Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

Table of Contents

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

Credits

About the Authors

Acknowledgement

About the Reviewers

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Preface

What this book covers

What you need for this book

Who this book is for

Conventions

Reader feedback

Customer support

Downloading the example code

Errata

Piracy

Questions

1. SOA Infrastructure Management: What you Need to Know

Identifying and overcoming monitoring and management challenges in SOA

Monitoring the SOA platform—centralized management and monitoring

Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

Oracle SOA Suite 11g infrastructure stack

Performance monitoring and management

Managing composite application lifecycles

Automating application deployments and migrations through continuous integration

Cloning domains from test to production

Introducing Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

Accessing the Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control Console

Navigating the console through the navigator

Presenting the dashboards

SOA suite configuration

Deployed Java EE applications

The other consoles

Summary

2. Management of SOA Composite Applications

Managing composite lifecycles

Understanding revisions

Changing the composite default revision at runtime

Deploying, redeploying, and undeploying composites

Deploying a composite

Redeploying a composite

Undeploying a composite

Starting up and shutting down composites

Starting a composite

Shutting down a composite

Retiring and activating composites

Retiring a composite

Activating a composite

Deleting instances

Structuring composite deployments with partitions

The default partition

Managing partitions

Creating a partition

Deleting a partition

Grouping SOA composite applications into partitions

Considerations for partition management

Setting up ant for automated composite management

Setting the environment

Setting the environment path for ant

On Linux/Unix

On Windows

Starting and stopping composites with ant

Packaging, deploying, and undeploying composites with ant

Packaging a composite via ant

Deploying a composite via ant

Undeploying a composite via ant

Exporting MDS artifacts with ant

Importing artifacts to the MDS with ant

Promoting code using configuration plans

Why we need configuration plans

Understanding configuration plan contents

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Attaching a configuration plan

Best practices with configuration plans

Using configuration plans

Understanding and configuring composite audit levels

Audit levels

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

Summary

3. Monitoring Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Transaction monitoring

Monitoring instances

Monitoring faulted instances

Searching composite sensors

Searching BPEL process sensors

Understanding IDs and ECIDs

Instance states

COMPOSITE_INSTANCE

CUBE_INSTANCE

MEDIATOR_INSTANCE

Monitoring instance performance

Understanding last update time of instances

Viewing performance summary graphs and request processing metrics

Viewing request processing metrics

Monitoring using SQL queries

The DMS Spy Servlet

Identifying and viewing log file entries

Relevant log files

Modifying logger levels

Monitoring service engine instances and faults

Monitoring the Event Delivery Network (EDN)

Monitoring the WebLogic Server

Monitoring managed servers

Monitoring the JVM

Monitoring JMS destinations

Monitoring data sources

OEM Grid Control and the SOA Management Pack

Summary

4. Tuning Oracle SOA Suite 11g for Optimum Performance

Tuning of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)

Switching the JVM from Sun JDK to JRockit JDK

Optimizing JVM settings

-Xms and -Xmx

-Xgcprio:throughput

-XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError

-XXtlasize:min=16k,preferred=128k,wasteLimit=8k

Tuning the underlying WebLogic Application Server

Tuning transactions and timeouts

Tuning transactions at the application server level

Tuning Java Transaction API (JTA)

Tuning data sources

Tuning Resource Adapter connection pools

Tuning database for XA Transaction Timeout

Tuning EJB timeouts for long running transactions

Tuning connection backlog buffering

Tuning the SOA Infrastructure

Adjusting the log level

Optimizing logging through audit store tuning

Tuning of Service Engines

Tuning the BPEL Service Engine

Tuning the BPMN Service Engine

Tuning the Mediator Service Engine

Choosing among routing rules

Mediator Service Engine properties

Using scripting (WLST) to modify component engine MBeans

Setting up WLST

Tuning composite applications

BPEL persistence

HTTP timeouts in references

Tuning technology adapter services and references

Tuning the Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control console

Tuning the dehydration store database schema

Tuning the Linux operating system

Summary

5. Configuring and Administering Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Starting up and shutting down the infrastructure

Using scripts

Disabling prompt of WebLogic password

Setting the environment

Starting up Node Manager

Starting up AdminServer

Starting up the SOA and BAM managed servers

Shutting down Node Manager

Shutting down AdminServer

Shutting down the SOA and BAM Managed Servers

Enabling log rotation

Navigating to key administration areas

Configuring infrastructure properties

Configuring and administering binding components and JCA Adapters

Configuring and managing service bindings

Configuring and managing reference bindings

Configuring GlobalInboundJcaRetryCount

Configuring and administering BPEL Service Engine and components

Managing BPEL Service Engine and components

Administering BPEL Service Engine properties

Administering BPEL instances and faults

Managing BPEL component faults

Bulk managing BPEL Service Engine faults

Manual message recovery in the BPEL Service Engine

Automatic message recovery in the BPEL Service Engine

Administering Mediator Service Engine

Administering 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 from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

