Deployment Guide

Deploying the BIG-IP LTM with Oracle Endeca Welcome to the F5 deployment guide for Oracle® Endeca and the BIG-IP system. This guide shows administrators how to configure the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) for directing traffic, ensuring application availability, improving performance and providing a flexible layer of security for Oracle Endeca deployments.

Products and applicable versions Product BIG-IP LTM

Version 10.1 - 10.4 11.1 - 11.4

Oracle Endeca Information Discovery

2.4

Deployment guide version

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DEPLOYMENT GUIDE Oracle Endeca

Contents Prerequisites and configuration notes 3 Overview of Oracle Endeca

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Configuration example 3

Configuring the BIG-IP LTM for Oracle Endeca

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Endeca Information Discovery Services (Studio) configuration table

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Endeca Server configuration table 5 References 6

Document Revision History 6

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Prerequisites and configuration notes The following are general prerequisites and configuration notes for this guide: hh You must have administrative access to the BIG-IP LTM web-based Configuration utility. hh You must have administrative access to the Endeca Information Discovery Servers. hh You must have the appropriate DNS and NTP network services configured. hh T  his guide assumes you have already initially configured the BIG-IP system with Interfaces, VLANs, Self-IPs, and IP Routes, and that the LTM is installed, licensed, and running in your network. For basic LTM configuration and installation instructions, please consult the appropriate F5 documentation. hh N  ote that Endeca Information Discovery Services are usually added to an existing Oracle application, such as E-Business Suite. Please consult the appropriate F5 and Oracle documentation for installing and configuring the application software if needed. See http://www.f5.com/products/documentation/deployment-guides.view.solutions.base-application.oracle.html.

Overview of Oracle Endeca This section contains an overview of Oracle Endeca, including Information Discovery.

Endeca Information Discovery Oracle Endeca Information Discovery is a data discovery platform that guides people to better decisions on diverse and changing data. It is based on a patented hybrid search-analytical database, and gives IT a centralized platform to rapidly deploy interactive analytic applications, and keep pace with changing business requirements while maintaining information governance.

Oracle Endeca Server The Oracle Endeca Server software provides the query engine that serves as the foundation for all front-end applications utilizing it. The software includes the Oracle Endeca Server, which is the management facility for administering the Endeca data stores. Front-end applications built on top of the Oracle Endeca Server can answer end-user queries and provide business analytics information to the frontapplication's users.

Configuration example Using F5 with an Endeca Cluster provides an Enterprise class architecture which can provide for increased throughput and capacity, and enhanced availability of query processing. Endeca Servers can be added as needed to increase computing power and improve application response time. Admin/Config updates Integrator updates Leader node

LTM

Dgraph

Cluster Coordinator

LTM

Follower node

Queries

BIG-IP Platform

Dgraph

BIG-IP Platform Oracle Information Discovery (Studio)

Follower node

Dgraph

Oracle Endeca Servers Figure 1: Logical configuration example

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Shared File System

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Configuring the BIG-IP LTM for Oracle Endeca Use the following tables for guidance on configuring the BIG-IP system for the Oracle Endeca. These tables contains any non-default setting you should configure as a part of this deployment. Settings not contained in the table can be configured as applicable. For specific instructions on configuring individual objects, see the online help or product manuals.

Endeca Information Discovery Services (Studio) configuration table BIG-IP object

Non-default settings/Notes Name

Type a unique name.

Health Monitor

Type

TCP

(Local Traffic-->Monitors)

Interval

30

Timeout

91

Name

Type a unique name.

Health monitor

Add health monitor above

Pool

Slow Ramp Time1

120

(Local Traffic -->Pools)

Load Balancing Method

Least Connections (member) recommended

Address

IP address of the Endeca Studio server

Service Port

8090 (default)

HTTP (Profiles-->Services)

TCP WAN (Profiles-->Protocol)

Profiles (Local Traffic-->Profiles) TCP LAN (Profiles-->Protocol)

Persistence (Profiles-->Persistence)

Virtual Server (Local Traffic-->Virtual Servers)

1 2

3

Repeat Address and Port for all members

Name

Type a unique name.

Parent Profile

http

Name

Type a unique name.

Parent Profile

tcp-wan-optimized

Idle Timeout2

18002

Name

Type a unique name.

