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Contents
Title and Copyright Information
Preface
Documentation Accessibility
Conventions
Part I Introduction
1
Introduction and Roadmap
1.1
Document Scope and Audience
1.2
Guide to this Document
1.3
Related Documentation
2
Top Performance Areas
2.1
About Identifying Top Performance Areas
2.2
Ensure the Hardware Resources are Sufficient
2.3
Tune the Operating System
2.4
Tune Java Virtual Machines (JVMs)
2.4.1
Configuring Garbage Collection
2.4.1.1
Specifying Heap Size Values
2.4.1.2
Selecting a Garbage Collection Scheme
2.4.1.3
Disabling Explicit Garbage Collection
2.4.2
Logging Low Memory Conditions
2.4.3
Monitoring and Profiling the JVM
2.5
Tune the WebLogic Server
2.6
Tune Database Parameters
2.6.1
Tuning init.ora Database Parameters
2.6.1.1
Initialization Parameters for Oracle 10g
2.6.1.2
Initialization Parameters for Oracle 11g
2.6.2
Tuning Redo Logs Location and Sizing
2.6.3
Automatic Segment-Space Management (ASSM)
2.7
Reuse Database Connections
2.8
Enable Data Source Statement Caching
2.9
Control Concurrency
2.9.1
HTTP Connection Limits
2.9.1.1
MaxClients/ThreadsPerChild
2.9.1.2
KeepAlive
2.9.1.3
Tuning MOD_WL_OHS
2.9.2
Setting the Maximum Number of Connections for Data Sources
2.9.3
Tuning the WebLogic Sever Thread Pool
2.9.4
Tuning Oracle WebCenter Concurrency
2.9.5
Tuning BPEL Concurrency
2.10
Set Logging Levels
3
Performance Planning
3.1
About Oracle Fusion Middleware Performance Planning
3.2
Performance Planning Methodology
3.2.1
Define Your Performance Objectives
3.2.1.1
Define Operational Requirements
3.2.1.2
Identify Performance Goals
3.2.1.3
Understand User Expectations
3.2.1.4
Conduct Performance Evaluations
3.2.2
Design Applications for Performance and Scalability
3.2.3
Monitor and Measure Your Performance Metrics
4
Monitoring Oracle Fusion Middleware
4.1
About Oracle Fusion Middleware Management Tools
4.1.1
Measuring Your Performance Metrics
4.2
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
4.2.1
Viewing Performance Metrics Using Fusion Middleware Control
4.3
Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console
4.4
WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF)
4.5
WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
4.5.1
Using Custom WLST Commands
4.5.1.1
Using WLST Commands for System Components
4.6
DMS Spy Servlet
4.6.1
Viewing Performance Metrics Using the Spy Servlet
4.6.2
Using the DMS Spy Servlet
4.7
Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server
4.8
Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control
4.9
Native Operating System Performance Commands
4.10
Network Performance Monitoring Tools
Part II Core Components
5
Oracle HTTP Server Performance Tuning
5.1
About Oracle HTTP Server
5.2
Oracle HTTP Server Directives Tuning Considerations
5.2.1
How Persistent Connections Can Reduce Httpd Process Availability
5.3
Oracle HTTP Server Logging Options
5.3.1
Access Logging
5.3.2
Configuring the HostNameLookups Directive
5.3.3
Error logging
5.4
Oracle HTTP Server Security Performance Considerations
5.4.1
Oracle HTTP Server Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Performance Issues
5.4.1.1
Oracle HTTP Server SSL Caching
5.4.1.2
SSL Application Level Data Encryption
5.4.1.3
SSL Performance Recommendations
5.4.2
Oracle HTTP Server Port Tunneling Performance Issues
5.5
Oracle HTTP Server Performance Tips
5.5.1
Analyze Static Versus Dynamic Requests
5.5.2
Beware of a Single Data Point Yielding Misleading Results
5.5.3
Beware of Having More Modules
5.5.4
Monitoring Oracle HTTP Server
6
Oracle Metadata Service (MDS) Performance Tuning
6.1
About Oracle Metadata Services (MDS)
6.2
Tuning Database Repository
6.2.1
