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Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

Part I Introduction

1 Introduction and Roadmap

• 1.1 Document Scope and Audience
• 1.2 Guide to this Document
• 1.3 How To Use the Performance Recommendations in this Guide
• 1.4 Related Documentation

2 Top Performance Areas

• 2.1 About Identifying Top Performance Areas
• 2.2 Securing Sufficient Hardware Resources
• 2.3 Tuning the Operating System
• 2.4 Tuning Java Virtual Machines (JVMs)
  • 2.4.1 Configuring Garbage Collection
    • 2.4.1.1 Specifying Heap Size Values
    • 2.4.1.2 Selecting a Garbage Collection Scheme
    • 2.4.1.3 Disabling Explicit Garbage Collection
  • 2.4.2 Logging Low Memory Conditions
  • 2.4.3 Monitoring and Profiling the JVM
• 2.5 Tuning the WebLogic Server
• 2.6 Tuning Database Parameters
  • 2.6.1 Tuning Database Parameters
    • 2.6.1.1 Initialization Parameters for Oracle 10g
    • 2.6.1.2 Initialization Parameters for Oracle 11g
  • 2.6.2 Tuning Redo Logs Location and Sizing
  • 2.6.3 Tuning Automatic Segment-Space Management (ASSM)
• 2.7 Reusing Database Connections
• 2.8 Enabling Data Source Statement Caching
• 2.9 Controlling Concurrency
  • 2.9.1 Setting Server Connection Limits
    • 2.9.1.1 MaxClients/ThreadsPerChild
    • 2.9.1.2 KeepAlive
    • 2.9.1.3 Tuning HTTP Server Modules
  • 2.9.2 Configuring Connection Pools
  • 2.9.3 Tuning the WebLogic Sever Thread Pool
  • 2.9.4 Tuning Oracle WebCenter Concurrency
  • 2.9.5 Tuning BPEL Concurrency
• 2.10 Setting Logging Levels

3 Performance Planning

• 3.1 About Oracle Fusion Middleware Performance Planning
• 3.2 Performance Planning Methodology
  • 3.2.1 Define Your Performance Objectives
    • 3.2.1.1 Define Operational Requirements
    • 3.2.1.2 Identify Performance Goals
    • 3.2.1.3 Understand User Expectations
    • 3.2.1.4 Conduct Performance Evaluations
  • 3.2.2 Design Applications for Performance and Scalability
  • 3.2.3 Monitor and Measure Your Performance Metrics

4 Monitoring Oracle Fusion Middleware

• 4.1 About Oracle Fusion Middleware Management Tools
  • 4.1.1 Measuring Your Performance Metrics
• 4.2 Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
  • 4.2.1 Viewing Performance Metrics Using Fusion Middleware Control
• 4.3 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console
• 4.4 WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF)
• 4.5 WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
  • 4.5.1 Using Custom WLST Commands
    • 4.5.1.1 Using WLST Commands for System Components
• 4.6 DMS Spy Servlet
  • 4.6.1 Viewing Performance Metrics Using the Spy Servlet
  • 4.6.2 Using the DMS Spy Servlet
• 4.7 Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server
• 4.8 Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control
• 4.9 Native Operating System Performance Commands
• 4.10 Network Performance Monitoring Tools