Configuring multiple send addresses with UMS

Administering the Human Workflow Service Engine

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

Migrating Human Workflow data from test to production environment

Administering and configuring Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

Oracle BAM components and architecture

Configuring the Oracle BAM Adapter

Configuring batching in Oracle BAM Adapter

Configuring Oracle BAM Web and ADC Server properties

Using ICommand to import/export BAM data objects

Configuring ICommand properties

Running ICommand

Administering and configuring event engine and business events

Administering and testing business events

Administering Domain Value Maps and Cross References

Administering DVMs

Administering XREFs

Configuring infrastructure resources for developers

Creating read-only console user accounts

Creating read-only MDS database accounts

Setting up custom XPath

Summary

6. Troubleshooting the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Infrastructure

The art of troubleshooting—where do you start?

Troubleshooting infrastructure problems

Extending logging

Using logs

Infrastructure error—StackOverflowError

Composite instance error—SOAPFaultException

Infrastructure error—DeploymentException

Composite instance error—FabricInvocationException

Infrastructure error—Unable to allocate additional threads

Infrastructure or composite instance error—MDSException

Infrastructure error—BeanInstantiationException

Infrastructure error—Unable to extend LOB segment

Using thread dumps

Troubleshooting performance issues

Server wide performance issues

Checking available disk space

Checking CPU, memory, and I/O utilization

Checking operating system resources and logs

Checking JVM available memory and frequency of full garbage collection

Checking connection pools

Checking database performance

Composite instance performance

Average, minimum, and maximum duration of components

Duration of single component instances

Troubleshooting composite instances

Troubleshooting generic composite instance errors

Troubleshooting deployment issues

Knowing where to look

Compilation issues

Common deployment issues

Summary

7. Configuring Security Policies for SOA Composites

Understanding the OWSM-based policy framework in Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Policy interceptor

Policy assertions

Policy assertion templates

Putting it all together

Configuring OWSM policies for Oracle SOA components

Oracle Platform Security Services

Understanding keystores and credential stores

Understanding authorization policies

Configuring keystores and credential stores for OWSM

Populating credential stores with WLST

Configuring custom authorization policies

Changing default policy store

Creating custom authorization policies

Managing OWSM policies at runtime

Attaching and removing policies

Attaching/removing OWSM policies to composite artifacts

Attaching Policies from WebLogic Server Administration Console

Using WLST to Attach/Remove Policies

Listing attached policies

Attaching/removing a policy

Enabling/disabling a policy

Customizing OWSM policies

Generating a client or service policy

Versioning OWSM policies

Administering policy exceptions

Monitoring policy exceptions

Configuring logging for OWSM policies

Changing OWSM log configuration

Modifying the platform audit policy

Adding a logging assertion to a policy

Migrating custom policies across environments

Migrating policies from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control

Migrating policies by using WLST

Exporting a repository

Importing a repository

Summary

8. Managing the Metadata Services Repository and Dehydration Store

Registering a database-based MDS repository

Managing metadata repository partitions

Creating a new metadata partition

Cloning a partition

Deploying a MAR using WLST

Exporting and importing composites from/to a partition

Purging metadata version history

Managing the Dehydration Store

Configurations affecting the SOA Suite 11g Dehydration Store

Database objects of the SOA Dehydration Store

Measuring database growth

Available maintenance strategies

Purging prerequisites

Selective purging from Enterprise Manager

Single-threaded or looped purging

Multithreaded or Parallel Purging

Reclaiming disk and segment space

Database partitioning

Identifying components to partition

Identifying tables to partition

Creating tablespaces and table partitions

Reducing audit levels

Summary

9. Backup and Recovery

Understanding what needs to be backed up

Static files

Oracle system files

JDK

Middleware Home

Windows registry keys

Runtime artifacts

Database

JMS File Stores

Transaction logs

SOA domain

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

Middleware Home

Domain Home

Windows registry keys

Database

Recovery strategies

Cloning Oracle SOA Suite 11g

Backing up and moving a Middleware installation

Archiving the Middleware installation

Copying archive to remote location

Extracting the archive

Backing up and moving a domain

Archiving the SOA domain

Extracting move plans

Editing move plan files

Extracting the archive in a target system

Summary

Index

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

Oracle SOA Suite 11g Administrator's Handbook

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Credits

Authors

Ahmed Aboulnaga

Arun Pareek

Reviewers

Mehmet Demir

Hans Forbrich

Tobias Luetticke

Shanthi Viswanathan

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About the Authors

Ahmed Aboulnaga is a Technical Director at IPN Web Inc., a full life cycle systems integrator headquartered in Maryland, USA. Ahmed's professional focus is on technical management, architecture, and consulting within the Oracle Fusion Middleware stack, having implemented enterprise solutions for commercial, government, and global customers over the years.

