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APPLICATION AND DATABASE

SERVER ARCHITECTURE
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Creation Date: June 10, 1999
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Contents

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Introduction................................................................................................................................
Purpose.................................................................................................................................
Scope.....................................................................................................................................
Database and Applications Server Architecture Summary................................................
Description...........................................................................................................................
Production Environment...................................................................................................
Test Environment...............................................................................................................
Data Center/Hosting Facility - Corporate.............................................................................
Environment Hosting.........................................................................................................
Sharing of Environments...................................................................................................
Database Tier.......................................................................................................................
Application Tier..................................................................................................................
Desktop Client Tier....................................................................................................................
Deployment Site - Corporate............................................................................................
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Open Issues..........................................................................................................................
Closed Issues.......................................................................................................................

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Introduction

Purpose

The purpose of the Application and Database Server Architecture document is to

describe the application installations, application server, and database server
instances needed to support the business and data processing the new system will
perform. It includes:

 definition of the tiered architecture that will be used

 standards used for describing the physical architecture
 strategy for designing the physical database including major operational
factors, use of striping and disk arrays (RAID), efficient utilization of disk
space ,and facilitation of database administration tasks
 specification of fundamental database parameters
 mapping of the logical database objects to tablespaces and physical datafiles
 estimation of the I/O throughput requirements

Scope

The <Project Name> project Application and Database Server Architecture provides
services to support the following key business functions:

Business Organization Geography Business Functions

Universal Holdings HQ, Ralston Finance, Purchasing, Consolidated reporting

Universal Lock Salzburg, Aus., Finance, Purchasing, Discrete Manufacturing
Hamburg, Ger.,
Universal Security Toronto, Can. Finance, Call Center

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Database and Applications Server Architecture Summary

Description

Within each data center or hosting facility, there may be a number of Application
Server instances and database server instances.

The distribution of application and database servers is based on a number of factors

including network bandwidth between users and the primary data center or hosting
facility. In many cases, the central data center will house the corporate data server,
and a series of remote data centers or hosting facilities will host application servers.

Suggestion: Placing application servers in closer proximity to

clusters of user web-clients may be advantageous, depending
on available network capacity on the corporate wide-area-
network.

Production Environment

The characteristics of the architecture are:

Oracle8 Universal Holdings HQ Universal Lock

i (Ralston, VA USA) (Salzburg, Austria)

178 Concurrent Users

96 Concurrent Users

Universal Lock
(Hamburg, Germany)
8 Concurrent Users

Universal Security
(Toronto, Canada)

41Concurrent Users

Universal's Production Environment

Test Environment

The characteristics of the architecture are:

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10 Concurrent Users
Universal Lock
Oracle8 Universal Holdings HQ (Salzburg, Austria)
(Ralston, VA USA)
i
35 Concurrent Users

Universal Lock
(Hamburg, Germany)

Universal Security
(Toronto, Canada)

Universal's Test Environment

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Data Center/Hosting Facility - Corporate

Environment Hosting

This Data Center/Hosting Facility is owned, managed and controlled by <Company

Long Name>. This data center is located at: <Data Center Location>.

Sharing of Environments

The environments supported by this Data Center/Hosting Facility are:

 Production - Corporate

 Business Systems Testing

 User Learning (Training)

Database Tier

The database tier holds all data and data-intensive programs, and processes all SQL
requests for data. The database tier includes the Oracle database server, the
administration server, and the concurrent processing server. The concurrent
processing server executes traditional batch processing tasks such as transactional
interfaces and reports. By definition, platforms in this tier do not communicate
directly with applications users but rather with machines on the application tier that
mediate these communications or with other servers on the database tier.

Database Servers

The database server contains the transactional and schema data associated with the
Oracle Applications. The platform that supports this server contains two sets of
objects. One set is the necessary files that support a running database server, and
the other set is a series of database files that contain the actual database data.

Suggestion: One platform may support more than one database

instance such as PROD (production) and TEST. One set of
database files (executables) may support more than one database
instances. There may some restrictions depending on the
operating and Oracle database server releases that you are
running.

