1 enterprise. Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook. Activity Monitoring. Your essential BAM sidekick for monitoring, alerting,

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1 Oracle BAM 11gR1 Handbook Your essential BAM sidekick for monitoring, alerting, and application best practices with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring Pete Wang PUBLISHING 1 enterprise I professional expertise distilled - BIRMINGHAM MUMBAI

2 Table of Contents Preface 1 Chapter 1: BAM 11gR1 Architecture 7 Oracle BAM key concepts 7 Data Object 7 ViewSet 8 View 9 Snapshot 10 Active Data 11 ChangeList 11 BAM 11gR1 architecture 12 Architecture overview 13 BAM server components 14 Active Data Cache 14 Messaging framework 15 Enterprise Message Sources 16 Report Cache 16 Event Engine 16 Report Server 16 BAM web applications 17 Understanding message flow 17 Opening a report for the first time 18 Processing Active Data 19 Summary 20 Chapter 2: Designing Your First Data Objects and Reports 21 Designing your first Data Objects 22 Getting started with the BAM Architect web application 22 Creating subfolders 23

3 Table of Contents Data Object design considerations 24 Understanding the mappings between Data Objects and internal database tables 25 Creating your first Data Object using BAM Architect 27 Extending your Data Object with calculated fields 28 Extending your Data Object with lookup fields 28 Understanding how lookup works in BAM 29 Creating a lookup Data Object 30 Adding lookup fields in Data Objects 30 Using external Data Objects 31 Creating external data sources 32 Creating external Data Objects 33 Using ICommand to import Data Objects 33 Configuring ICommand 33 Setting up environment variables 34 Running ICommand 35 Building your first report 35 Creating your first report using the 3D bar chart View 35 Editing View properties 37 Viewing your first report 38 Summary 39 Chapter 3: Populating Data Objects with Real-time Data Using the Oracle BAM Adapter 42 Configuring the Oracle BAM Adapter 43 Using the Oracle BAM Adapter in SOA composites 45 Creating a BAM Server connection 45 Using the Oracle BAM Adapter in an SOA composite 47 Sending data to BAM through the Oracle BAM Adapter 50 Enabling batching 52 How to enable batching 53 Configuring batching properties 54 Using BPEL sensors 55 Using a BAM Sensor Action 55 Using Enterprise Message Sources 57 Creating an EMS 57 Configuring JMS Server connection properties 58 XML formatting 61 Source value formatting (optional) 62 Configuring XML to Data Object mapping 63 Testing EMS 63 Testing EMS Using WebLogic Server console 63 41^

4 Table of Contents Transaction and fault handling 65 Using Oracle BAM Web services 67 DataObjectOperationsByName Web service overview 67 Using the DataObjectOperationsByName web service 68 Summary 69 Chapter 4: Designing BAM Reports 71 Designing a report that contains a single View 71 Specifying Data Objects and fields 72 Performing data manipulation tasks 73 Adding filters 73 Configuring surface prompts 77 Adding calculated fields 78 Editing View properties 80 Extending your report to include multiple Views 81 Driving from a master view to a detail view 81 Creating a detail View 81 Enabling driving 83 Adding a Gauge View 84 Adding a Chart View 86 Enabling BAM alerts 86 Creating a BAM alert 87 Configuring User Messaging Service 89 Summary 90 Chapter 5: Testing BAM Applications Introducing BAM testing methodologies 91 Developing a test strategy 92 Developing a test plan 92 Developing test cases 92 Testing BAM Data Objects 93 Preparing test data 93 Testing data mappings and transformations 95 Testing XML to Data Object mappings 95 Testing XML transformations 96 Testing calculated and lookup fields 98 Testing calculated fields 99 Testing lookup fields 99 Testing BAM report Views 100 Testing View data 100 Testing View properties 101

