Oracle SOA Suite 12c: System Architecture and Administration

Suggested Prerequisite

• Service Oriented Architecture Concepts

Required Prerequisite

• Oracle WebLogic Server 12c: Administration I

Audience

• System Administrator
• Architect
• System Integrator
• Security Administrators
• Administrator
• Systems Architects
• Application Server Administrators
• Network Administrator

Course Topics

1. Introduction to Oracle SOA Suite 12c Administration

• Exploring the road map for creating an Enterprise Deployment architecture
• Overview of Oracle SOA Suite 12c products
• About Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) concepts

2. Planning Oracle SOA Suite 12c Deployments

• Planning an SOA deployment topology based on the Enterprise Deployment architecture reference model
• Planning an architecture for scalability, high availability, and failover
• Preparing the network environment and file system for Oracle SOA Suite 12c
• Choosing an appropriate deployment topology
• Preparing and planning the database strategy

3. Installing Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Creating the Fusion Middle Infrastructure

• Installing Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure software
• Configuring WebLogic Server to use an external LDAP server for authentication and authorization
• Choosing the type domain and installation approach
• Creating the Oracle Database schemas for Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure
• Creating a WebLogic Domain with Oracle Fusion Middleware Infrastructure

4. Installing Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Extending the Domain with Oracle SOA Suite

• Managing web-tier installation and configuration tasks
• Extending the WebLogic domain with Oracle SOA Suite 12c components
• Installing Oracle SOA Suite 12c
• Creating the Oracle Database schemas for Oracle SOA Suite 12c

5. Installing Oracle SOA Suite 12c: Configuring the Load Balancer for Enterprise Deployment

• Create and configure a WebLogic Managed Server as a (software) load balancer
• Explain the load balancer configuration requirements for an Enterprise
• Deployment topology

6. Configuring High Availability for Oracle SOA Suite 12c

• Scaling out an enterprise deployment topology
• Reviewing the high availability architecture
• Configuring JCA Adapter (File, Database, and JMS) Resources for SOA applications
• Configuring high availability for the Administration Server

7. Fundamentals of Oracle SOA Suite

• Explaining how services communicate
• Describing the functionality of each type of Oracle SOA Suite 12c service component
• Describing service-oriented architecture (SOA)

8. Deploying and Testing SOA Composite Applications

• Deploying and Testing Composite applications by using Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Deploying a Composite application using Ant tools and Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Deploying a Composite application by using Ant tools
• Describing a Composite application package and its dependencies
• Tracking Message flow through a Composite Application

9. Managing Composite Applications and Their Life-Cycle

• Creating partitions and deploy Composites to those partitions
• Managing the Composite application life-cycle using configuration plans and global token variables
• Deploying new versions of a Composite application
• Identifying Composite application dependencies

10. Monitoring and Managing Instances, Service Components, and Service Engines

• Managing Faults in the Error Hospital
• Configuring Logging, Audit Levels, and Sensors

11. Managing Business Events

• Managing events using Oracle Enterprise Manager
• Describing Business Events and the Event Delivery Network

12. Configuring and Testing Oracle User Messaging Services

• Introduction to Oracle User Messaging Services
• Configuring Oracle User Messaging Services

13. Troubleshooting and Tuning Performance of Oracle SOA Suite 12c

• Monitoring and tuning Oracle SOA Suite by collecting performance information and using diagnostic tools
• Designing a tuning methodology
• Troubleshooting common problems
• Configuring selective tracing
• Identifying top areas that require tuning

14. Backing Up and Recovery of Oracle SOA Suite Instances

• Recovering Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle SOA Suite
• Adopting a backup and recovery strategy
• Backing up your Oracle Fusion Middleware environment

15. Configuring Security Services and Policies

• Describing Oracle Web Services Manager Policy Framework
• Creating or modifying security policy
• Attaching a security policy to Web services
• Monitoring the performance of Web services
• Describing Web services security

16. Enterprise Scheduler Service (ESS)

• Configuring scheduled jobs and related metadata
• Administering running and completed jobs
• Describing Enterprise Scheduler Service
• Installing Enterprise Scheduler Service