Provisioning the Service Bus Domain and Oracle Homes

Getting Started with Provisioning Service Bus Domain and Oracle Home

This section helps you get started by providing an overview of the steps involved in provisioning WebLogic Domain and Middleware Home using the Fusion Middleware Deployment procedure.

Table 27-1 Getting Started with Service Bus Provisioning

Step	Description	Reference Links
Step 1	Selecting the Use Case. This chapter covers the use cases for provisioning an Service Bus Domain and Service Bus Home. Select the use case that best matches your requirements.	To learn about first time provisioning of an Service Bus Domain, see Use Case 1: First Time Provisioning of a Service Bus Domain. To learn about provisioning from an Service Bus home based provisioning profile, see Use Case 2: Provisioning from a Service Bus Home Based Provisioning Profile. To learn about cloning from an existing Service Bus domain, see Use Case 3: Cloning from a Provisioning Profile based on an Existing Service Bus Domain. To learn about provisioning from an existing Service Bus home, see Use Case 4: Provisioning from an Existing Service Bus Home. To learn about scaling out an Service Bus domain, see Use Case 5: Scaling Up an Existing Service Bus Domain.
Step 2	Meeting Prerequisites to Provision a Middleware Profile Before you run the Fusion Middleware Deployment Procedure, there are a few prerequisites that you must meet.	To learn about the prrequisites for provisioning an Service Bus domain or home, see Before you Begin Provisioning Service Bus Domain and Oracle Home.
Step 3	Running the Fusion Middleware Deployment Procedure Run this deployment procedure to successfully provision a Weblogic Domain and/or an Oracle Home.	To learn about provisioning from an Installation Media Profile or an Oracle Home Profile, see Provisioning of a new Fusion Middleware Domain from an Installation Media Based-Profile or an Oracle Home Based-Profile. To learn about provisioning from a WebLogic Domain Profile, see Provisioning a Fusion Middleware Domain from an Existing Oracle Home. To provision from an existing home, see Cloning from an Existing WebLogic Domain Based-Profile. To scale out from an Service Bus domain, see Scaling Up / Scaling Out Fusion Middleware Domains.

Step

Description

Reference Links

Step 1

Selecting the Use Case.

This chapter covers the use cases for provisioning an Service Bus Domain and Service Bus Home. Select the use case that best matches your requirements.

To learn about first time provisioning of an Service Bus Domain, see Use Case 1: First Time Provisioning of a Service Bus Domain.
To learn about provisioning from an Service Bus home based provisioning profile, see Use Case 2: Provisioning from a Service Bus Home Based Provisioning Profile.
To learn about cloning from an existing Service Bus domain, see Use Case 3: Cloning from a Provisioning Profile based on an Existing Service Bus Domain.
To learn about provisioning from an existing Service Bus home, see Use Case 4: Provisioning from an Existing Service Bus Home.
To learn about scaling out an Service Bus domain, see Use Case 5: Scaling Up an Existing Service Bus Domain.

Step 2

Meeting Prerequisites to Provision a Middleware Profile

Before you run the Fusion Middleware Deployment Procedure, there are a few prerequisites that you must meet.

To learn about the prrequisites for provisioning an Service Bus domain or home, see Before you Begin Provisioning Service Bus Domain and Oracle Home.

Step 3

Running the Fusion Middleware Deployment Procedure

Run this deployment procedure to successfully provision a Weblogic Domain and/or an Oracle Home.

To learn about provisioning from an Installation Media Profile or an Oracle Home Profile, see Provisioning of a new Fusion Middleware Domain from an Installation Media Based-Profile or an Oracle Home Based-Profile.

To learn about provisioning from a WebLogic Domain Profile, see Provisioning a Fusion Middleware Domain from an Existing Oracle Home.

To provision from an existing home, see Cloning from an Existing WebLogic Domain Based-Profile.

To scale out from an Service Bus domain, see Scaling Up / Scaling Out Fusion Middleware Domains.

Supported Versions of Service Bus for Provisioning

The versions listed in the following table support Service Bus provisioning.

Product	Version
Oracle Repository Creation Utility (RCU)	11g
Oracle Service Bus	11g

Before you Begin Provisioning Service Bus Domain and Oracle Home

You must keep the things to keep in mind before you actually start creating middleware profiles and provisioning from these profiles.

In particular, this section contains the following topics:

Create Middleware Roles and Assign Privileges

In a typical data center, the main users of Deployment Procedures are Designers (Lead Administrators) and Operators. Deployment Procedure privileges enable users to perform some design-time activities such as creating the profiles, granting accesses on the profile, creating profile lock-downs, and run-time activities like running the Deployment Procedure to provision software applications.

For Middleware Provisioning, you will need to create Administrators with the following roles:

Role: EM Super Administrator

Table 27-2 lists the roles based on which you can create administrators for Middleware Provisioning.

Table 27-2 Creating Administrators with the Required Roles

Enterprise Manager Role	Description
EM_PROVISIONING_DESIGNER	Role has privileges for provisioning designer
EM_PROVISIONING_OPERATOR	Role has privileges for provisioning operator

For instructions to create administrators with these roles, see Creating Enterprise Manager User Accounts.

