Siebel Product Configurator Infrastructure

Siebel Product Configurator provides product configuration and solution-computing capabilities, and can be deployed as a server-based module. Siebel Product Configurator is one of the Siebel Order Management modules. These modules work together to support various phases in conducting commerce, including online selling.

Siebel Product Configurator uses several infrastructure elements to manage configuration sessions. Siebel Product Configurator is supported in the Siebel Server environment by the following components:

• Siebel Application Object Manager. Siebel Product Configurator functions can be performed within the Siebel Application Object Manager, such as Call Center Object Manager (alias SCCObjMgr_enu in a U.S. English environment) for Siebel Call Center.

• Siebel Product Configuration Object Manager. An optional component, suitable for some Siebel Product Configurator deployments, that processes configuration requests for user sessions submitted from a Siebel Application Object Manager component.

  This component has the alias eProdCfgObjMgr_locale, such as eProdCfgObjMgr_jpn in a Japanese locale. Typically, this component is run on a separate Siebel Server computer than the one running the Siebel Application Object Manager. Multiple instances of this component can be run on a Siebel Server, where it is possible to distribute requests across the various instances. For more information, see "Topology Considerations for Siebel Product Configurator".

  
  

  Note: The three-letter extension to the alias of the Siebel Product Configuration Object Manager component (such as jpn in the example eProdCfgObjMgr_jpn) must correspond to the value for the Locale Code parameter (alias LocaleCode) associated with the invoking Application Object Manager. For more information about this requirement, see Siebel Deployment Planning Guide. For more information about the Locale Code parameter, see Siebel Global Deployment Guide.

  
  

For more information about the elements of the internal architecture of Siebel Product Configurator, including Instance Broker (Complex Object Instance Service business service) and Configurator Object Broker (Cfg Object Broker business service), see Siebel Product Administration Guide.