RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Administration

The most visible component of the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent is the OEBS AGENT object. Through the OEBS AGENT object you:

• Set up the Automation Engine-initiated and the OEBS-initiated interfaces
• Automatically create Automation Engine Jobs from existing OEBS programs
• Define sets of OEBS programs to manage through the Automation Engine

The OEBS AGENT object is different from a standard AGENT object. It is an interface to the OEBS database rather than an installed Agent on a server. However, the OEBS AGENT object is displayed with the other Agents in the Administration perspective and can be controlled like any other AGENT object.

You do not need to define a standard AGENT object on the same machine as the OEBS Agent.

1. Setting up Oracle Advanced Queuing as described in topic Setting Up Oracle Advanced Queuing.
2. Optionally, setting up a separate Oracle user account for the Agent as described in topic Setting Up a Separate Oracle User Account for the Agent.
3. Loading the OEBSAgent_deploy_file.jar file for your Automation Engine.
4. Creating RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent CONN object(s) to connect to the OEBS database.
5. Checking that all prerequisites have been met as described in topic Checking Prerequisites and Privileges.
6. Making sure the necessary privileges are present as described in topic Checking Prerequisites and Privileges.
7. Creating an RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution AGENT object and specifying Agent runtime values for it.
8. Manually creating the following kinds of Jobs:
   • A single Job to specify Job capture settings.
   • Standard RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Jobs.
   • One or more template Jobs for automatic Job creation (if you will be creating Jobs this way).
9. Optionally, automatically creating Jobs in bulk, and manually editing them.

Each step is described in this chapter.

1. Stopping the service(s) for your RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agent(s) from the Service-Manager window or command line.
2. Exiting the Automation Engine Automic Web Interface.
3. Loading the OEBSAgent_deploy_file.jar file for your Automation Engine.
4. Restarting the service(s) for your RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agent(s) from the Service-Manager window or command line.
5. Logging into Client 0 and updating your RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agent(s). You update RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agents by checking the Update Database, after Agent Restart box on the General Parameters section on the Oracle E-Business Suite page for the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agent and saving it.

If you want to update the trigger to upgrade an RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agent that is stopped, you can copy the upgrade.sql file from the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent .zip file from the Automic Download Center and run it from SQL*Plus.

6. Stopping and restarting the service(s) for your RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution Agent(s) from the Service-Manager window or command line again.

Creating Oracle E-Business CONN Object(s)

To link the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent to Oracle E-Business Suite, you must create one or more CONN objects. For more information, see topic Creating RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent CONN Objects.

Creating an RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Solution AGENT Object and Specifying Agent Runtime Values for It

You create the RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent solution AGENT object as you would create any AGENT object in the Automation Engine. Agent runtime values are described in topic Specifying Agent Parameters.

Automatically Creating Jobs

Before creating Jobs automatically from the Agent definition, you must manually define one or more RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Jobs to use as template Job(s). For more information, see topic Automatically Creating Jobs.

Creating and Editing Standard RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Jobs

You can create Jobs to run Standard OEBS programs. RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Jobs include a special Oracle E-Business Suite page, where you can enter program, output and parameter information.

This page is also available in the Job's definition and where Jobs are assigned to Workflows. Read-only panels are also available for tasks in the Process Monitoring perspective. The fields in these panels allow variables and VARA objects.

For more information on editing RA Oracle E-Business Suite Agent Jobs, see chapter Working with Jobs.