Contents

Title and Copyright Information

Preface

• Audience
• Documentation Accessibility
• Conventions

Part I Introduction

1 Introduction and Roadmap

• 1.1 Document Scope and Audience
• 1.2 Guide to this Document
• 1.3 Related Documentation

2 Top Performance Areas

• 2.1 About Identifying Top Performance Areas
• 2.2 Ensure the Hardware Resources are Sufficient
• 2.3 Tune the Operating System
• 2.4 Tune Java Virtual Machines (JVMs)
  • 2.4.1 Configuring Garbage Collection
    • 2.4.1.1 Specifying Heap Size Values
    • 2.4.1.2 Selecting a Garbage Collection Scheme
    • 2.4.1.3 Disabling Explicit Garbage Collection
  • 2.4.2 Logging Low Memory Conditions
  • 2.4.3 Monitoring and Profiling the JVM
• 2.5 Tune the WebLogic Server
• 2.6 Tune Database Parameters
  • 2.6.1 Tuning init.ora Database Parameters
    • 2.6.1.1 Initialization Parameters for Oracle 10g
    • 2.6.1.2 Initialization Parameters for Oracle 11g
  • 2.6.2 Tuning Redo Logs Location and Sizing
  • 2.6.3 Automatic Segment-Space Management (ASSM)
• 2.7 Reuse Database Connections
• 2.8 Enable Data Source Statement Caching
• 2.9 Control Concurrency
  • 2.9.1 HTTP Connection Limits
    • 2.9.1.1 MaxClients/ThreadsPerChild
    • 2.9.1.2 KeepAlive
    • 2.9.1.3 Tuning MOD_WL_OHS
  • 2.9.2 Setting the Maximum Number of Connections for Data Sources
  • 2.9.3 Tuning the WebLogic Sever Thread Pool
  • 2.9.4 Tuning Oracle WebCenter Concurrency
  • 2.9.5 Tuning BPEL Concurrency
• 2.10 Set Logging Levels

3 Performance Planning

• 3.1 About Oracle Fusion Middleware Performance Planning
• 3.2 Performance Planning Methodology
  • 3.2.1 Define Your Performance Objectives
    • 3.2.1.1 Define Operational Requirements
    • 3.2.1.2 Identify Performance Goals
    • 3.2.1.3 Understand User Expectations
    • 3.2.1.4 Conduct Performance Evaluations
  • 3.2.2 Design Applications for Performance and Scalability
  • 3.2.3 Monitor and Measure Your Performance Metrics

4 Monitoring Oracle Fusion Middleware

• 4.1 About Oracle Fusion Middleware Management Tools
  • 4.1.1 Measuring Your Performance Metrics
• 4.2 Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Fusion Middleware Control
  • 4.2.1 Viewing Performance Metrics Using Fusion Middleware Control
• 4.3 Oracle WebLogic Server Administration Console
• 4.4 WebLogic Diagnostics Framework (WLDF)
• 4.5 WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST)
  • 4.5.1 Using Custom WLST Commands
    • 4.5.1.1 Using WLST Commands for System Components
• 4.6 DMS Spy Servlet
  • 4.6.1 Viewing Performance Metrics Using the Spy Servlet
  • 4.6.2 Using the DMS Spy Servlet
• 4.7 Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server
• 4.8 Oracle Enterprise Manager 11g Grid Control
• 4.9 Native Operating System Performance Commands
• 4.10 Network Performance Monitoring Tools

Part II Core Components

5 Oracle HTTP Server Performance Tuning

• 5.1 About Oracle HTTP Server
• 5.2 Oracle HTTP Server Directives Tuning Considerations
  • 5.2.1 How Persistent Connections Can Reduce Httpd Process Availability
• 5.3 Oracle HTTP Server Logging Options
  • 5.3.1 Access Logging
  • 5.3.2 Configuring the HostNameLookups Directive
  • 5.3.3 Error logging
• 5.4 Oracle HTTP Server Security Performance Considerations
  • 5.4.1 Oracle HTTP Server Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Performance Issues
    • 5.4.1.1 Oracle HTTP Server SSL Caching
    • 5.4.1.2 SSL Application Level Data Encryption
    • 5.4.1.3 SSL Performance Recommendations
  • 5.4.2 Oracle HTTP Server Port Tunneling Performance Issues
• 5.5 Oracle HTTP Server Performance Tips
  • 5.5.1 Analyze Static Versus Dynamic Requests
  • 5.5.2 Beware of a Single Data Point Yielding Misleading Results
  • 5.5.3 Beware of Having More Modules
  • 5.5.4 Monitoring Oracle HTTP Server

