5 Maintaining Custom WebCenter Applications

The chapter outlines what Fusion Middleware administrators might do to keep custom WebCenter applications up and running. The following roadmap will help guide you through the process:

Section 5.1, "System Administration for Custom WebCenter Applications (Roadmap)"

Although WebCenter Spaces is itself a WebCenter application, it does require some special maintenance tasks that custom WebCenter applications do not. To see a comprehensive list of these tasks, refer to Chapter 3, "Maintaining WebCenter Spaces".

Audience

The content of this chapter is intended for Fusion Middleware administrators responsible for custom WebCenter application administration (users granted the Admin role through the Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console).

5.1 System Administration for Custom WebCenter Applications (Roadmap)

The roadmap in Table 5-1 outlines typical tasks that a Fusion Middleware administrator might perform to keep a custom WebCenter application up and running.

If the custom WebCenter application must temporarily shut down for maintenance, ensure that a suitable message displays to any users who attempt to access the application while it is offline.

Table 5-1 Roadmap - Maintaining Custom WebCenter Applications

Step	Documentation	Role
Step 1 - Stop and start the managed server	Restart the managed server on which the custom WebCenter application is deployed to effect configuration changes or for routine maintenance: Starting and Stopping Managed Servers for WebCenter Application Deployments	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 2 - Stop and start the custom WebCenter application	Shut down the application for maintenance purposes and then restart the application: Starting and Stopping Custom WebCenter Applications	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 3 Maintain back-end services	Add, modify, and delete connections through the Fusion Middleware Control Console:	Fusion Middleware Admin
Content Repositories	Managing Content Repositories
Mail Servers	Managing the Mail Service
BPEL Servers	Managing the Worklist Service
Collaboration Services	Managing the Announcements and Discussions Services Managing the Instant Messaging and Presence Service
Secure Enterprise Search	Managing the Search Service
Wiki and Blog Services	Managing the Wiki and Blog Services
Step 4 - Maintain external applications and portlet producers	Add, modify, and delete connections through Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control Console. See:	Fusion Middleware Admin
External Applications	Managing External Applications
Portlet Producers	Registering WSRP Producers Registering Oracle PDK-Java Producers
Step 5 - Reconfigure your identity store	Configuring the Identity Store See also, Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Guide.	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 6 - Reconfigure the MDS repository	Setting Up the MDS Repository	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 7 - Reconfigure WebCenter repository	Setting Up the WebCenter Repository
Step 8 - Export custom WebCenter application data	Migrate data to a remote instance or between stage and production environments: Exporting WebCenter Services Metadata and Data (Custom WebCenter Applications) Exporting Portlet Client Metadata (Custom WebCenter Applications) Migrating Security for Custom WebCenter Applications Migrating Data (Custom WebCenter Applications) See also, "Managing Export, Import, Backup, and Recovery of WebCenter".	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 9 - Import custom WebCenter application data	Use the import facility to move content to a remote instance or between stage and production environments: Importing WebCenter Services Metadata and Data (Custom WebCenter Applications) Importing Portlet Client Metadata (Custom WebCenter Applications) Migrating Security for Custom WebCenter Applications Migrating Data (Custom WebCenter Applications)	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 10 - View and manage log files	Identify and diagnose problems through log files. Custom WebCenter application logs record all types of events, including startup and shutdown information, errors, warnings, and other information: Viewing and Configuring Log Information	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 11 - Monitor performance	Analyze the performance of the custom WebCenter application and monitor its current status through Fusion Middleware Control Console: Viewing Performance Information Monitoring Custom WebCenter Applications	Fusion Middleware Admin
Step 12 - Tune application properties	Tuning Environment Configuration Tuning WebCenter Application Configuration Tuning Back-End Component Configuration	Fusion Middleware Admin