Title
Configure OEM Grid Control Agent against Oracle BPEL Process Manager

Date
2007-12-23

Summary
The OEM Grid Control Agent 10g 10.2.0.3 does not monitor BPEL processes out of the box. When you click on "Processes", you would see All BPEL Domains --> default, but no processes underneath them.

Prerequisites
  • Oracle SOA Suite 10g (10.1.3) must be installed and functioning
  • Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g (10.2.0) must be installed and functioning

    • Details
    1. Login to OEM Grid Control and click on All Targets.

    2. Search for Oracle BPEL Process Manager and click on the applicable target.

    3. Click on Monitoring Configuration and add the following values:
         ORACLE HOME: <fully qualified path to Oracle_Home> (e.g., /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1)
         USERNAME FOR BPEL PROCESS MANAGER: oc4jadmin
         PASSWORD FOR BPEL PROCESS MANAGER: <password>
         INITIAL CONTEXT FACTORY: com.evermind.server.rmi.RMIInitialContextFactory
         CONTEXT PROVIDER URL: opmn:ormi://<hostname>:<request port>:<container name>/orabpel (e.g., opmn:ormi://myserver.oracle.com:6003:oc4j_soa/orabpel)

     Note the following:
         6003 <-- is the OPMN request port of the SOA Home under 'opmn.xml'
         oc4j_soa <-- is the name of the SOA container, may be different

    4. On the Agent Home, edit the CLASSPATH parameter under emd.properties and add the following in the front of the CLASSPATH (optic.jar must be the first one). For example: 
    /u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1/opmn/lib/optic.jar:
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1/bpel/lib/orabpel.jar:
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1/bpel/lib/orabpel-common.jar:
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1/bpel/lib/orabpel-thirdparty.jar:
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1/j2ee/home/oc4jclient.jar:
/u01/app/oracle/product/10.1.3/soa_1/bpel/lib/j2ee_1.3.01.jar:

    The entry above must be in one line.

    5. Restart the Agent. You will now see the BPEL processes.

    Applicable Versions
    Oracle SOA Suite 10g (10.1.3.1)
    OEM Grid Control Agent 10g (10.2.0.3)

    References
    https://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/f?p=130:14:5907944624516818780::::p14_database_id,p14_docid,p14_show_header,p14_show_help,p14_black_frame,p14_font:NOT,438393.1,1,1,1,helvetica
    Ahmed Aboulnaga
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