5 Table of Contents Performing end-to-end testing Testing Active Data processing Performing load testing Generating a load Monitoring performance Analyzing results Identifying closed connections Identifying performance bottlenecks for report loading Identifying Active Data processing issues Summary Chapter 6: Managing BAM Securities Q3 ^ 108 IPJ* Managing BAM authentication Managing users and groups ^ ^ 0 Using an external LDAP server with BAM 113 Creating a new Authentication provider Reordering Authentication providers 115 Performing BAM specific configuration 11 Managing BAM authorization 116 Managing application roles 116 Adding a new user or group to an application role 118 Managing BAM policies 120 Configuring SSL for BAM 122 Preparing a server certificate 123 Configuring SSL for the WebLogic Server 123 Disabling hostname verification (optional) 125 Enabling SSL for BAM 126 Enabling SSL for ICommand 126 Summary 127 Chapter 7: Migrating BAM to a Different Environment 129 Cloning Oracle BAM 130 Cloning a Middleware home 130 Creating an archive of a Middleware home 130 Copying required files 131 Extracting the archive in a target system 132 Cloning a WebLogic Server domain for BAM 133 Creating an archive of a WebLogic Server domain for BAM 133 Extracting move plans 134 Editing move plans 135 Extracting the archive in a target system 137 Performing additional configurations and testing 138 Performing data migration 138 Migrating BAM data using database commands 138

6 tame o; contents Migrating BAM data using ICommand 140 Using the EXPORT command 140 Using the IMPORT command 143 Performing additional configurations 144 Summary 144 Chapter 8: Configuring High Availability for BAM 145 Preparing your HA environment 146 Configuring databases 146 Installing database schemas for SOA/BAM 146 Setting up database parameters 147 Granting transactional recovery privileges 147 Choosing the recommended WebLogic Server topology 148 Enabling IPs and VIPs 150 Configuring shared storage and domain structures 151 Understanding Fusion Middleware home directory structure 151 Managing the WebLogic Server domain directories 152 Configuring a shared storage 154 Configuring a WebLogic Server domain for BAM HA 157 Configuring a WebLogic Server base domain 158 Creating a WebLogic Server domain 158 Starting the Administration Server 162 Propagating domain directories 162 Disabling hostname verification for the Administration Server and the Managed Servers 164 Starting the Node Manager 164 Starting the Managed Servers 165 Applying the Java Required Files (JRF) template to WSM_Cluster 165 Performing a backup operation 165 Extending the base domain to include BAM 166 Extending the domain to include BAM 166 Performing additional configurations for the BAM domain 169 Propagating domain configurations 171 Starting WLS_BAM1 and WLS_BAM2 172 Applying the JRF template to BAM_Cluster 172 Performing BAM-specific configurations 172 Backing up your HA environment 174 Configuring server migration 174 Configuring migration for the Administration Server 174 Configuring server migration for WLS_BAM1 176 Setting up a leasing table for server migration 176 Creating a data source 176 Editing the Node Manager's properties file 177 Configuring the wlsifconfig.sh script 178 Configuring server migration targets 178 Summary 179 [v]

7 j. wi'tt, ur K^uui-cru-d Chapter 9; Troubleshooting your BAM Applications 181 Understanding BAM logging and troubleshooting methodologies 181 Understanding BAM logging concepts 182 Enabling logging for BAM 183 Setting BAM loggers to appropriate values 184 Introducing the methodologies for troubleshooting BAM 186 Understanding the key terminologies and the BAM architecture 186 Identifying the problem 187 Setting up BAM loggers 187 Troubleshooting the BAM applications 188 Troubleshooting the Active Data processing issues 189 Troubleshooting Report Server issues 189 Troubleshooting the Active Data Cache and the Report Cache 192 Troubleshooting the client-side issues 193 Case study 196 Identifying the problem 196 Diagnosing the problem 196 Solution 198 Troubleshooting BAM HA issues 198 Case study 199 Identifying the problem 200 Diagnosing the problem 200 Solution 201 Summary 202 Chapter 10: Building your Reports Using ADF 203 ADF - an overview 203 Designing your BAM report using ADF 204 Developing your report using ADF 205 Creating an ADF project in JDeveloper 205 Configuring your BAM connection 207 Creating BAM Data Control for a Data Object 208 Creating a JSF page and data binding 211 Deploying and testing your ADF project 212 Summary 213 Index 215