Contents


List of Figures

List of Tables

About This Document

Audience
What's in This Document
Documentation Conventions
The Document Online
Related Documentation
Other Useful Documentation
Product Support

Chapter 1 Planning the Deployment

Overview of iPlanet Market Maker
Overview of the Deployment Process
Planning for Installation
Software Requirements

Patches
iPlanet Patch Information
Solaris Patch Information

Developing the Deployment Plan

Determining the Development Setup

Basic Development Setup
Advanced Development Setup

Determining the Marketmaker Requirements
Estimating Initial Hardware Requirements
Determining the Production Setup

Basic Production Setup
Production Setup with SSL
High-Availability Production Setup

Hardware Configurations

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

Summary

Chapter 2 Sizing Your System

Overview of the Sizing Calculator
Example 1: Auction-Intensive Marketplace
Example 2: RFx-Intensive Marketplace
Example 3: Exchange Intensive Marketplace

Chapter 3 Configuring Your System

Configuring Oracle

Setting Oracle Initialization Parameters
Oracle Initialization Parameters
Configuring Net8

Configuring iPlanet Market Maker for the Databases

Connecting to Remote LDAP Instances

To connect to a remote LDAP instance
LDAP Connection Pool Settings

Connecting to Remote Oracle Instances

Oracle Connection Pool Settings

Configuring the Schemas
Sizing Objects (Tables and Indexes)

Re-installing the Database Schema Using the Installer
Re-installing the Database Schema Using Scripts
Catalog Module
Auctions Module
Exchange Module
In-Box Notification

Setting the Job Scheduler

Maximum Heap Size for the JV
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

Importing and Configuring Data

Creating the LDAP Schema

Deleting the Existing LDAP Data

Creating the Oracle Schema

Running iPlanet Market Maker Software Over SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)

Viewing HTTPS Sites (External URLs) in the iPlanet Market Maker Software
Install and Customize the iPlanet Market Maker Software for Secure Site Access

Download JSSE 1.0.2 from the Sun Site
Install JSSE Pack
Install the Certificate of the Secure Site
Set the Security Provider
Set the Configuration Parameters

Chapter 4 Performance Tuning and Monitoring

Testing Scenarios
Tuning the System

Tuning Solaris Kernel Parameters
Configuring Memory
Configuring Disks

Tuning iPlanet Directory Server

Improving the LDAP Read Performance

Tuning the Database Cache
Tuning the Entry Cache

Improving 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 Indexes

VLV Indexing

Tuning Oracle

Distributing the Tablespaces Among Multiple-Disks

Tuning the iPlanet Application Server

Creating New KJS Processes and Tuning
Session Model

Advantages
Disadvantages

Load Balancing
Setting the Heap Size for JVM

Tuning iPlanet Market Maker

Turning Off the Pricing Engine

Monitoring Performance

Monitoring Tools

Monitoring I/O Usage
Monitoring CPU Utilization
Monitoring Process Resource Utilization
Monitoring Multi-Processor CPU Usage
Observing Memory Usage
This gives a long full listing about every process with the processor number and memory utilization.
Monitoring Network Activity

Log Files

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

Chapter 5 Verifying the Deployment

Deployment Verification Checklist
Recommended DBA Maintenance Activities

Chapter 6 Troubleshooting

Application server and web server would not start.
Display profile contained bad data.
E-mail notifications are not sent out.
kjs process crashes under load.
LDAP error occur before login.
Login fails for interoperability.
New users are not able to log in.
No available http sessions.
ORA-29861: domain index is marked LOADING/FAILED/UNUSABLE.
Oracle exceptions caused by Job Scheduler.
Oracle JDBC exceptions occur.
Page flow doesn't correspond with actions.
Slow login time.
Slow performance.
Slow response time.

Appendix A Oracle Table Sizing Information Index