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Siebel Deployment Planning Guide provides important information for planning deployments of Oracle's Siebel Business Applications software.

What's New in Siebel Deployment Planning Guide, Version 8.1/8.2

Table 1 lists the changes described in this version of the documentation to support this release of the software. The new features described in Table 1 are available in Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.11, Siebel CRM version 8.2.2.4, and later.

Table 1. What's New in Siebel Deployment Planning Guide, Version 8.1/8.2
Topic
Description

Multiple topics

Modified topics. For Siebel CRM version 8.1.1.9 and later, and for version 8.2.2.2 and later, My Oracle Support Certifications has replaced Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Oracle Technology Network. Updated references throughout this guide. For more information, see 1492194.1 (Article ID) on My Oracle Support.

About Siebel Client Types

Modified topic. Provided more information about the Siebel client types. Added information about Siebel Open UI and about the Siebel Mobile applications.

About the Siebel File System

Modified topic. Updated the recommendations for the Siebel File System.

About Siebel Open UI

New topic. Added information about Siebel Open UI, a new alternative to high interactivity and standard interactivity for Siebel Web clients.

What's New in Siebel Deployment Planning Guide, Version 8.1

Table 2 lists the changes described in this version of the documentation. (Version 8.1 of this guide was for Siebel CRM version 8.1.1 and later releases.)

Table 2. What's New in Siebel Deployment Planning Guide, Version 8.1
Topic
Description

About the Siebel File System

Modified topic. Added information about using multiple directories for the Siebel File System, a capability added for Siebel CRM version 8.0.

About Siebel Server Load Balancing

Modified topic. Standardized all references to Siebel native load balancing. Removed information applicable to earlier releases.

About Siebel Internet Session Network API

Modified topic. Added information about Secure Sockets Layer (SSL).

About the Siebel Connection Broker

Modified topic. Updated to describe a new parameter (ConnForwardAlgorithm) for specifying the algorithm used for routing connection requests to Application Object Manager processes. The parameter supports the least-loaded (default setting) and round-robin (new) routing algorithms.

How Service Failures Affect the Siebel Deployment

Modified topic. Added note in Components Involved in Service Failures recommending against collocation of the Siebel Database and other Siebel components.

Recommended High Availability Techniques for Specific Services

Modified topic. Removed Server Request Broker and Server Request Processor components from Table 8.

Clarified the status of components in the Field Service component group in Table 8.

About Resilient Processing

Modified topic. Clarified the roles of the Server Request Broker and Server Request Processor components.

Where to Use Server Clustering

Modified topic. Updated some of the listed components.

"About Third-Party Server Clustering Products"

Deleted topic. For supported third-party clustering products, refer to Siebel System Requirements and Supported Platforms on Oracle Technology Network. Refer to third-party vendor documentation.

Application-Level Deployment Planning

Modified topics. In topics about session communications and Siebel Email Response, removed references to Siebel CTI Connect, Siebel Universal Queueing, and Siebel Smart Answer.

In topics about Siebel Configurator, removed information that was applicable to earlier releases and updated the content for the current release.

Removed topics about Siebel Reports Server.

In topic about Siebel Workflow, updated the content for the current release.

What's New in Siebel Deployment Planning Guide, Version 8.2

The information in Table 2, a summary of documentation changes affecting the guide for version 8.1.1, also applies to version 8.2.2. (Version 8.2 of this guide was for Siebel CRM version 8.2.2 and later releases.)

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