The following Oracle database server instances will be established to support the
data conversion activities of the project:
Oracle Platform / Platform Server Function
Database DNS O/S Release
Instance
CONV Compaq Windows Oracle 9.5i Application Conversion Environment
Proliant 640 3000 Server
(trn1)

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Naming Standards

This section describes the naming standards that will be used for objects and files
relevant to the database architecture:

Object Naming Standard

File System Mount Points Standard: ‘/u[01-99]/’

Example: ‘/u03/’
Oracle File Categories Standard: ‘ ‘’
Example: ‘ ‘
Database Files Standard: ‘’
Example: ‘’
Tablespaces Standard: ‘’
Example: ‘’
Mount Points Standard: ‘’
Example: ‘’

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Oracle Database Instance - <ORACLE_SID>

Key init.ora Parameter Listing

The following table documents the values of other key database init.ora parameters:

Parameter Name Parameter Value Description

_undo_optimizer_changes TRUE

Additional Database Server Configuration Details

Below are additional configuration details for the database server:

Parameter Value

What is the platform DNS name CONV

What Type of Hardware Platform and OS is being used Sun Solaris 9.5
Oracle Block Size
Net8 Listener Port 1521
Net8 Report Procedure Call (RPC) Server Port 1522
Character Set used for database creation WE8ISO8859P1
Location of Oracle Home Directory /u01/app/oracle/product/905
Location of Oracle Base Directory /u01/app/oracle
Is the Optimal Flexible Architecture Standard Being Used Yes

Tablespace Partitioning

This section describes the basic partitioning of the tablespaces within the production
database instances. The partitioning is designed to satisfy <Company Short
Name>’s database architecture strategy.

Segment Type Tablespace Comments

System
Temporary
Rollback
Tools
Misc User
Data
Index

Tablespace Storage Parameters

The following table shows the tablespaces for this Oracle Applications database
instance:
Storage Parameters Number of File Systems
Tablespace Size init nxt pct min max Datafiles /u1 /u2 /u3 /u4 /u5
(MB)
Redo Logs
SYSTEM
RBS

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Storage Parameters Number of File Systems
Tablespace Size init nxt pct min max Datafiles /u1 /u2 /u3 /u4 /u5
(MB)
TEMP
USERS

Totals 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Tablespace File Mapping

This section describes the mapping of the tablespace structures onto physical
storage files.

Tablespace Size (MB) File System Directory Datafile

RSEGS 105 sd7h /ora2/ORACLE/proddb prod_rseg1.dbf

AOLTAB 105 sd4g /ora3/ORACLE/proddb prod_aoltab1.dbf
ARTAB 210 sd4g /ora3/ORACLE/proddb prod_artab1.dbf
GLTAB 262 sd4g /ora3/ORACLE/proddb prod_gltab1.dbf
POIND 157 sd4g /ora3/ORACLE/proddb prod_poind1.dbf
SHAREIND 52 sd4g /ora3/ORACLE/proddb prod_sharedind1.dbf
AOLIND 52 sd5g /ora4/ORACLE/proddb prod_aolind1.dbf

Administrative Servers

The administration server is the machine from which you maintain the data in your
Oracle Applications database. There are three types of operations you will carry out
here, each using a different program:

Installing and Upgrading the Database

This process is only performed when installing a new release, or upgrading to a new
minor or major release.

Applying Applications Database Updates

Most maintenance patches will consist of new files and scripts that update database
objects.

Maintaining the Applications Data

Some features, such as MultiLingual Support and Multiple Reporting Currencies,

require regular maintenance to ensure updates are propagated to the additional
schemas used by these features

Suggestion: The administration server is the most infrequently used,

compared to other servers in the Applications multi-tier environment,
and it has the smallest computing requirements. You therefore should
not need to have more than one administration server for your
installation.

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The following Administration Servers will be established to support the data
conversion activities of the project:

Oracle Platform / Platform Server Function

Database DNS O/S Release
Instance
CONV Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 Oracle 9.5i Applications Conversions Environment
(prod1)

Concurrent Processing Servers

Most interaction with applications data occur through Applications forms.

However, there are also reporting programs that periodically need to be run. These
programs may contain a very large number of computations. To ensure that they
do not interfere with interactive operations, they can be configured to run on a
separate machine called the concurrent processing server.

Processes that run on the concurrent processing server are called concurrent
programs, and they operate in the background while users continue to work on other
tasks. These programs are typically executables written in C or reports written
using Oracle Reports.

