Introduction

Several years ago I blogged about automatic creation of Fusion Middleware environments.
See for instance this article on installation, this one on the domain creation and these notes.

In between I wrote several articles on issues I got, start/stop scripts, etc.

Later I found out about Vagrant and since then I worked with that. And this I enhanced through the years, for instance, nowadays I use different provisioners to setup my environment.

Until this week I struggeled with a Oracle Linux 7 Update 7 box, as I wrote earlier this week.

For my current customer I needed to create a few B2B environments. So I got back to my vagrant projects and scripts and build a Vagrant project that can create a SOA/BPM/OSB+B2B environment.

You can find it on GitHub in my ol77_soa12c project, with the scripts in this folder.

You'll need to get a Oracle Linux 7U7 Vagrant base box yourself. I tried to create one based on the simple base box of Oracle, as I wrote earlier this year. But in the end I created a simple base install of OL7U7, with one disk, and a Server with GUI package, a vagrant user (with password vagrant). As you can read in earlier articles.

Also  you'll need to download the installer zips from edelivery.oracle.com.

Modularisation

What I did with my scripts in this revision, is that I split up the main method of the domain creation script:

#
def main():
  try:
    #
    # Section 1: Base Domain + Admin Server
    createBaseDomain()
    #
    # Section 2: Extend FMW Domain with templates
    extendFMWDomain()
    #
    # Section 3: Create Domain Datasources
    createDatasources()
    #
    # Section 4: Create UnixMachines, Clusters and Managed Servers
    createMachinesClustersAndServers()
    #
    # Section 5: Add Servers to ServerGroups.
    addFMWServersToGroups()
    #
    print('Updating the domain.')
    updateDomain()
    print('Closing the domain.')
    closeDomain();
    #
    # Section 6: Create boot properties files.
    createBootPropertiesForServers()
    #
    # Checks
    print('\n7. Checks')
    print(lineSeperator)    
    listServerGroups(domainHome)
    #
    print('\nExiting...')
    exit()
  except NameError, e:
    print 'Apparently properties not set.'
    print "Please check the property: ", sys.exc_info()[0], sys.exc_info()[1]
    usage()
  except:
    apply(traceback.print_exception, sys.exc_info())
    stopEdit('y')
    exit(exitcode=1)

All the secions I moved to several sub-functions. I added an extra section for Checks and validations. One check I added is to list the server groups of the domain servers. But I may envision other validations later.

Policy Manager

Another thing is that in the method addFMWServersToGroups() I changed the script so that it complies to the topology suggestions from the Oracle Product management. Important aspect here is that for SOA, OSB and BAM it is important to determine if you want a domain with only one of these products, or that you create a combined domain. By default these products will have the Oracle Webservice Managment Policy Manager targetted in to the particular cluster or server. However, you should have only one PolicyManager per domain. So, if you want a combined domain with both SOA and OSB, then you would need to create a separate WSM_PM cluster. This is done using the wsmEnabledcproperty in the fmw.properties file. Based on this same property the server groups are added:

#
# Add a FMW server to the appropriate group depending on if a separate WSM PM Cluster is added.
def addFMWServerToGroups(server, svrGrpOnly, srvGrpComb):
  if wsmEnabled == 'true':
    print 'WSM Disabled: add server group(s) '+",".join(svrGrpOnly)+' to '+server
    setServerGroups(server, svrGrpOnly)
  else:
    print 'WSM Enabled: add server group(s) '+",".join(srvGrpComb)+' to '+server
    setServerGroups(server, srvGrpComb)  
#
# 5. Set Server Groups to the Domain Servers
def addFMWServersToGroups():
  print('\n5. Add Servers to ServerGroups')
  print(lineSeperator)
  cd('/')
  #print 'Add server groups '+adminSvrGrpDesc+ ' to '+adminServerName
  #setServerGroups(adminServerName, adminSvrGrp)     
  if osbEnabled == 'true':
    addFMWServerToGroups(osbSvr1, svrGrpOnly, srvGrpComb)
    if osbSvr2Enabled == 'true': 
      addFMWServerToGroups(osbSvr2, osbSvrOnlyGrp, osbSvrCombGrp)
  if soaEnabled == 'true':
    addFMWServerToGroups(soaSvr1, soaSvrOnlyGrp, soaSvrCombGrp)
    if soaSvr2Enabled == 'true': 
      addFMWServerToGroups(soaSvr2, soaSvrOnlyGrp, soaSvrCombGrp)
  if bamEnabled == 'true':
    addFMWServerToGroups(bamSvr1, bamSvrOnlyGrp, bamSvrCombGrp)
    if bamSvr2Enabled == 'true':  
      addFMWServerToGroups(bamSvr2, bamSvrOnlyGrp, bamSvrCombGrp)
  if wsmEnabled == 'true':
    print 'Add server group(s) '+",".join(wsmSvrGrp)+' to '+wsmSvr1+' and possibly '+wsmSvr2
    setServerGroups(wsmSvr1, wsmSvrGrp)
    if wsmSvr2Enabled == 'true': 
      setServerGroups(wsmSvr2, wsmSvrGrp)
  if wcpEnabled == 'true':
    print 'Add server group(s) '+",".join(wcpSvrGrp)+' to '+wcpSvr1+' and possibly '+wcpSvr2
    setServerGroups(wcpSvr1, wcpSvrGrp)
    if wcpSvr2Enabled == 'true': 
      setServerGroups(wcpSvr2, wcpSvrGrp)
  print('Finished ServerGroups.')

The groups are declared at the top:

# ServerGroup definitions
# See also: https://blogs.oracle.com/soa/soa-suite-12c%3a-topology-suggestions
#adminSvrGrp=["JRF-MAN-SVR"]
osbSvrOnlyGrp=["OSB-MGD-SVRS-ONLY"]
osbSvrCombGrp=["OSB-MGD-SVRS-COMBINED"]
soaSvrOnlyGrp=["SOA-MGD-SVRS-ONLY"]
soaSvrCombGrp=["SOA-MGD-SVRS"]
bamSvrOnlyGrp=["BAM12-MGD-SVRS-ONLY"]
bamSvrCombGrp=["BAM12-MGD-SVRS"]
wsmSvrGrp=["WSMPM-MAN-SVR", "JRF-MAN-SVR", "WSM-CACHE-SVR"]
wcpSvrGrp=["SPACES-MGD-SVRS","PRODUCER_APPS-MGD-SVRS","AS-MGD-SVRS","DISCUSSIONS-MGD-SVRS"]
wccSvrGrp=["UCM-MGD-SVR"]

For SOA, OSB and BAM you see that there is a default or "combined" server group, and a "server only" group. If wsmEnabeld is false, then the combined group is used and then the Policy Manager is added to the managed server or cluster. If it is true then the "only"-group is used.

Other Remarks

An earlier project I did failed when creating the domain. Somehow I had to run it twice to get the domain created. Somehow this is solved.

In my scripts I still use the 12.2.1.3 zips. But the scripts are quite easiliy adaptable for 12.2.1.4. I'll do that in the near future hopefully. But my current customer still uses this version. So, I went from here.

The project also adapts the nodemanager properties, creates a nodemanager linux service, and copies start stop scripts. However, I missed the bit of setting the listener port and type (plain or SSL) of the nodemanager in the Machine definition. So starting the domain needs a little bit of tweaking.

And for my project I need at 3 environments. So I need to downsize the database and the managed servers so that I can run it in 6GB, and can have 2 VMs on my 16GB laptop.

And I need to add a bridged network adapter to the Vagrant project, so that I can have the environments connect to each other.