Oracle Application Server 10g R2: Administration II

What you will learn:

Audience:

• Sales Consultants
• Support Engineer
• Technical Consultant
• Web Administrator

Prerequisites:

Required Prerequisites:

• Working experience with LINUX operating system
• Oracle Application Server 10g R2: Administration I

Course Objectives:

• Choose the deployment topology that fits your needs
• Describe high availability and scalability features available in Oracle Application Server 10g
• Install OracleAS Infrastructure using a distributed environment
• Choose the appropriate failover strategy according to their business needs
• Manage OracleAS Reports Services, OracleAS Forms Services and OracleAS Discoverer
• Reconfigure Oracle Application Server 10g
• Configure and use monitoring tools provided with Oracle Application Server

Course Topics:

Introduction

• Course Discussion

Managing Customized Oracle Application Server Topologies

• What is Enterprise Deployment Architecture?
• What are the Benefits of Enterprise Deployment
• What are the Key Considerations in Implementing EDA?
• Standard Enterprise Deployment Topologies
• Implementing Enterprise Security Infrastructure Topology
• Implementing Enterprise J2EE Topology
• Implementing Enterprise Portal Topology

Cloning and Staging Oracle Application Server

• Cloning Oracle Application Server Instances: Overview
• Cloning Process
• Cloning: General Considerations and Limitations
• Customizing the Cloning Process
• Understanding Test to Production of Middle Tier (Staging): Overview
• Moving J2EE Applications from Test Middle Tier to New Production Environment
• Moving OracleAS Portal Metadata from Test to Production
• Moving Applications from a Test Middle Tier with IM and a Product Metadata to an Existing Production with IM

Distributing Oracle Application Server Infrastructure Components

• Selecting Different Infrastructure Installation Types
• Installing Multiple Metadata Repositories
• Installing OracleAS Infrastructure by Using an Existing Oracle Database
• Installing OracleAS Metadata Repository in an Existing Database
• Installing OracleAS Infrastructure by Using an Existing Oracle Internet Directory
• Upgrading a Distributed Oracle Application Server Environment
• Upgrading Transitions: Three Paths
• OracleAS Infrastructure Upgrade

Reconfiguring Middle-Tier Instances

• Expanding a Middle-Tier Installation
• Differences between Installing and Expanding a Middle Tier
• Configuring OracleAS Web Cache After Installation
• Associating a J2EE and Web Cache Installation with OracleAS Infrastructure
• Configuring Portal After Installation
• Configuring Forms and Reports Services After Installation
• Configuring and Disabling Components
• De-config Tool

Administering OracleBI Discoverer in Oracle Application Server

• Configuring OracleBI Discoverer
• Controlling the Discoverer Service
• Configuring OracleBI Discoverer Plus
• Configuring OracleBI Discoverer Viewer
• Configuring Discoverer Portlet Provider
• Discoverer Catalog, EUL, and OLAP Catalog
• Managing Discoverer Catalog
• OracleBI Discoverer EUL Command Line for Java

Administering Oracle Reports in Oracle Application Server

• OracleAS Reports Services Architecture
• Configuring Reports Server
• Configuring Additional Reports Server Settings
• Controlling Access and Registering with OracleAS Portal
• Deploying Reports - Paper and Web Layouts
• Deploying a Reports Application Using OC4J_BI_Forms
• Advantages of Key Mapping

Administering Forms Applications in Oracle Application Server

• OracleAS Forms Services Communication Flow
• Performing Configuration Tasks
• Application Server Control: Managing OracleAS Forms Services
• Configuring Run-Time Pooling
• Configuring JVM Pooling
• Configuring Forms Trace
• Configuring Environment Variables with Application Server Control
• Deploying OracleAS Forms Applications

Diagnosing Oracle Application Server

• Introduction to Oracle Application Server Logging
• Creating and Managing the Diagnostic Message Database Repository
• Configuring Component Logging Options
• Starting and Stopping Log Loader
• Searching the Log Repository
• Enabling ODL Messages with Oracle HTTP Server
• Configuring OC4J to Produce ODL Messages
• Enabling ECIDs with OC4J

Tuning the Oracle Application Server Middle Tier

• Performance Tuning Methodology
• Comparison of Monitoring Tools
• Monitoring Oracle HTTP Server
• Configuring OC4J for Performance
• OC4J-Specific Tips for Tuning EJBs
• Factors that Affect the Caching Efficiency
• Cache Size Determination
• Invalidation Performance Considerations

Oracle Application Server High Availability Solutions

• Oracle Application Server Clustering Types
• OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster (Infrastructure)
• OracleAS Cluster: Overview
• Types of OracleAS Cluster
• OracleAS Cluster: Terminology
• Load-Balancing Algorithms Used by mod_oc4j
• High Availability and State Replication
• OracleAS Cluster (Portal): Overview

Configuring and Managing OracleAS Cluster (Web Cache)

• OracleAS Cluster (Web Cache): Concepts
• How OracleAS Cluster (Web Cache) Works
• Configuring OracleAS Cluster (Web Cache)
• Dynamic Membership in Oracle Cluster (Web Cache)
• Invalidation in OracleAS Cluster (Web Cache)
• Session-Binding (Stateful Load Balancing)

Configuring and Managing OracleAS Cluster (OC4J)

• Initiating an OracleAS Farm Using a File-Based Repository
• Configuring DCM-Managed OracleAS Cluster
• Managing OracleAS Cluster
• Configuring State Replication
• Improving Availability of the File-Based Repository
• Installing OracleAS Cluster (Portal)

Configuring OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster (Infrastructure)

• High Availability: Terminology
• OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster Infrastructure: Normal Mode
• OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster Infrastructure: Failover Mode
• OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster Example

Configuring OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster (Middle-Tier)

• OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster (Middle-Tier)
• Installing OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster (Middle-Tier)
• Post installation Tasks
• Reconfigure Components to Use the Virtual IP Address
• Actions at Failover
• OracleAS Cold Failover Cluster (Web Cache)

Installing and Configuring OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management)

• Active Failover Cluster
• OracleAS Infrastructure Active-Active Configurations in Release 2
• OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management)
• OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management): Load Balancer Configuration
• OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management) 10.1.2: Installation and Configuration
• Installing Distributed OracleAS Cluster (Identity Management)
• Oracle Internet Directory Service Replication
• Metadata Repository in an Existing RAC Database

Oracle Application Server Disaster Recovery

• OracleAS Disaster Recovery:Modes of Operation
• Disaster Recovery Setup: Overview
• Implementing in an Existing Production Site
• Configuring Port and Storage Symmetry
• Moving Oracle Inventory to Shared Disk
• Implementing with New Production and Standby
• Disk Replication Setup and Synchronization Frequency
• Failover Operations