Billing Care Installation Overview

About Installing Billing Care

Billing Care installation should be performed only by experienced system administrators. You must be familiar with the following before you begin the installation:

Linux operating system
Oracle WebLogic Server
Oracle Enterprise Database
(Optional) Oracle Identity Management (IDM) components, including:
- Oracle Access Management (OAM)
- Oracle Identity Governance
- Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)

Additionally, you should have experience installing Java-related packages.

The Billing Care installer does one of the following, depending on which one you choose during the installation process:

Deploys Billing Care to a WebLogic server domain and installs the Billing Care SDK.
Installs the Billing Care REST API.

Overview of the Billing Care Installation Steps

The following is an overview of the Billing Care installation steps:

Plan your installation. Planning your installation involves:
- Determining the scale of your implementation (for example, whether you are installing a small test system or a large production system).
  
  Note:
  
  You can install a test or development installation for using Billing Care without Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) security. Do not use these installations in production environments. See "About Test Installations and Production Installations" for more information.
- Assessing how many physical computers you need and which software components to install on which computers.
- Planning the system topology.
Review system requirements. System requirements include:
- Hardware requirements, such as disk space and physical RAM.
- Software requirements, such as operating system (OS) versions and OS patch requirements, OS kernel tuning requirements, required Oracle software, including:
  - Enterprise Database
  - WebLogic Server
  - (Optional) IDM components, such as:
    - Oracle Access Management (OAM)
    - Oracle Identity Governance
    - Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)
  - Java Development Kit (JDK)
  See "Billing Care System Requirements" for required versions.
- Information requirements, such as IP addresses, administrative user credentials, host names, and port numbers.
Prepare your foundation by completing the preinstallation tasks.

See "Billing Care Preinstallation Tasks" for more information.
Use the Oracle Universal Installer (OUI) to either install Billing Care and the Billing Care SDK or install the Billing Care REST API.

See "Installing Billing Care" for more information.
Perform the required postinstallation configuration tasks.

See "Billing Care Postinstallation Tasks" for more information.
Verify the installation.

See "Verifying the Billing Care Installation" for more information.

Ensuring a Successful Billing Care Installation

Billing Care uses additional Oracle software products including Enterprise Database, WebLogic Server, and IDM (optional). Familiarize yourself with these products and their installation procedures before installing Billing Care.

Note:

IDM has important preinstallation requirements including kernel tuning, operating system configuration files editing (for example, editing limits.conf), and tuning database parameters. If you are using IDM components, ensure that these requirements have been met when completing the preinstallation tasks before running the Billing Care installer so that your installation is successful. See Oracle Fusion Middleware System Requirements and Specifications for Oracle Identity and Access Management for detailed information.

Consult additional product documentation on the Oracle Help Center for required information at: https://docs.oracle.com.

To ensure that the Billing Care installation is successful, follow these guidelines:

As you install each component (for example, the Enterprise Database and WebLogic Server), verify that the component installed successfully before continuing the installation process.
Pay close attention to the system requirements. Before you begin installing the application, ensure that your system has the required base software and meets the minimum technical requirements. In addition, ensure that you know all the required configuration values, such as host names and port numbers.
Make a note of any new configuration values as you create them. You will be required to enter configuration values later in the procedure.