Installation

Before you start installing Oracle SOA Suite 11g:

Plan your installation topology as appropriate to business requirements

Ensure your platform and environment has sufficient resources

Install and configure an Oracle Database or supported database

Install Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.x

Use Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.2 for an Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.2.0 PS1 installation

Use Oracle WebLogic Server 10.3.3 for an Oracle SOA Suite 11.1.1.3.0 PS2 installation

Supported Software Platforms

•       Supported platforms:

–      Linux

–      Solaris

–      HP-UX

–      Windows 2000, 2003 Server, XP

•       Supported JDKs:

–      Sun JDK (32-bit and 64-bit)

–      JRockit (32-bit and 64-bit)

•       Supported Web browsers:

–      Enterprise Manager requires Firefox 3 or IE 7+

–      BAM requires IE 7

System Requirements

•       Processor:

–      Dual-core, at least one 1.5 GHz CPU is recommended.

–      x86, x64, and SPARC processors are supported.

•       Hard disk drive:

–      A full installation requires approximately 15 GB of disk space.

–      Swap space (Linux) / Page file (Windows) requires 2048 MB.

–      The Linux value for file descriptors must be 4096 or greater.

•       Memory:

–      A minimum of 4 GB RAM is recommended for Oracle SOA Suite 11g with Oracle BAM

–      More is required if adding BPM Suite 11g and SOA Composite applications

Preparing the Installation

Before starting SOA Suite 11g installation, you should have:

•       Installed:

–      A Database

–      A WebLogic Server

•       Created a staging area with product software or have access to the Installation CDs

Checking and Configuring the Database

•       Supported databases include:

–      Oracle Database 10g (10.2.0.4 or later)

–      Oracle Database 11g (11.1.0.7 or later)

•       After starting the Oracle Database, using SQL*Plus:

–      Set the processes parameter to >=300

–      Set the sessions parameter to >= 200

Note: Restart the database for these changes to become active before you install Oracle SOA Suite 11g.

Q. SOA infra is failed. You are getting below error in your server

oracle.mds.lcm.exception.MDSLCMException: MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document

MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"

MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.

ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors

ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"

ORA-06512: at line 1

at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.deploy(DeployManager.java:710)

at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.startDeployment(DeployManager.java:198)

at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.MDSLifecycleListenerImpl.start(MDSLifecycleListenerImpl.java:215)

at oracle.mds.lcm.weblogic.WLLifecycleListener.preStart(WLLifecycleListener.java:77)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$PreStartAction.run(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:282)

at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(AuthenticatedSubject.java:321)

at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:120)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow$LifecycleListenerAction.invoke(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:199)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.BaseLifecycleFlow.preStart(BaseLifecycleFlow.java:62)

at weblogic.application.internal.flow.HeadLifecycleFlow.prepare(HeadLifecycleFlow.java:283)

at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment$1.next(BaseDeployment.java:613)

at weblogic.application.utils.StateMachineDriver.nextState(StateMachineDriver.java:52)

at weblogic.application.internal.BaseDeployment.prepare(BaseDeployment.java:184)

at weblogic.application.internal.EarDeployment.prepare(EarDeployment.java:58)

at weblogic.application.internal.DeploymentStateChecker.prepare(DeploymentStateChecker.java:154)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppContainerInvoker.prepare(AppContainerInvoker.java:60)

at weblogic.deploy.internal.targetserver.AppDeployment.prepare(AppDeployment.java:141)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter$1.doPrepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:39)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentAdapter.prepare(DeploymentAdapter.java:191)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.AppTransition$1.transitionApp(AppTransition.java:21)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.transitionApps(ConfiguredDeployments.java:240)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.prepare(ConfiguredDeployments.java:165)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.ConfiguredDeployments.deploy(ConfiguredDeployments.java:122)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.resume(DeploymentServerService.java:180)

at weblogic.management.deploy.internal.DeploymentServerService.start(DeploymentServerService.java:96)

at weblogic.t3.srvr.SubsystemRequest.run(SubsystemRequest.java:64)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:209)

at weblogic.work.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)

Caused by: oracle.mds.config.MDSConfigurationException: MDS-01330: unable to load MDS configuration document

MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"

MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.

ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors

ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"

ORA-06512: at line 1

at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.loadFromBean(PConfig.java:690)

at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.loadFromBean(PConfig.java:517)

at oracle.mds.config.PConfig.<init>(PConfig.java:341)

at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.MDSLCMManager.getContentConfig(MDSLCMManager.java:2015)

at oracle.mds.internal.lcm.deploy.DeployManager.deploy(DeployManager.java:505)

... 27 more

Caused by: oracle.mds.exception.MDSExceptionList: MDS-01329: unable to load element "persistence-config"

MDS-01370: MetadataStore configuration for metadata-store-usage "soa-infra-store" is invalid.

ORA-04063: package body "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED" has errors

ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called: "DEV_MDS.MDS_INTERNAL_SHREDDED"

ORA-06512: at line 1

Solution:

If you are using Oracle XE as your database, you need to set the RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS environment variable to TRUE prior to running RCU.

GO to command prompt and then to the directory where RCU is extracted.

To do so: Right click on ‘My Computer’->Advanced Tab->Click on ‘Environment Variables’->Under ‘System Variables’ click ‘New’->

Name: RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS, Value: TRUE

set RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS environment variable.

C:\>set RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS=TRUE

C:\>echo %RCU_JDBC_TRIM_BLOCKS% this should return TRUE.

Run RCU again. Drop all the schemas. Note down the password that you gave earlier. Then in a new command window, run above commands and in the same window run RCU and this time create. Make sure to give the same password. The reason is you DO NOT have to make any changes to your Domain DataSources that point to above schemas.

Increase session and processes:

Open CMD Prompt-> type sqlplus give username and password:

SQL> connect sys/password as sysdba;

SQL> show parameter session

SQL> show parameter processes

SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET processes=500 SCOPE=spfile;

SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET open_cursors=500 SCOPE=spfile;

SQL> commit;

SQL> shutdown immediate

SQL> connect sys/password as sysdba;

SQL> startup

SQL> show parameter session

SQL> show parameter processes