MTS Client Library Configuration (Case: Two middle tier servers)

One of Oralcle document states:
(a) If you need to configure Oracle Services for MTS on 2 middle tier computers (say #1, #2)then you have to install OraMTS on #1 middle tier system. The #2 middle tier system can use OraMTS which exists on middle tier system #1.
(b) For achieving this you have to configure Oracle Services for MTS client library on system #2.
Can any expert provide more information about how to configure the step (b) above.
My environment:
Oacle Services for MTS version: 8.1.7
Database: Oracle 8.1.6
Middle Tier: Windows NT 4.0
A fast reply will be highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

Vivek Raja
3) On machine 1 use the MMC snapin to create the Oracle service For MTS for database DB1.
You mean below
On machine 1>>
[start->programes-> oracle-oraHOME81->application development->oracle manager for microsoft transaction server]
make new service for DB1.
(oracleMTSService0 started)
On machine 2>>
[oracle manager for microsoft transaction server]
I add a new computer-"machine 1".
Then automatically OracleMTSServices0 on
"machine 1" displays.
and "Microsoft management console" dialogue box appears and ask save the change when i exit oracle manager for MTS. I choose YES.
that's all?
Am i right?
On machine 3>>
like machine 2.
You might be boring but Any documents offered by oracle doesn't say it clearly.
rf)) I read "using microsoft transaction server with oracle8-A73029".

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> Hi,
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> There was a recent patch for the novell client which replaces the file
> nicm.sys due to a security vulnerability. When I install this patch
> onto servers which have the Zenworks Middle Tier software installed it
> prevents the client machines from authenticating to edirectory via the
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>
> Once I put the old vulnerable nicm.sys file back then the
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>
> I've had dig around to see if any one else is experiencing this problem
> but I haven't found anything.
>
> Any suggestions on how I might fix this. I would ideally like to
> resolve this as I don't like my servers being vulnerable.
>
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Master CNE, MCSE, CCNA
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>> Yes to all of your questions.
>>
>> In regards to remote control you have two options.....
>>
>> 1) Use Desktop4.exe with password based remote control to connect to
> the
>> remote PC.
>> 2) Have the remote PC use the option to Request a remote control
> session
>> from the support personnel.
>>
>> Search support.novell.com for desktop4.exe and there should be a couple
> tids
>> that go into detail.
>>
>> In regards to distributing applications.....................
>> 1) Are you in a Domain or Non-Domain environment. This controls what
>> options you have.
>>
>> --
>> Craig Wilson
>> Novell Product Support Forum Sysop
>> Master CNE, MCSE, CCNA
>>
>> http://www.ithowto.com
>>
>> Editor - http://www.ithowto.com
>
> Thanks for the response! We are currently strictly netware with no
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at oracle.webdb.config.PortalConfigAction.installAction(Unknown Source)
at oracle.webdb.config.PortalConfigAssistant$1.runTask(Unknown Source)
at oracle.ewt.thread.TaskScheduler.runTask(Unknown Source)
at oracle.ewt.thread.TaskScheduler.processTask(Unknown Source)
at oracle.ewt.thread.TaskScheduler$TaskQueue.run(Unknown Source)
at oracle.ewt.timer.Timer.doRun(Unknown Source)
at oracle.ewt.timer.Timer.run(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
ERROR :Unhandled exception. Configuration aborted. Main reason: Version table could not be found.
OPCA_ERROR : Syndication Server Configuration Assistant Failed.
Portal configuration aborted....
---8<---
I think something wrong in portal metadata installed by RepCA. What is the name of "Version table"? Can I use original (imported from "new database repository") part of portal schema?
Thanks in advance,
Wit.

btw,
google:// and metalink:// brings no hits for solution or even mention of problem (forums:// too as always :c/), so I've try to:
1. Install MT BI software on Machine B (ignoring opca errors done OK).
2. Install Infrastructure metadata repository at Machine C (db v90150 done OK).
3. Implement the metalink://note.276688.1 (in process, report follows).
btw2,
JAVA$CLASS$MD5$TABLE is only table absent in RepCA's portal schema (in comparing with usual way installation). Treated it as a "version table" by opca?

Client Authentication via middle tier to database.

