Sunday, February 13, 2011

Peoplesoft OVM HCM9.1 – Peopletools 8.51.02

Few weeks ago a new Peoplesoft OVM HCM9.1 has been released. This one is based on Peopletools 8.51.02, and includes a couples of new features :
1. Option for Cobol installation within 30-days trial
2. Peoletools 8.51.02
3. Server consolidation, 1 database server, 1 App/Batch/PIA server
4. And a good one, a zip for the Peopletools 8.51.02 Windows client

It is available on http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux – check for the templates 64bits, : Peoplesoft VM Templates for HCM 9.1 Release Media Pack v1 for x86 (64 bit).
There are two templates, one for the database, one for the app/batch/PIA.
I’ll skip all the steps regarding Oracle VM Manager, Oracle VM Server configuration, uncompress and import of the template since this is the same exercise I did last year for HCM9.1, please if you want to know more, have a look to the tutorial on the top-right of the main blog page. I’ll start the description below from the starting of the new VM.

1. The database server
Select the VM and click on “Power On” 
PSOVM_HCM91_003 
Then on console (be fast otherwise it will be configured as DHCP that you certainly don’t want).
PSOVM_HCM91_004
PSOVM_HCM91_005 
Give all what it needs, IP address and so on :
PSOVM_HCM91_006 
Here below, (as usual on Peoplesoft template, I do not know if that’s the same for all Oracle template containing database software), we got the CSS error (this step takes quite a while). Whether it fails that is not an issue for the next steps  :
PSOVM_HCM91_008
It continues, give the database name, it will create new controlfiles.
PSOVM_HCM91_009 
It is finished for the database server.
Few notes :
1.1 I choose the database to start on server boot, but it won’t (same for all previous templates).
[oracle@psovmhcmdb ~]$ more /etc/oratab
...
orcl:/u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1:N

1.2 Note, the service is your_db_name.us.oracle.com :
[oracle@psovmhcmdb ~]$ lsnrctl status

LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on 23-JAN-2011 06:21:08

Copyright (c) 1991, 2008, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=psovmhcmdb.phoenix.nga)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
------------------------
Alias                     LISTENER
Version                   TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 11.1.0.7.0 - Production
Start Date                23-JAN-2011 06:11:49
Uptime                    0 days 0 hr. 9 min. 19 sec
Trace Level               off
Security                  ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP                      OFF
Listener Parameter File   /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/network/admin/listener.ora
Listener Log File         /u01/app/oracle/product/11.1.0/db_1/log/diag/tnslsnr/psovmhcmdb/listener/alert/log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary...
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=psovmhcmdb.phoenix.nga)(PORT=1521)))
  (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(KEY=EXTPROC1521)))
Services Summary...
Service "H91TMPLT.us.oracle.com" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "H91TMPLT", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "H91TMPLT_XPT.us.oracle.com" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "H91TMPLT", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
Service "XDB.us.oracle.com" has 1 instance(s).
  Instance "H91TMPLT", status READY, has 1 handler(s) for this service...
The command completed successfully

1.3 SYSADM’s password is in upper case :
[oracle@psovmhcmdb ~]$ export ORACLE_SID=H91TMPLT
[oracle@psovmhcmdb ~]$ sqlplus sysadm/sysadm

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Sun Jan 23 06:21:31 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Enter user-name:
[oracle@psovmhcmdb ~]$ sqlplus sysadm/SYSADM

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Sun Jan 23 06:21:37 2011

Copyright (c) 1982, 2008, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL>

1.4 Language installed is only English :
SQL> select language_cd from pslanguages where installed=1;

LANGUAGE_CD
------------
ENG

1.5 The default profile of SYSADM and PEOPLE users does not expire anymore like it was for all the previous PSOVM. All the limits are unlimited, much better to avoid bad surprise as I explained here.  
SQL> select username,account_status,expiry_date,profile
  2  from   dba_users
  3* where username in ('PEOPLE','SYSADM')
SQL> /

