Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.8 Architecture & Installation on Linux x86-64

Since most of the customers have implemented Oracle Fusion and demand for Fusion DBA’s are growing, lets have a look at what Oracle Fusion is, what does the architecture look like and how to install and manage it.

Note : Fusion application is very new, our study and understanding about this product will increase as we learn and practice. This document is solely based on my understanding and can vary from other DBA’s or organization.

I have followed Oracle documentation library to read and understand about Oracle Fusion.Also have explored other blogs who have successfully completed this setup.

Using the latest technology and incorporating the best practices gathered from Oracle’s customers, Oracle Fusion Applications is a suite of 100% open standards-based business applications that provide a new standard for the way businesses innovate, work, and adopt technology.

Oracle Fusion Applications is built on Oracle Fusion Middleware, providing an established, powerful framework the offers complete support for development, deployment, and management. Oracle Fusion Middleware enables embedding business intelligence, activity monitoring, and managed content and provides the framework for providing a collaborative, multi-channel user interface.

Oracle Fusion Applications is standards-based, making it highly adaptable. This standards-based technology enables you to respond effectively to change with flexible, modular, user-driven business software that is powered by best-in-class business capabilities built on open standards.

• Oracle WebCenter Portal provides design-time and runtime tools for building enterprise portals, transactional websites, and social networking sites.
• Oracle Business Intelligence provides a full range of business intelligence capabilities that enable you to analyze, present, report, and deliver organizational data.
• Oracle WebCenter Content enables you to leverage document management, Web content management, digital asset management; and records retention functionality to build and complement your business applications.
• Oracle SOA Suite provides a complete set of service infrastructure components for designing, deploying, and managing SOA composite applications. Oracle SOA Suite enables services to be created, managed, and orchestrated into SOA composite applications.
• Oracle WebLogic Server is a scalable, enterprise-ready application server based on Java Enterprise Edition (Java EE).
• Oracle JDeveloper is an integrated development environment with end-to-end support for modeling, developing, debugging, optimizing, and deploying Java applications and web services.
• Oracle Enterprise Manager offers business-driven applications management, integrated application to disk management, integrated systems management, and support experience.
• Oracle Identity Management enables organizations to manage the end-to-end lifecycle of user identities and to secure access to enterprise resources and assets.

Oracle Fusion Applications is a deployment of application product offerings built on Oracle Fusion Middleware technology stack components and connected to Oracle Database. A successful installation draws on a combination of the application and the middleware components, the database, as well as the installers, scripts, and utilities required to set up and configure them.

Preparing for an Installation

To provision a new Oracle Fusion Applications environment, you must ensure that your system meets certain requirements and that you perform the necessary prerequisite tasks in preparation for an installation of Oracle Fusion Applications

Review the following prerequisites:

• System Requirements

We will be installing Fusion on a 2 node system. One for IDM application with idm database having 500 GB Hard disk and minimum 32 GB RAM + Fusion application and  database having 128 GB RAM and 1 TB Hard disk.

If you are downloading Oracle Fusion Applications 11g Media Pack for the following platforms, then use the following versions of the 64-bit UnZip utility to extract the Oracle software. UnZip is freeware that is available at:

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• IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-bit) – Info-ZIP unzip version 6.10
• Oracle Solaris on SPARC (64-bit) – Info-ZIP unzip version 6.0
• Oracle Solaris on x86-64 (64-bit) – Info-ZIP unzip version 6.0

If you are downloading Oracle Fusion Applications 11g Media Pack for the Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit) platform, then use 7zip v9.20 to extract the Oracle software.

• Supported Platforms

Oracle Fusion Applications is supported on the following platforms:

1. Linux x86-64
2. Oracle Solaris
3. IBM AIX on POWER Systems (64-Bit)
4. Microsoft Windows x64 (64-Bit)

• Installing Oracle Database

Oracle Fusion Applications supports only Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 for storing transactional data. You can install either a single-instance Oracle Enterprise Edition Database or Oracle Real Application Clusters.

DB Name 1 : OFADB – Oracle Fusion Applications
DB Nam 2 : IDMDB – Oracle Identity Management

• Installing Oracle Identity Management Components

You must install Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Fusion Applications on different hosts. Installing Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Fusion Applications on the same host is not a supported topology.

You should not share the same database instance for Oracle Identity Management and Oracle Fusion Applications. Oracle Fusion Applications should have a separate database instance.

These components must be installed and configured specifically for use with Oracle Fusion Applications.

One instance of Oracle Database 11.2.0.3 where the Identity Store and the Policy Store are in the same OID in a dedicated setup.

Oracle Internet Directory 11g (OID)

Oracle Virtual Directory 11g (OVD)

Oracle Identity Manager 11g (OIM)

Oracle Access Manager 11g (OAM)

Download Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.8 software from http://edelivery.oracle.com

High level steps to install Oracle Fusion

Setting up Identity and Access Management Node

1.     Install Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework
2.     Install Oracle 11g Database (IAM)
3.     Repository creation utility for IAM
4.     Install Identity Management Provisioning Wizard
5.     Create IAM provisioning Response File
6.     Provision Identity Management
7.     Perform Post-Provisioning Configuration

Setting up Fusion Applications Node

1.  Install Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework
2.  Install Oracle 11g Database (Fusion Apps Database)
3.  Run Oracle Fusion Applications Repository Creation Utility (Applications RCU)
4.  Create new Applications Provisioning Response File
5.  Provision an Applications Environment

• Creating Oracle Fusion Applications provisioning repository / Staging directory

When planning the Oracle Identity Management deployment, ensure that the Software Installation Location directory path is 45 characters or fewer in length. You specify this directory on the Installation and Configuration page when you create the provisioning profile

• Preparing the Oracle Identity Management Server

IDM Host : 136.243.14.212
Operating System : Linux x86-64 6.6
Hostname : fusionidm.ods.com
RAM : 64 GB
HDD : 1 TB
Configure Kernel Parameters

Set Shell Limits
Login as root and edit the /etc/security/limits.conf file

Unzip the software

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