mardi 27 septembre 2016

@OOW16 PeopleSoft and the Oracle Cloud Advantage

It's now been 10 month Oracle delivered PeopleSoft Cloud Architecture.
The first version was clearly oriented on Linux and Oracle database (db on Linux) which matches the Oracle Cloud ecosystem.

The next big step will add PeopleSoft Cloud Manager to model your Infrastructure and deploy in Oracle Cloud.

Though Oracle announced Deployment Packages (DPK) on  all platforms (IBM Power, HP-UX, Solaris ...) in the next PeopleTools 8.56 (in 2017) this does not leave big room for other strategies unless competitors delivers:
  - tools to deploy PeopleSoft on other hardware IBM Power, HP-UX ...
  - build Cloud offer on IBM Power or HP-UX ...

This is clearly not a direction to look at, and we should better concentrate on the battle between Azure, AWS and Oracle Cloud.

lundi 26 septembre 2016

Elasticsearch to replace Oracle SES

Oracle SES extended PeopleSoft search for several years but proved to be complicated to implement and with some limitations (indexing required frequently etc ...)
We are now waiting for Elasticsearch to be delivered in PeopleTools 8.56 and backported to 8.55.

To ease the deployment, Oracle has included a feature where you can switch to Elastic without stopping PeopleSoft.

You can configure several search sources with a priority. Once decommissioning SES, you will transparently switch to Elastic !

PeopleSoft Cloud Manager and PeopleTools 8.56 @OOW2016

The 2 more interesting @OOW2016 are definitely PeopleSoft Cloud Manager and PeopleTools 8.56 They were presented at Oracle Open World but we don't have any schedule yet.
Let's assume the plans are:
  - PeopleSoft Cloud Manager in December 2016
  - PeopleTools 8.56 in February 2017

mardi 17 juin 2014

PeopleTools Automated Environment Configuration - PTEM

A while ago Oracle started to deliver PeopleSoft appliances on VirtualBox...
To do this they developed tool-kits to be able to deliver a self configurable system like PTEM.

With "PeopleTools Automated Environment Configuration" you can configure the components that most admins are configuring using SQL refresh scripts.
Unfortunately some parameters cannot be refreshed using SQL: ie the Integration Gateway properties file ... but you can do it with PTEM !

With this new feature you can:
  1. Rename Integration Broker Node
  2.  Configure Integration Broker Node
  3. Configure Gateway node
  4. Configure gateway properties file (integrationGateway.properties)
  5. Configure Process Scheduler Report Node
  6. Configure Process Scheduler Server
  7. Configure Secure Enterprise Search (SES)
  8.  Deploy and schedule Search Index
  9. Configure PeopleSoft Test Framework (PTF)

Even if it's not yet supported by Oracle you can use it to build new environment or to refresh environments.
If you have VirtualBox PeopleSoft images you can also have a look how it's done.

The main steps are:

1) set variables
export PTEM_PROP=ptem_YourEnv.properties
echo $PTEM_PROP

2) Check the server configuration file
echo $PS_SERVER_CFG

3) Run PTEM configuration
psae -CT ORACLE -CD ORACLE_SID -CO PS -CP PS -R PTEM_CONFIG -AI PTEM_CONFIG