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Oracle9
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Application Server Administrator's Guide
Release 2 (9.0.2)
Part Number A92171-02
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1 Introduction to Application Server Administration
Welcome
Priorities of an Application Server Administrator
Task 1: Determine Which Oracle9
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AS Solutions You Require
Task 2: Design Your Application Server
Task 3: Install Your Application Server
Task 4: Learn to Use the Administration Tools
Task 5: Perform Postinstallation Tasks
Task 6: Configure Your Application Server
Task 7: Deploy Applications
Task 8: Monitor Your Application Server
Task 9: Back Up Your Application Server
Task 10: Reconfigure Your Application Server Design
What is in this Book?
Related Administration Documentation
2 Concepts for Administrators
Introduction
Application Server Installations
Application Server Install Types
About Configuring Components
The Oracle9
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AS Infrastructure
When is an Infrastructure Required?
How Infrastructure Pieces Work Together
How Application Server Installations Use An Infrastructure
Configuring an Application Server Installation to Use an Infrastructure
Customer Databases
Components that Require a Customer Database
Components that Can Use a Metadata Repository or Customer Database
Depiction of a Component Using a Customer Database
Sample Application Server Enterprises
Designing an Application Server Enterprise
Step 1: Choose Your Application Server Install Types
Step 2: Choose Which Components to Configure
Step 3: Determine Your Infrastructure Requirements
Step 4: Choose Your Hosts
Step 5: Determine Your Customer Database Requirements
Step 6: Draw Your Application Enterprise Design
Installing an Application Server Enterprise
Oracle Homes
Coexistence With Other Products
Port Allocation
Primary and Secondary Installations
About Infrastructure Association
Managing an Application Server Enterprise
Application Server Instances
Component Instances
Farms
Clusters
Reconfiguring an Application Server Enterprise
3 Introduction to Administration Tools
Introduction
About the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site
Introducing the Enterprise Manager Home Pages
Getting Started with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site
Starting and Stopping the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site
Changing the ias_admin Password
Enabling Enterprise Manager Web Site Security
About the Underlying Technologies
About the Oracle Enterprise Manager Console
The Enterprise Manager Three-Tier Framework
Installing the Framework
Starting and Stopping the Intelligent Agent on UNIX
Starting and Stopping the Intelligent Agent on Windows
Configuring the Management Server
Starting and Stopping Oracle Management Server on UNIX
Starting and Stopping the Oracle Management Server on Windows
Using the Console
Obtaining More Information
Using the Console with the Oracle Enterprise Manager Web Site
4 Postinstallation Tasks
Task 1: View the Oracle9
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AS Welcome Page
Task 2: Check for Port Conflicts
Task 3: Complete Component Configuration
Task 4: Run Demos (optional)
5 Starting and Stopping the Application Server
Introduction
Starting an Application Server Enterprise
Stopping an Application Server Enterprise
Dependencies for Starting and Stopping Pieces of an Application Server Enterprise
Starting and Stopping Application Server Instances
About the Enterprise Manager Web Site and Intelligent Agent
Starting and Stopping Instances Using the Enterprise Manager Web Site
Starting and Stopping Instances Using Commands
Starting and Stopping Components
Starting and Stopping Components Using the Instance Home Page
Starting and Stopping Components Using the Component Home Page
Starting and Stopping Components Using Commands
About Components that Cannot Be Started or Stopped
Dependencies for Starting and Stopping Components
Starting an Infrastructure
About Unused Component Instances in the Infrastructure
Starting an Infrastructure Using Oracle Enterprise Manager on UNIX and Windows
Starting an Infrastructure Using Commands on UNIX
Starting an Infrastructure Using Commands on Windows
Stopping an Infrastructure
Stopping an Infrastructure Using Oracle Enterprise Manager on UNIX and Windows
Stopping an Infrastructure Using Commands on UNIX
Stopping an Infrastructure Using Commands on Windows
6 Configuring HTTP Server, OC4J, and Web Cache
Introduction
About Manually Editing HTTP Server and OC4J Configuration Files
Configuring Oracle HTTP Server
Modifying the Document Root, Administrator E-mail, User, and Group Settings
Specifying a Port for a Listener
Changing the Error Log Properties
Adding an Access Log File
Changing the Access Log Properties
Managing the Client Request and Connection Handling
Editing the Server Configuration Files
Creating a Database Access Descriptor (DAD) for mod_plsql
Deleting a Database Access Descriptor (DAD) for mod_plsql
Enabling JServ
Directives Reference
Enabling JServ with mod_oprocmgr
Enabling JServ in Automatic Mode
Enabling JServ in Manual Mode
Using JServ and OC4J Together
Configuring Oracle9
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AS Containers for J2EE
Creating an OC4J Instance
Deleting an OC4J Instance
Overview of OC4J Configuration Tasks
Configuring Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
7 Component Configuration Dependencies
Oracle HTTP Server
Web Cache
OPMN
Portal
Web Providers (for Portals)
Provider Groups (for Portals)
Wireless
Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On
Oracle Internet Directory
Metadata Repository
8 Deploying Applications
Deploying J2EE Applications
Basic Deployment
Deploying the Petstore Web Application Demo
Downloading an OC4J-Ready Petstore Demo
Recovering From Deployment Errors
