B Setting Up Oracle Business Activity Monitoring

B.1 Setting Up Oracle Business Activity Monitoring in an Oracle Application Server Disaster Recovery Topology

Follow these steps to set up data protection for Oracle Business Activity Monitoring in an Oracle Application Server Disaster Recovery topology:

1. Use Oracle Data Guard for database recovery. The database at the production site is the production database and the database at the standby site is the standby database. Configure Oracle Data Guard to keep the production and standby databases synchronized. See Section 2.2.1, "Database Considerations" for more information about setting up Oracle Data Guard for data protection of Oracle databases.

2. Perform a complete Oracle Business Activity Monitoring installation on both the production site host and standby site host.

3. Use the same database during both installations. For example, specify the same production database for Oracle Business Activity Monitoring with the Sagent schemas (orabam and orasagent, by default).

4. When you need to install a patch for Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, install it on both the production site host and the standby site host.

5. Shut down Oracle Business Activity Monitoring on the standby site.

6. For production, use Oracle Business Activity Monitoring on the production site. At regular intervals, check that the Oracle Data Guard synchronization is working properly, keeping the standby database updated.

7. If the production site fails, follow these steps to recover Oracle Business Activity Monitoring at the standby site:

   1. Use Oracle Data Guard database recovery procedures to bring the standby database online.

   2. Locate the tnsnames.ora file in the Oracle Business Activity Monitoring database client location, which has a default location of:

      C:\OracleBAM\ClientForBAM\NETWORK\ADMIN\tnsnames.ora

   3. In the tnsnames.ora file, change the name of the database host to the name of the standby database host.

   4. In the tnsnames.ora file, change the database port number to the port number for the standby database.

   5. In the tnsnames.ora file, change the database name to the standby database name.

   6. Start Oracle Business Activity Monitoring using the shortcut on the desktop.

      Note:

      As a best practice, when using JMS messaging with Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, use the Message Integrity feature (also known as the Guaranteed Messaging feature).

      For information on setting up Message Integrity for Oracle Business Activity Monitoring, see the "Message Integrity Setup" section of the Oracle Application Server High Availability Guide for Oracle Application Server release 10.1.3.1.0.