Sunday, March 25, 2012

Oracle SOA Suite Cluster part 2

Introduction

This is the second part in which I describe the configuration of a Weblogic Cluster. Quick and easy. This does not conform to the Oracle Enterprise Deployment Guide (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E16764_01/core.1111/e12036/toc.htm) and should thus not be used for enterprise installations. I for example don't install Oracle HTTP server.

This part consists of installation of
- Load balancer
- RCU (Repository creation utility)
- Weblogic server and SOA Suite
- Configure the Nodemanager
- Transport the managed domain to the other machine
- Start the cluster

Load balancer

By using the load balancer URL when referring to other processes, I can do process call distribution. The idea of this setup is illustrated in part 1.

For the load balancer I used pound which can be downloaded at; http://pkgs.repoforge.org/pound/

I downloaded it and installed the rpm using (as root); rpm -i pound-2.4.3-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

I used the below configuration. The host running the load balancer (and database) is 192.168.1.160. The hosts which will run the Weblogic servers are 192.168.1.161 and 192.168.1.162.

User        "nobody"
Group       "nobody"

## Main listening ports
ListenHTTP
    Address 192.168.1.160
    Port    8001
End
Service
        BackEnd
                Address 192.168.1.161
                Port    8001
        End
        BackEnd
                Address 192.168.1.162
                Port    8001
        End
        Session
                Type Cookie
                ID   "JSESSIONID"
                TTL  300
        End
End

RCU

As shown in the image below, I installed the required schema's. No errors this time with the Oracle Enterprise Scheduler schema such as when I used the Database XE 11r2 installation thus it is a good idea to use the Enterprise Edition database.


Weblogic server and SOA Suite

The below is based on the Oracle documentation; http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/e13709/setup.htm#CLUST431

I choose 2 different virtual machines to install the Weblogic servers on. I did this to be able to identify the challenges which need to be overcome when the server instances are running on different machines (and with different IP addresses). It is of course also possible to install the Weblogic cluster on a single machine, but that would not be sufficient to identify points of attention when developing against a production clustered environment at customers.

First a few basic things;
If by accident, you run the installer of the Weblogic server or SOA Suite as a different user, remove the installation, reinstall and get the below exception;  you can do chmod -R 777 /tmp to fix it (https://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=1085777)

weblogic.security.SecurityInitializationException: The dynamic loading of the OPSS java security policy provider class oracle.security.jps.internal.policystore.JavaPolicyProvider failed due to problem inside OPSS java security policy provider. Exception was thrown when loading or setting the JPSS policy provider. Enable the debug flag -Djava.security.debug=jpspolicy to get more information. Error message: JPS-01538: The default policy provider was not found. at weblogic.security.service.CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.loadOPSSPolicy(CommonSecurityServiceManagerDelegateImpl.java:1394)

Configure the nodemanager

To make it possible to use the nodemanager, you need to configure SSL for the server, keystore, truststore etc. Look at; http://wls4mscratch.wordpress.com/2010/05/31/configure-node-manager-over-ssl-custom-certifcates/.

I started as followed;

Host 1;

keytool -genkey -alias server01 -keyalg RSA -keysize 1024 -dname "CN=Puneeth, OU=Oracle, O=BEA, L=Denver, ST=Colorado, C=US" -keypass password -keystore identity.jks -storepass password
keytool -selfcert -v -alias server01 -keypass password -keystore identity.jks -storepass password -storetype jks
keytool -export -v -alias server01 -file rootCA01.der -keystore identity.jks -storepass password
keytool -import -v -trustcacerts -alias server01 -file rootCA01.der -keystore trust.jks -storepass password

Host 2;

keytool -genkey -alias server02 -keyalg RSA -keysize 1024 -dname "CN=Puneeth, OU=Oracle, O=BEA, L=Denver, ST=Colorado, C=US" -keypass password -keystore identity.jks -storepass password
keytool -selfcert -v -alias server02 -keypass password -keystore identity.jks -storepass password -storetype jks
keytool -export -v -alias server02 -file rootCA02.der -keystore identity.jks -storepass password
keytool -import -v -trustcacerts -alias server02 -file rootCA02.der -keystore trust.jks -storepass password

Copy rootCA01.der and rootCA02.der to both servers. Then on server 1 do;
keytool -import -v -trustcacerts -alias server02 -file rootCA02.der -keystore trust.jks -storepass password
and on server 2 do;
keytool -import -v -trustcacerts -alias server01 -file rootCA01.der -keystore trust.jks -storepass password

I also did the changes to nodemanager.properties, setDomainEnv, startNodemanager and the Weblogic server SSL certificate configuration as described at the previously mentioned location. This SSL configuration will prevent the following error from occurring when the nodemanager is started and you try to access it from the Weblogic console.

<Mar 25, 2012 1:31:34 PM CEST> <Warning> <Security> <BEA-090482> <BAD_CERTIFICATE alert was received from localhost.localdomain - 127.0.0.1. Check the peer to determine why it rejected the certificate chain (trusted CA configuration, hostname verification). SSL debug tracing may be required to determine the exact reason the certificate was rejected.>
<Mar 25, 2012 1:31:34 PM> <WARNING> <Uncaught exception in server handlerjavax.net.ssl.SSLKeyException: [Security:090482]BAD_CERTIFICATE alert was received from localhost.localdomain - 127.0.0.1. Check the peer to determine why it rejected the certificate chain (trusted CA configuration, hostname verification). SSL debug tracing may be required to determine the exact reason the certificate was rejected.>

Transport the domain

Use pack to create a template and transport it to the other machine; http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23943_01/web.1111/e14144/tasks.htm#WLDPU136

pack.sh is present in several locations;
/u01/app/fmw/Oracle_SOA1/common/bin/pack.sh
/u01/app/fmw/oracle_common/common/bin/pack.sh
/u01/app/fmw/wlserver_10.3/common/bin/pack.sh

I've used the one in the OracleSOA1 folder

On the machine on which you created the domain;
/u01/app/fmw/Oracle_SOA1/common/bin/pack.sh -managed=true -domain=/u01/app/fmw/user_projects/domains/soa_domain -template=misakimw1.jar -template_name="misakimw1"

On the other machine which will be running the managed domain;
/u01/app/fmw/Oracle_SOA1/common/bin/unpack.sh -domain=/u01/app/fmw/user_projects/domains/soa_domain -template=/home/oracle/misakimw1.jar

Starting the cluster

First start the database machine. Pound (the load balancer) is optional at this point and becomes important when starting with experiments on process call load balancing. Then start the nodemanager on both machines. Then start the administration server. From the Weblogic console you can then start both managed domains. This is how it looks in the enterprise manager when it is all started;

When you deploy, you deploy to the admin server. The admin server makes sure the different managed servers get the processes.

I will start experimenting on this setup shortly and compare it to production environments.

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