2 Planning Your Business Operations Center Installation
Learn how to plan your Oracle Communications Billing and Revenue Management (BRM) Business Operations Center installation.
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About Planning Your Business Operations Center Installation
When planning a Business Operations Center installation, consider how many physical servers are required to support the Oracle WebLogic Server domains and Oracle Identity Management (IDM) components needed in your environment. High-availability requirements may increase the number of hosts.
Consider the security and networking requirements necessary for securing Business Operations Center communications with your BRM system in addition to software and hardware requirements.
See "Business Operations Center Requirements" for information about required hardware and software. See "Business Operations Center Security" in BRM Security Guide for information about securing Business Operations Center.
About Test Installations and Production Installations
Install Business Operations Center either as a test or production installation depending on your required environment. Both test and production Business Operations Center installations must connect to a BRM system with Revenue Assurance Manager installed. See BRM Collecting Revenue Assurance Data for more information.
About Test Installations
Use test installations when setting up internal development or testing Business Operations Center instances. Test installations allow users to use Business Operations Center without IDM security. The deployed Business Operations Center application in your test WebLogic server domain connects directly to your BRM system using native WebLogic server user management.
Test installations include the following components:
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WebLogic Server
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WebLogic Server domain to host Business Operations Center with Business Operations Center security disabled
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Deployed Business Operations Center application WAR
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Creation of Business Operations Center schema in the BRM database
This guide includes information on installing test installations. You do not need to perform the IDM preinstallation steps for test installations. See "Installing Business Operations Center for Testing" for more information on test installations.
About Production Installations
Use production installations when setting up secure Business Operations Center instances using IDM security. Production installations require user authentication and authorization for securing access to Business Operations Center. This guide provides general guidelines in installing and configuring IDM components. It does not contain detailed information on configuring IDM components. Consult the respective product documentation using the links provided in this guide for more information on configuring IDM components.
Production installations include the following components:
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Enterprise Database
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Database creation with Oracle Repository Creation Utility (RCU)
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WebLogic Server
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OPSS JRF-enabled WebLogic domain
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Deployed Business Operations Center application WAR on each Oracle Platform Security Services (OPSS) domain
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Creation of the Business Operations Center schema in the BRM database
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(Optional) Oracle Identity Management (IDM) components, including:
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Oracle Access Management (OAM) for single sign-on (SSO) configuration
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Oracle Unified Directory for user directory management
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Oracle Identity Governance for connecting to Oracle Unified Directory and managing users
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Database Planning
Business Operations Center production installations require an Enterprise Database. This database is in addition to your BRM server database used for the Business Operations Center schema and OPSS schema. Database sizing requirements depend on the number of Business Operations Center users in your environment.
See "Installing and Configuring Oracle Enterprise Database" for information on setting up the required database for Business Operations Center.
Authentication and Authorization Planning
When planning a Business Operations Center installation, consider the requirements carefully. Each OPSS domain hosts a deployed instance of Business Operations Center and connects to OPSS for authorization. Determine how many OPSS domains are needed to support the Business Operations Center deployments required by your transaction volume.
You can use the IDM components and Oracle HTTP Server Webgate for user authentication, SSO, and user directory management. See Oracle Fusion Middleware Installation Guide for Oracle Identity and Access Management for more information on sizing and installation.
See Oracle Fusion Middleware Installing and Configuring Oracle Identity and Access Management for more information about sizing your IDM host requirements.
About Installing a Secure System
In production environments, you must ensure that communication between components and that access to the system servers are secure. The Business Operations Center installer prompts you to select security options. After you install Business Operations Center, enable SSL communication between Business Operations Center and BRM. For information about securing Business Operations Center, see "Business Operations Center Security" in BRM Security Guide.