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Clustering PeopleSoft Applications

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Senthil Kumaran—Oracle Matthew Haavisto—Oracle

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Agenda

• Introduction: What is a Cluster? What are the Benefits?

• Cluster Features

• How to Set Up a Cluster

• Questions and Answers


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What is a Cluster? What are the Benefits?



What is a PeopleSoft Cluster? What are the Benefits?

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• A set of two or more PeopleSoft applications

• Clustered applications behave like a seamless environment without noticeable boundaries between applications

• Achieved with PeopleTools and Enterprise Components

• Takes advantage of advances in Fluid UI and contemporary features

• Simple, consistent UI and Interaction Model

• Good cross-form factor experience

• Includes Single Sign-On

What has changed? Most clustering and cross-application capabilities formerly required the Interaction Hub.

Not to be confused with a Cluster of Nodes in a Search server


Cluster Features



Features Available for Clustering

• Global Search (Federated)

• Configure Unified Navigation (WorkCenter setup)

• Fluid Home Pages & Dashboards (Cluster Aware)

• Tiles – Consolidated

• Remote Tile Search and Import

• Remote Registry Support in Navbar, Related Information

• Notification Framework (Federated)

• User Personalization & System Profile Sync

• Health Monitoring

• Branding (across the cluster)

• Discussion Services (Enterprise Components)

• Nav-Collection Remote Registry Support (Fluid and Classic

• Remote WorkCenters – Classic

• Remote Dashboards - Classic

• Remote Pagelet support in Dashboards, WorkCenters & Related Content

• Remote Pagelet Search and Import – Classic

• ACM Plugins to setup Integration Broker, Unified Navigation, Search, etc.


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Activity Guides

Role-based Homepages and

Dashboards

Related Content

Tiles/NavBar

Related Actions

Portal Application

User Interface Aligned with Your Business Needs

Simplified Analytics

Navigation Collections

Branding

Cluster takes advantage of these…


How to Set Up a Cluster



• Unified Navigation via PeopleTools

• Runtime consolidation of menu

• Runtime resolution of URL for Classic & Fluid

• Real time security

• Homepage Tiles, Search, Related Actions, Nav Collections, etc.

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Unified Navigation


Unified Navigation WorkCenterPeopleTools > Portal > Configure Unified Navigation


Integration Network WorkCenter• Integration Network WorkCenter

– Configuration – Framework Setup

– Administration – Define Integrations

– Monitoring – Status check participating nodes

– Utilities – Useful accessory tools

– Network Config Activity Guide


Federated Search

Shared Elasticsearch –8.55/8.56

Elasticsearch(+ PS Search Framework)

HCM(Portal App)

FMS ELM SRM


• Actions and Alerts

• Push Architecture

• Notify across applications

• Notify across Classic, Fluid approvals

• Notify across devices

• AWE abstracts configuration for approval flow


Federated Notifications


Branding

• PeopleTools Macro Sets or Hub Theme Builder

• Develop once

• Deploy across the cluster

• Different Themes for different user constituencies


Discussion Services


Discussion Tile can be assigned to any component (RI)

Discussion list page opens from the tile. Lists all context-specific discussions, offers option to add a new discussion

Discussion window opens when a discussions is selected or when new discussion added

Discussion details page can be opened from the Actions list on the

Discussion Window, can edit Subject, Description, view\add\remove

participants and open\close discussion


• The Portal system acts as a gateway for monitoring itself and all the content systems (monitored systems)

– Provides an integrated view of health and diagnostics data from the content systems

• The data in the health dashboard is pulled in from JMX Mbeans that are deployed in the App server/Process Scheduler/Web Server domains of each content system.


Health Center in a Cluster

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