Oracle WebCenter Configuration Considerations

6-36 Oracle Fusion Middleware High Availability Guide Instructions for configuring Oracle RAC as a database provider are in Section 6.4.5, Running Oracle Fusion Middleware Configuration Wizard on APPHOST1 to Create the WebLogic Server WebCenter Domain. For information about multi data source configuration with Oracle RAC and the MDS repository, see Section 4.1.2, Using Multi Data Sources with Oracle RAC.

6.3.1.5 Oracle WebCenter Configuration Considerations

The main configuration files for Oracle WebCenter applications are listed and described in Table 6–3 . Both these files are supplied within the Oracle WebCenter application deployment .EAR file. Oracle WebCenter applications and Portlet Producers both use the Oracle Metadata Services MDS repository to store their configuration data; both access the MDS repository as a JDBC data source within the Oracle WebLogic framework. The MDS repository stores post deployment configuration changes for Oracle WebCenter applications and Portlet Producers as customizations. MDS uses the original deployed versions of adf-config.xml and connection.xml as base documents and stores all subsequent customizations separately into MDS using a single customization layer. When an Oracle WebCenter application starts up, customizations stored in MDS are applied to the appropriate base documents and the Oracle WebCenter application uses the merged documents base documents with customizations as the final set of configuration properties. For Oracle WebCenter applications that are deployed to a server cluster, all members of a cluster read from the same location in the MDS repository. Typically, there is no need for administrators to examine or manually change the content of base documents or MDS customization data for files such as adf-config.xml and connection.xml as Oracle provides several administration tools for post deployment configuration. For details, see the section Oracle WebCenter Administration Tools in the Oracle Fusion Middleware Administrators Guide for Oracle WebCenter. Oracle WebCenter applications store post-deployment configuration information in MDS but configuration information for Portlet Producers and Oracle WebCenter Discussions Server is stored in the file system see Table 6–4 . Table 6–3 Oracle WebCenter Configuration Files Artifact Purpose adf-config.xml Stores basic configuration for Oracle Application Development Framework ADF and Oracle WebCenter application settings, such as which discussions server or mail server the WebCenter application is currently using. connections.xml Stores basic configuration for connections to external services. Note: Oracle does not recommend that you edit adf-config.xml or connection.xml by hand unless specifically instructed to do so as this can lead to misconfiguration. Configuring High Availability for Oracle ADF and WebCenter Applications 6-37 The Oracle WebCenter Discussions Server stores configuration information in its database. Additionally, it stores startup configuration information in DOMAIN_ HOME configfmwconfigserversSERVER_NAMEowc_discussions_ 11.1.1.5.0. This directory contains the jive_startup.xml file, jive.license files, and a \logs directory containing log files for the discussions server instance. Oracle WebCenter Analytics uses WLST commands for the clients. JVM parameters can also be specified and will override the WLST values. If you specified JVM parameters in setDomainEnv.sh in previous releases of Oracle WebCenter, you should remove them if you plan to use Oracle WebCenter Analytics. The Oracle WebCenter Activity Graph engine writes temporary files to disk, which are recreated if they are lost. Oracle WebCenter Personalization Server has JMX beans for its provider connections, which get bootstrapped from provider-connections.xml in the classpath. WLST command scripts support configuration of Oracle WebCenter Personalization provider connections via JMX. These beans can also be managed via Oracle Enterprise Manager or JConsole.

6.3.1.6 Oracle WebCenter Log File Locations