Is it possible to pass through the Identity of the Real User
to the database when using an Application Server that uses
connection pooling to connect to the database.
Note. The Application server is running EJBs that connect to the
database using JDBC, with any driver type (eg OCI, thin).
null

Trevor,
What type of OS is the app server running on? How is the user
logging into the app? There are middleware packages that can
map the currently logged in user to the database on a per-
connection basis. Openlink provides a middle-tier security
layer that dispatches a connection to the database based on a
combination of factors (client app, client IP, username,
servertype).
HTH,
Stephen
Trevor (guest) wrote:
: Is it possible to pass through the Identity of the Real User
: to the database when using an Application Server that uses
: connection pooling to connect to the database.
: Note. The Application server is running EJBs that connect to
the
: database using JDBC, with any driver type (eg OCI, thin).
null

[OIM] Middle tier upgrade Policy Store configuration not found exception

Hi,
During the middle tier upgrade of OIM we are facing the issue the logs are mentioned below.
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/Logging_zh_CN.properties
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/Logging_zh_TW.properties
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/PolicyValidation.properties
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/ApprovalPolicyManagementPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/AuthorizationManagementPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/DiagnosticDashboardPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/NotificationMgmtPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/OESPolicy.xsd
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/PlatformServicePolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/PlugInPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/ReconciliationApiPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/ReconciliationManagementPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/RequestTemplateManagementPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/RoleManagementPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/SchedulerPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/SelfServiceUserManagementPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/SystemPropertiesPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/UserManagementConfigurationPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/resources/default_policies/UserManagementPolicies.xml
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/utils/FeatureManagerUtils.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/utils/OESPolicyConstants.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/utils/PolicyNameValidationUtils.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/utils/PolicyValidationUtils.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/AuthzPolicy.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/DMAuthzPolicy.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/DataConstraint.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/EmptyDataConstraint.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/OESPolicyServiceFactory.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/Result.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/RoleDataConstraint.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/UserDataConstraint.class
Creating oracle/iam/authzpolicydefn/vo/package.html
upgrade-oes-ootb-policies:
upgrade-oes-ootb-policies:
----> UPDATING OUT OF THE bOX OES POLICIES
Db password jdbc:oracle:thin:@(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=10.1.5.70) (PORT=1555))(CONNECT_DATA=(SERVICE_NAME=testoid)))
[EL Info]: 2012-09-05 16:06:16.212--ServerSession(662907)--EclipseLink, version: Eclipse Persistence Services - 1.1.0.r3634
[EL Info]: 2012-09-05 16:06:18.938--ServerSession(662907)--file:/restore/middleware_74/wls_home/Oracle_IDM_F/modules/oracle.oes_11.1.1/jps-internal.jar-JpsDBDataManager login successful
oracle.security.jps.service.policystore.ConfigurationNotFoundException
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.policystore.entitymanager.impl.ConfigurationManagerImpl.getSecurityModule(ConfigurationManagerImpl.java:371)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.impl.OESPolicyServiceImpl.deleteAndUnbindAppPolicy(OESPolicyServiceImpl.java:1703)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.impl.OESPolicyServiceImpl.init(OESPolicyServiceImpl.java:452)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.impl.OESPolicyServiceImpl.<init>(OESPolicyServiceImpl.java:234)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.loader.PolicyLoader.createPolicies(PolicyLoader.java:117)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.loader.PolicyLoader.main(PolicyLoader.java:204)
Exception in thread "main" oracle.security.jps.service.policystore.ConfigurationNotFoundException
        at oracle.security.jps.internal.policystore.entitymanager.impl.ConfigurationManagerImpl.getSecurityModule(ConfigurationManagerImpl.java:371)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.impl.OESPolicyServiceImpl.deleteAndUnbindAppPolicy(OESPolicyServiceImpl.java:1703)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.impl.OESPolicyServiceImpl.init(OESPolicyServiceImpl.java:452)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.impl.OESPolicyServiceImpl.<init>(OESPolicyServiceImpl.java:234)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.loader.PolicyLoader.createPolicies(PolicyLoader.java:117)
        at oracle.iam.authzpolicydefn.loader.PolicyLoader.main(PolicyLoader.java:204)The Database connect string is correct. I have written the echo statement in the script just to confirm it. The error is occurring in the createPolicies method has someone encountered this before.

