This chapter describes the software and hardware requirements for installing Oracle Communications Pricing Design Center (PDC) 11.1 Patch Set 12.
PDC is an application that is deployed in an Oracle WebLogic Server domain. You must install and connect all required software for optimal performance.
Table 2-1 lists operating systems supported for PDC.
Note:
PDC 11.1 patch set server components do not support any 32-bit server operating systems.Table 2-1 PDC Operating Systems Requirements
| Product | Version |
|---|---|
|
Oracle Linux, x86-64 (64bit) Important: To protect from security vulnerabilities, ensure you apply the latest Critical Patch Updates. See PDC is certified on OL 5 and 6 and you should regularly apply the latest patch set for OL 5 and 6 to ensure that your running OL has the latest security fixes. |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 6 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux, x86-64 (64bit) Important: To protect from security vulnerabilities, ensure you apply the latest Critical Patch Updates. See PDC is certified on RHEL 5 and 6 and you should regularly apply the latest patch set for RHEL 5 and 6 to ensure that your running RHEL has the latest security fixes. |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 6 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
|
Oracle Solaris for SPARC (64bit) |
10 Update 4+ |
Table 2-2 lists software required for running PDC.
Table 2-2 PDC Software Requirements
| Product | Version | Disk Space |
|---|---|---|
|
Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Standard Edition or Enterprise Edition |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 and PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
1 GB |
|
Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Application Development Framework |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 and PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
1 GB |
|
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition (for single or Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC) installation) |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
1.2 GB |
|
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
1.2 GB |
|
Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) on Linux x86 or x86-64 or Solaris SPARC (64bit) |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 6:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 7:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 9:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 10:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 11:
|
BRM server: 300 MB BRM database: 2 to 5 GB per 10,000 customers per year. This requirement varies greatly with the number of accounts and the amount of activity. |
|
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
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|
BRM Elastic Charging Engine (ECE) |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 6:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 7:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 9:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 10:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 11:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
N/A |
|
Internet Browser |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 and PDC 11.1 Patch Set 3:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5 and PDC 11.1 Patch Set 6:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 7 and PDC 11.1 Patch Set 8:
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 9 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
N/A |
|
Java |
For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4:
Note: JDK 1.6 Update 60 (64bit) is recommended to fix security issues. For PDC 11.1 Patch Set 5 through PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12:
|
N/A |
The PDC Installer checks for all required software and displays errors if it detects any missing or unavailable components.
Note:
For details on how to download a required software component, see the appropriate section of this guide.You should install all Critical Patch Updates as soon as possible. To download Critical Patch Updates, find out about security alerts, and enable email notifications about Critical Patch Updates, see the Security topic on Oracle Help Center:
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/whatsnew/index.html
The number and configuration of the computers that you employ for your PDC installation depend on the scale and the kind of deployment you have planned according to your networks.
Table 2-3 provides the minimal hardware requirement for PDC installed on a single managed server in a WebLogic Server domain.
Table 2-3 PDC Minimum Hardware Requirements
| Component | Requirement |
|---|---|
|
Hard disk |
1.5 GB of free disk space Note: A minimum of 1.5 GB should be free in the Oracle WebLogic Server domain home. |
|
Processor |
Oracle recommends using twin cores, each running at 1.5 GHz CPU. |
|
Memory |
A minimum of 4 GB physical memory and 4 GB swap. If you plan to have the database installed on the same server as PDC, the minimum memory requirements increase to 6 GB physical memory and 6 GB swap. |
This section describes the information that you will be required to provide during the PDC installation procedure. You define some of these configuration values when you install and configure Oracle Database and WebLogic Server.
If you are installing PDC for the first time, see "Information Requirements for the Complete PDC Software Installation".
If you are installing the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 on an existing PDC 11.1 patch set installation, see "Information Requirements for the PDC Patch Installation".
Important:
Oracle recommends that you print the tables and record the values for future reference.This section describes the information that you will be required to provide during the complete PDC software installation procedure.
Table 2-4 lists the details for the WebLogic Server domain (the domain on which you deploy PDC) that are required during the complete PDC software installation.