A request to run a concurrent program is submitted through applications forms,

which insert the request into a database table. When the table is read by a
monitoring process, the request is assigned to one of several concurrent managers
(also referred to as workers) running on the concurrent processing server. The
concurrent manager processes the request (which may involve calling another
program, for example, or running Oracle Reports), and generates log and output
files, which are stored on the concurrent processing server.

Additional Information: For an overview of Concurrent

Processing, see Oracle Applications Systems Administrator’s Guide.

Suggestion: More than one server (one per platform) may be

configured to provide parallel concurrent processing. Parallel
concurrent processing allows you to run concurrent managers on
multiple servers in your database tier. This distributes the processing
load and provides fault tolerance in case one or more servers fail.

The following Concurrent Processing Servers will be established to support the data
conversion activities of the project:

Oracle Platform / Platform Server Function

Database DNS O/S Release
Instance
CONVE Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 Oracle 9.5i Applications Conversion
(prod1) Environment

<Platform Name>

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Platform Configuration

Describe in detail the configuration of this platform.

Disk Device Map

The worksheet below documents the disk device map on the hardware platform
designated as <Platform Name>.

Device File System Available Space

C0S0S0 /u1 4,354 MB

C0S0S1 /u2 654 MB
MB
MB
MB
MB
MB
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I/O Subsystem Configuration

Describe the configuration of the I/O subsystem for this platform.

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Application Tier

The application servers form the middle tier between the desktop clients and
database servers. They provide load balancing, business logic, and other
functionality.

Attention: In installations that use multiple application

servers, only one needs to run the Oracle Web Application
Server software.

Forms Servers

The forms server is a specific type of application server that hosts the Oracle Forms
Server engine. The Oracle Forms Server is an Oracle Developer component that
mediates between the desktop client and the Oracle database server, displaying
client screens and causing changes in the database records based on user actions.
Data is cached on the forms server and provided to the client as needed, such as
when scrolling through multiple order lines. The forms server exchanges messages
with the desktop client across a standard TCP/IP network connection.

Suggestion: Load balancing among forms servers provides

automatic load balancing among multiple application servers.
In a load-balancing configuration, a single coordinator called
the Metrics Server is on one application server. Metrics Clients
located on the other application servers periodically send load
information to the Metrics Server so it can determine which has
the lightest load. When a client issues a request to download
the Forms client applet, the Metrics Server provides the name
of the least-loaded host for the applet to connect to.

The following Oracle Web Application (Forms) Server instances will be established
to support the data conversion activities of the project:

Platform / Platform Server Metric Forms Forms Function

DNS O/S Release Port Server
Port

Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 2.5 Server 8000 9000 Applications Server, Load
(was1) Management Machine
(Production)
Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 2.5 Client 8000 9000 Applications Server
(was2) (Production)
Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 2.5 Client 8000 9000 Applications Server
(was3) (Production)

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Attention: Automatic failover capabilities are inherent in this

load-balancing system. If an application server becomes
unavailable for any reason, the Metrics Server ceases to route
requests to the server until it comes back online. While the
application server is offline, requests are routed to one of the
other application servers.

Oracle Applications File System

The Oracle Applications File system contains all of the forms and executables that
execute of the applications tier of the architecture.

Owner of the File System

The owner of the Oracle Applications File System is: <Userid> (Example: applmgr)

Additional Forms Server Configuration Details

Below are additional configuration details for the Forms Server:

 New Cartridge Configuration Settings

Parameter Value

Cartridge Name: <Oracle SID>

Object Path: $ORACLE_HOME/lib/f65webc.so
Entry Point: form_entry

 Virtual Paths

Parameter Value

/Oracle SID $ORACLE_HOME/lib

Name of DAD to be used: <Oracle SID>
Protect PL/SQL Agent: TRUE
Authorized Ports: <Web Listener Port>

 Cartridge Configuration Screen Values

Parameter Value

baseHTML $OA_HTML/afsampled.htm
serverPort <Forms Port>
userid APPS/APPS@${ORACLE_SID}
fndnam APPS

Web Servers

The web server is another type of application server, which runs an HTTP listener.
The HTTP listener (also called a web listener) is a component of an HTTP server,
such as Microsoft Internet Information Server, or Netscape Enterprise Server. This
listener accepts incoming HTTP requests (or URLs) from desktop clients, through
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the web browser or appletviewer. These requests are either immediately processed,
for example, by returning an HTML document, or they are passed on to the Oracle
Web Application Server, which also resides on the same platform.

