Set Up the Distributed Processing Server

The Distributed Processing (DP) Server is the mechanism Oracle LSH uses to communicate with the external processing engines that run some Oracle LSH jobs.

Install the DP Server on each computer where you have installed an external processing engine (such as SAS) and where you have installed XML Publisher. If you install multiple external processing engines on the same computer, you can install the DP Server once on that computer.

For information about the DP Server, see "Setting Up Services" in the Oracle Life Sciences Data Hub System Administrator's Guide. For information on integrating particular external systems with Oracle LSH, see Integrating Other Systems.

Note:

For Oracle DMW, the DP Server is required for File Watcher, for loading SAS and text data files. SAS files require the SAS processing engine and text files require the SQL*Loader, which is installed with Oracle Database.

Setting up the DP Server includes the following steps. You must do them in the following order:

• Create the Distributed Processing Server User Account
  
• Install the Distributed Processing Server
  
• Secure Distributed Processing Server Files
  
• Set NLS_LANG to UTF8
  
• Copy and Edit Files
  
• Define Service Locations and Services
  
• Start the Distributed Processing Server
  
• Start the Message Queue
  
• Restart and Enable the Job Queue