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Oracle BAM 10g (10.1.3.X) Releases

Oracle BAM 10g (10.1.3.X) Releases

Note: This page is updated as new documentation, patches, or samples become available. Please visit this site frequently to get new updates. This page was last updated 07-Feb-2008.

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BAM 10.1.3.X Documentation

	BAM 10.1.3.3 Release Notes (PDF) 07-Feb-2008 Contains Release Notes for the Oracle BAM 10.1.3.3 Release. Please make sure you go over the Release Notes to ensure you are aware of limitations, known issues and suggested workarounds. This document is updated frequently. Note: A full documentation library was not created for Oracle BAM 10.1.3.3. Refer to the Oracle BAM 10.1.3.1 documentation.
	BAM 10.1.3.1. Release Notes (PDF) 07-Feb-2008 Contains Release Notes for the Oracle BAM 10.1.3.1 Release. Please make sure you go over the Release Notes to ensure you are aware of limitations, known issues and suggested workarounds. This document is updated frequently.
	Oracle BAM Installation Guide (PDF) 07-Feb-2008 Provides detailed installation instructions for installing Oracle BAM.
	Oracle BAM Active Studio User's Guide (PDF) 16-Oct-2006 Describes how to use Oracle BAM Active Studio, a robust web-based reporting tool for creating and delivering reports used in Oracle BAM. From Oracle BAM Active Studio, power users share reports with other users and create alert rules for report delivery. Report types include dashboards, charts, KPIs, action forms and more.
	Oracle BAM Administrator's Guide (PDF) 16-Oct-2006 Describes how to use Oracle BAM Administrator, the thin web application for the system administrator responsible for user management, message management, and Plan monitoring in Oracle BAM.
	Oracle BAM Architect User's Guide (PDF) 16-Oct-2006 Describes how to use Oracle BAM Architect, the thin user web application for the data designer. Through Oracle BAM Architect, the data designer creates and manages data objects, and manages transaction source processing. Plans created in Oracle BAM Design Studio send the information from message sources to data objects.
	Oracle BAM Enterprise Link Getting Started Guide (PDF) 16-Oct-2006 Intended for end users of Oracle BAM Design Studio interested in using Design Studio to build basic Plans.
	Oracle BAM Enterprise Link Design Studio User's Guide (PDF) 16-Oct-2006 Intended for Oracle BAM Enterprise Link designers who are responsible for the design of Plans. Design Studio allows users to define business views for end users and extract, transform and load data into one or more decision support databases.
	Oracle BAM Enterprise Link Transforms Reference Guide (PDF) 05-Sep-2007 Intended for power users of Oracle BAM Design Studio who want to build complex Plans with Transforms. Transforms provide the data extraction, transformation, and load capabilities for Oracle BAM Enterprise Link. By selecting Transforms for particular situations, you can select data from different sources, perform calculations on data, make changes to the data schema, and load data to other target databases.
	Oracle BAM Enterprise Link Administrator's Guide (PDF) 16-Oct-2006 Designed for the system administrator, database administrator, or information services person responsible for performing the technical tasks associated with the data in Oracle BAM Enterprise Link. This guide describes how to use the Oracle BAM Enterprise Link Admin application to manage servers and Repositories.
	Oracle BAM Enterprise Link Utilities User's Guide (PDF) 16-Oct-2006 Provides the ability to export, import or delete individual items in a Repository or to copy from one Repository to another.

Samples Samples cover a wide array of BAM concepts and the various product features. Note: All samples and their subcomponents are configured for Windows OS on localhost. Users have to do appropriate changes if subcomponents are located in other hosts or for other OS (Database, JMS, BPEL etc). These samples may overwrite or modify your BAM setup. Please use the samples on development systems only. Before building and deploying any sample, please refer to the corresponding README for any setup or pre-configuration requirements.

