This chapter provides information on planning your Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Business Operations Center installation.
When planning a Business Operations Center installation, consider how many physical servers are required to support the Oracle WebLogic Server domains and Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) components needed in your environment. High-availability requirements may increase the number of hosts.
Consider the security and networking requirements necessary for securing Business Operations Center communications with your Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) system in addition to software and hardware requirements.
See "Business Operations Center Requirements" for information about required hardware and software and the chapter on Business Operations Security in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Security Guide.
Install Business Operations Center either as a test or production installation depending on your required environment. Both test and production Business Operations Center installations must connect to a BRM system with Revenue Assurance Manager installed. See Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Collecting Revenue Assurance Data for more information.
Use test installations when setting up internal development or testing Business Operations Center instances. Test installations allow users to use Business Operations Center without IAM security. The deployed Business Operations Center application in your test WebLogic server domain connects directly to your BRM system using native WebLogic server user management.
Test installations include the following components:
WebLogic Server
WebLogic Server domain to host Business Operations Center with Business Operations Center security disabled
Deployed Business Operations Center application WAR
Creation of Business Operations Center schema in the BRM database
This guide includes information on installing test installations. You do not need to perform the IAM pre-installation steps for test installations. See "Installing Business Operations Center for Testing" for more information on test installations.
Use production installations when setting up secure Business Operations Center instances using IAM security. Production installations require user authentication and authorization for securing access to Business Operations Center. This guide provides general guidelines in installing and configuring IAM components. It does not contain detailed information on configuring IAM components. Consult the respective product documentation using the links provided in this guide for more information on configuring IAM components.
Production installations include the following components:
Database creation with Oracle Repository Creation Utility (RCU)
WebLogic Server
Oracle Identity and Access Management (IAM) components, including:
Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
Oracle Entitlements Server (OES) Administration Server and Client Domains
Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
Oracle Unified Domain (OUD)
Deployed Business Operations Center application WAR on each OES Client domain
Creation of Business Operations Center schema in the BRM database
Business Operations Center production installations require an Enterprise Database used by IAM. This database is in addition to your BRM server database used for the Business Operations Center schema. Database sizing requirements depend on the number of Business Operations Center users in your environment.
See "Installing and Configuring Oracle Enterprise Database" for information on setting up the required database for Business Operations Center.
When planning a Business Operations Center installation, consider IAM requirements carefully. Each OES Client domain hosts a deployed instance of Business Operations Center and connects to IAM for authentication and authorization. Determine how many OES Client domains are needed to support the Business Operations Center deployments required by your transaction volume.
Note:
Use a single IAM instance when installing Business Operations Center and Oracle Communications Billing Care in the same BRM environment.See "Reviewing System Requirements and Certification" in Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Identity and Access Management for more information on sizing your IAM host requirements.
In production environments, you must ensure that communication between components and access to the system servers are secure. The Business Operations Center installer prompts you to select security options. After you install Business Operations Center, enable SSL communication between Business Operations Center and BRM. For information about securing Business Operations Center, see the chapter on Business Operations Center in Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management Security Guide.