As we learned in previous chapters, a Siebel enterprise is a collection of Siebel servers that share the following characteristics:
Their configurations are stored by the same Siebel Gateway Name Server
They connect to the same Siebel database and file system
In order to better understand the relationships between the Siebel Servers in an enterprise, their components and parameters, it is best to examine the Enterprise Explorer view in the Administration - Server Configuration screen in the Siebel Web Client.
We can access that view by logging on to the Siebel Web Client using an administrative user account. Then, we navigate to the Site Map, select the Administration - Server Configuration screen and click the hyperlink for the Enterprise Explorer view. The following screenshot shows the partially expanded Siebel Enterprise Explorer tree applet in that view:
We can observe that a Siebel enterprise consists of the following:
Servers
Component groups...