CC&B 2.1 and Weblogic Windows Service

Question

We've been using CC&B for almost a year now, and I've been looking at hardening the environment incase of failover. Currently, we are using the supplied scripts to start/stop the environment. This causes one problem for if the server reboots, or if the environment terminates, it requires a manual process to stop and start the environment. I've been looking for a clear way to setup Weblogic to run CC&B as a service, but I have been unable to do so. Since the supplied scripts setup all of the variables, and options needed in order to run CC&B, no one from our Oracle implimentation team had ever setup CC&B any differently. Are their any suggestions or resources available in order to accomplish this? We are currently using a seperate DB running Oracle and seperate app server running Weblogic 9.2, both running Windows 2003 R2. Thanks.

Answer 1

Well. What are you trying to harden?
The database or the app?
you refer to the app stopping. One option would be to deploy multiple apps on different servers and point them at the same database.
That would provide you with one less single point of failure.
In order to utilise the additional app, you'd need to use some load balancing tool to distribute your users between CC&B instances.
This could be done with a simple DNS round robin or you could deploy a commercial loadbalancing tool that would assign the next user to the least loaded environment.
It depends what you're trying to do.
For the database hardening aspect, you could always consider ORACLE dataguard to maintain a standby copy of your database and switch to that in the event of failure.
How far do you want to take this?
Do you want to harden your hardware, your app, your network too?