6 Oracle Metadata Service (MDS) Performance Tuning

• 6.1 About Oracle Metadata Services (MDS)
• 6.2 Tuning Database Repository
  • 6.2.1 Collect Schema Statistics
  • 6.2.2 Increase Redo Log Size
  • 6.2.3 Reclaim Disk Space
  • 6.2.4 Monitor the Database Performance
• 6.3 Purging Document Version History
  • 6.3.1 Auto Purge
  • 6.3.2 Manual Purge
• 6.4 Using Database Polling Interval for Change Detection
• 6.5 Tuning Cache Configuration
  • 6.5.1 Document Cache
• 6.6 Analyzing Performance Impact from Customization
• 6.7 Understanding DMS metrics and Characteristics

Part III Oracle Fusion Middleware Server Components

7 Oracle Application Development Framework Performance Tuning

• 7.1 About Oracle ADF
• 7.2 Oracle ADF View Performance
  • 7.2.1 Oracle ADF Faces Configuration and Profiling
  • 7.2.2 Performance Considerations for ADF Faces
  • 7.2.3 Tuning ADF Faces Component Attributes
  • 7.2.4 Performance Considerations for Table and Tree Components
  • 7.2.5 Performance Considerations for autoSuggest
  • 7.2.6 Data Delivery - Lazy versus Immediate
  • 7.2.7 Performance Considerations for DVT Components
• 7.3 ADF Server Performance
  • 7.3.1 View Objects Tuning
    • 7.3.1.1 Creating View Objects
    • 7.3.1.2 Configuring View Object Data Fetching
    • 7.3.1.3 Additional View Object Configurations
  • 7.3.2 Batch Processing
  • 7.3.3 RangeSize Tuning
  • 7.3.4 Application Module Design Considerations
  • 7.3.5 Application Module Pooling
    • 7.3.5.1 General AM Pool Configurations
    • 7.3.5.2 AM Pool Sizing Configurations
    • 7.3.5.3 AM Pool Resource Cleanup Configurations
  • 7.3.6 ADFc: Region Usage
  • 7.3.7 Reusing Static Data
  • 7.3.8 Conditional Validations

8 Oracle TopLink (EclipseLink) JPA Performance Tuning

• 8.1 About Oracle TopLink and EclipseLink
• 8.2 Efficient SQL Statements and Queries
  • 8.2.1 Entity Relationships Query Parameter Tuning
• 8.3 Cache Configuration Tuning
  • 8.3.1 Cache Refreshing Scenarios
  • 8.3.2 Locking Modes
• 8.4 Coherence Integration
• 8.5 Mapping and Descriptor Configurations
• 8.6 Analyzing EclipseLink JPA Entity Performance

9 Oracle Web Cache Performance Tuning

• 9.1 About Oracle Web Cache
• 9.2 Optimizing Hardware Resources
  • 9.2.1 Hardware Resources
  • 9.2.2 Memory Configuration
    • 9.2.2.1 Configuring WebCache Memory
• 9.3 Optimizing Network Connections
  • 9.3.1 Network Bandwidth
  • 9.3.2 Network Connections
  • 9.3.3 Network-Related Parameters
• 9.4 Optimizing Platform Connections
  • 9.4.1 UNIX Connections
  • 9.4.2 Windows Connections
• 9.5 Increasing Cache Hit Rates
• 9.6 Optimizing Response Time
• 9.7 Optimizing Performance with Oracle ADF

Part IV SOA Suite Components

10 Cross Component Tuning for SOA Suite

• 10.1 About SOA Suite Configuration Properties
• 10.2 SOA Infrastructure Configurations
  • 10.2.1 Audit Level
  • 10.2.2 Composite Instance State
  • 10.2.3 Logging Level
• 10.3 Modifying SOA Configuration Parameters
• 10.4 JVM Tuning Parameters
• 10.5 Database Settings
  • 10.5.1 Configuring Data Sources for SOA
  • 10.5.2 Weblogic Server Performance Tuning

