Purging Application Not Available - Oracle OSB

Purging Application Not Available - Oracle OSB

While we are trying to purge the reports from OSB sbconsole we may get the following message in the console.

"Purging Application Not Available.Message Reporting Purger is not deployed, or it is not active"

The issue is due to the the application "Message Reporting Purger" might not be deployed or not in active state.

Verify the application is active from the admin console. If the application is not deployed then deploy the application 
from the following location oracle/product/soa/11g/fmw/Oracle_OSB/lib/common/msgpurger. ear with the application name 
"Message Reporting Purger"

Configuring Proxy Sever for Oracle Service Bus(OSB)

Configuring Proxy Sever for Oracle Service Bus(OSB)

Sometimes we may required to use the Proxy server in OSB for outbound communication.

The Proxy Server can be configured to the Business Service as below.

Configure the Proxy Server:

The first step is we have to configure the Proxy server in the OSB global resources.

Login to OSB an click on System Administration and Proxy Servers in the Global resources section.
Click on Add button

Enter the Proxy server details and click on Add button in the Host-Port Parameters section.

If the the authentication is required then provide the username/password.

Save the configurations.

Re-Targeting the singleton Applications to a single OSB node through WLST script

Re-Targeting the singleton Applications to a single OSB node through WLST script

While setting up a OSB cluster environment some of the singleton applications should be targeted to a single node in the cluster.Also we have to make sure these applications are targeted to the active OSB node in the cluster.

The below WLST script will help us to re-target the singleton applications to a single active OSB node.

ReTargetSingletontoActiveNode.py

adminURL='t3://localhost:8080
adminUserName='weblogic'
adminPassword=welcome1
connect(adminUserName, adminPassword, adminURL)

runtime()
edit()
startEdit()

print "Targeting Intiated..."

cd('/AppDeployments/ALSB Domain Singleton Marker Application')
set('Targets',jarray.array([], ObjectName))
set('Targets',jarray.array([ObjectName('com.bea:Name=OSB2,Type=Server')], ObjectName))
print "Targeted the Domain Singleton Marker Application to OSB2..."

cd('/AppDeployments/ALSB Cluster Singleton Marker Application')
set('Targets',jarray.array([], ObjectName))
set('Targets',jarray.array([ObjectName('com.bea:Name=OSB2,Type=Server')], ObjectName))
print "Targeted the Cluster Singleton Marker Application to OSB2..."

cd('/AppDeployments/Message Reporting Purger')
set('Targets',jarray.array([], ObjectName))
set('Targets',jarray.array([ObjectName('com.bea:Name=OSB2,Type=Server')], ObjectName))
print "Targeted the Message Reporting Purger to OSB2..."

activate()
exit()

Unable to obtain metrics data from the server - Oracle OSB Non Clustered Environment

Unable to obtain metrics data from the server - Oracle OSB Non Clustered Environment

In Oracle OSB Monitoring Dashboard page we were receiving the warning message "Unable to obtain metrics data from the server" and not able to see any of the collected metrics.

This is a single node non clustered Dev setup, the OSB is running part of the AdminServer.
After analysis the issue is with the configuration of the singleton applications - ALSB Cluster Singleton Marker Application and ALSB Domain Singleton Marker Application.

Unfortunately the ALSB Domain Singleton Marker Application got undeployed and ALSB Cluster Singleton Marker Application was deployed as library instead of Enterprise Application.

Polling the Message from WebSphere MQ using MQ Transport in OSB

Polling the Message from WebSphere MQ using MQ Transport in OSB

OSB MQ transport help us to post/receive message from the WebSphere MQ. The MQ transport can be configured to poll the queue for the new messages.

This blog explains how to configure the OSB Proxy Service to poll the Queue for new messages.

Steps to configure the OSB Proxy Service to poll the Queue for new messages

Create a OSB Project and Create a Resource of  type MQ Connection.

Provide the MQ Connection details like host name,port number,Queue Manager Name, Channel Name and also provide Connection Pool Size, Connection Timeout and Connection Max Wait. Provide the Static Service Account if User Name/Password is required to connect to MQ and leave the Connection type as default value(tcp mode). Save the connection details.