	BPEL 10.1.3	This demo shows BPEL BAM sensor framework. Complete end to end parts, with simulated BPEL process (simulation of OrderBooking process), with BPEL BAM sensors, BAM data objects, reports and alerts. Detailed steps to construct this sample is provided in tech notes section.
	Web Service	Java source code to show J2EE program writing (publishing) realtime data directly into BAM data object using BAM webservices (WSDLs). Uses data objects and reports from OrderBooking process (data objects, reports etc). No EnterpriseLink or Plan Monitor components required.
	Oracle EBS	Document showing Oracle E Business Suite events interface to BAM. Complete end to end document showing event design, event interface, data objects and dashboards.
	Oracle AQ	Complete end to end demo with configurations, data objects and reports. Sample demonstrates a trading scenario with trade events arriving from Oracle tables, through Oracle AQ queues. Detailed steps to construct this sample is provided in the technical notes section.
	MQ Series	Sample document showing MQ server messages interface to Oracle BAM. Contains configuration and connection details. Follow other documents for BAM data objects, and reports follow other samples or documents. [example BAM-BPEL-sensor]
	JMS Bus	Dashboard showing JMS Topic events on JMS bus, and EnterpriseLink configuration, and populating BAM data objects, and real time dashboards. [sample java program is provided for publishing events]. Detailed steps to construct this sample is provided in tech notes section.
	Other JMS	Pointer to Oracle OC4J container and JMS provider to connect to other message sources. After the set up and configuration, configure BAM to connect and get messages from external data source (follow JMSTopic example)
	BPEL 10.1.2 using JMS	This demo shows complete BPEL to BAM interface for 127.OrderBooking tutorial in BPEL samples. The provided BPEL process simulates the OrderBooking tutorial. BPEL sends events using built in BAMSensors. End to end demo contains dataobject and dashboards. Detailed steps to construct this sample is provided in tech notes section.
	Sample Java	Sample Java client program to show events publishing on JMSTopic (no BPEL and no BAM topics)
	BAM Calling BPEL	Sample showing how BAM can invoke BPEL processes.
	View Design	Sample report design showing custom HTML tags and for purging old data. Detailed steps for some reports are given in tech notes.

Technical Notes Technical notes provide step-by-step instructions for frequently asked product usage questions. However, you should always consult product documentation for complete details. All the documents below use BPEL 127.OrderBooking tutorial as an example. Some tech notes refer to the above samples and dependent files for completion.

	AQ Configuration	Detailed description of both BAM and Oracle DB to receive AQ events from Oracle tables to BAM using triggers.
	WebSphere MQ Clients	Detailed WebSphere MQ Client and BAM configuration steps to interface MQ events into BAM.
	Configure for OC4J 1013	Description of BAM configuration for interface to OC4J (10.1.3)
	Real Time BPEL Monitoring	End to End steps on designing BPEL process sensors to send events to BAM for real time process monitoring.
	BPEL BAM Integration	BPEL process sensor design for BAMSensors and sending BPEL events to BAM data objects.
	BPEL JMS sensors	Design and use of BPEL JMS sensors to publish events into BAM.
	External Data Sources	BAM configuration to read data from external data sources (Oracle tables).
	Reading Tables	Reading external tables directly into BAM using Enterprise Link plans.
	Oracle Enterprise Manager Integration	Integrate Oracle Enterprise Manager with Oracle BAM using EM Data Exchange Connector. For example EM can trap SNMP and send it to BAM using Data Exchange Connector.
	Beautifying Reports	Sample tech note on beautifying reports with good color schemes for better presentation.
	Building Simple Report	Quick tech note with steps to build a simple report.
	Custom HTML Reports	Creating custom HTML body in the report for custom display (example: images, horizantal bar etc).
	BAM View Types	Brief description of the several (38+) view types provided for graphical representation and their usage.
	View Design Ratio	Designing views with ration of two aggregate values, using calculated fields.
	Designing Predictive Alerts	Designing BAM Alerts for predictive conditions.i.e. Designing Alerts for event that have not-yet arrived. (or late arrival of events).
	Calling External Web Service	Detailed steps for configuring BAM Alerts to call out (invoke) external webservice or applications.
	Calling External URLs	Configuring BAM dashboards to provide navigation to external URLs (Actionable Reports: dynamic URLs or static URLs).
	Collect And Parse Data	Detailed steps for collecting data in EnterpriseLink and parsing the incoming data in EnterpriseLink and populating the data in BAM ADC.
	Configure Plan	Configuring Plan Monitor to run plans in real time and collect data in real time and recover /reconnect on errors.
	Deployment Guide	Sample deployment and sizing guide, with examples of different topology.
	LDAP Configuration	Configuring BAM for external LDAP authentication and authorizations.
	BAM Migration	Document explaining migration steps from one environment to another (or one platform to another).
	Repository Maintenance	Brief note on best practice for BAM repository maintenance.
	BAM Without EnterpriseLink	Brief note on best practices when using BAM without EnterpriseLink.

