Migrating the BAM objects across environments with the ANT script – Oracle BAM 11g

Migrating the BAM objects across environments with the ANT script – Oracle BAM 11g

This post explains how to use the ANT script to migrate the Oracle BAM objects across the environments.The script can be run remotely from the client machine or from the server machine.

• Create a folder BAMConfig and create two sub folders BAMObjects and config inside the BAMConfig folder
• Copy the BAMICommandConfig.xml from $ORACLE_HOME/bam/config folder of the server to the config folder created in the above step.
• Add the default user name and the password to the BAMICommandConfig.xml file

           <ICommand_Default_User_Name>weblogic</ICommand_Default_User_Name>
           <ICommand_Default_Password>hiyEbs0vwXPQrKh8yE7z3f7JVNhmLLEe+cR3bansiPc=</ICommand_Default_Password>

         Also verify the ADCServerPort - the BAM Server http listening port and   ADCServerName -  BAM Server host name properties.

Content of the configuration file:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><BAMICommand>
<ADCServerPort>9001</ADCServerPort>
<ADCServerName>BAM Server hostname</ADCServerName>
<ICommand_Default_User_Name>weblogic</ICommand_Default_User_Name>
<ICommand_Default_Password>hiyEbs0vwXPQrKh8yE7z3f7JVNhmLLEe+cR3bansiPc=</ICommand_Default_Password>
<Communication_Protocol>t3</Communication_Protocol>
<SensorFactory>oracle.bam.common.statistics.noop.SensorFactoryImpl</SensorFactory>
<GenericSatelliteChannelName>invm:topic/oracle.bam.messaging.systemobjectnotification</GenericSatelliteChannelName>
</BAMICommand>

Default password should be encrypted else you will be receiving “ICommandEngine.MissingCredentials” error.

To encrypt the password configure the BAMICommandConfig.xml file in the $ORACLE_HOME/bam/config folder with the plain text password and run any standard icommand from the server (e.g $ORACLE_HOME/bam/bin/icommand -cmd export -type dataobject -name SampleDO -file C:\temp\SampleDO.xml) that will encrypt the password.

• Create Export_BAM_Objects.xml file with the BAM export commands and place the same in BAMConfig folder created in the above step, the contents of the file look like below

<OracleBAMCommands>
   <!--import dataobjects-->
    <Export name="/Albin/BAMWebservice" type="dataobject" file="$BAM_PROJ_HOME$/BAMWebservice.xml"/>
    <Export name="/SampleDO" type="dataobject" file="$BAM_PROJ_HOME$/SampleDO.xml"/>
</OracleBAMCommands>
Configure the required export commands (exporting different type of objects) into this file.

• Create Import_BAM_Objects.xml file with the BAM import commands and place the same in BAMConfig folder created in the above step, the contents of the file look like below

<OracleBAMCommands>
   <!--import dataobjects-->
   <Import file="$BAM_PROJ_HOME$/BAMWebservice.xml"/>
</OracleBAMCommands>
Configure the required import commands into this file.

• Create the BAMBuild.xml file with the following contents and place the same in the BAMConfig folder created in the above step.

<project name="BAMMigrationProject" basedir="." default="config">
   <!--import the property file-->
   <property environment="env"/>
   <property name="src.dir" value="."/>
   <property name="proj.home" value="${env.BAM_PROJ_HOME}"/>
   <property name="oracle.home" value="${env.ORACLE_HOME}"/>
   <property name="oracle.common.home" value="${env.ORACLE_COMMON_HOME}"/>
   <property name="bam.core.lib.dir" value="${env.ORACLE_HOME}/bam/modules/oracle.bam_11.1.1"/>
   <property name="bam.tp.lib.dir" value="${env.ORACLE_HOME}/bam/modules/oracle.bam.thirdparty_11.1.1"/>
   <property name="dms.lib.dir" value="${env.ORACLE_COMMON_HOME}/modules/oracle.dms_11.1.1"/>
   <!--BAM Classpath required by icommand application-->
   <path id="bamClasspath">
      <fileset file="${bam.core.lib.dir}/oracle-bam-icommand.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${bam.core.lib.dir}/oracle-bam-common.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${bam.core.lib.dir}/oracle-bam-adc-ejb.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${dms.lib.dir}/dms.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${bam.tp.lib.dir}/jgroups-core.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${bam.tp.lib.dir}/xstream-1.3.1.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${bam.tp.lib.dir}/commons-codec-1.3.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${oracle.home}/../wlserver_10.3/server/lib/weblogic.jar"/>
      <fileset file="${oracle.common.home}/modules/org.jaxen_1.1.1.jar"/>
   </path>
   <!--export BAM DOs through icommand-->
   <target name="export" description="Export BAM dataobjects and reports" depends="config">
    <delete dir="${basedir}/BAMObjects" includeemptydirs="true" includes="*/**"></delete>
      <java classname="oracle.bam.icommand.Application" fork="true" dir="${src.dir}" classpathref="bamClasspath">
         <sysproperty key="oracle.bam.debug" value="true"/>
         <arg value="-CmdFile"/>
         <arg value="${basedir}/Export_BAM_Objects.xml"/>
      </java>
   </target>
   <!--import BAM DOs through icommand-->
   <target name="import" description="Import BAM dataobjects and reports" depends="config">
      <java classname="oracle.bam.icommand.Application" fork="true" dir="${src.dir}" classpathref="bamClasspath">
         <sysproperty key="oracle.bam.debug" value="true"/>
         <arg value="-CmdFile"/>
         <arg value="${basedir}/Import_BAM_Objects.xml"/>
      </java>
   </target>
   <!--Modify bam icommand files-->
   <target name="config">
       <!--replace $project.home$ with the actual project directory inside the command file-->
      <replace file="Export_BAM_Objects.xml" token="$BAM_PROJ_HOME$" value="${basedir}/BAMObjects"/>
      <replace file="Import_BAM_Objects.xml" token="$BAM_PROJ_HOME$" value="${basedir}/BAMObjects"/>
   </target>
</project>

