N1 Grid Service Provisioning System User's Guide and Release Notes for the Oracle App Server 10g Plug-In 1.0

Chapter 1 Overview of the Oracle App Server 10g Plug-In

This chapter explains general information about using N1 Grid Service Provisioning System (N1 Grid SPS) to provision Oracle App Server 10g applications. This chapter includes the following information:

Purpose of the Oracle App Server 10g Plug-In

The N1 Grid SPS software provides enhanced capabilities in out-of-the-box support for Oracle App Server 10g. You can provision Oracle App Server 10g infrastructure and applications, and browse existing installations to export and import previously installed applications. The Oracle App Server 10g support is packaged in a Java^TM Archive (JAR) file that loads into the N1 Grid SPS environment The Oracle App Server 10g plug-in can deploy Oracle applications that are compatible with Oracle 10g application servers.

What the Oracle App Server 10g Plug-In Includes

The Oracle App Server 10g plug-in enables users to perform the following main functions:

Install the infrastructure for an Oracle App Server and its Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE^TM) containers, called OC4J instances.
Install Oracle applications in the form of EARs (Enterprise Archives) and WARs (Web Archives) on a J2EE container in an Oracle App Server.
Install the following Oracle topologies:
- J2EE standalone application server, which includes the HTTP server, J2EE, and Web Cache modules
- Enterprise J2EE, a topology that distributes Oracle Application Server components over multiple computers and tiers. The distributed topology enables users to scale the number of computers in each tier to increase performance and availability without affecting computers in other tiers.
- Enterprise business intelligence (BI), a topology that supports J2EE applications as well as applications that use components in the Business Intelligence and Forms middle tiers.
- Enterprise portal and wireless, a topology that supports J2EE applications as well as applications that use components in the Portal and Wireless middle tiers.
Create a cluster from an existing Oracle App Server.
Create an OC4J container.
Add an OC4J container to a cluster.
Remove an OC4J container from a cluster management of an Oracle Application Server.
Remove an OC4J container.
Start an App Server.
Stop an App Server Management of an OC4J container.
Browse Oracle 10g applications from a file system, including a file system on an existing Oracle App Server, and export the applications to the N1 Grid SPS Master Server (MS). Exporting an application creates a set of N1 Grid SPS components that enables the user to view and optionally update archive settings for that application.
Deploy applications to Oracle App Server installations.

Requirements for Using the Oracle App Server 10g Plug-In

Because this plug-in helps to provision the Oracle Application Server, you must have a system capable of running an instance of that server. Follow the directions in section 2 of the Oracle Application Server Quick Installation and Upgrade Guide 10g (9.0.4). In most cases, the following requirements will suffice to set up your system:

Hardware: Minimum 900 Mhz UltraSPARC III.
Operating system: Solaris^TM 9 update 7 or later software.
RAM: Depends on the type and number of application server configurations you intend to use. For more information, see the Oracle Application Server Performance Guide.
Disk space: At least 10 Gbytes of disk space for the home directory of the oracle user.
Swap space: At least 1 Gbyte of swap space.

For More Information

Using this plug-in presumes that you are familiar with the Oracle App Server 10g software. For more information about this product, see the following Oracle information: