Contents


This Guide

Foreword
Audience
What is in this guide
Related Documents

Overview

iPlanet Market Maker Software
Overview of iPlanet Market Maker Components

Bundled
System Requirements

An Outline of iPlanet Market Maker processes

Planning the Deployment

Determining the Appropriate Development Setup
Identifying the Marketmaker's Requirements
Deriving Initial Hardware Requirement Estimates

Example 1: Auction Company
Example 2: RFx Company

Determining the Appropriate Production Setup
Determining the Hardware Configuration

Basic Production Setup
Production Setup With SSL
High-Availability Production Setup

Summary

Installation and Configuration

Installation
Configuration

Configuring Solaris

Solaris 2.6
Solaris 2.8

Initial Oracle Configuration

Recommended initial DBA setup
Database initialization parameters

iPlanet Market Maker Configuration

Settings to Connect to Remote LDAP Instances

To connect to a remote LDAP instance
LDAP connection pool settings

Settings to Connect to Remote Oracle Instances

To connect to a remote Oracle instance
Oracle connection pool settings

Oracle Configuration and Settings

Sizing objects
Catalog module
Auctions module
Recommended periodic DBA maintenance activities:

Job Scheduler Settings

Maximum Heap Size for the JVM
OnceOnly and Repeatable Timer Thread Pool Sizes
OnceOnly Worker Thread Pool Size
Repeatable Worker Thread Pool Size
Sleep Interval for OnceOnly Thread
Repeat Sleep Interval
Transactional Mail Scheduler Interval
Max Threads in Notifier Pool

Installing and Configuring Resonate

Deployment
Configuration

Importing and Configuring data

Schema and Database

LDAP
Oracle

Performance Tuning and Monitoring

System Configuration

Solaris Kernel Parameter Tuning
Memory Configuration
Disk Configuration

Database Configuration

To Improve the LDAP Read Performance

Tuning the database cache
Tuning the entry cache

To Improve the LDAP Write Performance

Setting the db_home_directory
Distributing the Write Load Among Multiple Disks
Disabling Durable Transactions
Setting the ALL_IDS_THRESHOLD

LDAP Indices
Tuning Oracle

Distributing the Tablespaces Among Multiple-Disks

Tuning the iPlanet Web Server

Setting the Maximum Heap Size for the iPlanet Web Server JVM
Turning the JIT Compiler `ON'

Performance Monitoring

Monitoring Tools

To monitor I/O usage
To monitor CPU utilization
To monitor process resource utilization
To monitor multi-processor CPU usage
To observe memory usage
This gives a long full listing about every process with the processor number and memory utilization.
To monitor network activity

Log Files

iPlanet Market Maker Logs
iPlanet Web Server Logs
iPlanet Directory Server Logs (LDAP)

Check List

Installation and Configuration Check List

Trouble Shooting

Appendix A

Oracle Table Sizing Information