores
  • Transaction logs
  • The SOA domain
• The recommended backup strategy
  • After a new installation
  • Before upgrading
  • Before applying patches
  • Before configuration changes
  • Before architectural changes
  • After upgrade, patch, configuration, or architectural changes
  • Before or after a code deployment
  • Ongoing backups
• Implementing the backup process
  • Oracle system files
  • JDK
  • Oracle SOA Home
  • Domain Home
  • Database

Recovery strategies
Summary

Discovering the ESS consoles
Understanding ESS terminology

• Job type
• Job definition
• Job
• Job request
• Job set
• Schedule
• Work shift
• Specialization
• Work assignment
• Request processor
• Request dispatcher
• Purge policy
• Incompatibility

Starting and stopping ESS
Scheduling jobs

• Creating Job Definitions
  • Parameterizing Job Definitions

Creating Schedules
Submitting Job Requests
Monitoring Job Requests
Altering Job Requests
Incompatibility
Defining Job Sets

• Creating a dependency between Job Requests

Setting up a Purge Policy

• Purging from Fusion Middleware Control
• Purging through the database

Tuning and troubleshooting ESS

• Tuning ESS for optimal performance
• Tuning the Request Dispatcher
• Tuning the Request Processor
• Tuning the ESS data source
• Tuning dead database connections

Using ESS WLST commands

• Setting an environment variable and classpath
• Connecting to WLST offline
• Managing Job Definitions using WLST
• Managing schedules using WLST
• Managing Job Requests using WLST
• Purging Job Requests using WLST

Summary

Architecture

• Software versions
• An architectural diagram
• Architectural considerations
• Understanding the variables and terms

Downloading the software

• Downloading Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c
• Downloading Oracle Java
• Downloading Oracle Web Tier 12c

Installation prerequisites

• Ensuring hardware requirements
• Setting up the load balancer
• Setting up the hostname
• Preparing the filesystem
• Configuring the operating system
  • Verifying the temp and SWAP space
  • Creating operating system accounts
  • Configuring operating system prerequisites
• Creating custom environment scripts
• Unzipping the software

Installing Java and Infrastructure

• Installing Java and Infrastructure on MidTier
• Installing Java and Infrastructure on WebTier
• Running the Repository Creation Utility
• Creating a new domain
• Starting Node Manager in the Admin Server domain home
• Creating the boot.properties file
• Starting the Admin Server
• Creating a domain directory for managed servers on MidTier
• Starting Node Manager in the MidTier domain directory
• Modifying the Node Manager ports for MidTier
• Modifying the te directories to absolute paths
• Starting the WSM managed servers

Configuring WebTier

• Installing OHS on MidTier
• Installing OHS on WebTier
• Extending domain with OHS
• Propagating the extended domain to WebTier
• Updating the OPSS JPS configuration on WebTier
• Starting the Admin Server
• Starting Node Manager on WebTier on port 5558
• Configuring OHS

Installing Oracle SOA Suite

• Creating Oracle SOA Suite database schemas
• Configuring SOA schemas for transaction recovery
• Extending the domain with Oracle SOA Suite
• Configuring the default persistence store for transaction recovery
• Propagating the domain to the domain directories and machines
• Configuring Oracle HTTP Server for Oracle SOA Suite
• Configuring the WebLogic proxy plug-in
• Configuring the Oracle File Adapter for Oracle SOA Suite
• Configuring the Oracle FTP Adapter for Oracle SOA Suite
• Configuring the Oracle JMS Adapter for Oracle SOA Suite

Installing Oracle Service Bus

• Extending the domain to include Oracle Service Bus
• Configuring the default persistence store for transaction recovery
• Propagating the domain to the domain directories and machines
• Configuring the WebLogic proxy plug-in

Installing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler

• Extending the domain to include Oracle Enterprise Scheduler
• Configuring the default persistence store for transaction recovery
• Propagating the domain to the domain directories and machines
• Configuring the WebLogic proxy plug-in.

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