Part II Core Components

5 Understanding the Oracle Dynamic Monitoring Service

• 5.1 About Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS)
  • 5.1.1 Understanding Common DMS Terms and Concepts
    • 5.1.1.1 DMS Tracing and Events
    • 5.1.1.2 DMS Nouns
      • 5.1.1.2.1 General DMS Naming
      • 5.1.1.2.2 General DMS Naming Conventions and Character Sets
      • 5.1.1.2.3 Noun and Noun Type Naming Conventions
    • 5.1.1.3 DMS Sensors
      • 5.1.1.3.1 DMS PhaseEvent Sensors
      • 5.1.1.3.2 DMS Event Sensors
      • 5.1.1.3.3 DMS State Sensors
      • 5.1.1.3.4 Sensor Naming Conventions
• 5.2 Understanding DMS Availability
• 5.3 Understanding DMS Architecture
• 5.4 Viewing DMS Metrics
  • 5.4.1 Viewing Metrics Using the Spy Servlet
  • 5.4.2 Viewing Metrics with WLDF (WebLogic Diagnostic Framework)
  • 5.4.3 Viewing metrics with WLST (Oracle WebLogic Server)
  • 5.4.4 Viewing metrics with JConsole
  • 5.4.5 Viewing metrics with Oracle Enterprise Manager
  • 5.4.6 Viewing metrics using WSADMIN (IBM WebSphere)
• 5.5 Accessing DMS Metrics with WLDF
• 5.6 DMS Execution Context
  • 5.6.1 DMS Execution Requests and Sub-Tasks
  • 5.6.2 DMS Execution Context Usage
  • 5.6.3 DMS Execution Context Communication
• 5.7 DMS Tracing and Events
  • 5.7.1 Configuring the DMS Event System
    • 5.7.1.1 Adding and Editing Filters
    • 5.7.1.2 Adding and Editing Destinations
    • 5.7.1.3 Adding and Editing Event Routes
    • 5.7.1.4 Compound Operations
  • 5.7.2 Configuring Destinations
    • 5.7.2.1 LoggerDestination
      • 5.7.2.1.1 Static Loggers and Handlers
      • 5.7.2.1.2 Dynamic Loggers and Handlers
      • 5.7.2.1.3 Default Locations of the logging.xml File
      • 5.7.2.1.4 Using a CLI Command to Query the Trace Log File
    • 5.7.2.2 MBean Creator Destination
      • 5.7.2.2.1 Metric MBean Object Name
    • 5.7.2.3 HTTP Request Tracker Destination
      • 5.7.2.3.1 Executing the HTTP Request Tracker Dump
    • 5.7.2.4 JRockit Flight Recorder Destination
      • 5.7.2.4.1 Dynamically Derived JFR Event Types – Names, Values and Descriptions
      • 5.7.2.4.2 Examples of Dynamically Derived Producers and Events
  • 5.7.3 Understanding DMS Event Output
  • 5.7.4 Understanding DMS Event Actions
• 5.8 DMS Best Practices

6 Oracle HTTP Server Performance Tuning

• 6.1 About Oracle HTTP Server
• 6.2 Monitoring Oracle HTTP Server Performance
• 6.3 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 6.3.1 Tuning Oracle HTTP Server Directives
  • 6.3.2 Reducing Httpd Process Availability with Persistent Connections
  • 6.3.3 Logging Options for Oracle HTTP Server
    • 6.3.3.1 Access Logging
    • 6.3.3.2 Configuring the HostNameLookups Directive
    • 6.3.3.3 Error logging
• 6.4 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 6.4.1 Tuning Oracle HTTP Server Security
    • 6.4.1.1 Tuning Oracle HTTP Server Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
      • 6.4.1.1.1 Caching SSL on Oracle HTTP Server
      • 6.4.1.1.2 Using SSL Application Level Data Encryption
      • 6.4.1.1.3 Tuning SSL Performance
    • 6.4.1.2 Tuning Oracle HTTP Server Port Tunneling
  • 6.4.2 Tuning Oracle HTTP Server
    • 6.4.2.1 Analyzing Static Versus Dynamic Requests
    • 6.4.2.2 Managing PL/SQL Requests
    • 6.4.2.3 Limiting the Number of Enabled Modules
    • 6.4.2.4 Tuning the File Descriptor Limit

7 Oracle Metadata Service (MDS) Performance Tuning

• 7.1 About Oracle Metadata Services (MDS)
• 7.2 Monitoring Oracle Metadata Service Performance
• 7.3 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 7.3.1 Tuning Database Repository
    • 7.3.1.1 Collecting Schema Statistics
    • 7.3.1.2 Increasing Redo Log Size
    • 7.3.1.3 Reclaiming Disk Space
    • 7.3.1.4 Monitoring the Database Performance
  • 7.3.2 Tuning Cache Configuration
    • 7.3.2.1 Enabling Document Cache
  • 7.3.3 Purging Document Version History
    • 7.3.3.1 Auto Purge
    • 7.3.3.2 Manual Purge
  • 7.3.4 Using Database Polling Interval for Change Detection
• 7.4 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 7.4.1 Analyzing Performance Impact from Customization

