1 Introduction

This chapter covers the general outline of the document, and provides an overview of Oracle On Track Communication (On Track).

About Oracle On Track

Oracle On Track is a collaborative Web application that provides a media-rich real-time contextual experience that helps drive business conversations to decisions. On Track enriches group interactions with active business intelligence, annotated content, voice, video and application sharing. On Track can be integrated with Oracle products to provide a facility for collaboration around any business process, while retaining the content for future use and discovery.

Guide to This Document

This document is organized as follows:

Chapter 2, "Basic Security", covers basic security recommendations and guidelines for database and system administrators.
Chapter 3, "Network Security", outlines the internal and external connections Oracle On Tracks uses to communicate with internal and external components through the network.
Chapter 4, "HTTP Access and SSL Connections", covers secure connections done using the HTTP and SSL protocols.
Chapter 5, "Securing User Realms", describes the different realms an administrator may use to provide user access and policies for managing user behavior.

Oracle On Track Overview

Oracle On Track is deployed as an Oracle WebLogic Server application within in an Oracle Fusion Middleware environment. Oracle On Track makes use of different components of the Oracle software stack. The following figure shows an overview of the Oracle On Track architecture:

Oracle On Track can be installed in a single-instance topology or in a high-availability topology. A high-availability topology typically consists of an Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) Database, one or more instances of an Oracle WebLogic Server cluster that hosts the On Track deployment, and a load balancer that acts as a proxy server. The following diagram shows a typical Oracle On Track high-availability topology: