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Setting Up the Batch Server Component

To set up the Loyalty Engine batch component, you can configure its parameters and you can set up a workflow to start this component when the server starts. This topic describes these tasks. For information about the architecture of the Siebel Loyalty Engine batch server component, see Siebel Loyalty Engine Reference.

Configuring Parameters of the Batch Server Component

You can configure the batch server component by changing the parameters that are used in processing, as described in the following procedure.

To configure parameters for the Loyalty Engine batch server component

1. Navigate to Administration - Server Configuration, Enterprises, then the Component Definitions view.
2. Query for the eLoyalty Processing Engine - Batch component.
3. In the Component Parameters view, specify values for the parameters used in batch processing, which are summarized in Table 8. All of the parameters in this table apply only to the Siebel Enterprise eLoyalty Processing Engine - Batch component.

About Starting the Batch Server Component

The batch component must be started whenever the server is started. You can automate this process by using a workflow included in the product which can be invoked on server startup to initialize the server.

To start the batch component, you must know:

• The number of servers and number of processes on each server. This number is determined by the administrator based on the transaction load.
• The number of threads desired in each process. This number is determined based on the hardware being used. For each process, at least two threads are necessary—the queue manager thread and the processing thread. There can be more than one processing thread, depending on the number of CPUs and other resources available. Having too many threads causes unnecessary paging and using too few threads causes slow processing. It is best to use two or three threads for each process.

NOTE:  Before starting the component, be sure that the keys have been correctly defined, as described in Setting Up Server Keys for Siebel Loyalty.

Starting the Batch Server Component Manually

The following procedure describes how to start the batch server component manually.

To start the server component manually

1. Be sure that the component parameters MinMTServers and MaxMTServers are set to the number of processes desired on each server.

   For more information about these parameters, see Siebel System Administration Guide.

2. For each server:
   1. Calculate (number of processes on server) x (1 plus number of Processing Threads/Process)
   2. Submit this number of component requests for the eLoyalty Processing Engine - Batch component.

      You can submit these component requests from the user interface or using the server manager program.

Starting the Batch Server Component Using a Workflow

The following procedure describes how to use a workflow to initialize the server component.

NOTE:  Before using a workflow to initialize the server, you must set up the workflow so it runs whenever you start the server. For more information about setting up workflows, see Siebel Business Process Framework: Workflow Guide.

To use a workflow to initialize the server component

1. In Siebel Tools, set up the workflow LOY Engine - Start Engine workflow by specifying the following two process properties:
   • NumberOfProcesses
   • NumberOfProcessingThreadsPerProcess
2. Activate this workflow.

   When you start the server component eLoyalty Process Engine - Batch, this workflow submits the component requests to start the required number of processes.