Part III Oracle Fusion Middleware Server Components

8 Oracle Application Development Framework Performance Tuning

• 8.1 About Oracle ADF
• 8.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 8.2.1 Oracle ADF Faces Configuration and Profiling
  • 8.2.2 Performance Considerations for ADF Faces
  • 8.2.3 Tuning ADF Faces Component Attributes
  • 8.2.4 Performance Considerations for Table and Tree Components
  • 8.2.5 Performance Considerations for autoSuggest
  • 8.2.6 Data Delivery - Lazy versus Immediate
  • 8.2.7 Performance Considerations for DVT Components
• 8.3 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 8.3.1 ADF Server Performance
    • 8.3.1.1 HTTP Session Timeout Tuning
    • 8.3.1.2 View Objects Tuning
      • 8.3.1.2.1 Creating View Objects
      • 8.3.1.2.2 Configuring View Object Data Fetching
      • 8.3.1.2.3 Additional View Object Configurations
    • 8.3.1.3 Batch Processing
    • 8.3.1.4 RangeSize Tuning
    • 8.3.1.5 Application Module Design Considerations
    • 8.3.1.6 Application Module Pooling
      • 8.3.1.6.1 General AM Pool Configurations
      • 8.3.1.6.2 AM Pool Sizing Configurations
      • 8.3.1.6.3 AM Pool Resource Cleanup Configurations
    • 8.3.1.7 ADFc: Region Usage
    • 8.3.1.8 Defer Task Flow Execution
    • 8.3.1.9 Task Flow in a Popup
    • 8.3.1.10 Configuring the Task Flow Inside Switcher
    • 8.3.1.11 Reusing Static Data
    • 8.3.1.12 Conditional Validations

9 Oracle TopLink (EclipseLink) JPA Performance Tuning

• 9.1 About Oracle TopLink and EclipseLink
• 9.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 9.2.1 Creating Efficient SQL Statements and Queries
    • 9.2.1.1 Tuning Entity Relationships Query Parameters
  • 9.2.2 Tuning Cache Configuration
    • 9.2.2.1 Cache Refreshing Scenarios
    • 9.2.2.2 Tuning the Locking Mode Policies
  • 9.2.3 Tuning the Mapping and Descriptor Configurations
  • 9.2.4 Using Data Partitioning
• 9.3 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 9.3.1 Integrating with Oracle Coherence
  • 9.3.2 Analyzing EclipseLink JPA Entity Performance

10 Oracle Web Cache Performance Tuning

• 10.1 About Oracle Web Cache
• 10.2 Performance Considerations
  • 10.2.1 Optimizing Hardware Resources
    • 10.2.1.1 Hardware Resources
    • 10.2.1.2 Memory Configuration
      • 10.2.1.2.1 Configuring WebCache Memory
  • 10.2.2 Optimizing Platform Connections
    • 10.2.2.1 UNIX Connections
    • 10.2.2.2 Windows Connections
• 10.3 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 10.3.1 Optimizing Network Connections
    • 10.3.1.1 Network Bandwidth
    • 10.3.1.2 Network Connections
    • 10.3.1.3 Network-Related Parameters
  • 10.3.2 Increasing Cache Hit Rates
  • 10.3.3 Optimizing Response Time
• 10.4 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 10.4.1 Optimizing Performance with Oracle ADF

Part IV SOA Suite Components

11 General Tuning for SOA Suite Components

• 11.1 About SOA Suite Configuration Properties
• 11.2 SOA Infrastructure Configurations
  • 11.2.1 Audit Level
  • 11.2.2 Composite Instance State
  • 11.2.3 instanceTrackingAuditTrailThreshold
  • 11.2.4 Logging Level
• 11.3 Modifying SOA Configuration Parameters
• 11.4 Tuning JVM for SOA Performance
• 11.5 Tuning Database Settings for SOA Performance
  • 11.5.1 Configuring Data Sources for SOA
  • 11.5.2 Managing Tables and Indexes
  • 11.5.3 Tuning Weblogic Server Performance for SOA

12 Oracle Business Rules Performance Tuning

• 12.1 About Oracle Business Rules
• 12.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 12.2.1 Use Java Beans
  • 12.2.2 Assert Child Facts instead of Multiple Dereferences
  • 12.2.3 Avoid Side Affects in Rule Conditions
  • 12.2.4 Avoid Expensive Operations in Rule Conditions
  • 12.2.5 Consider Pattern Ordering
  • 12.2.6 Consider the Ordering of Tests in Rule Conditions
  • 12.2.7 Use Functions Instead of AssertXPath and Supports XPath

