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Leadership CouncilCore Services – PeopleSoft Technical Advisory Team

PeopleSoft Over Time

PeopleSoft Internet Architecture

March 14, 2013 – Salt Lake City, UT

Core Services – PeopleSoft Technical Advisory Team

Outline – Part 1

� About �BYU

�Your presenter

� Basic system architecture�Understanding the PIA (People Soft Internet Architecture)

� Additional things to monitor� Web Server Issues

� Application Server Processes

� Other

� Part 1 questions


About Brigham Young University

Human Resources 9.1 (8.51)

Financials and Supply Chain 9.1

(8.51)

Campus Solutions 9.0 – Financials

and Financial Aid (8.51) Tools Identity

Replication Gateway

(8.51)

Application Change

Management (8.51)

Business Objects & Informatica


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About Me


Basic System Architecture

Web Layer – servlet container• Weblogic• WebSphere*

App\Batch Layer• Tuxedo• WebSphere*

Database• Oracle• MSSQL• Sybase• Etc


System Architecture Extended


Logical Split

�Extreme is one server OS running all layers of the PIA internet architecture�Great for development, demo, copy, etc

�Not as extreme is running everything but the one�Common setup is not running web or database

� Web due to external security concerns

� Database due to external and internal security concerns

�Why you may choose to do this�Simplistic

�Easy to support

�Template creation and utilization


Platform System Container


Client Panel


Resource Panel


Administrative Panel


Service Panel


Platform Container For Logical Split

This does not contain

the database software


Monitoring the Web Server

�Access logs� If no connections for a given time you could do an artificial

transaction to validate it is working

�Port(s) listening�Linux - netstat -tnlp | grep <Your Port Number> | grep

“<Some Interface Information>" | grep LISTEN

� Log event monitoring�Ability to trigger alerts based on information in log files

�Great for troubleshooting once you have an idea of what you may be looking for in a sticky problem


Monitoring the Application Server

Certain environmental variables must be set correctly to run any of the below mentioned commands.

� If application servers are all busy� /psadmin -c sstatus -d <Domain Name>

�Other queues�psadmin -c qstatus -d <Domain Name>

�Client list grows beyond a known peak�psadmin -c cstatus -d ptoolsapp <Domain Name>

�Other�Mibs - ud32 -C tpsysadm < <Command File>

�Tuxedo Comamnd Line - tmadmin < <Command File>


Application Server Booted/IdleFri Mar 1 16:00:03 MST 2013 App servers Booted: 6 App servers Idle: 6

Fri Mar 1 16:05:02 MST 2013 App servers Booted: 6 App servers Idle: 6












Application Server Queues

�Removed the date/time stampPSAPPSRV,6,0,WSL,1,0,PSWATCHSRV,1,0,JSL,1,0,JREPSVR,1,0,JRAD,1,0,PSMONITORSRV,1,0,PSSAMSRV,1,0,BBL,1,0,

PSAPPSRV,6,0,WSL,1,0,PSWATCHSRV,1,0,JSL,1,0,JREPSVR,1,0,JRAD,1,0,PSMONITORSRV,1,0,PSSAMSRV,1,0,BBL,1,0,












Application Server Continued

�Artificial transaction options�No load balancing on the web servers

�Java program

� The application server is more complex than the other pieces of the PeopleSoft Internet Architecture�Excluding the database system


Process Scheduler

�Check for master control process�ps -ef | grep "BBL" | grep "PSUNX" | grep -v "grep" | awk

'{print \$2}

�Check for report distribution server (Old Bug)�ps -ef | grep "PSDSTSRV" | grep -v "grep" | awk '{print \$2}‘

�Web check

�Artificial transactions unadvisable


Data Collection

� The PeopleSoft framework at BYU Provo has many data collection points�At least 20

�Collect what is needed

�Reassess�Needs change


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