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Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management

By : Alexander Hansal
Book Image

Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management

By: Alexander Hansal

Overview of this book

Oracle’s Siebel CRM is market-leading Customer Relationship Management software. Unmatched in functionality and scalability, Siebel enhances a company’s sales performance, improves customer satisfaction, and provides a robust Customer Relationship Management system for an organization.This practical book offers a comprehensive understanding of Siebel CRM. It is your safe vessel for navigating the deep waters of Siebel installation and system management.This book is a complete exercise in installing and managing Oracle’s Siebel CRM for your organization. You will understand the Siebel architecture and install it piece by piece. In easy-to-follow chapters, the book will guide you through the installation of Siebel server, client and third-party reporting software on Microsoft Windows and Linux, covering everything from the planning the process and software download to the installation and configuration tasks.After reading this book, you will feel fully prepared for setting up multiple servers and multi-lingual configurations. This book fosters your general understanding of the intricate features and functionality of Oracle Siebel CRM. In addition, you will learn how to support development environments and how to migrate configuration changes between environments using Application Deployment Manager.Another benefit of this book is that it teaches administrators how to establish system monitoring strategies to identify and avoid performance bottlenecks. When you have finished the book, you will feel prepared to install and manage Oracle’s Siebel CRM in a real-world environment. In addition, you will know some tricks that even seasoned experts will envy.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Oracle Siebel CRM 8 Installation and Management
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introducing the Siebel Web Architecture
Index

Creating the service owner account


Because the Siebel Gateway Name Server and Siebel Server are implemented as services (on Microsoft Windows-based operating systems) or daemon processes (on UNIX-based operating systems), the processes must run on behalf of an account with certain administrative rights.

On Microsoft Windows-based operating systems, we must ensure that a system user account with the following characteristics is provisioned on each machine that will host the Siebel services and the Siebel File System before the Siebel installation process is started:

  • The service owner account must either be part of a Windows domain or identical local accounts will have to be created locally

  • Usernames and passwords must not contain any spaces

  • The password policy must not be set to "User must change password at next logon" (uncheck this value) and must be set to "Password never expires" (check this value)

  • The service owner account must be a member of the Administrators group.

  • The service owner account...