13 Oracle BPEL Process Manager Performance Tuning

• 13.1 About BPEL Process Manager
• 13.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 13.2.1 BPEL Threading Model
    • 13.2.1.1 Dispatcher System Threads
    • 13.2.1.2 Dispatcher Invoke Threads
    • 13.2.1.3 Dispatcher Engine Threads
    • 13.2.1.4 Dispatcher Maximum Request Depth
  • 13.2.2 Tuning Audit Levels
    • 13.2.2.1 AuditLevel
    • 13.2.2.2 AuditDetailThreshold
    • 13.2.2.3 AuditStorePolicy
    • 13.2.2.4 AuditFlushByteThreshold
    • 13.2.2.5 AuditFlushEventThreshold
  • 13.2.3 Tuning Database Persistence for BPEL
  • 13.2.4 Tuning Invoke Messages
  • 13.2.5 Tuning Processed Requests List
  • 13.2.6 Tuning XML Document Persistence
  • 13.2.7 Validating XML
  • 13.2.8 Tuning Wait Time
  • 13.2.9 Tuning Instance Key Block Size
  • 13.2.10 Tuning Automatic Recovery Attempts
• 13.3 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 13.3.1 Tuning BPEL Properties Set Inside a Composite
    • 13.3.1.1 Tuning Component Properties
      • 13.3.1.1.1 inMemoryOptimization
      • 13.3.1.1.2 completionPersistPolicy
      • 13.3.1.1.3 auditLevel
    • 13.3.1.2 Tuning Partner Link Properties
      • 13.3.1.2.1 idempotent
      • 13.3.1.2.2 nonBlockingInvoke
      • 13.3.1.2.3 validateXML
  • 13.3.2 Identifying Tables Impacted By Instance Data Growth

14 Oracle Business Activity Monitoring Performance Tuning

• 14.1 About Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
• 14.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 14.2.1 BAM Server Tuning
    • 14.2.1.1 Set the ViewSetSharing and ElementCountLimit Parameters
    • 14.2.1.2 Enable the Async Servlet
  • 14.2.2 BAM Dashboard Tuning
    • 14.2.2.1 Tune the Active Data Retrieval Interval
  • 14.2.3 BAM Database Tuning
  • 14.2.4 Internet Browser Tuning
    • 14.2.4.1 Set iActiveDataScriptsCleanupFactor
    • 14.2.4.2 Set Browser Cache Settings
  • 14.2.5 Enterprise Message Source Tuning
    • 14.2.5.1 Message Batching

15 Oracle Mediator Performance Tuning

• 15.1 About Oracle Mediator
• 15.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 15.2.1 Tuning metricsLevel
  • 15.2.2 Using Domain-Value Maps
  • 15.2.3 Deploying Deferred Routing Rules
  • 15.2.4 Tuning Error and Retry Parameters
  • 15.2.5 Setting the Audit Level
  • 15.2.6 Using Resequencer for Messages
• 15.3 Tuning Event Delivery Network (EDN)

16 Oracle Business Process Management Performance Tuning

• 16.1 About Oracle Business Process Management
• 16.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 16.2.1 Audit Level
  • 16.2.2 LargeDocumentThreshold
  • 16.2.3 Dispatcher System Threads
  • 16.2.4 Dispatcher Engine Threads
  • 16.2.5 Dispatcher Invoke Threads
• 16.3 Tuning Oracle Workspace and Worklist Applications
• 16.4 Tuning Process Analytics
  • 16.4.1 Process Measurement
  • 16.4.2 Tuning Process Cubes

17 Oracle Human Workflow Performance Tuning

• 17.1 About Oracle Human Workflow
• 17.2 Monitoring Human Workflow Performance
• 17.3 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 17.3.1 Minimizing Client Response Time
  • 17.3.2 Choosing the Right Workflow Service Client
  • 17.3.3 Narrowing Qualifying Tasks with Precise Filters
  • 17.3.4 Retrieving a Subset of Qualifying Tasks (Paging)
  • 17.3.5 Fetching Only the Information Needed for a Qualifying Task
  • 17.3.6 Reducing the Number of Return Query Columns
  • 17.3.7 Using the Aggregate API for Charting Task Statistics
  • 17.3.8 Using the Count API Methods for Counting the Number of Tasks
  • 17.3.9 Creating Indexes On Demand for Flexfields
  • 17.3.10 Using the doesTaskExist Method
• 17.4 Advanced Tuning Configurations
  • 17.4.1 Improving Server Performance
    • 17.4.1.1 Archive Completed Instances Periodically
    • 17.4.1.2 Select the Appropriate Workflow Callback Functionality
    • 17.4.1.3 Minimize Performance Impacts from Notification
    • 17.4.1.4 Deploy Clustered Nodes
  • 17.4.2 Completing Workflows Faster
    • 17.4.2.1 Specifying Escalation Rules
    • 17.4.2.2 Using User and Group Rules for Automated Assignment
    • 17.4.2.3 Using Task Views to Prioritize Work
  • 17.4.3 Tuning Identity Provider
  • 17.4.4 Tuning the Database