Table 2-4 Pricing Design Center WebLogic Server Connection Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the WebLogic Server domain is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the WebLogic Server domain administration server. |
- |
|
User Name |
The WebLogic Server domain administrator user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The WebLogic Server domain administrator user password. |
- |
|
WebLogic Home |
The path of the directory in which the WebLogic Server software is installed. For example, MW_Home/wlserver_10.3, where MW_Home is the directory in which the Oracle Middleware components are installed. |
- |
Table 2-5 lists PDC database details that are required during the complete PDC software installation.
Table 2-5 PDC Database Connection Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the PDC database is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the PDC database service. |
- |
|
User Name |
The PDC database user name. This user should have the following capabilities on the PDC database: create user, grant any role, grant any privileges, select any table for Enterprise edition, and DBA for XE. |
- |
|
Password |
The database user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the PDC database service. |
- |
Table 2-6 lists the tablespace details that are required to create the PDC schema during the complete PDC software installation.
Table 2-7 lists the BRM server details that are required during the complete PDC BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-7 BRM Server Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
BRM |
The path to the directory in which BRM is installed. The path is defined in the $PIN_HOME environment variable. |
- |
|
BRM Pipeline |
The path to the directory in which Pipeline Manager is installed. The path is defined in the $IFW_HOME environment variable. |
- |
|
BRM ThirdParty Software |
The path to the directory in which BRM ThirdParty software is installed. |
- |
Table 2-8 lists the Pipeline Manager database details that are required during the complete PDC BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-8 BRM Pipeline Database Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the BRM pipeline database is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the BRM pipeline database service. |
- |
|
User Name |
The BRM pipeline database schema user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The BRM pipeline database schema user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the BRM pipeline database service. |
- |
Table 2-9 lists transformation cross-reference database details that are required during the complete PDC BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-9 Transformation Cross-Reference Database Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Hostname |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the transformation cross-reference database is configured. |
- |
|
Port number |
The port number assigned to the transformation cross-reference database service. |
- |
|
User name |
The transformation cross-reference database user name. This user should have the following capabilities on the transformation cross-reference database: create user, grant any role, grant any privileges, select any table for Enterprise edition, and DBA for XE. |
- |
|
Password |
The transformation cross-reference database user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the transformation cross-reference database service. |
- |
Table 2-10 lists the tablespace details that are required to create the transformation cross-reference schema during the complete PDC BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-10 Transformation Cross-Reference Schema Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
PDC Tablespace |
The name of the PDC tablespace for the transformation cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
|
Temp Tablespace |
The name of the temporary tablespace for the transformation cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
Table 2-11 lists the migration cross-reference database details that are required during the complete PDC BRM Integration Pack installation.
Note:
The migration cross-reference database details are required only if you want to migrate pricing and setup components from the BRM database to the PDC database.Table 2-11 Migration Cross-Reference Database Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the migration cross-reference database is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the migration cross-reference database service. |
- |
|
User Name |
The migration cross-reference database user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The migration cross-reference database user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the migration cross-reference database service. |
- |
Table 2-12 lists the tablespace details that are required to create the migration cross-reference schema during complete PDC BRM Integration Pack installation.
Note:
The migration cross-reference schema details are required only if you want to migrate price lists from the BRM database to the PDC database.Table 2-12 Migration Cross-Reference Schema Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
PDC Tablespace |
The name of the PDC tablespace for the migration cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
|
Temp Tablespace |
The name of the temporary tablespace for the migration cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
This section describes the information that you will be required to provide during the PDC patch installation procedure.
To apply the patch on top of an existing PDC 11.1 patch set installation, use the values that you provided during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 installation.
Table 2-13 lists the PDC installation details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 patch installation.
Table 2-14 lists the details for the WebLogic Server domain (the domain on which you deployed PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2) that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 patch installation.
Table 2-14 Pricing Design Center WebLogic Server Connection Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the Oracle WebLogic Server domain is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the WebLogic Server domain administration server. |
- |
|
User Name |
The WebLogic Server domain administrator user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The WebLogic Server domain administrator user password. |
- |
|
WebLogic Home |
The path to the directory in which the WebLogic Server software is installed. For example, MW_Home/wlserver_10.3. |
- |
|
KeyStore Location |
The path to the client-side keystore file generated from the exported public certificate using the keytool utility. |
- |
Table 2-15 lists the PDC database details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 patch installation.
