How to use Oracle Grid OEM to deploy J2EE applications

By: Charles Li

Date: 5/2/2005

Updated: 10/12/2005

Objects of OEM Grid Deployment

• To provide a central location for J2EE deployment.• To provide means for audit trail for J2EE

deployments. • To provide a graphical user interface for user

deployments.• To provide a means for user email list maintenance.

Prerequisites for deployment• Pre-production deployment approval criteria must be met.

– Please see “http://epic52.dep.state.fl.us/operations/J2EE-Pre-Prod.html” for approval criteria.

• Each application will have its own deployment account for use by the project lead.

• Once the application has been promoted to production, the pre-production container will be disabled.

• The application context-root must be in the form of GrpProj, i.e.: ImsMes (UAT) or ImsMesTest (LoadTest).

• The Ear file should have the following format: grp-proj-x.x.x.ear, where x.x.x is the version number of the application.

Deployment administrators account maintenance

Login to Grid OEM• Use URL: http://epic227.dep.state.fl.us:7777/em to login to Grid OEM. • The UserName and password will be sent once the application is ready

for re-deployment.

Grid OEM home page• After login to Grid OEM, you will see the Grid

OEM home page.

Click on the “Preference” link at the top right corner of the screen.

You are now in the Preferences -> General screen: here you can change the password.As am example, shown here is the ImsMes

application account.

It is also possible to add the email addresses of developers and others that want to receive

deployment notice emails.

Steps for deployment

Click on the Jobs tab.

Click on the Library sub-tab under the Jobs tab.

Click on the Owner drop down list and select All, then click Go.

Select the job name by clicking on the radio button and click on Submit.

The job name is pre-filled with a timestamp, click “Yes” to confirm job submission.

After the job has been submitted, the confirmation screen will display.

To see jobs that are running, click on the “Activity” sub-tab. If you do not your job in the list, select All for Owner, Status and Scheduled

Start, then click Go.

The job you submitted should appear on the list, with status reported as “running”.

Once the job has run, click on the name of the job to see details of the run.

The details of the job are displayed, click on the status of the job.

Click on the link “command step”.

The output of the job is displayed. The output is also emailed to the email addresses entered in the

“Preferences --> General” section.