18 Oracle Adapters Performance Tuning

• 18.1 About Oracle Adapters
• 18.2 Oracle JCA Adapters for Files/FTP
  • 18.2.1 Inbound Throttling Best Practices
  • 18.2.2 Outbound Throttling Best Practices
  • 18.2.3 Outbound Performance Best Practices
• 18.3 Oracle JCA Adapter for Database Tuning
  • 18.3.1 JCA Adapter Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 18.3.2 Existence Checking
  • 18.3.3 Throttling
    • 18.3.3.1 Formula
    • 18.3.3.2 RowsPerPollingInterval and MaxTransactionSize
    • 18.3.3.3 Configuration
• 18.4 Oracle Socket Adapter Tuning
• 18.5 Oracle SOA JMS Adapter Tuning
  • 18.5.1 adapter.jms.receive.threads Property
• 18.6 Oracle AQ Adapter Tuning
  • 18.6.1 adapter.aq.dequeue.threads Property
• 18.7 Oracle MQ Adapter Tuning

19 User Messaging Service Performance Tuning

• 19.1 About Oracle User Messaging Services
• 19.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 19.2.1 SMPP Driver Performance Tuning
  • 19.2.2 Email Driver Polling Frequency
• 19.3 Database Tuning for Optimal Throughput

20 Oracle B2B Performance Tuning

• 20.1 About Oracle B2B
• 20.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 20.2.1 Tuning MDS Cache Size
  • 20.2.2 Tuning Number of Threads
  • 20.2.3 Tuning the JMS Multiple Out Queues Setting

21 Oracle Service Bus Performance Tuning

• 21.1 About Oracle Service Bus
• 21.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 21.2.1 JVM Memory Tuning
  • 21.2.2 WebLogic Server Tuning
    • 21.2.2.1 Domain Mode
    • 21.2.2.2 WebLogic Server Logging Levels
    • 21.2.2.3 HTTP Access Logging
    • 21.2.2.4 JMS Tuning
    • 21.2.2.5 Connection Backlog Buffering
• 21.3 Tuning OSB Operational Settings
  • 21.3.1 OSB Monitoring
  • 21.3.2 OSB Tracing
  • 21.3.3 Cache Tuning for Proxy Service Run-Time Data
• 21.4 Transport Tuning (Oracle WebLogic Server and Oracle Service Bus)
  • 21.4.1 Polling Interval
  • 21.4.2 Read Limit
• 21.5 Design Time Considerations for Proxy Applications
• 21.6 Design Considerations for XQuery Tuning

22 Oracle Business Intelligence Performance Tuning

• 22.1 About Oracle Business Intelligence
• 22.2 Oracle BI Server Query Performance Tuning
• 22.3 Oracle BI Server Query Cache Performance Tuning
• 22.4 Oracle BI Web Client Performance Tuning

Part V Oracle Identity and Access Management

23 Oracle Internet Directory Performance Tuning

• 23.1 About Oracle Internet Directory
• 23.2 Monitoring Oracle Internet Directory Performance
  • 23.2.1 Monitoring Performance on UNIX and Windows Systems
  • 23.2.2 Obtaining Recommendations by Using the Tuning and Sizing Wizard
  • 23.2.3 Updating Database Statistics by Using oidstats.sql
  • 23.2.4 Setting Performance-Related Replication Configuration Attributes
  • 23.2.5 Managing System Configuration Attributes
  • 23.2.6 Setting Garbage Collection Configuration Attributes
    • 23.2.6.1 Modifying Changelog Purging Attributes by Using ldapmodify
    • 23.2.6.2 Modifying Changelog Purging in Oracle Directory Services Manager
• 23.3 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 23.3.1 Database Parameters
  • 23.3.2 LDAP Server Attributes
  • 23.3.3 Database Statistics
  • 23.3.4 Low-Priority Tuning Considerations
    • 23.3.4.1 Number of Entries to be Returned by a Search
    • 23.3.4.2 Enabling the Group Cache
    • 23.3.4.3 Timeout for Write Operations
• 23.4 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 23.4.1 Replication or Oracle Directory Integration Platform
  • 23.4.2 Replication Server Configuration
  • 23.4.3 Garbage Collection Configuration
  • 23.4.4 Oracle Internet Directory with Oracle RAC Database
  • 23.4.5 Password Policies and Verifier Profiles
  • 23.4.6 Server Entry Cache
    • 23.4.6.1 Benefits of Using the Entry Cache
    • 23.4.6.2 Values for Configuring the Entry Cache
  • 23.4.7 Result Set Cache
    • 23.4.7.1 When to Use Result Set Cache
    • 23.4.7.2 Benefits of Using Result Set Cache
    • 23.4.7.3 Values for Configuring Result Set Cache
  • 23.4.8 Tuning Security Event Tracking
  • 23.4.9 Optimizing Searches
    • 23.4.9.1 Optimizing Searches for Large Group Entries
      • 23.4.9.1.1 Entry Cache Enabled Configuration
      • 23.4.9.1.2 Entry Cache Disabled Configuration.
    • 23.4.9.2 Optimizing Searches for Skewed Attributes
    • 23.4.9.3 Optimizing Performance of Complex Search Filters
• 23.5 Specific Use Cases That Require Additional Tuning
  • 23.5.1 Bulk Load Operations
  • 23.5.2 Bulk Delete Operations
  • 23.5.3 High LDAP Write Operations Load

