Sun Cluster Data Service for Oracle E-Business Suite Guide for Solaris OS

Sun Cluster HA for Oracle E-Business Suite Overview

Oracle E-Business Suite is a complete set of business applications that enables you to efficiently manage business processes using a unified open architecture. This architecture is a framework for multitiered, distributed computing that supports Oracle products. The tiers that compose Oracle E-Business Suite are the database tier, applications tier, and desktop tier. These tiers can be distributed as a logical grouping and can be grouped on one or more nodes.

Table 1–2 Oracle E-Business Suite Architecture

Desktop Tier 

Application Tier 

Database Tier 

 

Web Server 

 

 

Forms Server 

 

Web Browser 

Concurrent Server 

Database Server 

 

Reports Server 

 

 

Admin Server 

 

 

Discoverer Server 

 

The distributed nature of Oracle E-Business Suite requires more than one Sun Cluster Data Service if all application and database tiers are to be managed by Sun Cluster.

Table 1–3 lists the Oracle E-Business Suite components and their appropriate Sun Cluster Data Service that provides protection.

Table 1–3 Protection of Components

Component 

Protected by 

Database Server 

Sun Cluster HA for Oracle (Database and Listener) 

Web Server 

Sun Cluster HA for Apache 

Forms Server 

Sun Cluster HA for Oracle E-Business Suite 

Concurrent Manager Server 

Sun Cluster HA for Oracle E-Business Suite 

Concurrent Manager Listener 

Sun Cluster HA for Oracle (Listener) 

Reports Server 

Sun Cluster HA for Oracle E-Business Suite 

The Admin Server and Discoverer Server are not normally run within Sun Cluster and therefore are not protected by Sun Cluster HA for Oracle E-Business Suite.