Ahmed is an Oracle SOA Architect Certified Expert and Oracle Application Server Certified Associate and has presented at OpenWorld, Collaborate, OAUG, IOUG, and various Oracle users groups in the past. He actively contributes to the online community in areas of WebLogic Server, SOA Suite, Application Integration Architecture, Oracle Service Bus, Grid Control, and other Oracle middleware technologies. Ahmed is currently the President of the Western Michigan Oracle Users Group.

I would like to thank my father for instilling in me a strong work ethic, encouraging my passion in technology, and supporting my efforts on this book. You are greatly missed.

Arun Pareek is an IASA certified Software Architect and has been actively working as an SOA and BPM practitioner. Over the past six years, he has worked in the capacity of Consultant and Architect in the implementation of a variety of SOA-based projects for customers across the globe. He has a knack for designing systems that are scalable, manageable, performant, and fault-tolerant, and is a keen enthusiast of automation techniques.

He is currently employed with Rubicon Red, Australia; an innovative IT professional services firm focused on enabling enterprise agility and operational excellence through the adoption of emerging technologies such as SOA, BPM, and Cloud Computing. Rubicon Red was founded in 2009 to focus on the emergent needs of Oracle Fusion Middleware customers, and offers a robust SOA adoption methodology incorporating agile development, reference architecture(s), automation, and governance.

Prior to working with Rubicon Red, Arun has worked for companies such as Dell and Accenture where he has successfully executed many SOA-based projects in the communications and utilities domain.

Arun Pareek has also been engaged with Packt Publishing as a Technical Reviewer for quite some time now; reviewing books such as Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook and Oracle BPM Suite 11g Developer's cookbook. He is also an active blogger on these technologies, and runs a widely popular blog at http://beatechnologies.wordpress.com. He can also be contacted at his personal e-mail address at .

Acknowledgement

A large part of the knowledge in this book has come from the numerous great people I have worked with. Not all of them are listed here but they have certainly influenced me in my life and that has resulted in this work. First of all I am extremely grateful to Ahmed Aboulnaga for being humble enough and allowing me to co-author this book. Based on my interactions with him in the course of writing this book, I have found him to be a great technologist, and a wonderful man. He was always an e-mail away whenever I had any questions and has acted both as my educator and a guide.

I cannot thank my employers, Matt Wright and John Deeb, enough for being very appreciative and supportive about me completing this book. Both Matt and John are passionate exponents of SOA and BPM, exceptional leaders, and have allowed me to focus my energy on writing, and I greatly thank them for that. Matt is also an acclaimed author of the popular Oracle SOA Suite Developer's Guide, Antony Reynolds, Matt Wright, Packt Publishing.

The content of this book has significantly improved based on the feedback received from many reviewers. A book is never a single person's creation. I am grateful to all the reviewers of the book, the ones who have done it officially with Packt and also the ones who have gracefully accepted my request personally. Full credit goes to Hans Forbich, Tobias Luetticke, Shanthi Vishwanathan, Mehmet Demir and my colleagues from Rubicon Red, Craig Barr and Judy Nie, who have all provided invaluable feedback and suggestions to make the final version of the book much better than the original draft.

Rashmi Phadnis, Sayama Waghu, Yashodhan Dere, Dayan Haymes, and the entire team from Packt Publishing have shown exceptional professionalism and provided great support when we needed it and helped the book see light. Thank you all for believing in us and taking the initiative to publish so many great books on technology, including this one.

I would also like to thank all the clients, colleagues, peers, and superiors that I have worked with over the years. I learned something new from each one of you, and for that I am grateful.

Most importantly, I would like to appreciate the encouragement I have from my parents for helping me achieve many things in my life. My brother Amit, my sister Anita, and my friends Ravi, Amit, and Ankit have supported and encouraged me in every way possible, right from the time I began working on this book.

A special note of thanks to my wonderful wife Karuna for her constant support, cooperation, and patience without which it would have been impossible for me to manage my work and life together. Thank you for believing that I could write this book when I did not believe it myself and for supporting me even when my already busy schedule only got busier.