Parent Profile

tcp-lan-optimized

Idle Timeout2

18002

Name

Type a unique name.

Persistence Type

Cookie

Name

Type a unique name.

Destination Address

IP address for the virtual server (servers use this address to access Endeca via the BIG-IP system)

Service Port

80

Protocol Profile (Client) 1

Select the TCP WAN profile you created above

Protocol Profile (Server)

Select the TCP LAN profile you created above

1

HTTP Profile

Select the HTTP profile you created above

SNAT Pool

Auto Map (SNAT is recommended. If you expect more than 64,000 concurrent connections per server, use a SNAT Pool3 instead of Auto Map)

Default Pool

Select the pool you created above

Default Persistence Profile

Select the Cookie persistence profile you created above

You must select Advanced from the Configuration list for these options to appear. If you have changed the Endeca Server “Maximum Idle Time”, you should make the BIG-IP TCP profile Idle Timeout value match or be slightly larger. See the Endeca Server Admin Guide for more information: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35976_01/server.740/es_admin/toc.htm#Increasing%20the%20maximum%20idle%20time For more information on SNAT Pools, see the BIG-IP documentation

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Endeca Server configuration table BIG-IP object

Non-default settings/Notes Name

Type a unique name.

Type

HTTP

Interval

30

Timeout

91

Send String

Use the following syntax: http://[host]:[port]/admin?op=ping Where 'host' is the FQDN of the Server, and 'port' is the TCP port where the Endeca process is running For example: endeca1.example.com:7770/admin?op=ping

Name

Type a unique name.

Health monitor

Add health monitor above

Pool

Slow Ramp Time2

120

(Local Traffic -->Pools)

Load Balancing Method

Least Connections (member) recommended

Address

IP address of the Endeca Studio server

Service Port

7770 (default)

Health Monitor (Local Traffic-->Monitors)

HTTP (Profiles-->Services)

TCP WAN (Profiles-->Protocol)

Profiles TCP LAN (Profiles-->Protocol)

(Local Traffic-->Virtual Servers)

Type a unique name.

Parent Profile

http

Name

Type a unique name.

Parent Profile

tcp-wan-optimized

Idle Timeout

18002

3

Name

(Local Traffic-->Profiles)

Virtual Server

Repeat Address and Port for all members

Name

Type a unique name.

Parent Profile

tcp-lan-optimized

Idle Timeout

18002

3

Persistence (Profiles-->Persistence)

Name

Type a unique name.

Persistence Type

Cookie

Name

Type a unique name.

Destination Address

IP address for the virtual server (servers use this address to access Endeca via the BIG-IP system)

Service Port

80

Protocol Profile (Client) 2

Select the TCP WAN profile you created above

Protocol Profile (Server)

Select the TCP LAN profile you created above

2

HTTP Profile

Select the HTTP profile you created above

SNAT Pool

Auto Map (SNAT is recommended. If you expect more than 64,000 concurrent connections per server, use a SNAT Pool4 instead of Auto Map)

Default Pool

Select the pool you created above

Default Persistence Profile

Select the Cookie persistence profile you created above

The LTM HTTP health monitor is specified in the Oracle Endeca Commerce Performance Tuning Guide, version 6.4.1. See http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E40176_01/MDEX.641/pdf/PerfTuningGuide.pdf

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2

You must select Advanced from the Configuration list for these options to appear.

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If you have changed the Endeca Server “Maximum Idle Time”, you should make the BIG-IP TCP profile Idle Timeout value match or be slightly larger. See the Endeca Server Admin Guide for more information: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35976_01/server.740/es_admin/toc.htm#Increasing%20the%20maximum%20idle%20time

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For more information on SNAT Pools, see the BIG-IP documentation

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References • E  ndeca Information Discovery and Endeca Server documentation: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35976_01/index.htm • E  ndeca Cluster Overview: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35976_01/server.740/es_admin/toc.htm#Cluster%20overview • E  ndeca Maximum Idle Time configuration: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E35976_01/server.740/es_admin/toc.htm#Increasing%20the%20maximum%20idle%20time • E  ndeca Commerce Performance Tuning Guide: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E40176_01/MDEX.641/pdf/PerfTuningGuide.pdf

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