Collect Schema Statistics
6.2.2
Increase Redo Log Size
6.2.3
Reclaim Disk Space
6.2.4
Monitor the Database Performance
6.3
Purging Document Version History
6.3.1
Auto Purge
6.3.2
Manual Purge
6.4
Using Database Polling Interval for Change Detection
6.5
Tuning Cache Configuration
6.5.1
Document Cache
6.6
Analyzing Performance Impact from Customization
6.7
Understanding DMS metrics and Characteristics
Part III Oracle Fusion Middleware Server Components
7
Oracle Application Development Framework Performance Tuning
7.1
About Oracle ADF
7.2
Oracle ADF View Performance
7.2.1
Oracle ADF Faces Configuration and Profiling
7.2.2
Performance Considerations for ADF Faces
7.2.3
Tuning ADF Faces Component Attributes
7.2.4
Performance Considerations for Table and Tree Components
7.2.5
Performance Considerations for autoSuggest
7.2.6
Data Delivery - Lazy versus Immediate
7.2.7
Performance Considerations for DVT Components
7.3
ADF Server Performance
7.3.1
View Objects Tuning
7.3.1.1
Creating View Objects
7.3.1.2
Configuring View Object Data Fetching
7.3.1.3
Additional View Object Configurations
7.3.2
Batch Processing
7.3.3
RangeSize Tuning
7.3.4
Application Module Design Considerations
7.3.5
Application Module Pooling
7.3.5.1
General AM Pool Configurations
7.3.5.2
AM Pool Sizing Configurations
7.3.5.3
AM Pool Resource Cleanup Configurations
7.3.6
ADFc: Region Usage
7.3.7
Reusing Static Data
7.3.8
Conditional Validations
8
Oracle TopLink (EclipseLink) JPA Performance Tuning
8.1
About Oracle TopLink and EclipseLink
8.2
Efficient SQL Statements and Queries
8.2.1
Entity Relationships Query Parameter Tuning
8.3
Cache Configuration Tuning
8.3.1
Cache Refreshing Scenarios
8.3.2
Locking Modes
8.4
Coherence Integration
8.5
Mapping and Descriptor Configurations
8.6
Analyzing EclipseLink JPA Entity Performance
9
Oracle Web Cache Performance Tuning
9.1
About Oracle Web Cache
9.2
Optimizing Hardware Resources
9.2.1
Hardware Resources
9.2.2
Memory Configuration
9.2.2.1
Configuring WebCache Memory
9.3
Optimizing Network Connections
9.3.1
Network Bandwidth
9.3.2
Network Connections
9.3.3
Network-Related Parameters
9.4
Optimizing Platform Connections
9.4.1
UNIX Connections
9.4.2
Windows Connections
9.5
Increasing Cache Hit Rates
9.6
Optimizing Response Time
9.7
Optimizing Performance with Oracle ADF
Part IV SOA Suite Components
10
Cross Component Tuning for SOA Suite
10.1
About SOA Suite Configuration Properties
10.2
SOA Infrastructure Configurations
10.2.1
Audit Level
10.2.2
Composite Instance State
10.2.3
Logging Level
10.3
Modifying SOA Configuration Parameters
10.4
JVM Tuning Parameters
10.5
Database Settings
10.5.1
Configuring Data Sources for SOA
10.5.2
Weblogic Server Performance Tuning
11
Oracle BPEL Process Manager Performance Tuning
11.1
About BPEL Process Manager
11.2
Basic Tuning Considerations
11.2.1
BPEL Threading Model
11.2.1.1
Dispatcher Invoke Threads
11.2.1.2
Dispatcher Engine Threads
11.2.1.3
Dispatcher System Threads
11.2.1.4
Dispatcher Maximum Request Depth
11.2.2
Audit Level
11.2.3
OneWayDeliveryPolicy
11.2.4
StatsLastN
11.2.5
AuditDetailThreshold
11.2.6
LargeDocumentThreshold
11.2.7
Validate XML
11.2.8
SyncMaxWaitTime
11.2.9
InstanceKeyBlockSize
11.3
BPEL Properties Set Inside a Composite
11.3.1
Component Properties
11.3.1.1
inMemoryOptimization
11.3.1.2
completionPersistPolicy
11.3.2
Partner Link Property
11.3.2.1
idempotent
11.3.2.2
nonBlockingInvoke
11.3.2.3
validateXML
11.4
Tables Impacted By Instance Data Growth
12
Oracle Mediator Performance Tuning
12.1
About Oracle Mediator
12.2
Basic Tuning Considerations
12.2.1
metricsLevel
12.2.2
Domain-Value Maps
12.2.3
Deferred Routing Rules
12.2.4
Error and Retry Parameters
12.3
Event Delivery Network (EDN) Tuning