I have learned a lot from all of you and I have so much more to learn.

About the Reviewers

Mehmet Demir is a TOGAF certified Enterprise Architect with more than 15 years of experience designing systems for large companies. He has hands-on experience in developing and implementing SOA-based solutions using Oracle Fusion Middleware, WebCenter Portal, WebCenter Content, BEA WebLogic/AquaLogic product technologies and Oracle Identity Access Management Suite. As an Oracle certified SOA Architect, IBM certified SOA Designer, BEA certified Architect and Oracle WebCenter 11g Certified Implementation Specialist, Mehmet focuses on developing high quality solutions using best practices.

He is currently working for Thoughtcorp as an Enterprise Architect delivering high value IT solutions to many of Canada's most prominent companies such as CIBC, Home Hardware, and Bell TV. Prior to this Mehmet worked for BEA Systems where he was a principal member of the Canadian consulting team.

In addition to his technical capabilities, Mehmet has an MBA from the Schulich School of Business and is a certified Project Manager with a PMI PMP designation.

Mehmet can be contacted at: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/demirmehmet.

I would like to thank my beautiful wife Emily and my sweet daughter Lara for their support.

Hans Forbrich, an Oracle ACE Director, has been involved with Oracle products since 1984. As for the later 1990s, Hans has been heavily involved in Oracle's middleware products, whether Oracle Application Server or WebLogic Server, and the operations administration of application infrastructure, such as SOA, deployed into the middle tier.

Hans is the owner of Forbrich Computing, specializing in Oracle training. He is also an Oracle University partner and founding member of SHEN Group—a consortium of consultants in the Oracle technology field, ranging from Database to Oracle Business Intelligence and SOA Suite.

I'd like to thank my wife for her patience and support with my book projects and also my partners Edelweiss Kammermann and Nelson Calero for their encouragement and technical expertise as well frequent tech discussions.

Tobias Luetticke has more than 12 years of experience in the software field. As a Consultant and Software Architect he shaped various mission-critical applications for German blue chip companies and his current employer. His background also includes project management and teaching software development best practices. Early in his career, Tobias developed a passion for open source and agile development methodologies that still drives his work. His main focus is on finding the best means to deliver business value. When not working, he and his family explore the beautiful country of New Zealand.

Tobias is a certified Scrum Master, Project Management Professional (PMP), and holds a Computer Science degree from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Excellence University, Germany.

Currently, he works as a Senior Application Solution Architect for a New Zealand government entity, where he architects enterprise applications and leads development teams to see his solutions through to fruition.

Tobias enjoys writing and shares his experience in the software development space through articles he publishes in various magazines as well as through his book on OpenSSH.

Shanthi Viswanathan is an Oracle technologies evangelist and predominantly provides consulting services in Oracle products. She has worked on several Oracle Fusion projects in various different roles spanning the entire life cycle. Shanthi has also helped clients with high availability, performance tuning, and capacity planning of Oracle Fusion Middleware products. She has trained and mentored clients and assisted in jump starting projects. She is currently a Principal Solution Architect at Canon Europe. In addition, Shanthi is an avid yoga practitioner and teacher.

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Preface

Oracle SOA Suite 11g is the backbone of messaging and application integration in a service oriented architecture. An Application Administrator is responsible for end-to-end administration and management of this infrastructure. The role extends to other areas such as architecting an SOA infrastructure, troubleshooting, monitoring, performance tuning, and securing transactions that flow over loosely coupled components. Understanding the underlying components, services, and configuration and their relation to each other is necessary to effectively administer the Oracle SOA Suite 11g environment. Due to its sheer size, administering Oracle SOA Suite 11g is a daunting task, but this book provides detailed explanations and walkthroughs of all of the core administrative areas.

We begin with an introduction to SOA and quickly move on to management of SOA composite applications. You will learn how to manage composite applications, their deployments, and lifecycles, followed by detailed explanations surrounding monitoring and performance tuning the Oracle SOA Suite 11g infrastructure. In-depth explanations of numerous configuration and administration areas are also covered. You will be taken through troubleshooting approaches on how to identify faults and exceptions through extended logging and thread dumps, finding solutions to common startup problems, and deployment issues. We also explain how to secure the deployed services by leveraging Oracle Web Services Manager. Later chapters deal with managing the metadata services repository, backup, and recovery, and will conclude with advanced topics such as silent installs, cloning, and high availability installations.

