An Oracle Integration Cloud specialist is responsible for planning, coordinating, and supervising all activities related to the integration of enterprise information systems.
This blog post will go through some quick tips, including Q/A and related blog posts on the topics that we covered in the Oracle Integration Cloud Day 6 Live Session, which will help you gain a better understanding and make it easier for you to
This week’s Day 6 Live Session we started with Module 7: OIC Administration & Monitoring Integrations and Module 8: Code Promotion & Versioning where we covered topics like Managing & Monitoring Errors, Versioning, Promoting Your Code, Administering Integrations, Import/Export Integrations
We also covered hands-on, Lab 11, Lab 12, Lab 22, and Lab 23 out of our 30+ extensive labs.
On Day 4 and 5 we covered OIC Connectivity Agents, Agent Set Up, JDK Installation, Agent Groups, Agent Architecture, Agent Framework, ATP Database, ATP Adapter
Monitoring Integrations
Using the Oracle Integration dashboard you can see how your integrations are performing. The dashboard provides multiple views for you to check your running services. You can view information about how your integrations are performing on the Dashboard page. The Dashboard data represents the entire history of the instance, including the number of messages before purging, if it ever occurred.
Read more about Monitoring Integrations
Question 1: What all monitoring information can we get from the dashboard?
Answer: The Oracle Integration Cloud dashboard displays information about the current state of all your running integrations. The information and tools provided to monitor and manage your integrations in the runtime environment ease the tasks for the administrator. The dashboard gives you a quick view of the performance metrics for all your active integrations. The dashboard also provides a view of the recent activities for running integrations and the ability to download all the activities.
Logs in Oracle Integration Cloud
The Integration Cloud Service dashboard provides a view into the activity stream for running integrations, such as details about successful responses received from the target application, successful responses sent to the source application, and target application invocations.
You can set logging levels and download diagnostic logs in Oracle Integration. You can also obtain the impacted POD name from the diagnostic logs. You cannot set logging levels in Oracle Integration Generation 2.
Question 2: How can we download OIC logs?
Answer: In the left navigation pane, click Home > Monitoring > Integrations > Dashboard.
You can also access the diagnostic logs directly from the Integrations page if your integration activation fails. Click the Download diagnostic logs link at the top of the page.
Question 3: What are the steps to monitor Activity Streams?
Answer: 3 The steps to monitor Activity Streams are as follows:
1. On the Integration Cloud Service toolbar, click Monitoring
2. Click on Integrations
3. Click on Dashboard
4. The dashboard appears and shows processing information for all running integrations
Question 4: In which format is the stream downloaded? Will we be able to see what data or file has been passed?
Answer 4: Activity stream is downloaded in a simple text format with .log extension. Yes, Data and file names will be visible in the stream, and also the tracking field will help in monitoring integration.
Question 5: How can we track each activity in integration which is being performed?
Answer 5: You can create a notification function in integration that will help in determining what activity has been performed and it can also be used as step-by-step monitoring of integration.
Question 6: Can we access the logs after 30 days?
Answer 6: Yes, logs can be accessed after 30 days but you need to request Oracle to provide the logs.
Export Integrations
Once you create an integration, you can export that integration as an IAR file for use in other Oracle Integration environments or import the integration into Oracle JDeveloper to perform an advanced XSLT mapper task (for example, creating variables or using templates) that you cannot perform in the mapper. After mapper editing in Oracle JDeveloper is complete, the mapper file can then be imported back into Oracle Integration. You can export an integration from the Integration Designer You can also export a locked integration.
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Question 7: How to Export Integrations?
Answer 7: You can import an integration by following the below steps:
1. In the navigation pane, click Integrations.
2. Find the integration to export in the Integrations list, click the Actions menu, and then select Export.
3.In the dialog that appears, select Save File, and then click OK.
4. Save the file to the location you want.
5. The file is saved with a name that consists of the identifier plus the version number, and an IAR extension.
Versioning of Integration
OIC supports the model of semantic Versioning. It is best recognized as Major, Minor, and Patch. Integration versions follow a formatting convention of xx.yy.zzzz, where xx is the major version and yy is the minor version and zzzz is the Patch. If you clone an integration (for example, version 1.00.0000) and change the minor version of the cloned integration to 1.10.0000, version 1.00.0000 is deactivated when you activate the version to 1.10.0000. To keep both integrations active, change the major version of the cloned integration to 2.00.0000. This enables integration versions 1.00.0000 and 2.00.0000 to be active at the same time.
Question 8: Can we have 2 integration of different versions activated simultaneously?
Answer 8: It depends on the version of the integration, If you have a major update in the version then two instances can be activated at the same time otherwise only one version can be activated at a time.
Question 9: What is the difference between Versioning and Cloning?
Answer 9: Cloning and integration create a new copy with identical connections and data mappings. You give the clone a new name, identifier, version number, and package name, but the remaining configuration is the same. You can reconfigure the clone after you create it. You can also clone a locked integration.
Whereas Versioning is the number of software’s, integrations, and applications. These numbers are called the versions of the applications
Question 10: How to Clone an Integration?
Answer 10: The steps to clone an Integration are as follows:
1. In the navigation pane, click Integrations.
2. On the Integrations page, find the integration you want to clone. You can filter the display of integrations by their current status on the left side of the page.
3. In the row containing the integration you want to clone, click the hamburger menu icon on the far right, then click Clone.
4. In the dialog that appears, enter a name, unique identifier, version number, package name, and an optional description.
5. You can include English alphabetic characters, numbers, underscores, and dashes in the identifier. Enter the version using numbers only in this format: xx.xx.xxxx.
6. Click Clone.
7. You can modify the clone in any of the ways described in Modifying an Integration.
Question 11: What is the Code promotion Process?
Answer: The code promotion process is somehow as mentioned below:
A package is first exported from production and then the same package is used for both test and production environments. The configuration of connections is separated out and the connections can be manually configured or they can be configured through an API.
Question 12: Does the cloned instance become active after cloning or do we have to activate it?
Answer 12: No, the cloned instance does not become active automatically, it has to be activated manually.
Quiz Time (Sample Exam Questions)!
With our Oracle Integration Cloud Training Program, we cover 150+ sample exam questions to help you prepare for the OIC 1Z0-1042 Certification.
Check out one of the questions and see if you can crack this…
Ques: Which file is downloaded when you export an Integration?
A. IAR
B. JAR
C. PY
D. JDK
The right answer will be revealed in my next week’s blog.
Here is the answer to the question shared last week (Scroll down at the end of this post for the question).
Ques: Which two are On-prem Connectivity Options with Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)?
A. VPN
B. Connectivity Agent
C. PaaS Agent
D. Execution Agent
Answer: A, B
Explanation: The On-prem Connectivity options with Oracle Integration Cloud are Connectivity Agent and VPN as both are used to connect On-Premise applications with the cloud. Click here to verify the answer
Feedback Received
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To know more about the OIC 1z0-1042 certification, do check this blog on 1Z0-1042-21 Oracle Cloud Platform Application Integration Specialist
Related Links/References:
- Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC) For Beginners Overview
- 1Z0-1042-21 Oracle Cloud Platform Application Integration 2021 Specialist
- OIC Step By Step Activity Guides/Hands-On Lab Exercise
- OIC vs SOA CS
- SOAP vs REST API’s
- Process large files in OIC
- [Recap] Day 5: OIC Agents [Oracle Integration Cloud] [1Z0-1042]
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