Oracle SOA Admin Training

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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The trainer is a certified consultant and has significant amount of experience in working with the technology.

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