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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

Using command line tools for Siebel server management


In the previous section of this chapter, we learned how to use the Siebel Web Client's views—the graphical user interface (GUI)—to perform various tasks related to configuring, managing, and monitoring servers and components within a Siebel enterprise.

Using the GUI has several benefits, such as the easier lookup and visualization of data. However, many administrators prefer to interact with the Siebel servers on a command line basis. Using commands at the command line is typically faster than using a graphical user interface. Furthermore, commands can be placed in script files, allowing administrators to accomplish complex tasks with a single keystroke.

Next, we will inspect the Siebel Server Manager command line utility and its commands. After this section, we will be able to accomplish the same tasks as have been described for the graphical user interface via the command line. These tasks are:

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