Sun N1 Service Provisioning System User's Guide for BEA WebLogic 9 Plug-in 1.0

Installing and Using the WebLogic 9 Environment with the Sun N1 Service Provisioning System

Plug-In Conventions

The provisioning system enables you to provision and manage applications.

Plans and Component Procedures

The WebLogic 9 plug-in provides both plans and component procedures as tools for you to perform tasks. By using plans, you link directly to the functionality you desire. Using component procedures, you have a greater number of tasks that you can perform.

Task Names

The WebLogic 9 plug-in organizes tasks in three categories: application tasks, infrastructure tasks, and configuration tasks. These task categories follow the same convention for describing the task that you need to perform.

Table 4–1 Common Task Names


Task Name	Description
View Installations, View Configurations, View Clusters, View Cluster Members	View a list of where all components of a particular type are installed.
View All	View all components of a particular type in all folders.
Create	Links to the component Details page where you can add a new component of this type to the provisioning system. You can create new components by importing them from an existing WebLogic Admin Server or by browsing the file system. Note – You cannot browse for application types on the WebLogic Admin Server.
Start or Stop	Links to the autogenerated plans to run the Start or Stop component procedure. You can also run these procedures directly from the component.
Install, Uninstall, Remove, Join, Leave	Represents a plan that produces the described functionality.

Global Prerequisites

Two prerequisites exist for each task documented in this book.

The WebLogic Administration Server is used to perform or verify many operations. Therefore, to perform any task that alters the WebLogic 9 environment, the Administration Server must be configured within the provisioning system with the correct connection information and running.

Note –
The Administration Server does not need to be online when installing the WebLogic software, creating the WebLogic Domain, or when creating the enterprise application (EAR), web application (WAR), and Java archive (JAR) files.
All tasks within the provisioning system require that you have specific permissions. To perform tasks with the WebLogic plug-in, you must belong to a user group that has the Run Component Procedures permission on the folder that contains the component. You must also have the Allow on Host Set permission for the host set on which you plan to deploy the component.

For more information about permissions, see Chapter 3, Controlling Access Using Permissions, in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 System Administration Guide.

For information about how to update your group membership, see How to Change a User’s Group Membership in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 System Administration Guide.

Process Overview

Creating a WebLogic 9 environment within the provisioning system is similar to the process of creating the environment without the provisioning system.

Import the WebLogic 9 plug-in.

See Importing Plug-Ins in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 System Administration Guide.
Set the WebLogic session variables: WL_DEFAULT_PASSWORD and WL_DEFAULT_USER.

See Chapter 5, Session Variables, in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 Plan and Component Developer’s Guide.
Prepare all hosts.

The WebLogic 9 plug-in contains a new system service that must be distributed to all hosts in the provisioning system. See Preparing a Physical Host in Sun N1 Service Provisioning System 5.2 System Administration Guide.
Install the WebLogic software.

See How to Install the WebLogic Software
Create a WebLogic domain by installing an Administrative Server.

See How to Create a WebLogic 9 Domain and Administration Server.
(Optional) Create a Node Manager machine.

See How to Create WebLogic Machines.
Create a Managed Server in the new WebLogic domain.

See How to Create a WebLogic Managed Server.
(Optional) Create a WebLogic 9 cluster.

See How to Create a WebLogic Cluster.
(Optional) Add a cluster member by assigning existing Managed Servers to the cluster.

See How to Create Cluster Members.
If necessary, configure the application's connection to the database.

Depending on the needs of your application, you might need to configure database connection pools and database data sources. See Creating Configuration Services.
If the application uses Java Messaging Service, configure the JMS server.

See Creating Configuration Services.
Capture application archive files from the file system.

See Capturing and Editing WebLogic Applications.
Deploy applications to targets hosts, host sets, or clusters.

An application can target either a cluster or a Managed Server.

See Deploying WebLogic Applications.