Creating the Enterprise Profile

To create the Siebel Enterprise profile, navigate the Siebel Management Console (SMC) to the Profiles/Enterprise node and create a new profile. For more information on each parameter, see Siebel Installation Guide for Microsoft Windows or Siebel Installation Guide for UNIX as appropriate.

Some of the key parameters are as follows:

• Profile. A profile is a template for a component that can be deployed many times. To distinguish a profile from an instance of a component, it is recommended that profile name always includes the word: profile. For example, the Enterprise profile could be named EnterpriseProfile.

• Primary Siebel File System. The Siebel File System will be used to store documents associated with Siebel CRM data, such as spreadsheets, word processing documents, presentations, images, and so on. This must be a network location that allows read-write access to all the servers on which Siebel Servers are eventually deployed. While the Enterprise creation requires only a single Siebel File System, it is possible to create multiple file systems to improve load-balancing and performance. For more information, see Siebel System Administration Guide in Siebel Bookshelf.

• Authentication. The username and password for the Siebel Gateway.

• Security Encryption Level. Setting this to SISNAPI Using TLS 1.2 will cause inter-process communication amongst Siebel Enterprise Components to use TLS, improving security for these conversations. If this option is selected, it will be necessary to provide information about the Certificate Authority and other information needed to encrypt those conversations.