Deploying and Configuring Oracle Traffic Director

Overview

Purpose

This tutorial shows you how to install and patch Oracle Traffic Director (OTD) and how to create an OTD server instance and deploy it.

Time to Complete

Approximately 15 minutes

Introduction

The OTD Administration server provides the means to deploy and manage OTD proxy instances. You install OTD and create an OTD server instance. You also patch OTD with patch ID 17025628 which addresses the following required issues for the Access Portal Service:

  • Forward proxy functionality
  • Rewrites of HTTP page content by using Stream Editor (sed), which is required to rewrite HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code that reference relative paths to objects and hosts

Prerequisites

Before starting this tutorial, you should have:

  • Deleted all previous Oracle Traffic Director 11g installations. The installer will fail if it encounters a non-empty installation directory.
  • Downloaded the OPatch binaries for patching OTD. Download the OPatch binaries from the following location: Opatch.zip

Note: This setup was performed in a Linux environment with an OUD back end. You should replace these values and directory locations with the values that are used in your environment. For a recap of the environment, see the Prerequisites section in the OBE, entitled Deploying and Enabling Oracle Access Portal.

Installing and Patching Oracle Traffic Director

  1. Launch the installer from the binaries folder.
    1. Run the runInstaller script:

      2. /app/u01/otd/otd11.1.1.7.0/Disk1/runInstaller

    2. On the Welcome screen, click Next.
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  2. On the Install Software Updates screen, select Skip Software Updates and click Next.
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  3. On the Prerequisite Checks screen, click Next.

    Note: If "Checking recommended operating system packages" fails, ignore it and click Continue.

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  4. On the Specify Installation Location screen, set the Traffic Director home directory to the following and click Next:

    /app/u01/oracle/product/middleware/otd_home

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  5. Navigate to the downloaded OPatch zip file and extract the file.

  6. Navigate to the PATCH_TOP directory and run the following.
    export ORACLE_HOME=/app/u01/oracle/product/middleware/otd_home/
    7. /app/u01/oracle/product/middleware/OPatch/opatch apply

  7. Enter y to stay uninformed of security issues and reenter y to apply.

Deploying the OTD Administration Server

  1. Create a directory for the OTD instances:

    mkdir /app/u01/oracle/admin/otd_instances/

  2. Navigate to the otd_home/bin directory:

    cd /app/u01/oracle/product/middleware/otd_home/bin

  3. Create an OTD Administration server instance. Run the following command:

    ./tadm configure-server --user=admin --host=idm.example.com --instance-home=/app/u01/oracle/admin/otd_instances

  4. When you are prompted, create the following password: Welcome1

  5. Start the OTD Administration server. Run the following in the terminal:

    /app/u01/oracle/admin/otd_instances/admin-server/bin/startserv

  6. Open a browser window and navigate to the following URL:

    https://oam.example.com:8989

  7. Log on to the OTD Administration console with the following credentials:

    admin/Welcome1.

Summary

In this tutorial, you learned to:

  • Install Oracle Traffic Director
  • Patch Oracle Traffic Director
  • Create an OTD Administration server instance
  • Start the OTD Administration server instance

Resources

Credits

  • Lead Curriculum developer: Adithya KLN

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