Perform Prerequisite Tasks

This topic lists the prerequisites you will need, and the tasks you need to perform before deploying Oracle Management Cloud in a Siebel environment.

Perform the following tasks in your Siebel environment:

Note:

Oracle Management Cloud for Siebel supports Siebel IP 15/16.

1. Ensure that you have a supported version of Siebel. Oracle Management Cloud currently supports Siebel IP 15/16. Check your "Siebel Installation Guide for UNIX" for more details on how to check your Siebel version.
2. Create or identify an operating system user to be used for the installation of the Oracle Management Cloud agent. This cloud agent is required for discovery of your Siebel environment so we will refer to it as the "discovery cloud agent". Typically, the cloud agent user is the same as the Siebel installation user. If your cloud agent user cannot be the same as the Siebel installation user, follow these steps to create a new user and grant it appropriateprivileges:
   1. Login as root on the host where your Siebel Server resides.

      useradd -m -d <home directory of new user> <cloud agent username> -g <existing Siebel user group>

      For example, to create a new user cloudagent and add it to the group emsiebel, run the following:

      /usr/sbin/useradd -m -d /u01/omc/cloudagent cloudagent -g emsiebel

   2. Grant the Siebel group read and execute permission to the Siebel gateway server and Siebel server directories:

      chmod -R g+r <gateway server or Siebel server directory>

      For example:

      chmod -R g+r /u01/siebel/ses/gtwysrvr   

      chmod -R g+r /u01/siebel/ses/siebsrvr 

      chmod g+x /u01/siebel/ses/siebsrvr/bin/* 

      chmod g+x /u01/siebel/ses/gtwysrvr/bin/*

   3. Exit the root environment and login as the new cloud agent user you created. Verify that this cloud agent user is able to run srvrmgr in the Siebel server.

      For example, login as cloudagent and run:

      source /u01/siebel/ses/siebsrvr/siebenv.sh; /u01/siebel/ses/siebsrvr/bin/srvrmgr

3. Access Oracle Management Cloud as an OMC Administrator, download the Cloud Agent and Gateway installation files and install:
   1. An Oracle Management Cloud Gateway (optional). To determine if you require a Gateway and for details on installing it see Install a Gateway in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.
   2. An Oracle Management Cloud Agent on your Siebel Server host. This agent will become your "discovery cloud agent". Make a note of your cloud agent port number. For details on installing a cloud agent see Install Cloud Agents in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.
4. Configure your discovery cloud agent:
   1. If you have a firewall, ensure that the ports are open for the cloud agent to connect to Server Manager. Make exceptions in firewall for the cloud agent port number and for protocol TCP-IP/tls1.2 over HTTPS.
   2. After installing the cloud agent, perform these steps on the discovery cloud agent host:
      1. Log in as root and edit the configuration file /etc/security/limits.conf or its equivalent file (Example: /etc/security/limits.d/90-nproc.conf for RedHat 6 and above). Set the following values:

         <unix user>      soft     nproc      64000 
         <unix user>      hard   nproc      64000

      2. Exit the root environment and, as the cloud agent user, edit the file $AGENT_BASE_DIRECTORY/agent_inst/sysman/config/emd.propertiesand set the below property as shown:

         agentJavaDefines=-Xmx512M -XX:MaxPermSize=160M

         Then, restart the cloud agent:

         $AGENT_BASE_DIRECTORY/agent_inst/bin/omcli stop agent 

         $AGENT_BASE_DIRECTORY/agent_inst/bin/omcli start agent

5. To analyze logs on additional hosts, install cloud agents on these hosts. For example, you may want to install a cloud agent on other Siebel Server hosts, Gateway Server hosts, your database host or OHS host(s). See Install Cloud Agents in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.
6. Verify the installations. See Verify the Gateway Installation and Verify the Cloud Agent Installation in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.
7. Enable Host Monitoring in Oracle Management Cloud. See Enable Host Monitoring. in Installing and Managing Oracle Management Cloud Agents.

   Note:

   Siebel Monitoring is currently only supported on Linux operating systems. Solaris, Windows and AIX are not supported at this time.
8. Log in to OMC as an OMC Administrator and verify that the hosts where cloud agents are installed are listed in the Entities page.