OFSAAI – Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application Infrastructure : Installation Steps

This post covers OFSAAI (Oracle Financial Services Analytical Application Infrastructure) installation on WebLogic (as application server). For installation overview check my previous post here

  • Download  OFSAAI Software from eDelivery under product pack “Oracle Financial Services Products” -> “Oracle Financial Services Analytical Applications Infrastructure 7.2.3 for <O.S.>”

  • Installation Guide is under software
  • Licence Key required during OFSAA installation is available under software

. OFSAA Installation Steps

  1. Install Oracle Database
  2. Create database user to store OFSAA configuration SQL> create user configuser identified by welcome1;
  3. Grant privileges to user created in previous step by running privileges_config_user.sql SQL>@privileges_config_user.sql SQL>grant unlimited tablespace to configuser;
  4. Install JDK 1.6.0_17
  5. Install WebLogic Server 10.3.1 (If you are installing weblogic with 64 bit JDK then follow steps mentioned here )
  6. Create weblogic domain by running config.sh (For steps on how to create domain in weblogic click here )
  7. Create JDBC in domain with JNDI as jndi/FICMASTER (For steps on how to create/configure JDBC in WebLogic click here
  8. Fill value in file OFSAAI_InstallConfig.xml file (Use configuration guide embedded under installation guide for parameter and value )
  9. Create .profile in user $HOME with entry like export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH export ORACLE_HOME=[path_of_oracle_home]
  1. Execute $HOME/.profile to set variables
  2. Install OFSAA by running Setup.sh GUI (This script will use OFSAAI_InstallConfig.xml as parameter file). If you hit error regarding elif then add below entry at top of file #!/bin/bash
  3. Create EAR & WAR file by running $OFSAA_HOME/ficweb/ant.sh set ANT_HOME to $OFSAA_HOME/ficweb/apache-ant-1.7.1
  4. Start OFSAAI Server by running $OFSAA_HOME/ficapp/ common/FICServer /bin/ reveleusstartup.sh (when prompted for system password, enter configuser schema password)
  5. Deploy EAR/WAR file created in previous step on WebLogic Server (For steps on how to deploy application is weblogic server click here )
  6. Copy libcpptripledes.so from $FIC_WEB_HOME/bin to $WL_HOME/wlserver_10.3/server/native/linux/x86_64 (change directory as per your O.S.)
  7. Re-Start WebLogic Server
  8. Test OFSAA application by accessing URL http://hostname:port/ofsaai/login.jsp

Stay tuned for issues and troubleshooting OFSAA

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