What this book covers

Chapter 1, SOA Infrastructure Management – what You Need to Know, provides you with an overview of how to monitor and manage Oracle SOA Suite 12c, which ultimately serves as a prelude for the remainder of this book.

Chapter 2, Navigating Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control 12c, presents the Fusion Middleware Control dashboard and also provides you with an overview of consoles, including WebLogic Server, Service Bus Console, BAM Composer, MFT, B2B, and so on.

Chapter 3, Startup and Shutdown, focuses exclusively on the startup and shutdown of the Oracle SOA Service infrastructure and how to verify the completion of each component.

Chapter 4, Managing Services, discusses the concepts that enable you to manage both SOA composites in the first half of the chapter, followed by OSB services in the latter half.

Chapter 5, Deploying Code, focuses on the three most commonly developed object types for SOA Suite 12c: SOA composite applications, OSB services, and BAM artifacts.

Chapter 6, Monitoring Oracle SOA Suite 12c, covers the three areas of monitoring that an Oracle SOA Suite 12c administrator typically focuses on: transactions, instance state and performance, and infrastructure.

Chapter 7, Configuration and Administration, looks closely at how to configure and administer various components that are part of a SOA Suite 12c environment.

Chapter 8, Managing the Database, discusses less frequently used functionalities surrounding partitions and version history, albeit the functionality that every SOA Suite administrator should be familiar with.

Chapter 9, Troubleshooting the Oracle SOA Suite 12c Infrastructure, focuses more on introducing a troubleshooting methodology, which when coupled with the foundational knowledge you learned in the previous chapters will better equip you with the ability to solve most problems.

Chapter 10, Backup and Recovery, covers the key areas of understanding what needs to be backed up, the recommended backup strategy, implementing the backup process, and recovery strategies.

Chapter 11, Introducing Oracle Enterprise Scheduler, concentrates on introducing ESS to SOA Suite 12c administrators and covers the core areas of administration.

Chapter 12, Clustering and High Availability, describes how to set up a two-node Oracle SOA Suite 12c cluster in an active-active mode, wherein if a server fails, the other will continue processing transactions, ensuring a relatively high degree of availability.