22 Use Other Oracle Fusion Applications Administration Tools

Fusion Applications Control and Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console are graphical user interfaces that can be used to monitor and administer your environment. Use the followingTable 22-4 to locate the task being performed:

DOMAIN_HOME/servers/server_name/logs/access.log
DOMAIN_HOME/servers/server_name/data/ldap/log/EmbeddedLDAP.log
DOMAIN_HOME/servers/server_name/data/ldap/log/EmbeddedLDAPAccess.log

Fusion Middleware Control allows monitoring and administering a farm. Fusion Applications Control provides all the functionality available in Fusion Middleware Control plus functionality specific to Oracle Fusion Applications. Many procedures throughout this guide reference content in Oracle Fusion Middleware guides, which describe procedures using Fusion Middleware Control. Where these references occur, the same procedures also apply to Fusion Applications Control. Where the controls vary, the procedures for Fusion Applications Control are contained within this guide.

To display Fusion Applications Control for a given Oracle WebLogic Server domain, perform the following steps:

1. Enter the following URL in your Web browser:

   http://product_familyinternal.domain:port/em
   

   where product_familyinternal.domain. port is the host and domain of the Oracle HTTP Server or a Load Balancer.

   During provisioning of Oracle Fusion Applications, on the Summary page of the Provisioning Wizard, the Response File Name and Provisioning Summary fields were used to specify the response and provisioning summary file locations. For more information about these files, see Summary in the Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide.

   In the provisioning summary file, for the domain, find the Enterprise Manager Welcome Page entry to locate the URL. For example:

   ....
   CommonDomain
          Enterprise Manager Welcome Page
            http://commoninternal.domain:7777/em
   ....
   CRM Domain
          Enterprise Manager Welcome Page
            http://crminternal.domain:7777/em
   ....
   Financial Domain
          Enterprise Manager Welcome Page
            http://fininternal.domain:7777/em
   ...
   

   The login page displays.

   Figure 22-1 Fusion Applications Control Login Page

   
   Description of "Figure 22-1 Fusion Applications Control Login Page"

2. Enter Oracle Fusion Middleware administrative user name and password, then click Login.

   This user is the super user specified on the Identity and Policy Management page of the Provisioning Wizard. See Identity and Policy Management Configuration in the Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide for information about using the Identity and Policy Management Configuration page.

To get more information while using the Fusion Applications Control, click Help , then Enterprise Manager at the top of the page. In most cases, the Help window displays a help topic about the current page.

To browse the list of help topics, click Contents in the Help window, or click Search to search for a particular word or phrase.

Fusion Applications Control displays the target navigation pane on the left and the content pane on the right. For example, when first logging in to Fusion Applications Control, the product family home page is displayed on the right.

From the target navigation pane, expand the tree and select either targets for the product family or the farm. When you select a target, the target home page displays in the content pane and that target's menu is displayed at the top of the page, in the context pane. For example, if you select a product family, the product family menu is displayed. It is also possible to view the menu for a target by right-clicking the target in the navigation pane.

The following Figure 22-2 shows the target navigation pane and the home page of a product family. Since a product family was selected, the dynamic target menu listed in the context pane is the product family menu:

Figure 22-2 Overview of Fusion Applications Control

Description of "Figure 22-2 Overview of Fusion Applications Control"

In the preceding figure, the following items are called out:

• Target Navigation Pane: lists all of the targets for an Oracle Fusion Applications product family and the farm navigation tree.

• Content Pane: shows the current page for the target. When you first select a target, that target's home page is displayed.

• Dynamic Target Menu: provides a list of operations that can be performed on the currently selected target. The menu that is displayed depends on the target that is selected. The menu for a specific target contains the same operations as those in the Right-Click Target Menu.

• Right-Click Target Menu: provides a list of operations that can performed on the currently selected target. The menu is displayed when right-clicking the target name in the target navigation pane. In the figure, the user has right-clicked the product family.

  The menu for a specific target contains the same operations as those in the Dynamic Target Menu.

• Topology Viewer: displays the topology of the product family, including the middleware relationships and the products and applications in the product family.

• Target Name: is the name of the currently selected target.