Undeploying J2EE Applications
9 Monitoring HTTP Server, OC4J, and Web Cache
Introduction
Monitoring Oracle HTTP Server
Oracle HTTP Server Home Page
Status Metrics Page
Module Metrics Page
Response and Load Metrics Page
Monitoring Oracle9
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AS Containers for J2EE
OC4J Home Page
Application Pages
Monitoring Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
Oracle9
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AS Web Cache Home Page
Activity Page
Application Web Servers Page
Popular Cached Documents Page
10 Reconfiguring the Application Server
Configuring Additional Components
Extending an Application Server Installation
Adding an Additional Infrastructure
Associating an Instance with an Infrastructure (Joining a Farm)
Changing the Schema Used by a Component
Changing Component Schema Passwords
11 Managing the Infrastructure
Basic Infrastructure Administration
Starting and Stopping an Infrastructure
Backing up and Restoring an Infrastructure
Managing the Infrastructure Instance
Managing Oracle9
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AS Single Sign-On
About Single Sign-On Installation and Configuration
About Single Sign-On Administrators
Accessing the Single Sign-On Server
Configuring Single Sign-On for Multilingual Support
Managing the Metadata Repository
About Metadata Repository Installation and Configuration
Starting and Stopping the Metadata Repository
Changing Metadata Repository Passwords
Relocating Metadata Repository Datafiles to a Different Directory
Managing Oracle Internet Directory
Starting and Stopping Oracle Internet Directory
Configuring Oracle Internet Directory and Single Sign-On on Separate Hosts
12 Managing Oracle Internet Directory
Oracle Internet Directory Security
About the Terms "Subscriber" and "Enterprise"
How Oracle9
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AS Uses Oracle Internet Directory
New Oracle Internet Directory Instance or Existing Oracle Internet Directory Instance
Superuser and Administrators in Oracle Internet Directory
Relationship Between Oracle Internet Directory and the ias_admin User
Oracle9
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AS Tree in Oracle Internet Directory
Tasks
Tools for Managing Oracle Internet Directory
Delegating Administration Tasks
Administering Users
Newly Created Oracle Internet Directory
Existing Oracle Internet Directory
Creating a User in Oracle Internet Directory
Adding a User to a Group
Administering Groups
Newly Created Oracle Internet Directory
Existing Oracle Internet Directory
Group Details
To Determine a Group's Privileges
Administering Privileges of Oracle9
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AS Components
Installing and Configuring Oracle9
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AS
Newly Created Oracle Internet Directory
Existing Oracle Internet Directory
Upgrading Oracle Internet Directory for Oracle9
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AS
Password Policies
About Password Policies
Viewing the Password Policy
Modifying the Password Policy
Modifying Oracle Internet Directory Passwords
Modifying the orcladmin Password
Modifying a User Password
Changing Instance Passwords in Oracle Internet Directory
Removing an Application Server Instance From Oracle Internet Directory
13 High Availability
Introduction to High Availability
Benefits of High Availability
High Availability with Oracle9
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AS Web Cache
Architecture
Oracle Process Management and Notification
Oracle Process Manager
Oracle Notification System
Configuring the Oracle Process Manager
process-manager
ohs
oc4j
custom
Sample Configurations for Oracle Process Manager
Configuring the Oracle Notification System
port
ssl
log-file
Sample Configuration Examples for Oracle Notification System
Failure Scenarios
Oracle HTTP Server Goes Down
OC4J Process Goes Down
Hi-AV Framework (OPMN) Goes Down
14 Application Server Clustering
About Oracle9
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AS Clustering
Scalability
Availability
Manageability
Component Support
Non-Managed Clustering
Architecture
Front-End Load Balancer
Metadata Repository in the Infrastructure
Farm
Cluster
Application Server Instance
Management Features
Component Instances
J2EE Applications
Oracle Enterprise Manager Configuration Tree
Instance-Specific Parameters
Examples
Software Failure
Hardware Failure
State Replication
Cluster Configuration
Managing an Oracle9
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AS Cluster
Managing Application Server Instances in a Cluster
OC4J Instance Configuration
Configuring Single Sign-On
Configuring Instance-Specific Parameters
A Component Descriptions
B Hardware Requirements
CPU, Disk, and TMP Requirements for Oracle9
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AS
Memory Requirements for Oracle9
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AS
C Metadata Repository Schemas
D Default Port Numbers and Port Ranges
Oracle9
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AS Port Usage (Sorted by Component)
Oracle9
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AS Port Usage (Sorted by Port Number)
E Configuration Files and Log Files
Configuration Files
Log Files
F DCM Command-Line Utility (dcmctl)
Overview
About dcmctl Commands and Options
Using dcmctl in a Clustered Environment
Passing Parameters to the JVM
Starting and Stopping
Managing Application Server Instances
Managing Components
Managing Clusters
Deploying Applications
Saving a Backup
Using the dcmctl Shell
Executing dcmctl from a Command File
G Enterprise Manager Command-Line Utility (emctl)
H Backup and Restore
Application Server and Infrastructure Oracle Homes
Oracle Internet Directory
Metadata Repository
Customer Databases
I Checking Oracle9
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AS Version Numbers
Index
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