What this book covers

Chapter 1, SOA Infrastructure Management: What You Need to Know, introduces Oracle SOA Suite 11g, a complete, best-of-breed, and hot-pluggable product set that helps to deliver robust, agile, and reliable SOA solutions. This chapter introduces the capabilities of Oracle SOA Suite 11g and provides a snapshot of several important aspects surrounding its administration and how it can be leveraged to effectively manage and monitor the SOA infrastructure.

Chapter 2, Management of SOA Composite Applications, focuses on the management of composites, describing composite lifecycles, revisions and states, leveraging ant for automated build and deployments, using configuration plans for code promotion, and defining partitions to logically separate composites. It also describes ways to optimally save instance data, explaining the relation between database usages with respect to various audit levels that can be set.

Chapter 3, Monitoring Oracle SOA Suite 11g, emphasizes monitoring of the service engines and instances, understanding their states as well as obtaining performance metrics of composite instances running on the Oracle SOA Suite 11g infrastructure. This chapter also describes other areas that include a detailed explanation of sensors, ECID, Oracle WebLogic Server infrastructure monitoring, and the break down of the log files in an easy to understand format.

Chapter 4, Tuning Oracle SOA Suite 11g for Optimum Performance, is one of the more important chapters, as it provides guidelines and recommendations on how to drastically improve the performance of your Oracle SOA Suite 11g infrastructure, covering areas of Oracle WebLogic Server, service engines, code considerations, Oracle Database, and operating system tuning recommendations.

Chapter 5, Configuring and Administering Oracle SOA Suite 11g, is quite a long chapter, as it details the numerous administrative areas around BPEL, Mediator, UMS, BAM, and Human Workflow components in varying detail. Other topics such as startup and shutdown of the infrastructure, administration of DVMs and XREFs, configuration of log rotation, setting up UMS, and the creation of read-only MDS accounts for developers are also described.

Chapter 6, Troubleshooting the Oracle SOA Suite 11g Infrastructure, unlike other troubleshooting guides which simply list out solutions to common errors, presents a comprehensive troubleshooting methodology, which, when coupled with the foundational knowledge of the previous chapters, provides you with a better ability to solve most issues related to the infrastructure.

Chapter 7, Configuring Security Policies, introduces Oracle Web Services Manager, a central policy framework for service oriented applications used by Oracle SOA Suite 11g to implement service-level security. This chapter explains the OWSM security semantics such as policy assertions, templates, keystores, and credential stores. It also covers how they can be used to apply security to components within a composite along with the configurations required at the infrastructure. The chapter also covers administration topics that range from logging, exporting, importing, and versioning the various policies by using a combination of WLST and console approaches.

Chapter 8, Managing the Metadata Services Repository and Dehydration Store, discusses operational aspects of the metadata services layer including deploying applications to use an MDS repository, exporting and importing metadata across environments, and database growth management activities, such as tuning and purging. It also discusses partitioning surrounding the Dehydration Store.

Chapter 9, Backup and Recovery, identifies exactly what components need to be backed up (such as the Middleware Home, JDK, Windows registry keys, and runtime artifacts), what would need to be restored in the event of a failure, and to what point in time a recovery would be needed. The chapter provides the necessary approach to recover your environment from the backup point and also explains ways to leverage cloning to backup and restore a middleware installation and domain from one environment to another.

Chapter 10, Advanced Administration Topics, covers several advanced, disjoined topics that most Oracle SOA Suite 11g administrators will be engaged in, namely, patching Oracle SOA Suite components, upgrading from Oracle SOA Suite 10g, installing a highly available clustered setup of the infrastructure, and performing silent installations. You can download this chapter from http://www.packtpub.com/sites/default/files/downloads/6082EN_Chapter10_ Advanced Administration Topics.pdf.

What you need for this book

This book expects the readers to have a basic knowledge of WebLogic Server, scripting using WLST, and a conceptual understanding of Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

Who this book is for

This book is intended for Oracle SOA Suite 11g administrators who have some familiarity with the tool but need detailed explanations and walkthroughs covering all facets of administration. WebLogic Server Administrators, Database Administrators, and even developers looking into entering the world of SOA Suite administration will find this book valuable, as the definitive guide to real world administration of Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: Click on the Browse button and locate your SAR file (for example, C:\svn\SOA11g\HelloWorld\deploy\sca_HelloWorld_rev1.0.jar).

A block of code is set as follows:

export USERNAME=weblogic

export PASSWORD=welcome1

export SOAHOST=soahost1

export SOAPORT=8001

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

export USERNAME=weblogic

export PASSWORD=

welcome1

export SOAHOST=

soahost1

export SOAPORT=

8001

Any command-line input