Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture White Paper December 2009Maximum Availability Architect

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Understanding the Web Tier The Web Tier is in the DMZ Public Zone. Web Cache

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 WLS_PORTAL and WLS_PORTAL1 are clustered together and mod_wl_ohs will load bal

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Installing an Enterprise deployment is complex; to simplify this and to provid

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Oracle Portal Oracle Portal, Forms, Reports and Discoverer CD (11.1.1.2.0) Re

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 • Ability to detect node failures and immediately stop routing traffic to the

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_19/core.1012/b13998/security.htm#CDD

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 • FW0 refers to the outermost firewall. • FW1 refers to the firewall betwee

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Database Access FW2 1521 SQLNET In/out WC Invalidation Requests FW3 940

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Web Cache HTTP WEBHOST1 WEBHOST2 7777 Web Cache HTTP Port Web Cache HTTPS W

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Single Sign On SSOHOST 7777 Single Sign on Listening Port. WebLogic The f

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Enterprise Deployment Overview...

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 11. Create a Database Wallet. 12. Register Portal with Oracle Single Sign On

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 • A virtual IP address (VIP1) that listens for requests to myPortal.mycompan

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 To monitor port 7777, use the following URL in the load balancing router confi

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 The sqlnet.ora file must be updated to prevent connection time outs related to

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 SQL>select version from sys.product_component_version where product like &a

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 • When the installer is run, select the Configure Automatic Storage Managemen

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 sga_target 512Mb sga_max_size 800Mb pga_aggregate_target 100Mb Database Servi

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Note: For more information about the SRVCTL command, see the Oracle Real Appl

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Create Repository Select Create Click Next. Specify Installation Location Spe

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 All other components should be unchecked. Click Next Check Pre-Requisites Clic

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 About the Node Manager...

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 On Windows issue the command: server103_win32.exe Screen Action Welcome C

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 On Windows issue the command: setup.exe Note: Before starting the install e

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Home. This will be known henceforth as ORACLE_INSTANCE For example /u01/app/or

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Domain Port No = 7001 [OHS] #Listen port for OHS component Oracle HTTP Server

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Specify Schema Specify the following values: Database Connect String in the

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Test URL Result Test Portal http://APPHOST1.mycompany.com:7777/portal/pls/

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Restarting the Administration Server will encrypt the values in the above file

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Configure Virtual Hosts In order for Portal to work with the load balancer two

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Select Create Site Enter the following information to add the following site:

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Click OK to store the site. Remove all other site entries from the list by cli

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Enterprise Deployment Overview What is an Enterprise Deployment? An enterpri

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 This is achieved by: In the Navigator window, expand the Web Tier tree. Click

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 (**) Note: owa_util.print_cgi_env needs to be enabled by: Adding: PlsqlExclus

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 WebCache host Enter the DNS name of the load balancer for example myportal.

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 In the Advanced Properties section add the following information: UsePort Se

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Find the certificate in the various certificate stores (the location will depe

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Select “Select a file that contains the certificate” and Click OK Select the c

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 5. Execute ORACLE_HOME/sso/bin/ssoreg.sh (ssoreg.bat on Windows) with the foll

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Because the Oracle HTTP Server acts as a proxy for WebLogic, by default certai

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Click Yes to shutdown the managed server. Once the server is shutdown Select t

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Sometimes after performing the above steps a WWC-0000 message is displayed alo

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Terminology Table 1-1 provides definitions for some of the terms that define

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Security Updates desired enter an email address and the appropriate Oracle Su

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Installation Type Install Software and Configure Click Next. Prerequisite Che

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Port: Port Admin Server is using for example: 7001 User Name: Admin Server adm

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Configure application tier on APPHOST2 Introduce WLS_PORTAL1 to Oracle HTTP Se

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 to: <Location /portal> SetHandler WebLogic-handler WebLogicClu

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 osso.conf ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OHS/ohs1 ORACLE_INSTANCE/config/OHS/ohs1 sqln

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Update Instance Paths Two of the copied files have hard coded entries for the

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Log into the Enterprise Manager Administration Console Log into the Enterprise

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Port 7778 Capacity 100 Protocol HTTP Failover Threshold 5 Ping URL / Ping Fr

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Click on Add The Web Cache from APPHOST2 will automatically be added. Select A

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 domains. Oracle instance An Oracle instance contains one or more system comp

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Test load balancer Termination https://myPortal.mycompany.com/portal/pls/porta

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Step 3: Creating a Trust Keystore Using the keytool Utility Step 4:

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Syntax: java utils.CertGen <key_passphrase> <cert_file_name>

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 1. Create a new trust keystore called appTrustKeyStore using the keytool util

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 certificates generated by utils.CertGen tool. Import CertGenCA.der using the f

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 APPHOST1> ./startNodeManager.sh Enabling Host Name Verification for Node Ma

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 APPHOST2> cd certs 4. Run the utils.CertGen tool from the user-defi

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 1. Create a new trust keystore called appTrustKeyStore using the keytool uti

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 sign all certificates generated by utils.CertGen tool. Import CertGenCA.der us

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Starting the Node Manager on APPHOST2 Run these commands to start Node Manager

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Control is a Web browser-based, graphical user interface that you can use to

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Prerequisite Checks Click Next. Specify Installation Location Specify the foll

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 OHS Component Name: http1 WebCache Component Name: Web Cache1 Click Next. WebC

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 #INVALIDATION port no for WebCache component Web Cache Invalidation Port = 940

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 The Web Tier needs certain files such as images and configuration information

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Log into the Enterprise Manager Administration Console Log into the Enterprise

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Click on the component wc1 (make sure it is the one associated with APPHOST1)

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Click Apply to Apply the new configuration Restart Web Tier (OHS and Web Cache

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Install Oracle HTTP Server on Webhost2 Start the Oracle Universal Installer as

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 example: wladmin.mycompany.com Domain port Number (WebLogic Administra

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 UNIX installations only. Configuration Multiple configuration assistants are

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 • Components are separated between DMZs on the Web Tier, application tier, an

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Remove the Virtual Host entry for APPHOST1 and add an entry for WEBHOST2. The

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Port 7778 Capacity 100 Protocol HTTP Failover Threshold 5 Ping URL / Ping

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 From the drop down list at the top of the page select Administration – Cluster

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Note: Prior to issuing these commands ensure that the environment variable ORA

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 In the Navigator window, expand the Web Tier tree. Click on the component Web

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 Click on Synchronize to copy the configuration to the Web Cache on WEBHOST2. C

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 opmnctl deletecomponent -componentName wc1 -adminHost APPHOST1 -adminPort 7001

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 References 1. Oracle Maximum Availability Architecture Web site http://www.otn

White Paper Title November 2009 Author: Michael Rhys Oracle Corporation World Headquarters 500 Oracle Parkway Redwood Shores, CA 94065 U.S.A.

Oracle White Paper—Oracle Portal Enterprise Deployment Guide: 11.1.1.2 The Enterprise Deployment Reference Topology The instructions and diagrams in