Table 2-15 PDC Database Connection Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the PDC database is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the PDC database service. |
- |
|
User Name |
The PDC database user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The PDC database user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the PDC database service. |
- |
Table 2-16 lists the PDC schema details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 patch installation.
Table 2-16 PDC Schema Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
User Name |
The name of the PDC schema user that you created during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 installation. |
- |
|
Password |
The password of the PDC schema user that you created during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 installation. |
- |
|
PDC Tablespace |
The name of the tablespace for the PDC schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
|
Temp Tablespace |
The name of the temporary tablespace for the PDC schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
Table 2-17 lists the PDC user details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 patch installation.
Table 2-18 lists keystore credentials details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 patch installation.
Table 2-18 Keystore Credentials Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Key Password |
The password PDC uses for accessing the PDC alias key in the keystores (PDC_Home/apps/conf/pdc.jks, where PDC_Home is the directory in which PDC is installed, and BRM_Integration_Pack_Home/apps/conf/pdc.jks, BRM_Integration_Pack_Home is the directory in which BRM Integration Pack is installed). |
- |
|
Keystore Password |
The password used for accessing the keystore. |
- |
Table 2-19 lists the BRM Integration Pack installation details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-20 lists the BRM server details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-20 BRM Server Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
BRM |
The path to the directory in which BRM is installed. The path is defined in the $PIN_HOME environment variable. |
- |
|
BRM Pipeline |
The path to the directory in which Pipeline Manager is installed. The path is defined in the $IFW_HOME environment variable. |
- |
|
BRM ThirdParty Software |
The path to the directory in which BRM ThirdParty software is installed. |
- |
Table 2-21 lists the BRM pipeline database details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-21 BRM Pipeline Database Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the BRM pipeline database is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the BRM pipeline database service. |
- |
|
User Name |
The BRM pipeline database schema user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The BRM pipeline database schema user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the BRM pipeline database service. |
- |
Table 2-22 lists the transformation cross-reference database details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-22 Transformation Cross-Reference Database Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the transformation cross-reference database is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the transformation cross-reference database service. |
- |
|
User Name |
The transformation cross-reference database user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The transformation cross-reference database user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the transformation cross-reference database service. |
- |
Table 2-23 lists the transformation cross-reference schema details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Table 2-23 Transformation Cross-Reference Schema Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
User Name |
The name of the transformation cross-reference schema user that you created during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 installation. |
- |
|
Password |
The password of the transformation cross-reference schema that you created during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 2 installation. |
- |
|
PDC Tablespace |
The name of the PDC tablespace for the transformation cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
|
Temp Tablespace |
The name of the temporary tablespace for the transformation cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
Table 2-24 lists the migration cross-reference database details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Note:
The migration cross-reference database details are required only if you want to upgrade the migration utility that you installed with PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4 BRM Integration Pack.Table 2-24 Migration Cross-Reference Database Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
Host Name |
The IP address or the host name of the machine on which the migration cross-reference database is configured. |
- |
|
Port Number |
The port number assigned to the migration cross-reference database service. |
- |
|
User Name |
The migration cross-reference database user name. |
- |
|
Password |
The migration cross-reference database user password. |
- |
|
Service Name |
The name of the migration cross-reference database service. |
- |
Table 2-25 lists the migration cross-reference schema details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Note:
The migration cross-reference database details are required only if you want to upgrade the migration utility that you installed with PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4 BRM Integration Pack.Table 2-25 Migration Cross-Reference Schema Information
| Field | Description | Value |
|---|---|---|
|
User Name |
The name of the migration cross-reference schema user that you created during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4 BRM Integration Pack installation. |
- |
|
Password |
The password of the migration cross-reference schema user that you created during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4 BRM Integration Pack installation. |
- |
|
PDC Tablespace |
The name of the PDC tablespace for the migration cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
|
Temp Tablespace |
The name of the temporary tablespace for the migration cross-reference schema. This field is case-sensitive. |
- |
Table 2-26 lists the migration user details that are required during the PDC 11.1 Patch Set 12 BRM Integration Pack installation.
Note:
The migration cross-reference database details are required only if you want to upgrade the migrate utility that you installed with PDC 11.1 Patch Set 4 BRM Integration Pack.