• General Information Icon: provides information about the target. For example, for a domain, it displays the target name, the version, and the domain home.

• Context Pane: provides the name of the target, the name of the current user, the host name, and the time of the last page refresh, as well as the Refresh icon.

• Expand All/Collapse All: expands or collapses the navigation tree.

• Refresh: indicates when the page is being refreshed. Click it to refresh a page with new data. (Refreshing the browser window refreshes the page but does not retrieve new data.)

• Go To Home: takes you to the product family home page, when clicking the Oracle logo.

The following Table 22-5 describes some common ways to navigate within Fusion Applications Control:

In addition, from Fusion Applications Control, from the home pages of targets such as the Administration Server or Managed Servers, the WebLogic Server Administration Console can be accessed.

The following figure Figure 22-3 shows the target navigation pane. The product family tree allows viewing an Oracle Fusion Applications product or application target. The farm tree allows the selection of an Oracle WebLogic Server domain, an Oracle WebLogic Server Managed Server, an Oracle Fusion Middleware component, an application, or an Oracle Metadata Repository.

Figure 22-3 Target Navigation Pane

Description of "Figure 22-3 Target Navigation Pane"

To access Fusion Applications Control and perform tasks, the appropriate role is needed. Fusion Applications Control uses the Oracle WebLogic Server security realm and the roles defined in that realm. If a user is not granted one of these roles, the user cannot access Fusion Applications Control. Each role defines the type of access a user has. For example, a user with the role Admin has full privileges. A user with the role Operator has privileges to perform essential day-to-day operations. A user with the role Monitor has privileges only to view the configuration.

For more information, see Users, Groups, and Security Roles section in the Securing Resources Using Roles and Policies for Oracle WebLogic Server.

To display Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console for a given Oracle WebLogic Server domain, perform the following steps:

1. Enter the following URL in your Web browser:

   http://product_familyinternal.domain:port/console
   

   where product_familyinternal.domain. port is the host and domain of the Oracle HTTP Server or a Load Balancer.

   During provisioning of Oracle Fusion Applications, on the Summary page of the Provisioning Wizard, the Response File Name and Provisioning Summary fields were used to specify the response and provisioning summary file locations. For more information about these files, see the Summary in the Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide.

   In the provisioning summary file, for the domain, find the Admin Console entry to locate the URL. For example:

   ....
   CommonDomain
          Admin Console
            http://commoninternal.domain:7777/console
   ....
   CRM Domain
          Admin Console
            http://crminternal.domain:7777/console
   ....
   Financial Domain
          Admin Console
            http://fininternal.domain:7777/console
   ...
   

   The login page displays.

   Figure 22-7 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Login Page

   
   Description of "Figure 22-7 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console Login Page"

2. Enter Oracle Fusion Middleware administrative user name and password, and then click Login.

   This user is the super user specified on the Identity and Policy Management page of the Provisioning Wizard. See Identity and Policy Management Configuration in the Oracle Fusion Applications Installation Guide for information about using the Identity and Policy Management Configuration page.

   The home page displays, as shown in the following figure:

   Figure 22-8 WebLogic Server Administration Console Home Page

   
   Description of "Figure 22-8 WebLogic Server Administration Console Home Page"

   Alternatively, the Administration Console can be accessed from Fusion Applications Control, from the home pages of targets such as the Administration Server or Managed Servers.

Before making configuration changes, lock the domain configuration, so the changes to the configuration can be made while preventing other accounts from making changes during your edit session. To lock the domain configuration, perform the following steps:

1. Locate the Change Center in the upper left of the Administration Console screen.

2. Click Lock & Edit to lock the configuration edit hierarchy for the domain.

As configuration changes are made using the Administration Console, click Save (or in some cases Finish) on the appropriate pages. This does not cause the changes to take effect immediately. The changes take effect when clicking Activate Changes in the Change Center. At that point, the configuration changes are distributed to each of the servers in the domain. If the changes are acceptable to each of the servers, then they take effect. If any server cannot accept a change, then all of the changes are rolled back from all of the servers in the domain. The changes are left in a pending state; then either edit the pending changes to resolve the problem or revert to the previous configuration.