This preface introduces the new and changed features of Oracle Service Bus and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provides pointers to additional information. This document is the new edition of the formerly titled Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrator's Guide for Oracle Service Bus.
For a list of known issues (release notes), see the "Known Issues for Oracle SOA Products and Oracle AIA Foundation Pack" at http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/docs/soa-aiafp-knownissuesindex-364630.html.
For this release, both the developer's guide and the administrator's guide were changed significantly. This guide, Administering Oracle Service Bus, was rewritten and only includes tasks you can perform from Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control and the administrative tasks available on the Oracle Service Bus Console. All of the development information that was previously in both guides was combined, streamlined, and moved into Developing Services with Oracle Service Bus.
For Oracle SOA Suite 12c (12.1.3), this guide has been updated to include the following new and changed administration features:
The monitoring and runtime management features that were previously in the Oracle Service Bus Administration Console are now provided in Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control. The new pages are described throughout this book. See Getting Started with Oracle Service Bus Administration.
Support for monitoring the overall health of your Service Bus system on the Dashboard. See Service Bus Domain-Level Monitoring Pages. You can also monitor projects or single services on their own Dashboard. See Viewing Service Health Statistics for a Project and Viewing All Service Health Statistics for a Service.
Support for service-level agreement (SLA) alerts on business and proxy services, pipelines, and split-joins. See Creating Service Level Agreement Alert Rules.
Support for monitoring and filtering any generated SLA and pipeline alerts. See Monitoring SLA and Pipeline Alerts.
Support for searching for services to monitor their health statistics over the most recent aggregation interval or since the last time the statistics were reset. See Monitoring Service Health Statistics.
Administrative support for the resequencer, including monitoring resequencing messages, handling any issues that occur with resequencing groups, and managing database tables. See Monitoring Resequencing Groups and Managing Resequencer Tables.
Support for configuring operational settings for multiple services or just one service. See Enabling and Disabling Operational Settings for Multiple Services and Enabling and Disabling Operational Settings for a Single Service.
Support for setting operational settings at the global level. See Configuring Operational Settings at the Global Level.
Support for configuring access permissions and security using the new security features of Fusion Middleware Control. See Configuring Oracle Service Bus Administrative Security. In addition, this release includes new security roles. See Role-Based Access in Oracle Service Bus.
Support for configuring and viewing diagnostic loggers using Fusion Middleware Control. See Configuring Diagnostic Logging for Oracle Service Bus and Viewing Diagnostic Log Files for Oracle Service Bus.
New Oracle Diagnostic Logging (ODL) loggers, including debug loggers. See Oracle Service Bus Loggers.
Support for DMS sensors for diagnosability. See Using the Diagnostic Frameworks to Diagnose Problems.
Support for importing and exporting Service Bus configurations through Fusion Middleware Control. See Importing and Exporting Oracle Service Bus Resources.
Support for configuring and viewing message reports. See Configuring Reporting for Messages and Alerts.
Support for configuring Advanced Queueing (AQ) for the JMS reporting provider. See Using Oracle Advanced Queueing JMS.
Support for scripting operational settings using a configuration file, which can be imported and exported. See Using Configuration Files to Update Environment Values and Operational Settings.
Support for associating multiple business services with one throttling group, instead of configuring throttling for one service at a time. See Configuring Throttling for a Group of Business Services.
Support for monitoring and managing business service endpoints, including bringing them online and offline. See Monitoring and Managing Endpoint URIs for Business Services.
Support for globally attaching Oracle Web Services Manager (OWSM) security policies. See Configuring Global Policies.
Support for managing OWSM policies by detaching, attaching, and overriding security policies. See Managing Security Policies.
Support for monitoring the OWSM policies attached to a service, including usage, policy violations, and metrics. See Monitoring Security Policies.