Using the Provisioning Wizard

You subscribe to Oracle SOA Cloud Service by running the provisioning wizard. This section describes the pages that are displayed in the provisioning wizard.

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Creating an Instance

Start the provisioning process by creating a new instance.

Log in to SOA Cloud Service and then create a new instance.
  1. Click Create Instance.
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The Domain Type page appears.

Selecting the Service Type

Select the service type and billing frequency for your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.

The following service types are available. See About the Components of Oracle SOA Suite Cloud Suite for information about the service type components.

Service Type Components Installed
Service Bus Cluster Install and configure only Oracle Service Bus, Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, Oracle Technology Adapters, and Oracle Cloud Adapters.

Note: This service type is only available with the 12.1.3 software image.
SOA Cluster Install and configure only Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Technology Adapters, Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, and Oracle Cloud Adapters.

Note: This service type is only available with the 12.1.3 software image.
SOA and Service Bus Cluster Install and configure Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle Service Bus, Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, Oracle Technology Adapters, and Oracle Cloud Adapters.

Note: Do not use the SOA and Service Bus Cluster 12.2.1.2 service type in a production environment. In a later release, this service type will be combined into a single SOA and Service Bus and B2B Cluster service type selection. There will not be a way to upgrade to this combined service type. However, you can use the SOA and Service Bus Cluster service type for testing.
SOA and B2B Cluster Install and configure Oracle SOA Suite, Oracle B2B, Oracle Technology Adapters, and Oracle Cloud Adapters.

Note: This service type is only available for selection with the 12.1.3 software image. To provision this service type in 12.2.1.2, you must use the REST API.
MFT Cluster Install and configure only Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service. See Using Oracle Managed File Transfer Cloud Service.
Integration Analytics Cluster Install and configure Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight and Oracle Business Activity Monitoring. See Getting Started with Oracle Real-Time Integration Business Insight.

Selecting the Software Image

Select the version of Oracle SOA Cloud Service that you want to use.

Specifying Instance Details

Specify details about your instance.

Topics

Instance Configuration

Specify the information to configure your instance, then click Enter.

Item Description
Instance Name

Use the following conventions to compose your instance name:

  • The name must start with a letter.

  • The name cannot contain more than 30 characters.

  • The name cannot contain special characters other than the hyphen character.

  • The name cannot include a hyphen in the first eight characters.

  • The first eight characters of the name are used for the domain name and cluster name.
Description Describe the instance.
Cluster Size

SOA Cloud service always creates a domain with one or more servers in a cluster.

Choose the cluster size. Choose between 1, 2, or 4 virtual machines.

Note: If you configure more than one node, it is highly recommended that you enable the load balancer later on this page.
Compute Shape

Choose a CPU/memory pairing.

Select the number of Oracle Compute Units (OCPUs) and amount of RAM memory that you want to allocate for the load balancer. The larger the compute shape, the greater the processing power.

Valid compute shapes include:

  • OC1M: 1 OCPU and 15 GB memory

  • OC2M: 2 OCPUs and 30 GB memory

  • OC3M: 4 OCPUs and 60 GB memory

  • OC4M: 8 OCPUs and 120 GB memory

Note that you cannot change the compute shape after you have created the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.
SSH Public Key

Specify the value of the VM Public Key, or the name of the file that contains the public key value.

Define the public key for the secure shell (SSH). This key is used for authentication when connecting to the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance using an SSH client.

Click Edit to display the public key input for VM access and specify the public key using one of the following methods:

  • Select Key file name and click Choose File to select a file that contains the public key for the secure shell (SSH).

  • Select Key name and enter the name of the compute SSH key object referring to the public key. Enter the key name using the following format: /Compute-identity-domain/username/key-name.

WebLogic Administrator

Specify information about your Oracle WebLogic Server administrator.

Item Description
User Name

The user name of the Oracle WebLogic Server Administrator.

Note that you can change the user name through the WebLogic Server Administration Console after you have created the instance.
Password Specify an Oracle WebLogic Server Administrator password that meets the following criteria:

  • It must begin with a letter.

  • It must contain between 8 and 30 characters.

  • It must contain at least one number.

  • Optionally, it can contain any number of the following special characters: “$#_”. For example: Ach1z0#d.
Confirm Password Retype the password.

Database Configuration

Specify information about your database.

Note:

In the Database Configuration section in the Service Details page of the Provision New Java Cloud Service wizard, specify connection and administrator information.

