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Silent Installation of Weblogic and Webcenter portal

Requirment – Silent Installation of Weblogic and Webcenter portal

Implementation-

Silent-Mode Installation – Silent-mode installation is a way of setting installation configurations only once and then using those configurations to duplicate the installation on many machines. During installation in silent mode, the installation program reads the settings for your configuration from an XML file that you create prior to beginning the installation. The installation program does not display any configuration options during the installation process. Silent-mode installation works on both Windows and UNIX systems.
With previous releases of WebLogic Platform, you have the option of running the Configuration Wizard as part of the silent installation process. In WebLogic Platform 8.1, the Configuration Wizard cannot be run, automatically, with the WebLogic Platform installation program; it must be run separately. However, you can create a simple shell script or command file that sequentially runs silent mode installation and silent mode configuration. For more information about running the Configuration Wizard in silent mode, see Creating WebLogic Configurations Using the Configuration Wizard at http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E13196_01/platform/docs81/confgwiz/index.html.

-> Install the Weblogic

-> Download the WebLogic Installer … and put it in some directory
-> Create a silent.xml file that defines the configuration settings normally entered by a user during an interactive installation process, such as graphical-mode or console-mode installation. Here is the silent-wls10.3.6.xml file, see below

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <bea-installer> 
     <input-fields>
       <data-value name="BEAHOME" value="\Oracle\Middleware_Home" />
       <data-value name="WLS_INSTALL_DIR" value="\Oracle\Middleware_Home\wlserver_10.3" />
       <data-value name="COMPONENT_PATHS"
        value="WebLogic Server/Core Application Server|WebLogic Server
/Administration Console|WebLogic Server/Configuration Wizard and Upgrade 
Framework|WebLogic Server/Web 2.0 HTTP Pub-Sub Server|WebLogic Server/WebLogic 
JDBC Drivers|WebLogic Server/Third Party JDBC Drivers|WebLogic Server
/WebLogic Server Clients|WebLogic Server/WebLogic Web Server Plugins
|WebLogic Server/UDDI and Xquery Support|WebLogic Server/Server Examples|Oracle Coherence/Coherence Product Files" />
       <data-value name="INSTALL_NODE_MANAGER_SERVICE" value="yes" />
       <data-value name="NODEMGR_PORT" value="5556" />
       <data-value name="INSTALL_SHORTCUT_IN_ALL_USERS_FOLDER" value="yes"/>
   </input-fields> 
</bea-installer>

-> For Jar Installers:
Open a command prompt and start the installation by executing the below command.

java -jar wls1036_generic.jar -mode=silent -silent_xml=/path//silent.xml -log=/opt/softwares/Installation_silent.log

It opens up a new windows showing the installation progress.Check the install progress window and a successful install would display message like below

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-> Install the Webcenter Portal

->  cd /u01/software/ofm_wc_generic_11.1.1.8.0_disk1_1of1/Disk1
->  ./runInstaller -silent -responseFile /u01/software/scripts/custom_installtype_wcp11.1.1.8.rsp -jreLoc /u01/app/oracle/product/java_current/jre

Here is the custom_installtype_wcp11.1.1.8.rsp file.You need an response file to provide parameter while installation.

[ENGINE]

#DO NOT CHANGE THIS.
Response File Version=1.0.0.0.0

[GENERIC]

#Set this to true if you wish to specify a directory where latest updates are downloaded. This option would use the software updates from the specified directory
SPECIFY_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION=false

#
SKIP_SOFTWARE_UPDATES=true

#If the Software updates are already downloaded and available on your local system, then specify the path to the directory where these patches are available and set SPECIFY_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION to true
SOFTWARE_UPDATES_DOWNLOAD_LOCATION=

#Provide the Oracle Home location. The location has to be the immediate child under the specified Middleware Home location. The Oracle Home directory name may only contain alphanumeric , hyphen (-) , dot (.) and underscore (_) characters, and it must begin with an alphanumeric character. The total length has to be less than or equal to 128 characters. The location has to be an empty directory or a valid WebCenter Oracle Home.
ORACLE_HOME=/home/middleware/Oracle_WC1

#Provide existing Middleware Home location.

