Installing soa 11.1.1.3 - Help pls

Question

All,
OS: win xp SP3
As per the oracle guidlines I completed the soa 11.1.1.3 installation. Here are the steps I followed
1. Installed Oracle DB 11.0.1.7
2. Ran rcu ofm_rcu_win32_11.1.1.3.3_disk1_1of1.zip
3. installed wlogic 10.3.3
4. installed soa 11.1.1.2
5. installed the patchset soa 11.1.1.3 on top of soa 11.1.1.2
6. configured domain
I haven't installed Jdev 11.1.1.3 yet, but prior to that I thought of starting the weblogic admin and managed server to test. But when I ran the startweblogic.cmd, the console came up and went off immediately. I checked the folder under user_projects/domains/<domain_1>/servers, I can see only AdminServer but not SoaServer!. That means all the required folders didnt get created. I tried re-installing couple of times, all the time I hit on the same issue.
Can anybody tell me where I might have gone wrong? Please shed some inputs.
Please let me know log location. I remember under ../<domain_1>/servers the log dir usually gets created. Since I dont see any log dir, where do i check?
Thanks
Sen

Answer 1

Hi Sen
when you start weblogic, most probably you are getting error with default memory settings something like not able to allocate memory and it is getting closed immediately. This is my gut feeling. Please do one thing. Open DOS command prompt. In this navigate to your soa domain root folder. And type startWeblogic and hit enter. If there is a problem it immediately comes out and you can see any error like above shown in that window.
Now, coming to the fix, its very simple. Go to your SOA Domain root folder/bin and open setSOADomainEnv.cmd in any text file editor. All we do is change the default memory args from 1024 to something like 512 or 768mb. This is around after line number 28. I gave snippet from my file below for your reference. Just comment the existing line and copy it and make changes. So you will know what you changed in future.
REM JEGGA REDUCED THE MEMORY SIZE
REM set DEFAULT_MEM_ARGS=-Xms512m -Xmx1024m
set DEFAULT_MEM_ARGS=-Xms512m -Xmx768m
Once the AdminServer is fully started, then open another command prompt window. go to your domain/bin folder and type this command to start the managed server i.e soa_server1.
startmanagedweblogic soa_server1 http://localhost:yourport. It will ask for username and password. Type both of them. This will start soa_server1. Later on you can avoid entering username/password by doing this. Go to your soa_server1 folder something like shown below and create a folder by name security. In this folder create a file named boot.properties. In this file enter username and password in plain text. Start the managed server. It will encrypt these details and will not prompt for credentails when you start soa server1.
user_projects\domains\soaClusterDomain1\servers\soa_server1\security
contents of boot.properties file (see similar file under adminserver/security folder to get an idea)
username=doamin username in plain text
password=domain password in plain text
NOTE that by default when you create a Domain, you will NOT see many folders like managed server soa_server1 folder etc. Only when you start the servers, these folders are created.
Please let me know if you run into any other issues.
Thanks
Ravi Jegga