Is this OIM 11g R2?? if yes have you configured the security store as mentioned in the doc while installing
OIM 11gR2 - Where is the OES Console?

Client-middle tier communication.

We'd like to inform the middle tier of some choices made in the client but I'm not sure how this communication should be achieved.
For example, the user logs-on using a (non BC4J) method which establishes the user-name and access level.
I want an EntityObject (An AuditTrailEntity) to be able to set the username in any new rows created.
I want ViewObjects to restrict the rows returned based on the access level.
I see I can create some ViewObject methods and export them to the client but can these be class (static) methods? If not, then I must use object methods that set class variables but this doesn't feel like the "right" solution.
Can I set some properties in a Cookie somewhere (how)?
Is there another (better) method?
Any advice gratefully received.
Tony.
P.S.
As part of my investigations, I've tried adding a RowSetListener:
panelBinding.addRowSetListener(new HistoryRowSetListener());
class HistoryRowSetListener extends JUPanelRowSetAdapter
{ public void rowInserted(JUIteratorBinding aIterBinding, InsertEvent aEvent)
{ super.rowInserted(aIterBinding, aEvent);
Row lRow = aIterBinding.getCurrentRow();
lRow.setAttribute("UserName", sCurrentUserName);
But the getCurrentRow() returns the row that's current when the insert was performed, not the row that's being inserted. Is this intended? If so, How can I get the row that's being inserted?

In the client some properties are acquired (from a legacy system) and we want to communicate these to the middle tier. We'll want certain
ViewObjects (in several ApplicationModules) to behave differently.What are the client properties? Are they like read/write access priviledges?
If the client properties change, then we need to re-communicate with the middle tier to alter the ViewObjects behaviour again. For example,
the user is only permited to see their own (or their own region's data). For the most part this can be achieved by modifying the SQL but for
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I think our client could probably call ViewObject.setWhereClause() but I'd rather have this functionality encapsulated in the Business
components.
If you want to set username
then it should be on the session or root AM.
This sounds near the solution. Can I access the Session in both the client and middle-tier. I saw ApplicationModule.getSession() which I'm
hopi[i]Long postings are being truncated to ~1 kB at this time.

Applet clients accessing EJB middle-tier

Hello
I am trying to have an Applet access the stateless session EJBs on the middle tier (OC4J 9.0.3)
The applet works fine in the AppletViewer.
However in the IE browser version 5.5, I get java.security.AccessControlException.
Which I can understand because applet is not allowed to open a RMI-IIOP port on the remote server.
What steps do I need to take to allow the applet to open such a connection. Signing jars?, java.poclicy file ?
I know that this setup works fine on JBoss and also on WebSphere. (using certificates)
Is this not suported by OC4J? Does the server need to support something or is it strictly a client side issue?
Any comments will be highly appreciated.
Thanks
vijay

We are having Applet-clients with OC4J and it works fine. We sign all our client-jars (including oc4jclient.jar) and our application has all permissions at the client. Modifying java.policy works as well, but signing Jar-Files is simpler and doesn't need any client-changes.
For normal operations it seems ok to include oc4client.jar for the client application, but we are using JMS and therefore need a lot of classes of oc4j.jar - so I buildt my own deployment-jar out of oc4j.jar.
If you use the cache_archive and cache_version attributes in the html-tag, all the jar-files are only downloaded at application startup if they are changed on the server (und version-numbers are increased). So startup-time is comparable to a local application.
Gilbert