Tutorials The tutorials aim at introducing one or more key concepts. Some tutorials come with a comprehensive, detailed step-by-step walk through of how you can explore and use specific features. The tutorials are a good starting point for getting started with the BAM concepts and product features. Most of these documents have dependencies on other services and documents. Please follow the instructions given in the documents. All the documents below are built using BPEL 127.OrderBooking tutorial as an example. The BAM dashboard is built to display the realtime metrics, KPIs and SLAs of the OrderBooking process. Some of these tutorials may refer to other tech notes.

	Tutorial #1	BAM install detailed steps
	Tutorial #2	Administrator Functions: Configuring Email Server, Configuring Users and Roles, Configuring data from external message source types.
	Tutorial #3	Architect Functions: Creating Data Objects
	Tutorial #4	Architect Functions: Creating Dimensions on Data Objects
	Tutorial #5	BAM Architecture: Collecting Data from JMS Bus.
	Tutorial #6	BAM Architecture: Populating Real Time Data into BAM data objects.
	Tutorial #7	Active Studio Functions: Creating Simple Reports (shows simple report design steps for Bar, Pie and Stacked Bar charts).
	Tutorial #8	Active Studio Functions: Designing Filters on Reports (uses the reports from previous steps to design simple filters)
	Tutorial #9	Active Studio Functions: Advanced Reports Design and Report Navigation (drill cross, and drill into features, and drill -view features, time slice reports and using dimension in reports).
	Tutorial #10	Active Studio Functions: BPEL Process Monitoring Reports- to design dashboards for monitoring BPEL processes, thresholds, performance, throughputs etc. (End to End steps with BPEL sensor design and BAM data objects and BAM reports).
	Tutorial #11	Active Studio Functions: Designing Alerts Rules and Alert Actions.

Business Scenario Demonstrations The Demos cover some common business scenarios and show you how to implement these using BAM. Some of the demos have detailed instructions for the core topic that is covered in the demo. Use the demos in development environments only. Some steps of the demo may overwrite or modify your configurations.

	SOA Order Booking Demo	This demo extends th SOA 10.1.3.1 OrderBooking demo including the BPEL sensors, BPEL and Rules Engine interface. Detailed steps are provided to plug this dashboard into the SOA OrderBooking process. A continuous BPEL process is also provided as an example to pump BPEL sensor events into BAM dashabord.
	Order Booking Demo	Learn various Oracle BAM features based on the BPEL 127.OrderBooking tutorial (Details of OrderBooking scenario is found in BPEL PM product tutorial). It includes an OrderBooking simulator plan that automatically generates data to create a real-time data simulation for the dashboard reports. Optionally, this demo can be configured to receive real-time data from BPEL PM. (requires BPEL 10.1.3.1 SOA version). New update includes a simple Java program that can also push data to BAM. (this java program does not required BPEL engine.
	Trade Flow Demo	This demo uses the Oracle database and AQ to push real time data into BAM. Simple dashboards are designed to display real time reports.
	Car Rental Demo	Simple demo showing JMS events captured by BAM and displayed on sample dashboards.

Utilities And Workarounds Sample utilities are provided for developers as an example only.

	StartOracleBAM	Simple script to clear dependent log files, start the Oracle BAM software, its dependent services, database. Please edit to customize for your environment.
	StopOracleBAM	Simple script to stop the Oracle BAM services in an orderly fashion.
	ADCAdminUtility	You may see your Oracle BAM home page with all buttons disabled due to permissions. Run this SQL utility to add domain user as an Administrator for Oracle BAM ADC. Use this if your XP environment has a centralized windows domain controller. See notes and remarks inside the file.
	Sample Images	Some sample view background images. A few tech notes, samples and demos use these images for view backgrounds.
	WSDLs	Webservice descriptors and XSDs for BAM components.

Additional Help

	BAM customers and all partners should use Oracle MetaLink to communicate about BAM topics and get Oracle support. If you send information to support, please send a detailed description of your problem, network and machine (OS, hardware & software) details, export of all BAM metadata & artifacts, a picture or screenshot of the problem. This helps support understand your problem more clearly. Global Support team for Integration Products will respond to the Service Requests filed through Metalink and handle them until they are resolved. All Oracle BAM customers are encouraged to upgrade to the latest release of the software available.
	You can also use BAM Forum in the Oracle Technology Network to exchange information with Oracle BAM user community.
	Please contact Oracle University for official listing, location and schedule of Oracle BAM training classes.
	Please contact Oracle Consulting for professional help with your Business Integration projects.

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