11 Oracle Business Rules Performance Tuning

• 11.1 About Oracle Business Rules
• 11.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 11.2.1 Use Java Beans
  • 11.2.2 Assert Child Facts instead of Multiple Dereferences
  • 11.2.3 Avoid Side Affects in Rule Conditions
  • 11.2.4 Avoid Expensive Operations in Rule Conditions
  • 11.2.5 Consider Pattern Ordering
  • 11.2.6 Consider the Ordering of Tests in Rule Conditions
  • 11.2.7 Use Functions Instead of AssertXPath and Supports XPath

12 Oracle BPEL Process Manager Performance Tuning

• 12.1 About BPEL Process Manager
• 12.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 12.2.1 BPEL Threading Model
    • 12.2.1.1 Dispatcher Invoke Threads
    • 12.2.1.2 Dispatcher Engine Threads
    • 12.2.1.3 Dispatcher System Threads
    • 12.2.1.4 Dispatcher Maximum Request Depth
  • 12.2.2 Audit Level
  • 12.2.3 OneWayDeliveryPolicy
  • 12.2.4 StatsLastN
  • 12.2.5 AuditDetailThreshold
  • 12.2.6 LargeDocumentThreshold
  • 12.2.7 Validate XML
  • 12.2.8 SyncMaxWaitTime
  • 12.2.9 InstanceKeyBlockSize
• 12.3 BPEL Properties Set Inside a Composite
  • 12.3.1 Component Properties
    • 12.3.1.1 inMemoryOptimization
    • 12.3.1.2 completionPersistPolicy
  • 12.3.2 Partner Link Property
    • 12.3.2.1 idempotent
    • 12.3.2.2 nonBlockingInvoke
    • 12.3.2.3 validateXML
• 12.4 Tables Impacted By Instance Data Growth

13 Oracle Mediator Performance Tuning

• 13.1 About Oracle Mediator
• 13.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 13.2.1 metricsLevel
  • 13.2.2 Domain-Value Maps
  • 13.2.3 Deferred Routing Rules
  • 13.2.4 Error and Retry Parameters
• 13.3 Event Delivery Network (EDN) Tuning

14 Oracle Human Workflow Performance Tuning

• 14.1 About Oracle Human Workflow
• 14.2 Human Workflow Tuning Considerations
  • 14.2.1 Minimize Client Response Time
  • 14.2.2 Choose the Right Workflow Service Client
  • 14.2.3 Narrow Qualifying Tasks Using Precise Filters
  • 14.2.4 Retrieve Subset of Qualifying Tasks (Paging)
  • 14.2.5 Fetch Only the Information That Is Needed for a Qualifying Task
  • 14.2.6 Reduce the Number of Return Query Columns
  • 14.2.7 Use the Aggregate API for Charting Task Statistics
  • 14.2.8 Use the Count API Methods for Counting the Number of Tasks
  • 14.2.9 Create Indexes On Demand for Flexfields
  • 14.2.10 Use the doesTaskExist Method
• 14.3 Improving Server Performance
  • 14.3.1 Archive Completed Instances Periodically
  • 14.3.2 Select the Appropriate Workflow Callback Functionality
  • 14.3.3 Minimize Performance Impacts from Notification
  • 14.3.4 Deploy Clustered Nodes
• 14.4 Completing Workflows Faster
  • 14.4.1 Use Workflow Reports to Monitor Progress
  • 14.4.2 Specify Escalation Rules
  • 14.4.3 Specify User and Group Rules for Automated Assignment
  • 14.4.4 Use Task Views to Prioritize Work
• 14.5 Tuning Identity Provider
• 14.6 Tuning the Database

