Configuring the Siebel Enterprise

The Siebel Enterprise maintains environment-wide settings that are shared by all components, such as the location of the Siebel File System, the database, and so on.

Before continuing, it is important to understand that in the Siebel Management Console (SMC), a profile represents a template that provides the information needed for a given component. However, a profile is not an actual instance of that component. Using profiles allows us to deploy many instances of the same entity quickly, and repeatedly. You deploy the Enterprise only once, whereas a Siebel Server or Siebel Application Interface profile can be used many times.