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Leverage your Business with EBS Extensions with Endeca

- Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery

10477

Venkataramana MuthadiManager, Specialized ServicesHitachi Consulting

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Session Agenda

• Hitachi Consulting and our association with Oracle.

• Overview on Endeca concepts.

• Endeca Installation & Configuration

– Basic Install, Multiple Endeca installs

– Disaster Recovery for Endeca

• Endeca Best Practices

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Hitachi Consulting – Oracle ServicesValued Oracle Partner and trusted Oracle Consultant

Endeca Overview

Endeca OverviewOracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery

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Endeca Overview

• Oracle Endeca Server• Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

Integrator• Oracle Endeca Information Discovery Studio

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How does Endeca benefit EBS?

Typical EBS

Not a User Friendly

Limited Search

No Aggregation of data

Business Problems

EBS with Endeca

Hybrid Search

Information Driven

In-Memory Guided Navigation

Modern UI Tag Clouds, Graphs

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Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery

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Oracle E-Business Suite Information DiscoveryEBS Products available in Endeca

Endeca Installation

- Endeca Quick Install- Multiple Installations- DR Setup

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OS Requirements

Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery, Release 12.2 V6 (12.2.5.6)• Oracle Linux 5/6 64-bit.• EID Components: Server 7.5.1, Studio 3.0 &

Integrator 3.3.0.35.• WebLogic Server 10.3.6.• Oracle XE Database.• Ports – 7001/2/4/5/6, 7011-8011.• Minimum of 32GB RAM & 12 CPU’s.• Sufficient Disk space to hold temporary files

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Endeca Install

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QuickInstall Package

• Automated utility to install all the components with minimal changes.

• envSetup.sh – Database Setup– Install WebLogic Server, Endeca Server– Create Endeca Domain– Create Integrator Domain– Initialize Studio Portal– Integrate Endeca with EBS

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Endeca Installation

• Run step 1 to 5 to complete Database, WLS, Endeca & Clover installations.

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Post Install Setups

• Create EBS Data source for Clover & Studio.

• Create Data Domain profile.

• Patch EBS Artifacts to Endeca:

– Run createPayload.sh on EBS.

– Copy payload.zip to Endeca Server.

– Run patchEID.sh on Endeca.

• Bounce Endeca Services.

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Integrate Endeca with E-Business Suite

• Integrate Endeca with E-Business Suite

• Copy endeca.conf to E-Business Suite Server.

• s_endeca_conf_comment in context file.

• Run Autoconfig.

• FND_ENDECA_PORTAL_URL Profile

• Perform Product specific setup on EBS

– RBAC & Grants, etc.,

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Multiple Endeca Applications

Current Limitations:• Quick Install with prepackaged setup

• All Ports are predefined and no provision of port modifications.

• XE Database

– Single Database, No advanced features DR,RMAN

– Limted SGA,Size,etc.,

• Separate Endeca Server for each Non-Prod EBS.

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Multiple Endeca Applications

• Use SE/EE Database.• Perform Endeca Database Setup on new database.• Install Endeca Software on default ports.• Modify ports for the below Admin Server & Managed

Servers:– Endeca Domain Admin Server

– Endeca Managed Server

– Studio Managed Server

– Integrator Domain Admin Server

– Clover Managed Server Contd..

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Post Install configuration

• Ports in quickInstall WebLogic Scripts.

• Modify ports

– json files (connection between Studio & Server)

– Datadomain backup & restore scripts.

– Workspace files (workspace.prm).

– Administration scripts

• Update the cluster ports for Endeca clustered

configuration.

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Additional Considerations

Nothing is perfect!

• Automate post steps for multiple installations using Shell scripting.

• Impact on ports getting overwritten as part of Endeca application patching.

• Perform port modifications as post step after patching.

• Update temporary directory location to prevent permissions of files/directories between two endeca instances.

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Endeca Disaster Recovery Setup

Endeca Best Practices

- AppsDataSource Configuration- Best Practices

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AppsDataSource & JAAS - Endeca

• Prevent exposure of Apps Password.

• Minimal impact of Apps password change.

• Enhanced control on access to EBS Database.

• Isolating custom applications from having apps schema access.

Leverage AppsDataSource option with Endeca application.

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AppsDataSource Setup

• Register Endeca server node in EBS.

• Copy the DBC file to Endeca Server.

• Create FND_USER in E-Business Suite.

• Assign UMX|APPS_SCHEMA_CONNECT to EBS User

• Update data source connection details in WebLogic Console for both domains

– Endeca Domain

– Integrator Domain

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Endeca Best Practices

• Increase Dgraph cache size & thread count for better

performance.

– Start with 2GB cache size.

– Ensure to have 50% RAM available for Filesystem

Caching.

• Optimize Memory & Disk sizing by performing full

loads on test environments.

• Schedule regular backups of Endeca Data Domains.

• Perform backups of sandboxes before applying

Endeca patch.

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Endeca Best Practices

• Use E-Business Suite Database for Endeca Studio

& Integrator Database Setup

• Use UMX_ENDECA_RBACAuto.sh script for

assigning Endeca role.

• Schedule purging of load executions & log files.

• Ensure to retain file modes(Dos, Unix) as they were

developed during migrations.

• Configure alerts for incremental & full load failures

from integrator.

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Endeca File System Layout

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Server & Application logs

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Sample Payables Dashboard

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Reference Materials

• Installing Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery,

Release 12.2 V6 (ID 1970071.1)

• Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery Clustering

Guide, Release 12.2 V6(ID 2021220.1)

• Oracle E-Business Suite Information Discovery Globalization

Guide, Release 12.2 V6(ID 1970072.1)

• DMZ and SSL Configuration Guide for Oracle E-Business Suite

Information Discovery, Release 12.2 V6 (Doc ID 2038186.1)

• Oracle

E-Business Suite Information Discovery Integration and System Administration

Guide

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Speaker: Venkataramana MuthadiContact: vmuthadi@hitachiconsulting.comSession ID: 10477