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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

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Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook

Overview of this book

Oracle SOA Suite 11g forms the heart of many organisations' Service Oriented Architecture. Yet for such a core component, simple information on how to tune and configure SOA Suite and its infrastructure is hard to find. Because Oracle SOA Suite 11g builds on top of a variety of infrastructure components, up until now there has been no one single complete reference that brings together all the best practices for tuning the whole SOA stack. Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook contains plenty of tips and tricks to help you get the best performance from your SOA Suite infrastructure. From monitoring your environment so you know where bottlenecks are, to tuning the Java Virtual Machine, WebLogic Application Server, and BPEL and BPMN mediator engines, this book will give you the techniques you need in a easy to follow step-by-step guide. Starting with how to identify problems, and building on that with sections on monitoring, testing, and tuning, the recipes in this book will take you through many of the options available for performance tuning your application. There are many considerations to make when trying to get the best performance out of the Oracle SOA Suite platform. This performance Cookbook will teach you the whole process of tuning JVM garbage collection and memory, tuning BPEL and BPMN persistence settings, and tuning the application server. This book focuses on bringing together tips on how to identify the key bottlenecks in the whole SOA Suite infrastructure, and how to alleviate them. The Oracle SOA Suite 11g Performance Tuning Cookbook will ensure that you have the tools and techniques to get the most out of your infrastructure, delivering reliable, fast, and scalable services to your enterprise.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Oracle SOA Suite Performance Tuning Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing Hyperic agents


Hyperic agents need to be installed on each machine that you wish to monitor. The agent will report the metrics back to the Hyperic server. In this recipe, we will learn how to install a Hyperic agent.

Getting ready

You will need to install the Hyperic agent install ZIP file plus the necessary permissions to log in, and install the software on the machine that runs your Oracle SOA Suite application. The Hyperic agent will need to be installed as the same user as Oracle SOA Suite, in order to detect it properly.

How to do it…

We can follow these steps to install our Hyperic agents:

  1. Extract the Hyperic agent ZIP file to the location where you want it to be installed.

  2. Navigate to the bin directory:

    cd bin
  3. Run the install task of the relevant hq-agent script—either hq-agent.sh or hq-agent.bat:

    hq-agent.bat install
  4. Run the start task of the relevant hq-agent script—either hq-agent.sh or hq-agent.bat:

    hq-agent.bat start
  5. The agent will start up, and start prompting for its configuration...