USERNAME                       ACCOUNT_STATUS                   EXPIRY_DATE        PROFILE
------------------------------ -------------------------------- ------------------ -----------PEOPLE                         OPEN                                                DEFAULT
SYSADM                         OPEN                                                DEFAULT

SQL> select * from dba_profiles where profile='DEFAULT';

PROFILE                        RESOURCE_NAME                    RESOURCE_TYPE                    LIMIT
------------------------------ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- -------------
DEFAULT                        COMPOSITE_LIMIT                  KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        SESSIONS_PER_USER                KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        CPU_PER_SESSION                  KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        CPU_PER_CALL                     KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        LOGICAL_READS_PER_SESSION        KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        LOGICAL_READS_PER_CALL           KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        IDLE_TIME                        KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        CONNECT_TIME                     KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        PRIVATE_SGA                      KERNEL                           UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS            PASSWORD                         UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME               PASSWORD                         UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        PASSWORD_REUSE_TIME              PASSWORD                         UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        PASSWORD_REUSE_MAX               PASSWORD                         UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        PASSWORD_VERIFY_FUNCTION         PASSWORD                         NULL
DEFAULT                        PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME               PASSWORD                         UNLIMITED
DEFAULT                        PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME              PASSWORD                         UNLIMITED

16 rows selected.

2. The App/Batch/PIA server
Select the VM and click on “Power On”
PSOVM_HCM91_010
PSOVM_HCM91_011
PSOVM_HCM91_012
Give all what it needs, IP address and so on :
PSOVM_HCM91_015 
Here, we can see an OS audit message with access denied. Despite that message, everything will be done
successfully.
PSOVM_HCM91_018
After AppServer and Batch server started, it is now time for MicroFocus (optional - 30-days trial license). It is quite new in template for that option during deployment. Thanks to Peoplesoft team for that, that safe a lot of time and pain (see how I did for the first version of PSOVM HCM when it was not available here
PSOVM_HCM91_019
PSOVM_HCM91_021
Once it is done, PIA deployment :
PSOVM_HCM91_023
And you also can configure posting reports repository :
PSOVM_HCM91_024
PSOVM_HCM91_025 
Done.
It has again been greatly improved compared to the first template released earlier in 2009 (PSOVM HCM). Looks like many of the remarks have been taken in account. Thanks to the team for that.
Now, connect to the front end application :
PSOVM_HCM91_026
PSOVM_HCM91_033
PSOVM_HCM91_031 

Note : you’ll get some OS audit warning like for CRM, you can read the footnote here how you can get rid of them.

3. Peopletools 8.51.02 zip file for Windows client
Last but not least, for the first time ever, Peoplesoft is providing the binaries for Application Designer and DataMover for Windows in version 8.51.02. Under $PS_HOME of App/Batch/PIA server. 
[psadm2@psovmhcm tools]$ pwd
/opt/oracle/psft/pt/tools
[psadm2@psovmhcm tools]$ ls
HR                          dict                    setup
HR_InstallLog.log           etc                     sqr
PSEMAgent                   fonts                   sqrfonts
PSEMViewer                  jre                     src
PeopleTools_InstallLog.log  jre1.6.0                tmp
SecurityAddIns              log                     toolsadmin.sh
appserv                     peopletools.properties  toolsclient.zip <---
bin                         psconfig.sh             utility
cblbin                      scripts                 verity
class                       sdk                     web
data                        secvault                webserv
Copy to your Windows client, unzip, enjoy AppDesigner 8.51.02 ! In 2-tier, you’ll need an Oracle client, in 3-tier, no need Oracle client, but you’ll have to configure a WSL listener on the AppServer domain.

***
We have now a complete working and consistent Peoplesoft  solution relatively easy to install. Moreover, providing a client is very useful for students, developers, functional people who want to learn.

Stay tuned, I’ll probably set the Integration Broker in between.

Enjoy !

Nicolas.

1 comment:

jayasathya said...

thanks Nicolas...it helped me a lot...i am totally new to this peoplesoft VM concept