“If you wish to configure SOA Suite for High Availability (Active-Active) deployment, don’t use Oracle SOA Suite Advanced Install Option (J2EE, Web Server and SOA Suite). You have to install it in two phases”

Why is this necessary? I’m just starting a SOA install to have two nodes for BPEL and ESB (and possibly OWSM later) in an active-active configuration, and I got the impression that using the full SOA install option was supported/documented for putting the two nodes in a (new) cluster.

But if there are problems with using the full SOA install for this, I’d be very thankful if you could comment on why this is.

Regards,
Espen

Hi,
Could you please let me know if my SOA cluster Installation is correct or not
1) Installed SOA with J2ee web Services from advanced install option, CLuster topology using multicast IP.
2) Cloned to Node 2
I am not sure if these are clustered or not? How can I verify?

I am using BPEL,ESB web services, if I deploy a BPEL process on node 1 should it deploy it to node 2 as well in Cluster-Wide effect.
Could you please answer my questions.
Thanks,
Shiva

Hi Atul,
I am doing a clean installation of BPEL,ESB and OWSM services (Phase -2 of your steps) on two nodes with OracleAppServer installed (Phase -1 of your steps) in cluster topology (MCAST IP and PORT).
My Question is if I start the installation of BPEL, ESB or OWSM on one node will it push BPEL/ESB/OWSM services to other node automatically as in RAC DB installation????

I am doing the SOA and Service registry cluster for first time.
Could you please help me undertand of what OAS cluster and SOA cluster means.
Thank you,
Shiva

I’m doing this cluster installation now (without OWSM, though), using the OAS 10.1.3 High Availability Guide:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/core.1013/b28941/toc.htm
chapter 5 (SOA) which points to the
the Enterprise Deployment Guide (see chapter 3)
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B31017_01/core.1013/b28939/toc.htm

Also the Ent. Depl. Guide specifies that the Design-time/Repository ESB should be in a separate Oracle home, but it does not say why.

Then I recently saw that the 10.1.3.3 version of the documentation (which is newer, and probably should be used instead)

http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/E10291_01/core.1013/e10294/toc.htm

The 10.1.3.3 Ent. Depl. Guide is much better than the 10.1.3.1 guide; also it does not require the ESB DT to be installed in a separate home, just in a separate OC4J container, which to me makes more sense. It also has a much better step-by-step list a the start of chapter 3 to follow (just leave out those steps that are not relevant to you; I for example don’t need the OWSM steps, so I skip those related to this).

But beware one probable error; in all of the installs, it is only performed on the first of the cluster nodes, and the documentation consequently says that “now the software is installed on both nodes”, when it is only present on the first node. So I suppose this is an error, and have installed on the second node accordingly. (I conferred with an Oracle Norway employee on this, he also believes this to be in error.)

I’m sorry if I’m confusing people here, I just thought you should know this
So study the documentation.

Hi Atul,
Can you detail steps on how to install ESB Repository in Different Oracle Home.??
Could you please help in detailing the procedure or steps.
Thanks,
Shiva

hi,
we’re deploying SOA Suite using enterprise deployment guide 10.1.3.3 in our company. The web-server is in the front-end DMZ and app-server is in the backend DMZ. There is load-balancer configuration even though our environment doesn’t have HA.

From JDeveloper, the application-server & integration-server connection entry tests are failing with errors.. Oracle support didn’t help us much.. below are more details about the issue:

The AJP & OPMN ports are opened between web-server & app-server. Web-server’s opmn
request port is 6006 and app-server’s opmn request port is
6207
From JDeveloper, how should we define the application server connection & integration server connection entries?
We have defined the app-server connection with F5 VIP as the
host & 6207 as the opmn port#, and the connection test is failing.
For integration-server connection, we used the above app-server connection, and 7777 as the http port. and the test fails for
application server connection, but BPEL & ESB test results are successful.
But we are able to successfully deploy the bpel & esb services
from Jdeveloper using the above integration-server connection entry.
Could you tell us the proper values we should use (including F5 setup & firewall ports which need to be opened) so that the
connection tests in JDeveloper work without errors?

thank you

Dear Atul,
We’ve a requirement of SOA suite active/passive HA for Two-node windows.
How we can configure this, i couldnt find any document for active/passive configuration for SOA with ESB.
Please advice.