24 Oracle Virtual Directory Performance Tuning

• 24.1 About Oracle Virtual Directory
• 24.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 24.2.1 Tuning the Ping Interval
  • 24.2.2 Tuning Worker Threads
  • 24.2.3 Tuning Work Queue Capacity
  • 24.2.4 Tuning the LDAP Connection Pool
  • 24.2.5 Tuning Heap Size
• 24.3 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 24.3.1 Tuning Database Adapters
  • 24.3.2 Tuning Join Adapters
  • 24.3.3 Tuning Filters
  • 24.3.4 Tuning Load Balancer Local Store Adapter
  • 24.3.5 Tuning the Cache Plug-In
    • 24.3.5.1 Cache Hit Logic
    • 24.3.5.2 Cache Plug-in Memory Management
  • 24.3.6 Tuning LDAP Listener
  • 24.3.7 Tuning the Server for OVD

25 Oracle Access Management Performance Tuning

• 25.1 About Oracle Access Management
• 25.2 Performance Considerations for Oracle Access Management Services
  • 25.2.1 Understanding Your Current Environment
  • 25.2.2 Controlling Network Latency
  • 25.2.3 Enabling DMS Performance Instrumentation
• 25.3 Tuning Oracle Access Management Access Manager
  • 25.3.1 Basic Tuning Considerations for Access Manager
    • 25.3.1.1 Tuning the Web Tier
      • 25.3.1.1.1 Tuning the Oracle HTTP Server
      • 25.3.1.1.2 Tuning Access Manager Webgate
    • 25.3.1.2 Managing Policy Components
    • 25.3.1.3 Tuning the Data Tier Connections
  • 25.3.2 Advanced Tuning Considerations Access Manager
    • 25.3.2.1 Tuning Oracle Coherence
    • 25.3.2.2 Setting the Java Message Bean Pool Size
    • 25.3.2.3 Tuning the Server Cache
      • 25.3.2.3.1 Tuning Identity Store Cache
    • 25.3.2.4 Tuning Webgate Caches
      • 25.3.2.4.1 Introducing Webgate Caches
      • 25.3.2.4.2 Reducing Network Traffic Between Components
      • 25.3.2.4.3 Changing the Webgate Polling Frequency
    • 25.3.2.5 Changing Request Cache Type
    • 25.3.2.6 Tuning Authentication Plug-Ins
  • 25.3.3 Specific Use Cases That Require Additional Tuning for Access Manager
    • 25.3.3.1 Managing Access Manager Sessions
• 25.4 Tuning Oracle Access Management Identity Federation
  • 25.4.1 Basic Tuning Considerations for Identity Federation
    • 25.4.1.1 Tuning the Load Balancer and HTTP Server
    • 25.4.1.2 Tuning SOAP Connections
    • 25.4.1.3 Tuning the Data Tier Connections
  • 25.4.2 Advanced Tuning Considerations for Identity Federation
    • 25.4.2.1 Tuning Oracle Coherence
    • 25.4.2.2 Tuning Identity Store
    • 25.4.2.3 Tuning Protocol Binding
    • 25.4.2.4 Tuning the Browser POST and Artifact Single Sign-On Profiles
  • 25.4.3 Specific Use Cases That Require Additional Tuning for Identity Federation
    • 25.4.3.1 Message Signing versus Token Signing
• 25.5 Tuning Oracle Access Management Security Token Service
  • 25.5.1 Basic Tuning Considerations for Security Token Service
    • 25.5.1.1 Tuning the Load Balancer and HTTP Server
    • 25.5.1.2 Tuning SOAP Connections
    • 25.5.1.3 Tuning the Data Tier Connections
  • 25.5.2 Advanced Tuning Considerations for Security Token Service
    • 25.5.2.1 Tuning the WS-Security Policy
• 25.6 Tuning Oracle Access Management Mobile and Social
  • 25.6.1 Basic Tuning Considerations for Mobile and Social
    • 25.6.1.1 Tuning the Access Management Authentication Service Provider
    • 25.6.1.2 Tuning the User Profile Service Provider

