Ahhhh SOA ESB error

Question

Someone help me :) please
error code: 1047 : 5
summary: Parent of service "99H.File Output" system "99H" doesn't exist
Fix: Use existing system or servicegroup as parent.Contact Oracle Support if error not fixable.
What is this trying to tell me? Im deploying to my ESB server located on a unix box labled dbdss99h, i just made the human readable filename 99H why would it be looking for this ? i mean just any explanations would be great thank you
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Answer 1

It sounds like the ESB you have deployed, doesn't belong to a system/service group. I'm not sure that I understand what this means in particular. But here goes;
This is background:
When we develop ESBs (and we haven't done a lot of them). We have a defined a system called DEV (obviously we have other systems on different servers called QA / PROD).
This does not belong to any particular ESB, and can be created from your ESB console. I had a picture to paste at this point only I don't have a mechanism for pasting it, here.
In JDeveloper when developing an ESB you are asked to supply which system and/or service group you are creating an adapter (etc.) in. You may see values like DefaultSystem. In the console you will also see BPELSystem if you are making services available via BPEL. Using the Flashlight icon you can pop open an "ESB Service Group Browser" in JDeveloper. If you don't have an appropriate one define you can create one in JDeveloper. It is our practice to create a Service Group that will represent the ESB project that is being developed. I'm not sure that this is ideal, but we are using this as a mechanism for breaking up the ESB across functional areas.
When starting we were experiencing problems understanding and hence deploying two different ESBs into DEV, each attempted to deploy a DEV system. Once one DEV system has been deployed it is a matter of selecting the deployed system when developing an ESB, and not attempting to create a new system.
This might be your problem:
You are attempting to deploy and ESB without a service group that has not been created as part of your project or is not a child of the system under which you are attempting to deploy your ESB.
Check the ESB console for any System / Service groups that you can see and it help define what has happened to your deployment.
Check for files in your Jdev project called ????.esbgrp and ?????.esbsys ??? (I don't currently have a project with as system define in it so I'm not sure of the system files extension).
The whole of ESB is not well documented so I hope this helps.