15 Oracle Adapters Performance Tuning

• 15.1 About Oracle Adapters
• 15.2 Oracle JCA Adapters for Files/FTP
  • 15.2.1 Inbound Throttling Best Practices
  • 15.2.2 Outbound Throttling Best Practices
  • 15.2.3 Outbound Performance Best Practices
• 15.3 Oracle JCA Adapter for Database Tuning
  • 15.3.1 JCA Adapter Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 15.3.2 Existence Checking
• 15.4 Oracle Socket Adapter Tuning
• 15.5 Oracle SOA JMS Adapter Tuning
  • 15.5.1 adapter.jms.receive.threads Property
• 15.6 Oracle AQ Adapter Tuning
  • 15.6.1 adapter.aq.dequeue.threads Property
• 15.7 Oracle MQ Adapter Tuning

16 Oracle Business Activity Monitoring Performance Tuning

• 16.1 About Oracle Business Activity Monitoring
• 16.2 Oracle BAM Tuning Considerations
  • 16.2.1 BAM Server Tuning
    • 16.2.1.1 Set the ViewSetSharing and ElementCountLimit Parameters
    • 16.2.1.2 Enable the Async Servlet
  • 16.2.2 BAM Dashboard Tuning
    • 16.2.2.1 Tune the Active Data Retrieval Interval
  • 16.2.3 BAM Database Tuning
  • 16.2.4 Internet Browser Tuning
    • 16.2.4.1 Set iActiveDataScriptsCleanupFactor
    • 16.2.4.2 Set Browser Cache Settings
  • 16.2.5 Enterprise Message Source Tuning
    • 16.2.5.1 Message Batching

17 User Messaging Service Performance Tuning

• 17.1 About Oracle User Messaging Services
• 17.2 Basic Tuning Considerations
  • 17.2.1 SMPP Driver Performance Tuning
  • 17.2.2 Email Driver Polling Frequency
• 17.3 Database Tuning for Optimal Throughput

Part V Identity Management Suite Components

18 Oracle Internet Directory Performance Tuning

• 18.1 About Oracle Internet Directory
• 18.2 Introduction to Tuning Oracle Internet Directory
• 18.3 Basic Tuning Recommendations
  • 18.3.1 Database Parameters
  • 18.3.2 LDAP Server Attributes
  • 18.3.3 Database Statistics
• 18.4 Advanced Configurations
  • 18.4.1 Replication or Oracle Directory Integration Platform
  • 18.4.2 Replication Server Configuration
  • 18.4.3 Garbage Collection Configuration
  • 18.4.4 Oracle Internet Directory with RAC Database
  • 18.4.5 Password Policies and Verifier Profiles
  • 18.4.6 Server Entry Cache
    • 18.4.6.1 When to Use the Entry Cache
    • 18.4.6.2 Benefits of Using the Entry Cache
    • 18.4.6.3 Values for Configuring the Entry Cache
  • 18.4.7 Tuning Security Event Tracking
• 18.5 Low-Priority Tuning Recommendations
  • 18.5.1 Number of Entries to be Returned by a Search
  • 18.5.2 Enabling the Group Cache
  • 18.5.3 Timeout for Write Operations
• 18.6 Specific Use Cases
  • 18.6.1 Bulk Load Operation
  • 18.6.2 Bulk Delete Operation
  • 18.6.3 High LDAP Write Operations Load
• 18.7 Optimizing Searches
  • 18.7.1 Optimizing Searches for Large Group Entries
    • 18.7.1.1 Entry Cache Enabled Configuration
    • 18.7.1.2 Entry Cache Disabled Configuration.
  • 18.7.2 Optimizing Searches for Skewed Attributes
  • 18.7.3 Optimizing Performance of Complex Search Filters
• 18.8 Evaluating Performance on UNIX and Windows Systems
• 18.9 Obtaining Recommendations by Using the Tuning and Sizing Wizard
• 18.10 Updating Database Statistics by Using oidstats.sql
• 18.11 Setting Performance-Related Replication Configuration Attributes
• 18.12 Modifying Performance-Related System Configuration Attributes
  • 18.12.1 Modifying Instance-Specific Attributes by Using Fusion Middleware Control
  • 18.12.2 Modifying Shared Attributes by Using Fusion Middleware Control
  • 18.12.3 Modifying Attributes by Using ldapmodify
    • 18.12.3.1 Modifying Performance-Related Instance-Specific Configuration Entry Attributes
    • 18.12.3.2 Modifying Performance-Related Shared System Configuration Attributes in the DSA Configuration Entry
• 18.13 Setting Garbage Collection Configuration Attributes
  • 18.13.1 Modifying Changelog Purging Attributes by Using ldapmodify
  • 18.13.2 Modifying Changelog Purging in Oracle Directory Services Manager

