Virtual Hosts Setup

Oracle Enterprise Performance Management System standard deployment topology requires a load balancer; for example, F5 BIG-IP Traffic Manager, Citrix NetScaler, or Cisco ACE A10. You must create two virtual hosts on the load balancer to support the standard deployment topology. These virtual hosts are used to receive and manage external and internal requests for EPM System resources.

External Virtual Host

Create a virtual host (epm.mycompany.com) on the load balancer as the access point for all HTTP traffic to runtime components. The traffic from browser to load balancer is always over secure socket layer (SSL). This virtual host receives all external requests (from the intranet and the Internet) on port 443 and forwards them to an Oracle HTTP Server on Oracle Hyperion Foundation Services servers (FNDHOST1 or FNDHOST2).

For information on configuring the load balancer to forward external requests to Oracle HTTP Server, refer to the documentation of the load balancer you are using.

Internal Virtual Host

Standard deployment topology uses a virtual host (epminternal.mycompany.com), which is used for interprocess transactional and administrative access.

This virtual host is defined on the load balancer and is used for internal invocations of services within the data center. It is not exposed to the Internet or the intranet, and it is accessible within the data center only. It forwards requests to one of the Oracle HTTP Servers on Foundation Services servers (FNDHOST1 or FNDHOST2).

For information on configuring the load balancer to forward requests to Oracle HTTP Servers, refer to the documentation of the load balancer that you are using.