Sunday, November 15, 2009

Peoplesoft VM : about the PIA image (in VMWare)

I created an virtual machine from the PIA server template downloaded from edelivery (OVM_EL5U2_X86_64_PIA85002_PVM), here are my first screenshots and comments.

On the first start of the VM, go to the console, then you should see the following, and fill the requested data (fixed IP address, netmask, gateway...) :
Note the warning in the first screenshot above :
********************WARNING******************************************************
Hard limit value of the file descriptors on this system is set to 1024
In order to run the server process with 4096 file descriptors,
increase the hard limit on the system equal or higher than the number
MAX_FILE_DESCRIPTORS in setenv.sh
*******************************************************************************

This warning is raised by startPIA.sh and stopPIA.sh scripts.

This is because the file /etc/security/limits.conf is wrongly configured. Connect onto this server as root (password is as usual on Peoplesoft templates, ovsroot), edit the file, it is like this :
*    nofile  65536
* nofile 65536
* nproc 65536
* nproc 65536
* core unlimited
* core unlimited
* memlock 50000000
* memlock 50000000
It should be like that :
#*    nofile  65536
* - nofile 65536
#* nproc 65536
* - nproc 65536
#* core unlimited
* - core unlimited
#* memlock 50000000
* - memlock 50000000
The webserver is owned by psadm2 user, to stop and start the webserver, go to /opt/oracle/psft/pia/tools/webserv/peoplesoft/bin.

Finally, you can access to the front end application with the URL http://192.168.1.136:8000/psp/ps/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/?cmd=login
Be careful, if your browser is not configured in English, you can receive the following error message (because only English is loaded into the database) :

You have to select the English language to be able to connect as PS/PS :
And enjoy the application entirely build from the Peoplesoft templates :Enjoy,

Nicolas.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Hi Nicolas,

I was not abel to set the hostname and the IP during the first boot. It was defaulted to localhost.localdomain and a DHCP configuration. However starting the server via startPIA.sh Starts the server, but the login page shows.
CHECK APPSERVER LOGS. THE SITE BOOTED WITH INTERNAL DEFAULT SETTINGS, BECAUSE OF: bea.jolt.ServiceException: Invalid Session
Any Ideas?
Thanks RTG