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Course Description:

This course provides System Administrators with the knowledge to install and administer OracleBPM (OBPM)  Enterprise. In this hands-on course, students learn the architecture of Enterprise J2EE and how to deploy in various different configurations. Students use their own OracleBPM Enterprise installations to create engines, create and assign roles to participants, publish and deploy processes into production, and more. Students will also configure process monitoring and process archiving functionality in addition to learning advanced tuning and troubleshooting skills.  By the end of the course, all students will have a solid foundation for implementing and maintaining OracleBPM Enterprise on WebLogic.

Course ID:
A-301

Duration:
2 days

Delivery format:
Instructor led, classroom

Target Audience:
OracleBPM Administrators

Prerequisites:
A-201 Developer I or A-501 BPM Foundations Bootcamp

Objectives:
At the end of this class, students attending will be able to:

• Outline the architecture of OBPM Enterprise for WebLogic
• Install OBPM Enterprise
• Access user data from LDAP
• Create an organizational structure by creating and assigning roles to participants
• Publish and deploy a project
• Run a business process in production
• Republish updated versions of a project
• Create External Resources
• Configure Process Monitoring
• Configure Process Archiving
• Use Ant Tasks to automate deployment and management
• Create a Process Execution Engine
• Tune and troubleshoot OBPM Enterprise
• Configure OBPM Enterprise on a cluster

Course Topics

Architectural Overview

• Define the OBPM Solution
• Outline the architecture of OBPM Enterprise
• Describe how data is stored by OBPM Enterprise
• Outline different deployment strategies

Installing OBPM Components

• Install OBPM Studio
• Install and configure OBPM Enterprise WebLogic
• View log files
• List the components OBPM creates on and deploys to WebLogic

Setting Up the OBPM Organization

• View organizational data stored in LDAP through OBPM
• Create OBPM roles
• Assign roles to groups and participants in the process

Publishing and Deploying Projects

• Export a project from OBPM Studio
• Publish and deploy a project

Running a Business Process

• Start a Process Execution Engine
• View a Process Execution Engine Startup Log
• Participate in a running process using the WorkSpace

Versioning Projects

• Publish a project with automatic versioning
• Manually change a project version
• View project version history
• View project deployment history

Integrating External Resources

• Create an External Resource
• Create an External Process

Configuring Process Monitoring

• Configure Process Monitoring to store both historical and near real-time monitoring data
• Create the databases required for Process Monitoring
• Install and start the Process Monitoring service
• Set configuration parameters for troubleshooting

Deploying on a Cluster

• Cluster Setup / Managed Servers
• Deploy Enterprise J2EE to a Cluster

Automating Deployment and Management with Ant Scripts

• List the Ant requirements for working with OBPM
• Create Ant scripts to automate OBPM administrative tasks

Miscellaneous Topics

• Create Holiday and Calendar rules
• Apply a Calendar rule to an Organizational Unit
• View an Audit Trail
• Configure Auditing

Tuning a Process Execution Engine

• Tune a Process Execution Engine
• Tune the WorkSpace
• Tune the WebLogic Application Server

Troubleshooting OBPM Enterprise

• View the Process Execution Engine log
• View other OBPM log files
• Obtain an Engine Thread Dump
• Run the HTTP Debugger
• Troubleshoot OBPM problems

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