13
Oracle Human Workflow Performance Tuning
13.1
About Oracle Human Workflow
13.2
Human Workflow Tuning Considerations
13.2.1
Minimize Client Response Time
13.2.2
Choose the Right Workflow Service Client
13.2.3
Narrow Qualifying Tasks Using Precise Filters
13.2.4
Retrieve Subset of Qualifying Tasks (Paging)
13.2.5
Fetch Only the Information That Is Needed for a Qualifying Task
13.2.6
Reduce the Number of Return Query Columns
13.2.7
Use the Aggregate API for Charting Task Statistics
13.2.8
Use the Count API Methods for Counting the Number of Tasks
13.2.9
Create Indexes On Demand for Flexfields
13.2.10
Use the doesTaskExist Method
13.3
Improving Server Performance
13.3.1
Archive Completed Instances Periodically
13.3.2
Select the Appropriate Workflow Callback Functionality
13.3.3
Minimize Performance Impacts from Notification
13.3.4
Deploy Clustered Nodes
13.4
Completing Workflows Faster
13.4.1
Use Workflow Reports to Monitor Progress
13.4.2
Specify Escalation Rules
13.4.3
Specify User and Group Rules for Automated Assignment
13.4.4
Use Task Views to Prioritize Work
13.5
Tuning Identity Provider
13.6
Tuning the Database
14
Oracle Adapters Performance Tuning
14.1
About Oracle Adapters
14.2
Oracle JCA Adapters for Files/FTP
14.2.1
Inbound Throttling Best Practices
14.2.2
Outbound Throttling Best Practices
14.2.3
Outbound Performance Best Practices
14.3
Oracle JCA Adapter for Database Tuning
14.3.1
JCA Adapter Basic Tuning Considerations
14.3.2
Existence Checking
14.4
Oracle Socket Adapter Tuning
14.5
Oracle SOA JMS Adapter Tuning
14.5.1
adapter.jms.receive.threads Property
14.6
Oracle AQ Adapter Tuning
14.6.1
adapter.aq.dequeue.threads Property
14.7
Oracle MQ Adapter Tuning
15
Oracle Business Activity Monitoring Performance Tuning
15.1
About Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
15.2
Oracle BAM Tuning Considerations
15.2.1
BAM Server Tuning
15.2.1.1
Set the ViewSetSharing and ElementCountLimit Parameters
15.2.1.2
Enable the Async Servlet
15.2.2
BAM Dashboard Tuning
15.2.2.1
Tune the Active Data Retrieval Interval
15.2.3
BAM Database Tuning
15.2.4
Internet Browser Tuning
15.2.4.1
Set iActiveDataScriptsCleanupFactor
15.2.4.2
Set Browser Cache Settings
15.2.5
Enterprise Message Source Tuning
15.2.5.1
Message Batching
16
User Messaging Service Performance Tuning
16.1
About Oracle User Messaging Services
16.2
Basic Tuning Considerations
16.2.1
SMPP Driver Performance Tuning
16.2.2
Email Driver Polling Frequency
16.3
Database Tuning for Optimal Throughput
Part V Identity Management Suite Components
17
Oracle Internet Directory Performance Tuning
17.1
About Oracle Internet Directory
17.2
Introduction to Tuning Oracle Internet Directory
17.3
Basic Tuning Recommendations
17.3.1
Database Parameters
17.3.2
LDAP Server Attributes
17.3.3
Database Statistics
17.4
Advanced Configurations
17.4.1
Replication or Oracle Directory Integration Platform
17.4.2
Replication Server Configuration
17.4.3
Garbage Collection Configuration
17.4.4
Oracle Internet Directory with RAC Database
17.4.5
Password Policies and Verifier Profiles
17.4.6
Server Entry Cache
17.4.6.1
When to Use the Entry Cache
17.4.6.2
Benefits of Using the Entry Cache
17.4.6.3
Values for Configuring the Entry Cache
17.4.7
Tuning Security Event Tracking
17.5
Low-Priority Tuning Recommendations
17.5.1
Number of Entries to be Returned by a Search
17.5.2
Enabling the Group Cache
17.5.3
Timeout for Write Operations
17.6
Specific Use Cases
17.6.1
Bulk Load Operation
17.6.2
Bulk Delete Operation
17.6.3
High LDAP Write Operations Load
17.7
Optimizing Searches
17.7.1
Optimizing Searches for Large Group Entries
17.7.1.1
Entry Cache Enabled Configuration
17.7.1.2
Entry Cache Disabled Configuration.