26 Oracle Identity Manager Performance Tuning

• 26.1 About Oracle Identity Manager
• 26.2 Monitoring Oracle Identity Manager Performance
• 26.3 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 26.3.1 Tuning and Managing Application Cache
    • 26.3.1.1 Tuning Oracle Identity Manager Cache
    • 26.3.1.2 Purging the Cache
  • 26.3.2 Tuning the Application Server for Oracle Identity Manager
    • 26.3.2.1 Tuning JVM Memory Settings for Oracle Identity Manager
    • 26.3.2.2 Tuning the JDBC Connection Pool for Oracle Identity Manager
    • 26.3.2.3 Tuning the Number of Message Driven Beans for Oracle Identity Manager
    • 26.3.2.4 Tuning the User Interface Threads for Oracle Identity Manager
    • 26.3.2.5 Disabling the Reloading of Adapters and Plug-in Configuration
    • 26.3.2.6 Changing the Number of Open File Descriptors for UNIX (Optional)
    • 26.3.2.7 Tuning the JVM Garbage Collection for Solaris Sparc T3 or T4
  • 26.3.3 Tuning Database Parameters for Oracle Identity Manager
    • 26.3.3.1 Sample Instance Configuration Parameters
    • 26.3.3.2 Physical Data Placement
      • 26.3.3.2.1 Tasks Tables
      • 26.3.3.2.2 Reconcliation Tables
      • 26.3.3.2.3 Audit Tables
      • 26.3.3.2.4 Redo-Log Files
      • 26.3.3.2.5 Keep Pool Changes
  • 26.3.4 Tuning Oracle Internet Directory
• 26.4 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 26.4.1 Tuning Connectors
  • 26.4.2 Tuning LDAP Synchronization
    • 26.4.2.1 Increasing the Max Connection Pool for Oracle Identity Manager
      • 26.4.2.1.1 Increasing the LDAP Synchronization Batch Size
      • 26.4.2.1.2 Setting Configuration Parameters in OVD
      • 26.4.2.1.3 Setting Configuration Parameters in OID
      • 26.4.2.1.4 Setting Configuration Parameters in Identity Virtualization Library (libOVD)
      • 26.4.2.1.5 Setting Configuration Parameters in WebLogic Server and JDBC

27 Oracle Adaptive Access Manager Performance Tuning

• 27.1 About Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
• 27.2 Performance Considerations
• 27.3 Monitoring Oracle Adaptive Access Manager
  • 27.3.1 Enabling Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS)
  • 27.3.2 Using the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager Admin Console Dashboard
  • 27.3.3 Monitoring Oracle Adaptive Access Manager Server Logs
  • 27.3.4 Analyzing Automatic Workload Repository (AWR) Reports
• 27.4 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 27.4.1 Using Purge Scripts to Improve Performance
  • 27.4.2 Tuning Database Parameters for OAAM
  • 27.4.3 Tuning Oracle Internet Directory
  • 27.4.4 Tuning Applications
    • 27.4.4.1 Tuning Java Virtual Machine Parameters
    • 27.4.4.2 Tuning JDBC Connection Pool for OAAM
    • 27.4.4.3 Setting Logging Levels
• 27.5 Advanced Tuning Considerations
  • 27.5.1 Disabling Tracker Node History Logging
  • 27.5.2 Tuning Rule Logging Entry Creation
  • 27.5.3 Tuning Auto-learning Data Collection
• 27.6 Specific Use Cases That Require Additional Tuning
  • 27.6.1 Oracle Access Manager Integration Tuning Parameters
  • 27.6.2 Oracle RAC Specific Tuning Parameters
  • 27.6.3 SOAP Deployments
  • 27.6.4 Oracle Adaptive Access Manager Offline Deployment

28 Oracle Unified Directory Performance Tuning

• 28.1 About Oracle Unified Directory
• 28.2 Performance Considerations
• 28.3 Monitoring Unified Directory Performance
  • 28.3.1 Examining Log Files
  • 28.3.2 Monitoring the Server With LDAP
  • 28.3.3 Monitoring the Server With SNMP
• 28.4 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 28.4.1 Tuning Java Virtual Machine Settings
  • 28.4.2 Tuning the Server Configuration
    • 28.4.2.1 Oracle Berkeley DB Java Edition Tuning Parameters
    • 28.4.2.2 Core Server Tuning Parameters
• 28.5 Advanced Tuning Recommendations

