1 Setting Up Services

The Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub (Oracle LSH) system administrator role is required to define services and service locations.

This chapter describes how to set up the distributed processing server and define service locations and services. It contains the following topics:

• About Services
  Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub includes adapters that allow users to define and run objects in external systems for manipulating and reporting Oracle LSH data.
• About the Distributed Processing Server
  Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub uses its Distributed Processing Server (DP Server) to pass jobs to processing engines of different technologies to execute user-defined Programs, Load Sets, and Data Marts. The DP Server also passes jobs to XML Publisher to produce predefined reports and to handle Report Set post-processing.
• Setting Up the Distributed Processing Server
  You must install the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub Distributed Processing (DP) Server on each computer where you installed an external processing engine and also on the computer where you have installed XML Publisher.
• Defining Service Locations
  A service location is a computer where one or more external processing engines or IDEs used by are installed. You must register each service location by defining it.
• Defining Services
  This section includes the topics on service types, priorities, and instances.