How to install Oracle BPEL Process Manager for OracleAS Middle Tier

hi,
i need to install BPEL process manager, so i download the following file from otn
1.soa_windows_x86_101310_disk1
2.soa_windows_x86_bpel_101310
here i read the document named b28980.pdf from bpel\doc\pc.1012 to install BPEL PM
so i start to complete the pre-installation task
1.installed Oracle database 10g
2.Run the Integration Repository Creation Assistant on the Database
3.Install Oracle Application Server 10g Release3 (10.1.3.1.0) and select either the J2EE Server installation type or the J2EE and Web Server installation type. selected J2EE and Web Server installation type
and installed according to the Oracle application server installation guide.
installed OracleAS in the path : D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1
4.Install the current release of Oracle BPEL Process Manager for OracleAS Middle Tier
here they mention to select the J2EE and Web Server installation type because that type is selected in Oracle AS installed in Oracle Application Server
so i start to install the BPEL PM by selecting the setup.exe-->and shows the location source and destination
default destination is : D:\product\10.1.3.1\OraBPEL_1 selected next on the screen
the next screen is select installation type here there are two types named
1.BPEL process Manager for Developer (371MB)
2.BPEL process manager for Oracle AS Middle tier (107MB)
i selected 2.BPEL process manager for Oracle AS Middle tier (107MB) and click next
pop up window opens with title dependencies
error:
BPEL Process manager for oracle AS Middle tier will run on top of a supported Oracle Application Server 10.1.3.1.0 J2EE server and Web Server Or J2EE server instance. this location does not contain this instance. Please select new Oracle home that contains a supported instance.
so i changed the destination path to : D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\BIN then also i got the same error.
please any one mention the path for J2EE and Web Server instance for installing the BPEL PM for Oracle AS Middle Tier.
Thanks in Advance
Aswath Thaniga

If you choose the developer version you will be fine.
If you have installed J2EE and Web Server installation into D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1 then this is the location you install your BPEL PM into, not D:\product\10.1.3.1\OraBPEL_1 or D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1\BIN.
D:\product\10.1.3.1\OracleAS_1 is what we call the ORACLE_HOME, generally we create a new home for each install, but in this case there is a dependency on 10.1.3.1 OC4J container. So it needs to be installed into 10.1.3.1 oracle home.
The bin directory is just the executables for that home, its not the actual. home.
cheers
James

Configuration of two-phase-commit in OC4J 10.1.2

Configuration of two-phase-commit in OC4J 10.1.2 in application with multiple modules
We have an application ear file consisting of ejb-modules (mdb and slsb) and two web-modules. We are using Oracle's advanced queueing for messaging and CMT (all ejb use the Required transaction attribute). We need different datasources (OrionCMTDataSource) including that for aq, so we need two-phase-commit. The web clients use ejbs and browse the messaging system. Our 'orion-application.xml' includes a commit-coordinator configuration, and the database is setup correctly. The configuration works fine for mdbs, when sending messages to the queues. When a client starts after messages have been sent and consumed by the mdbs, oc4j complains that no commit-coordinator is defined in 'server.xml'. If we start the client first, it can access the queues, but then the mdbs complain. It seems that the first one "gets" the commit-coordinator and the second one fails.
Some questions:
Why isn't the second client type using the commit-coordinator configuration of the "orion-application.xml"?
Is such scenario not supported by OC4J?
How can I setup the application correctly?
How do I configure commit-coordinator with different datasources to the same database? (Commit-Coordinator is also this database)

Take a look 'How to Use a Custom Serializer with Oracle Application Server Web Services' [1].
In your case, you should be looking at BeanMultiRefSerializer (org.apache.soap.encoding.soapenc), which will serialize your data using href and providing a way to deal with cycles.
All the best,
Eric
[1] http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/webservices/htdocs/samples/serialize/index.html

Handling Locking for transaction in Middle Tier versus Database backend

Hi,
If we implement middle tier with C# as the programming language and backend as SQL Server database, if we now wanted to implement locking where we take the classic case of money withdrawal from a bank account, we could implement this as a single atomic transaction
using locks / monitor in the middle tier or we could do this in a stored procedure and handle it using a begin tran commit tran in SQL Server.
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Thanks

> the two different servers having the same middle tier executing the same code at the same time will be handled by the backend by putting one on hold while the other is being serviced.
Yes. A SQL Server database provides a single coherent state repository for the whole application. And you can use the database transactions to control which business transactions run concurrently, and which do not.
David
David http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dbrowne/

Two Middle Tiers - One Infrastructure

I have three windows servers. The first server is the infrastructure tier and the second server is the middle tier with Portal. I have installed a second middle tier with Portal on the third server and attached it to the infrastructure server that the first middle tier is using. However, Portal will not run. All other services are up except for Portal. Is it possible to have two separate middle tiers (one a development area and one a test area) that both connect to the same infrastructure server? If so, what am I doing wrong.
Thank you....Stacy

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Only kickers -
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