19 Oracle Virtual Directory Performance Tuning

• 19.1 About Oracle Virtual Directory
• 19.2 Basic Tuning Configurations
• 19.3 Additional Tuning Configurations
  • 19.3.1 Database Adapters
  • 19.3.2 Join Adapters
  • 19.3.3 General Filter Tuning
  • 19.3.4 Load Balancer Local Store Adapter Tuning
  • 19.3.5 Cache Plug-In Tuning
    • 19.3.5.1 Cache Hit Logic
    • 19.3.5.2 Cache Plug-in Memory Management
  • 19.3.6 LDAP Listener Tuning
  • 19.3.7 Server Tuning

20 Oracle Identity Federation Performance Tuning

• 20.1 About Oracle Identity Federation
• 20.2 LDAP Tuning
  • 20.2.1 Connection Pool Settings
  • 20.2.2 Connection Settings
  • 20.2.3 Federation Data Store Settings
• 20.3 Database Tuning
  • 20.3.1 Data Sources
  • 20.3.2 RDBMS Session Cache
  • 20.3.3 RDBMS Compression
• 20.4 Oracle HTTP Server Tuning
• 20.5 SAML Protocol Tuning
  • 20.5.1 SOAP Connections
  • 20.5.2 XML Digital Signatures
  • 20.5.3 POST and Artifact Single Sign-On Profiles

21 Oracle Fusion Middleware Security Performance Tuning

• 21.1 About Security Services
• 21.2 Detecting General Performance Issues
• 21.3 Oracle Platform Security Services Tuning
  • 21.3.1 JVM Tuning Parameters
  • 21.3.2 LDAP Tuning Parameters
  • 21.3.3 Authentication Tuning Parameters
  • 21.3.4 Authorization Tuning Parameters
  • 21.3.5 OPSS Tuning Parameters for LDAP Policy Store
• 21.4 Oracle Web Services Security Tuning
  • 21.4.1 Choosing the Right Policy
  • 21.4.2 Timestamp (On or Off)
  • 21.4.3 Policy Manager
  • 21.4.4 Configuring the Log Assertion to Record SOAP Messages
  • 21.4.5 Monitoring the Performance of Web Services

Part VI Oracle WebCenter Suite Components

22 Oracle WebCenter Performance Tuning

• 22.1 About Oracle WebCenter
• 22.2 Tuning Environment Configuration
  • 22.2.1 Setting System Limit
  • 22.2.2 Setting JDBC Data Source
  • 22.2.3 Setting JRockit Virtual Machine (JVM) Arguments
• 22.3 Tuning WebCenter Application Configuration
  • 22.3.1 Setting HTTP Session Timeout
  • 22.3.2 Setting JSP Page Timeout
  • 22.3.3 Setting ADF Client State Token
  • 22.3.4 Setting MDS Cache Size and Purge Rate
  • 22.3.5 Configuring Concurrency Management
  • 22.3.6 Configuring CRUD APIs (Create, Read, Update and Delete)
• 22.4 Tuning Back-End Component Configuration
  • 22.4.1 Tuning Performance of the Announcements Service
  • 22.4.2 Tuning Performance of the Discussions Service
  • 22.4.3 Tuning Performance of the Instant Messaging and Presence (IMP) Service
  • 22.4.4 Tuning Performance of the Mail Service
  • 22.4.5 Tuning Performance of the RSS News Feed Service
  • 22.4.6 Tuning Performance of the Search Service
  • 22.4.7 Tuning Performance of WSRP Producers
  • 22.4.8 Tuning Performance of Oracle PDK-Java Producers
  • 22.4.9 Tuning Performance of OmniPortlet
  • 22.4.10 Tuning Performance of the Portlet Service
  • 22.4.11 Configuring Portlet Cache Size
  • 22.4.12 Configuring Portlet Timeout