Setting Named Credentials and Privileged Credentials for the Middleware Targets

Oracle recommends that you set the Named Credentials for normal operating system user account (Oracle) and Named Credentials for privileged user accounts (root) to perform any of the provisioning tasks in Enterprise Manager Cloud Control.

For instructions to set the Named Credentials, see Setting Up Credentials.

(Applicable only for a Cloning WebLogic Domain Use Case) Cloning a Database

You must have cloned a database from the source domain at the same time that the domain was being cloned. To clone a database, you must have discovered the source database as a managed target in Enterprise Manager, following which you can create a profile out of the source database, and then provision the profile to complete the cloning process.

Use Case 1: First Time Provisioning of a Service Bus Domain

This use case describes how you can perform a first time install of Oracle Fusion Middleware software, and first time provisioning of a WebLogic Domain. This is particularly useful when you do not have an existing domain in your data center, or if you do not wish to clone from a provisioning profile based upon an existing domain. To do so, follow these steps:

Log in with Designer privileges (EM_PROVISIONING_DESIGNER role) to create a Installation Media Profile. To do so, follow the steps mentioned in Creating a Provisioning Profile Based on an Installation Media.
(optional) You may choose to create some lock-downs and save the profile as a template after it passes the prerequisite checks. Doing so can be useful when you have to run the same profile multiple times for provisioning middleware products. The added benefit of saving the profile as a template is that you can grant accesses to Operators so they can run the profiles and carry out the Middleware Provisioning.
Before you provision a middleware profile based on an Installation Media profile, meet the prerequisites mentioned in Prerequisites for Provisioning the Installation Media Profile or the Oracle Home Profile.
Log in with Operator Privileges (EM_PROVISIONING_OPERATOR). Select the template from the Deployment Procedure table, and click Launch.

If you have not created a template out of the profile, you can select your profile from the Profiles table on the Middleware Provisioning page, then click Provision.
For provisioning a Service Bus Domain and Oracle Home from an Installation Media, follow the steps mentioned in Provisioning of a new Fusion Middleware Domain from an Installation Media Based-Profile or an Oracle Home Based-Profile.
If you want to customize the settings in the destination environment, follow the steps mentioned in Customizing the Destination Environment from an Installation Media Based-Profile or an Oracle Home Based-Profile.

Use Case 2: Provisioning from a Service Bus Home Based Provisioning Profile

This use case describes how you can create a Gold Image from an existing Oracle Home (Service Bus) that has perhaps been patched, and provision this using the Oracle Home profile. This is particularly useful when you need to install Oracle Fusion Middleware software with or without a new WebLogic Domain.

Log in with Designer privileges (EM_PROVISIONING_DESIGNER role) to create an Oracle Home (Service Bus) Profile. To do so, follow the steps mentioned in Creating a Provisioning Profile Based on an Oracle Home.
Before you provision a middleware profile based on an Oracle Home, meet the prerequisites mentioned in Prerequisites for Provisioning the Installation Media Profile or the Oracle Home Profile.
Select the profile from the Profiles table on the Middleware Provisioning page, then click Provision.
For creating a clone of an existing domain's Oracle Home (with binaries and patches) but no domain configuration, follow the steps mentioned in Provisioning of a new Fusion Middleware Domain from an Installation Media Based-Profile or an Oracle Home Based-Profile.
If you want to customize the settings in the destination environment, follow the steps mentioned in Customizing the Destination Environment from an Installation Media Based-Profile or an Oracle Home Based-Profile.

Use Case 3: Cloning from a Provisioning Profile based on an Existing Service Bus Domain

This use case describes how you can clone a WebLogic Domain from a provisioning profile based upon an existing WebLogic Domain. This is particularly useful when you need to install Oracle Fusion Middleware software and configure a new WebLogic Domain.

Log in with Designer privileges (EM_PROVISIONING_DESIGNER role) to create a WebLogic Domain Profile. To do so, follow the steps mentioned in Creating a Provisioning Profile Based on a WebLogic Domain.
Before you provision a middleware profile based on an WebLogic Domain profile, meet the prerequisites mentioned in Prerequisites for Provisioning the WebLogic Domain Profile.
Select the profile from the Profiles table on the Middleware Provisioning page, then click Provision.
For provisioning a Service Bus Domain and Oracle Home from a profile, follow the steps mentioned in Cloning from an Existing WebLogic Domain Based-Profile.
If you want to customize the settings in the destination environment, follow the steps mentioned in Customizing the Destination Environment from an Existing WeLogic Domain Based-Profile.

Use Case 4: Provisioning from an Existing Service Bus Home

If you have an Oracle Home that you want to provision as it is (without having to create a profile), then you can do so by select the Oracle Home source target in the Provision Fusion Middleware procedure. For more information, see Provisioning a Fusion Middleware Domain from an Existing Oracle Home.

Use Case 5: Scaling Up an Existing Service Bus Domain

To scale up a Service Bus Domain to include one or more managed servers, run the Scaleup/Scale Out Middleware procedure from the Deployment Procedures table on the Middleware Provisioning page. For more information, see Scaling Up / Scaling Out Fusion Middleware Domains.