17.7.2
Optimizing Searches for Skewed Attributes
17.7.3
Optimizing Performance of Complex Search Filters
17.8
Evaluating Performance on UNIX and Windows Systems
17.9
Obtaining Recommendations by Using the Tuning and Sizing Wizard
17.10
Updating Database Statistics by Using oidstats.sql
17.11
Setting Performance-Related Replication Configuration Attributes
17.12
Modifying Performance-Related System Configuration Attributes
17.12.1
Modifying Instance-Specific Attributes by Using Fusion Middleware Control
17.12.2
Modifying Shared Attributes by Using Fusion Middleware Control
17.12.3
Modifying Attributes by Using ldapmodify
17.12.3.1
Modifying Performance-Related Instance-Specific Configuration Entry Attributes
17.12.3.2
Modifying Performance-Related Shared System Configuration Attributes in the DSA Configuration Entry
17.13
Setting Garbage Collection Configuration Attributes
17.13.1
Modifying Changelog Purging Attributes by Using ldapmodify
17.13.2
Modifying Changelog Purging in Oracle Directory Services Manager
18
Oracle Virtual Directory Performance Tuning
18.1
About Oracle Virtual Directory
18.2
Basic Tuning Configurations
18.3
Additional Tuning Configurations
18.3.1
Database Adapters
18.3.2
Join Adapters
18.3.3
General Filter Tuning
18.3.4
Load Balancer Local Store Adapter Tuning
18.3.5
Cache Plug-In Tuning
18.3.5.1
Cache Hit Logic
18.3.5.2
Cache Plug-in Memory Management
18.3.6
LDAP Listener Tuning
18.3.7
Server Tuning
19
Oracle Identity Federation Performance Tuning
19.1
About Oracle Identity Federation
19.2
LDAP Tuning
19.2.1
Connection Pool Settings
19.2.2
Connection Settings
19.2.3
Federation Data Store Settings
19.3
Database Tuning
19.3.1
Data Sources
19.3.2
RDBMS Session Cache
19.3.3
RDBMS Compression
19.4
Oracle HTTP Server Tuning
19.5
SAML Protocol Tuning
19.5.1
SOAP Connections
19.5.2
XML Digital Signatures
19.5.3
POST and Artifact Single Sign-On Profiles
20
Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Performance Tuning
20.1
About Security Services
20.2
Detecting General Performance Issues
20.3
Oracle Platform Security Services Tuning
20.3.1
JVM Tuning Parameters
20.3.2
LDAP Tuning Parameters
20.3.3
Authentication Tuning Parameters
20.3.4
Authorization Tuning Parameters
20.3.5
OPSS Tuning Parameters for LDAP Policy Store
20.4
Oracle Web Services Security Tuning
20.4.1
Choosing the Right Policy
20.4.2
Timestamp (On or Off)
20.4.3
Policy Manager
20.4.4
Configuring the Log Assertion to Record SOAP Messages
20.4.5
Monitoring the Performance of Web Services
Part VI Oracle WebCenter Suite Components
21
Oracle WebCenter Performance Tuning
21.1
About Oracle WebCenter
21.2
Tuning WebCenter Application Configuration
21.3
Tuning Environment Configurations
21.3.1
JDBC Data Sources
21.3.2
Adjust Memory Size
21.4
Tuning Back-End Component Configuration
21.5
Tuning the Database
Part VII Capacity Planning, Scalability, and Availability
22
Capacity Planning
22.1
About Capacity Planning for Oracle Fusion Middleware