• To run the scripts from the server copy the BAMConfig folder with all the contents to the server.Set the environment variables ORACLE_HOME and ORACLE_COMMON_HOME(e.gORACLE_HOME=/oracle/Middleware/Oracle_SOA1;export ORACLE_HOME;ORACLE_COMMON_HOME=oracle/Middleware/oracle_common;export ORACLE_COMMON_HOME) and also set the PATH to ANT(e.g export PATH=$PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/../modules/org.apache.ant_1.7.1/bin)

         Execute the ant scripts

          ant –f BAMBuild.xml export

        The objects will be exported based on the commands in the Export_BAM_Objects.xml as an xml file   to the BAMObjects folder

         ant –f BAMBuild.xml import

           The xml file contents will be imported to BAM based on the commands in the Import_BAM_Objects.xml

• To run the script from the client machine the JDeveloper with the same version as the BAM server should be installed.Set the ORACLE_HOME (e.g C:\EnvSetup\MiddlewareBlog\jdeveloper) and ORACLE_COMMON_HOME(e.g C:\EnvSetup\MiddlewareBlog\oracle_common) environment variables and also set the PATH to ANT

        Copy the commons-codec-1.3.jar file from the server location   ${env.ORACLE_HOME}/bam/modules/oracle.bam.thirdparty_11.1.1 to the <JDEV_HOME>\ jdeveloper\bam\modules\oracle.bam.thirdparty_11.1.1

Run the ant script

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There are multiple approaches to send the event data to Oracle BAM.This document explains some of the approaches to send the data toOracle BAM.

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In this blog I will be explaining about the steps required to build a simple ADF page using BAM data control.

Creating the BAM Connection:

• Open the JDeveloper
• Create new BAM Connection

• Enter the BAM Server details as shown below. 

• Click on Finish and Test the connection
• Create the data object in BAM through Architect view (I am using the existing data object Employee)

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Before following this post the email drivers details should be configured in UMS (through em console).

By default AlertActionAllowExternalEmail property in the BAMCommonConfig.xml file is set as false.

Change the value of AlertActionAllowExternalEmail property to true in the BAMCommonConfig.xml file to enable the external email feature. The BAMCommonConfig.xml file can be located in the following location BAM_DOMAIN_HOME/BAMDomain/config/fmwconfig/servers/BAMManagedServer/applications/oracle-bam_11.1.1/config.

 Create an Alert to send the report to the External Email:

• Login to the Architect window; select the Alert from the drop down list and click on Create New Alert.

Creating the reports based on the data from weblogic JMS queue – Oracle BAM

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This post explains the steps to create a report based on the data from the weblogic Queue.

Create the data object:

Create a data object with required fields to populate the data from the JMS Queue (Refer the previous post for the steps to create the Data Object).Here I am creating the Employee data object with three fields.

Configure the External Messaging Source:

These steps configure the JMS queue and map the JMS data to the data object (Employee) created in the previous step.

• Click on Architect button from the Start up page.
• Select External Message Source from the drop down list.
• Enter the name for the message source and also the JNDI Service provider URL, Queue connection factory name and Queue name.
• Select the JMS Message Type as TextMessage.
• Select the Data object name as Employee created in the previous step and also select the operation as Insert.