MIDDLEWARE_HOME=/home/middleware
#Application Server choices are WLS, WAS

APPSERVER_TYPE=WLS

[SYSTEM]
[APPLICATIONS]
[RELATIONSHIPS]

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-> Create database schemas via the RCU

Creating schema using silent instillation you provide password in txt file.Below command will create different schema.

	
 cd ofm_rcu_linux_11.1.1.8.0_disk1_1of1/rcuHome/bin
 ./rcu -silent -createRepository -databaseType ORACLE -dbUser sys
 -connectString localhost:1521:orcl  -dbRole SYSDBA
 -useSamePasswordForAllSchemaUsers -schemaPrefix DEV
 -component PORTLET -tablespace WP_REPO -tempTablespace TEMP
 -component MDS -tablespace WP_REPO -tempTablespace TEMP
 -component WEBCENTER -tablespace WP_REPO -tempTablespace TEMP
 -component ACTIVITES -tablespace WP_REPO -tempTablespace TEMP
 -f < passwordfile.txt

This will create 3 schema’s: DEV_PORTLET, DEV_MDS, DEV_WEBCENTER,DEV_ACTIVITES.
The passwordfile.txt file would contain, in order:

database_password
component1_schema_password
component2_schema_password

Happy weblogic/Webcenter installation with Vinay Kumar in techartifact

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Do your Webcenter portal 11.1.1.8 performance analysis

Performance Analysis of a Portal application or any application look tedious and tricky task .Reason portal application consist of various other task flow from different resources.Talking for webcenter portal 11.1.1.8 portal application have awesome feature of performance analysis called Portal Page Performance Analyzer. With WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 however, this process becomes extremely simple and efficient.

The portal page analyzer offers a simple way to diagnose slow pages and requires minimal set up or configuration. When this feature is on, the time spent on “high level” page components is calculated and displayed so you can see at a glance which components are slowing down your page. The overall time spent on the page also displays at the top left of the page

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In WebCenter Portal, “high level” page components are wrapped in a ShowDetailFrame so they can be moved, hidden or shown on the page, and edited by Oracle Composer and it is the overall timing for each ShowDetailFrame that displays.Since ShowDetailFrames enclose task flow regions on a page, this feature lets you instrument WebCenter pages on the basis of individual task flows. When enabled, you can visually analyze the performance of every single task flow on the page like this.

This feature is default by default.User have to turn on this feature.

How to enable/turn on this feature – -You can do by MDS customization.you need to update the metadata in webcenter-config.xml using WLST command of exportMetaData/importMetadata.

Steps

-> exportMetadata(application=’webcenter’, server=’WC_Spaces’, toLocation=’/tmp/mydata’, docs=’/oracle/webcenter/webcenterapp/metadata/webcenter-config.xml’)

-> Open webcenter-config.xml exported from MDS in a text editor and set the perfdebug-enabled attribute to true to enable or false to disable this feature.

For example:

<webcenter:perfdebug-enabled>true</webcenter:perfdebug-enabled>

-> Save and close webcenter-config.xml.

-> Import the updated webcenter-config.xml file to MDS.

-> importMetadata(application=’webcenter’, server=’WC_Spaces’, fromLocation=’/tmp/mydata’, docs=’/oracle/webcenter/webcenterapp/metadata/webcenter-config.xml’)

See how to run/excute exportMetaData/importMetadata command or update metadata in webcenter-config.xml

After this- any page in WebCenter Portal 11.1.1.8 can be tested. To test a page, simply append ‘perfDebug=on’ to the end of the URL to the page.

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Now you can get information, which task flow, or slow page which create problem.Enter the task flow and page and kill the problem . 😛

Note – The one condition for this method to work, in the Task Flow binding properties, the Task Flow activation should be set to deferred (which is the default in 11.1.1.8).

Hiding Page Timing Information for Your Current Session– set &perfDebug=off in end of url.

Stop displaying page performance information – &perfDebug=off

Happy performance analysis with Vinay Kumar in techartifact….