22.1.1
Capacity Planning Factors to Consider
22.2
Determining Performance Goals and Objectives
22.3
Measuring Your Performance Metrics
22.4
Identifying Bottlenecks in Your System
22.4.1
Using Clustered Configurations
22.4.2
Using Connection Pooling
22.4.3
Setting the Max HeapSize on JVM
22.4.4
Increasing Memory or CPU
22.4.5
Segregation of Network Traffic
22.4.6
Segregation of Processes and Hardware Interrupt Handlers
22.5
Implementing a Capacity Management Plan
22.5.1
Hardware Configuration Requirements
22.5.1.1
CPU Requirements
22.5.1.2
Memory Requirements
22.5.2
JVM Requirements
22.5.3
Managed Servers
22.5.4
Database Configuration
23
Using Clusters and High Availability Features
23.1
About Clusters and High Availability Features
23.2
Using Clusters with Oracle Fusion Middleware
23.3
Using High Availability Features with Oracle Fusion Middleware
Part VIII Appendixes
A
Instrumenting Applications with DMS
A.1
About DMS Performance Metrics
A.1.1
Instrumenting Applications with DMS
A.1.2
Monitoring DMS Metrics
A.1.3
Understanding DMS Terminology (Nouns and Sensors)
A.1.3.1
DMS Metrics
A.1.3.2
DMS Sensors
A.1.3.3
DMS Nouns
A.1.3.4
DMS Roll-up Nouns
A.1.3.5
DMS Object Relationships
A.1.4
DMS Naming Conventions
A.1.4.1
General DMS Naming
A.1.4.2
General DMS Naming Conventions and Character Sets
A.1.4.3
Noun and Noun Type Naming Conventions
A.1.4.4
Sensor Naming Conventions
A.2
Adding DMS Instrumentation to Java Applications
A.2.1
Including DMS Imports
A.2.2
Organizing Performance Data
A.2.2.1
Choosing Noun Types
A.2.3
Defining and Using Metrics for Timing
A.2.3.1
Defining PhaseEvent Sensors
A.2.3.2
Using PhaseEvent Sensors
A.2.4
Defining and Using Metrics for Counting
A.2.4.1
Defining Event Sensors
A.2.4.2
Using Event Sensors
A.2.5
Defining and Using Metrics for Recording Status Information (State Sensors)
A.2.5.1
Defining State Sensors
A.2.5.2
Using State Sensors
A.3
Validating and Testing Applications Using DMS Metrics
A.3.1
Validating DMS Metrics
A.3.2
Testing DMS Metrics For Efficiency
A.4
Understanding DMS Security Considerations
A.5
Conditional Instrumentation Using DMS Sensor Weight
A.6
Dumping DMS Metrics to Files
A.7
Resetting and Destroying Sensors
A.8
DMS Coding Recommendations
A.8.1
Isolating Expensive Intervals Using PhaseEvent Metrics
A.9
Using a High Resolution Clock to Increase DMS Precision
A.9.1
Configuring DMS Clocks for Reporting Time for Java
A.9.2
Configuring DMS Clocks for Reporting Time for Oracle HTTP Server
A.10
Rolling Up DMS Data for Descendent Nouns
B
Related Reading and References
B.1
Oracle Documentation
B.1.1
Oracle Fusion Middleware Library
B.1.1.1
Cross-Suite Administration Guides
B.1.1.2
WebCenter
B.1.1.3
Identity Management
B.1.1.4
SOA Suite
B.1.2
Oracle Database
B.1.3
Oracle JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
B.2
Sun Microsystems Information
B.2.1
Sun Java HotSpot Virtual Machine
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