Table 6-1 lists common administration tasks you will likely want to perform on your new domain.
Table 6-1 Basic Administration Tasks for a New Domain
| Task | Description | More Information |
|---|---|---|
Getting familiar with Fusion Middleware administration tools |
Get familiar with various tools that you can use to manage your environment. |
See Overview of Oracle Fusion Middleware Administration Tools in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
Starting and stopping products and servers |
Learn how to start and stop Oracle Fusion Middleware, including the Administration Server, Managed Servers, and components. |
See Starting and Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
Configuring Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) |
Learn how to set up secure communications between Oracle Fusion Middleware components using SSL. |
See Configuring SSL in Oracle Fusion Middleware in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
Monitoring Oracle Fusion Middleware |
Learn how to keep track of the status of Oracle Fusion Middleware components. |
See Monitoring Oracle Fusion Middleware in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
Understanding Backup and Recovery Procedures |
Learn recommended backup and recovery procedures for Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
See Introducing Backup and Recovery in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
Getting familiar with database purging |
Get familiar with scheduling and running purge jobs that automatically remove older flow instances, adapter reports, and fault alerts data from the database. |
See Managing Database Growth in Administering Oracle SOA Suite and Oracle Business Process Management Suite. |
After you configure a domain, there are additional tasks to consider.
Table 6-2 lists additional tasks you will likely want to perform on your new domain.
Table 6-2 Additional Domain Configuration Tasks
| Task | Description | More Information |
|---|---|---|
Deploying Applications |
Learn how to deploy your applications to Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
See Deploying Applications in Administering Oracle Fusion Middleware. |
Adding a Web Tier front-end to your domain |
Oracle Web Tier hosts Web pages (static and dynamic), provides security and high performance along with built-in clustering, load balancing, and failover features. In particular, the Web Tier contains Oracle HTTP Server. |
To install and configure Oracle HTTP Server in the WebLogic Server domain, see Installing and Configuring Oracle HTTP Server. See also Installing Multiple Products in the Same Domain in Planning an Installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware for important information. |
Tuning and configuring Coherence for your topology |
The standard installation topology includes a Coherence cluster that contains storage-enabled Managed Coherence Servers. This configuration is a good starting point for using Coherence, but depending upon your specific requirements, consider tuning and reconfiguring Coherence to improve performance in a production environment. |
For more about Coherence clusters, see Configuring and Managing Coherence Clusters in Administering Clusters for Oracle WebLogic Server. For information on tuning Coherence, see Administering Oracle Coherence. For information on storing HTTP session data in Coherence, see Using Coherence*Web with WebLogic Server in Administering HTTP Session Management with Oracle Coherence*Web. For more about creating and deploying Coherence applications, see Developing Oracle Coherence Applications for Oracle WebLogic Server. |
Scaling out for high availability requires additional steps.
Table 6-3 lists tasks to perform if you want to scale out your standard installation environment for high availability.
Table 6-3 Tasks Required to Prepare Your Environment for High Availability
| Task | Description | More Information |
|---|---|---|
Scaling out to multiple host computers |
To enable high availability, it is important to provide failover capabilities to another host computer. That way, if one computer goes down, your environment can continue to serve consumers of your deployed applications. |
See Scaling Out a Topology (Machine Scaleout) in High Availability Guide. |
Configuring high availability for Web Tier components. |
If you added a Web Tier front-end, you must configure it for high availability and the WebLogic Server software. |
See Configuring High Availability for Web Tier Components in High Availability Guide. |
Setting up a front-end load balancer |
You can use a load balancer to distribute requests across servers more evenly. |
See Server Load Balancing in a High Availability Environment and Configure Load Balancer in High Availability Guide. |
Configuring Node Manager |
Node Manager enables you to start, shut down, and restart the Administration Server and Managed Servers from a remote location. This document assumes you have configured a per-domain Node Manager. See Node Manager documentation for more on advanced Node Manager configuration options and features. |