Item Description
Name

Select an existing production-level Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment for storing the Oracle required schema for the service instance, or specify a connection string for an on-premises database

The connection string must be in one of the following formats:

  • host:port:SID

  • host:port/service_name

    Note that the service_name path must be fully qualified.

The database deployment you choose must not be configured with a Backup Destination set to None. You must select one of the other available backup options in the database deployment prior to creating this service instance.

Note:

To ensure that you can restore the database for an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance without risking data loss for other service instances, do not use the same Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment with multiple Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances. Backups of an Oracle Database Cloud Service database deployment that is used with multiple Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances contain data for all the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances. If you restore the database while restoring an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance, data for all the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instances is restored.

Only Database Cloud Service database deployments that are up and running are available in the list. If your Database Cloud Service database deployment is In Progress, it will not appear in the list.
Administrator User Name

Enter the user name for the database administrator.

For database deployments based on Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.1.3) or Oracle WebLogic Server 12c (12.2.1), this value must be set to a database user with SYSDBA system privileges. You can use the default user SYS or any user that has been granted the SYSDBA privilege.
Password

Enter the database administrator user password.

Note:

Oracle SOA Suite automatically creates SOA schemas in this database, such as SOAINFRA and MDS. The SOA schemas take the same password that you specified in the WebLogic Administrator section of this wizard.

Load Balancer

Specify whether or not you want to use the load balancer.

Note:

If you do not select a load balancer, then the managed server URLs (b2bconsole, worklistapp) are not accessible using the load balancer IP address. You will have to create SSH tunnels to access these URLs.
Item Description
Provision Load Balancer

Choose whether or not to use the load balancer. A load balancer delivers the following benefits:

  • Manages the routing of requests across all managed servers.

  • Enables you to configure the routing policy.

  • Enables you to suspend an Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance temporarily to perform routine maintenance, as described in Suspending an Oracle SOA Suite Cloud Service Instance.

If you have more than one node in your cluster and do not choose a load balancer, then only one server receives all of the work requests, while the other server(s) in the cluster are idle.  The server that receives all of the HTTP requests might become overloaded, while the other servers are under utilized.

Note that you can add a load balancer later if you did not configure a load balancer while you created your Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance. For information on adding a load balancer, see Adding a Load Balancer to an Oracle SOA Cloud Service Instance.
Load Balancer Policy

  • Least Connection Count. Passes each new request to the managed server with the least number of connections. This policy is useful for smoothing distribution when managed servers slow down. managed servers with greater processing power receive more connections over time.

  • Least Response Time. Passes each new request to the managed server with the fastest response time. This policy is useful when managed servers are distributed across networks.

  • Round Robin. Passes each new request to the next managed server in line, evenly distributing requests across all managed servers regardless of the number of connections or response time.
Compute Shape

Select the number of Oracle Compute Units (OCPUs) and amount of RAM memory that you want to allocate for the load balancer. The larger the compute shape, the greater the processing power.

Valid compute shapes include:

  • OC1M: 1 OCPU and 15 GB memory

  • OC2M: 2 OCPUs and 30 GB memory

  • OC3M: 4 OCPUs and 60 GB memory

  • OC4M: 8 OCPUs and 120 GB memory

Note that you cannot change the compute shape after you have created the Oracle SOA Cloud Service instance.

Network Configuration

Specify information about your network.

Item Description
Public Access Network

Select the name of the public access network by using the following format: /tenant/public/EoIB_vNet. For example: smtenant/public/vnet-EoIB-vlan3072.
Database Network

Select the database network from the drop-down list.

Backup Configuration

Specify information about your backup configuration.

Item Description
NFS Remote Backup
Specify the location of the remote networked disk that is not permanently attached to the WebLogic Server Administration Server by using one of the following formats:

  • hostname:absolute_path

  • ip_address:absolute_path

The Cloud Administrator should provide the tenant’s network connectivity to the database.

By default, all backups are moved to the remote networked disk from day one, specified by this path.

Confirming Your Selections

The confirmation page displays the configuration values you choose in the provisioning wizard.

Review the service details. If you need to change the service details, use the navigation bar or Previous button at the top of the wizard to step back through the pages in the wizard. Click Cancel to cancel out of the wizard without creating a new service instance. If you are satisfied with your choices on the Confirmation page, click Create.

Note:

It takes about an hour and a half to create the instance. You are notified by email when it has been created.