Part VII Capacity Planning, Scalability, and Availability

23 Capacity Planning

• 23.1 About Capacity Planning for Oracle Fusion Middleware
  • 23.1.1 Capacity Planning Factors to Consider
• 23.2 Determining Performance Goals and Objectives
• 23.3 Measuring Your Performance Metrics
• 23.4 Identifying Bottlenecks in Your System
  • 23.4.1 Using Clustered Configurations
  • 23.4.2 Using Connection Pooling
  • 23.4.3 Setting the Max HeapSize on JVM
  • 23.4.4 Increasing Memory or CPU
  • 23.4.5 Segregation of Network Traffic
  • 23.4.6 Segregation of Processes and Hardware Interrupt Handlers
• 23.5 Implementing a Capacity Management Plan
  • 23.5.1 Hardware Configuration Requirements
    • 23.5.1.1 CPU Requirements
    • 23.5.1.2 Memory Requirements
  • 23.5.2 JVM Requirements
  • 23.5.3 Managed Servers
  • 23.5.4 Database Configuration

24 Using Clusters and High Availability Features

• 24.1 About Clusters and High Availability Features
• 24.2 Using Clusters with Oracle Fusion Middleware
• 24.3 Using High Availability Features with Oracle Fusion Middleware

Part VIII Appendixes

A Instrumenting Applications with DMS

• A.1 About DMS Performance Metrics
  • A.1.1 Instrumenting Applications with DMS
  • A.1.2 Monitoring DMS Metrics
  • A.1.3 Understanding DMS Terminology (Nouns and Sensors)
    • A.1.3.1 DMS Metrics
    • A.1.3.2 DMS Sensors
      • A.1.3.2.1 DMS PhaseEvent Sensors
      • A.1.3.2.2 DMS Event Sensors
      • A.1.3.2.3 DMS State Sensors
    • A.1.3.3 DMS Nouns
    • A.1.3.4 DMS Roll-up Nouns
    • A.1.3.5 DMS Object Relationships
  • A.1.4 DMS Naming Conventions
    • A.1.4.1 General DMS Naming
    • A.1.4.2 General DMS Naming Conventions and Character Sets
    • A.1.4.3 Noun and Noun Type Naming Conventions
    • A.1.4.4 Sensor Naming Conventions
• A.2 Adding DMS Instrumentation to Java Applications
  • A.2.1 Including DMS Imports
  • A.2.2 Organizing Performance Data
    • A.2.2.1 Choosing Noun Types
  • A.2.3 Defining and Using Metrics for Timing
    • A.2.3.1 Defining PhaseEvent Sensors
    • A.2.3.2 Using PhaseEvent Sensors
  • A.2.4 Defining and Using Metrics for Counting
    • A.2.4.1 Defining Event Sensors
    • A.2.4.2 Using Event Sensors
  • A.2.5 Defining and Using Metrics for Recording Status Information (State Sensors)
    • A.2.5.1 Defining State Sensors
    • A.2.5.2 Using State Sensors
• A.3 Validating and Testing Applications Using DMS Metrics
  • A.3.1 Validating DMS Metrics
  • A.3.2 Testing DMS Metrics For Efficiency
• A.4 Understanding DMS Security Considerations
• A.5 Conditional Instrumentation Using DMS Sensor Weight
• A.6 Dumping DMS Metrics to Files
• A.7 Resetting and Destroying Sensors
• A.8 DMS Coding Recommendations
  • A.8.1 Isolating Expensive Intervals Using PhaseEvent Metrics
• A.9 Using a High Resolution Clock to Increase DMS Precision
  • A.9.1 Configuring DMS Clocks for Reporting Time for Java
  • A.9.2 Configuring DMS Clocks for Reporting Time for Oracle HTTP Server
• A.10 Rolling Up DMS Data for Descendent Nouns

B Related Reading and References

• B.1 Oracle Documentation
  • B.1.1 Oracle Fusion Middleware Library
    • B.1.1.1 Cross-Suite Administration Guides
    • B.1.1.2 WebCenter
    • B.1.1.3 Identity Management
    • B.1.1.4 SOA Suite
  • B.1.2 Oracle Database
  • B.1.3 Oracle JRockit Java Virtual Machine (JVM)
• B.2 Sun Microsystems Information
  • B.2.1 Sun Java HotSpot Virtual Machine

Index