The following web servers will be established to support the data conversion
activities of the project:

Server Platform / Platform Server UDP Admi Function

Name DNS O/S Releas Port n Port
e
CONV Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 5.4 2649 8888 Applications
(prod1) Conversion
Environment

Additional Web Server Configuration Details

Below are additional configuration details for the web server:

Virtual Directories

File System Directory Flag Virtual Path

$APPLTMP NR /OA_TEMP/
$APPL_TOP/doc/doc/ NR /OA_DOC/
$APPL_TOP/html/html/ NR /OA_HTML/
$APPL_TOP/html/html/bin/ CN /OA_HTML/bin/
$ORACLE_HOME/forms65/java/ NR /OA_JAVA/
$ORACLE_HOME/forms65/java/oracle/apps/media/ NR /OA_MEDIA/

Java Cartridge Path

Virtual Path Application Physical Path

/OA_JAVA_SERV JAVA $ORACLE_HOME/forms65/java

DAD Settings

Parameter Value

DAD Name: <Oracle SID>

Database User: APPS
Identified by: APPS
Database User Password: APPS
ORACLE HOME: $ORACLE_HOME
Net8 Service: <Oracle SID>

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Parameter Value

NLS Language: American

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PL/SQL Cartridge Settings

Parameter Value

Name of PL/SQL Agent: <Oracle SID>

Name of DAD to be used: <Oracle SID>
Protect PL/SQL Agent: TRUE
Authorized Ports: <Web Listener Port>

PL/SQL Virtual Path

Virtual Path Application Physical Path

/<Oracle SID>/plsql PLSQL $ORACLE_HOME/ows/6.0/bin

<Platform Name>

Disk Device Map

The worksheet below documents the disk device map on the hardware platform
designated as <Platform Name>.

Device File System Available Space

C0S0S0 /u1 4,354 MB

C0S0S1 /u2 654 MB
MB
MB
MB
MB
MB
MB
MB

I/O Subsystem Configuration

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Desktop Client Tier

The desktop client runs a Java applet using a Java-enabled web browser or
appletviewer. The applet sends user requests to the forms server and handles such
responses as screen updates, pop-up lists, graphical widgets, and cursor movement.
It can display any Oracle Applications screen and supports field-level validation,
multiple coordinated windows, and data entry aids like lists of values. A web
browser or appletviewer manages the downloading and storage of the Forms client
applet on each user’s desktop. They also supply the Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
that runs the Forms client applet.

Security: Security features ensure that the Forms server only

accepts connections from "certified" Forms clients bearing the
Oracle Applications signature. For additional security, all
communication between the Forms client applet and Forms
server is encrypted using the RSA RC4 40-bit standard form of
encryption.

Deployment Site - Corporate

Application and Database Tier Servers Supporting this Deployment Site

The table below identifies the Application Tier servers that the clients at this site will
connect to.

Database Tier:
Oracle Platform / Platform Server Function
Database DNS O/S Release
Instance
PROD Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 Oracle 9.5i Applications Production Environment
(prod1)

Applications Tier:
Platform / Platform Server Metric Forms Forms Function
DNS O/S Releas Port Server
e Port
Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 2.5 Server 8000 9000 Applications Server, Load
(was1) Management Machine
(Production)
Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 2.5 Client 8000 9000 Applications Server
(was2) (Production)
Sun E-950 Solaris 5.2 2.5 Client 8000 9000 Applications Server
(was3) (Production)

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Web Browsers

Below are the web browsers that will be supported by the project during
deployment:

Web Appliances

Web appliances are devices that are capable of supporting the presentation and
execution of a Java applet. These may be single purpose devices or mobile devices.
Below are the web appliances that will be supported by the project during
deployment:

Applet Viewers

Applet views are run time environments that run on an operating system and
present and execute Java applets. Below are the applet viewers that will be
supported by the project during deployment:

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Open and Closed Issues for this Deliverable

Open Issues

ID Issue Resolution Responsibility Target Date Impact Date

Closed Issues

ID Issue Resolution Responsibility Target Date Impact Date

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