29 Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Performance Tuning

• 29.1 About Security Services
• 29.2 Detecting General Performance Issues
• 29.3 Oracle Platform Security Services Tuning
  • 29.3.1 JVM Tuning Parameters
  • 29.3.2 LDAP Tuning Parameters
  • 29.3.3 Authentication Tuning Parameters
  • 29.3.4 Authorization Tuning Properties
  • 29.3.5 OPSS PDP Service Tuning Parameters
• 29.4 Oracle Web Services Security Tuning
  • 29.4.1 Choosing the Right Policy
  • 29.4.2 Policy Manager
  • 29.4.3 Configuring the Log Assertion to Record SOAP Messages
  • 29.4.4 Configuring Connection Pooling
  • 29.4.5 Monitoring the Performance of Web Services

Part VI Oracle WebCenter Components

30 Oracle WebCenter Portal Performance Tuning

• 30.1 About Oracle WebCenter Portal
• 30.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 30.2.1 Setting System Limit
  • 30.2.2 Setting JDBC Data Source
  • 30.2.3 Setting JRockit Virtual Machine (JVM) Arguments
  • 30.2.4 Using Content Compression to Reduce Downloads
• 30.3 Tuning WebCenter Portal Application Configuration
  • 30.3.1 Setting Session Timeout for a Spaces Application
  • 30.3.2 Setting HTTP Session Timeout
  • 30.3.3 Setting JSP Page Timeout
  • 30.3.4 Setting ADF Client State Token
  • 30.3.5 Setting ADF View State Compression
  • 30.3.6 Setting MDS Cache Size and Purge Rate
  • 30.3.7 Configuring Concurrency Management
• 30.4 Tuning Back-End Component Configuration
  • 30.4.1 Tuning Performance of the Announcements Service
  • 30.4.2 Tuning Performance of the Discussions Service
  • 30.4.3 Tuning Performance of the Instant Messaging and Presence (IMP) Service
  • 30.4.4 Tuning Performance of the Mail Service
  • 30.4.5 Tuning Performance of the Personal Events Service
  • 30.4.6 Tuning Performance of the RSS News Feed Service
  • 30.4.7 Tuning Performance of the Search Service
  • 30.4.8 Tuning Policy Store Parameters
• 30.5 Tuning Identity Store Configuration
  • 30.5.1 Tuning the Identity Store when Using SSL
  • 30.5.2 Tuning Performance when Using OVD
  • 30.5.3 Tuning Performance when Using Active Directory
• 30.6 Tuning Portlet Configuration
  • 30.6.1 Tuning Performance of the Portlet Service
  • 30.6.2 Configuring Portlet Cache Size
  • 30.6.3 Enabling Java Object Cache for WSRP Producers
  • 30.6.4 Suppressing Optimistic Rendering for WSRP Portlets
  • 30.6.5 Tuning Performance of Oracle PDK-Java Producers
  • 30.6.6 Setting Portlet Container Runtime Options
  • 30.6.7 Setting DefaultServedResourceRequiresWsrpRewrite for WSRP Portlets
  • 30.6.8 Setting DefaultProxiedResourceRequiresWsrpRewrite for WSRP Portlets
  • 30.6.9 Importing Consumer CSS Files in IFrame Portlets
  • 30.6.10 Configuring Portlet Timeout
  • 30.6.11 Tuning Performance of OmniPortlet

Part VII Capacity Planning, Scalability, and Availability

31 Capacity Planning

• 31.1 About Capacity Planning for Oracle Fusion Middleware
  • 31.1.1 Capacity Planning Factors to Consider
• 31.2 Determining Performance Goals and Objectives
• 31.3 Measuring Your Performance Metrics
• 31.4 Identifying Bottlenecks in Your System
  • 31.4.1 Using Clustered Configurations
  • 31.4.2 Using Connection Pooling
  • 31.4.3 Setting the Max Heap Size on JVM
  • 31.4.4 Increasing Memory or CPU
  • 31.4.5 Segregation of Network Traffic
  • 31.4.6 Segregation of Processes and Hardware Interrupt Handlers
• 31.5 Implementing a Capacity Management Plan
  • 31.5.1 Hardware Configuration Requirements
    • 31.5.1.1 CPU Requirements
    • 31.5.1.2 Memory Requirements
  • 31.5.2 JVM Requirements
  • 31.5.3 Managed Servers
  • 31.5.4 Database Configuration

32 Using Clusters and High Availability Features

• 32.1 About Clusters and High Availability Features
• 32.2 Using Clusters with Oracle Fusion Middleware
• 32.3 Using High Availability Features with Oracle Fusion Middleware

Index