LCM and High Availability



High availability A system attribute that enables an application to continue to provide services 
in the presence of failures. This is achieved through removal of single points of failure, with 
fault-tolerant hardware, as well as server clusters; if one server fails, processing requests are 
routed to another server.When our Shared Services is set up for high availability and is started 
as a Windows service we need to configure LCM as well for high availability.

If our shared services is on two servers then of-course each server will have its own 
import_export folder from where respective Shared Services will pic the file system backup 
information, so we need to have a shared disk or shared location which can be used by both 
servers when we  export artifacts using Lifecycle Management. In order to do it we configure 
LCM so that the contents are exported to a path on a shared disk, when imported, the content 
is read from the

shared disk exported location.

To configure Lifecycle Management for high availability:

1 Set up a shared disk/folder that is accessible to all Shared Services nodes. (Here, for ease I 
have granted permission to everyone but you can restrict it to the Domain User who will be 
starting services )









2 On each node, start Shared Services as a service using the login of a domain user who has 
access to

the shared disk/folder.

3 On one node, launch Oracle's Hyperion® Shared Services Console and expand the 
Deployment

Metadata node under the Foundation application group.

4 Expand the Shared Services Registry node, then Foundation Services, and then Shared 
Services.


5 Under the Shared Services node, right-click the Properties node and select Export for Edit.

6 Save the component.properties file to a location on the file system.

7 Open the saved file in a text editor and search for the property filesystem.artifact.path.

8 Change the value associated with the filesystem.artifact.path property.

UNIX-style UNC paths with forward slashes must be defined for the shared disk; for

example:

Configuring Lifecycle Management for Shared Services High Availability 25

filesystem.artifact.path=//hostname/share


The empty part is the host name or IP address.



9 Save the changes.

10 From Oracle's Hyperion® Shared Services Console, right-click the Properties node under 
Shared

Services, and select Import after Edit.

11 Browse to the location of the updated file and select the file.

This action updates the property in Oracle's Hyperion Shared Services Registry.

12 Restart Shared Services on this node and all other nodes using the domain user login.

Little Details:

 Lets assume that after configuring you decided to take the File System backup for one of your 

applications then there is might be a chance that you end up with below error. You must ensure 
that you have provided full control to the user who will be starting services to the shared folder; 
for most of the security related issue you will end up in the below error:

EPMLCM-37077: Cannot perform migration. Read/Write permission to the repository path - 

//<HostName>/SharedImportExport/admin@Native Directory/hj is not available. Give 

permission and rerun the migration.


If you are on 11.1.2.0 then the Patch Set Exception (PSE) 11696634 has to be applied 
to enable using UNC paths.

In UNIX,

1. Using a text editor, open the migration.properties file located 
inMIDDLEWARE_HOME/user_projects/epmsystem1/config/FoundationServic
es.

2. Set the value of filesystem.artifact.path as follows:

filesystem.artifact.path=MOUNTED_FILE_SYSTEM_PATH

In this example, replace MOUNTED_FILE_SYSTEM_PATH  with the actual path of 
the mounted shared disk; for example, /net/myServer.

3. Save and close the migration.properties file.

4. Repeat the preceding steps on each node in the cluster.

Cheers...!!!

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