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Configuring Integrated SOA Gateway with Oracle SOA Cloud Service on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic by: Rekha Ayothi

In Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2, Integrated SOA Gateway (ISG) uses Oracle SOA Suite and its E-Business Suite Adapter for SOAP based web services. Now, with Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud, you can configure ISG to use Oracle SOA Cloud Service and its E-Business Suite Adapter for SOAP based web services.

What is Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud?

If you are new to running Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure, please refer to the Oracle E-Business Suite on Oracle Cloud Landing Page for any introduction needed.

What is Oracle SOA Cloud Service?

Oracle SOA Suite is a comprehensive service infrastructure that lets you build, deploy and manage integration following the concepts of service-oriented architecture (SOA). Oracle SOA Cloud Service is an integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) offering that provides Oracle SOA Suite and other related SOA components in Oracle Cloud.

Oracle SOA Cloud Service supports multiple service types that provide one or more SOA components as services. For EBS ISG SOAP services, you would be using a service type that includes SOA Suite. Read the complete article here.

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Agent Group Existance Check Failed, Recheck ICS Username, ICS Password and Proxy Username, Proxy Password or Contact Customer Support by Ankur Jain

After ICS POD upgraded to 18.2.3.0.0, ICS agent will not come up and throw an error "Agent Group Existence Check Failed, Recheck ICS Username, ICS Password and Proxy Username, Proxy Password or Contact Customer Support".
The reason being of the issue is, ICS certificate has been changed. Certificate changes for ICS happened on the Cloud (outside of Agent). It can be mapped to 18.2.3 MLR 00.

This is known Bug 28242477 logged by Oracle.

To resolve this issue, the user needs to re-import the CA certs from ICS on to agent keystore. Ensure that entire certificate chain is imported to agent keystore.

Follow below steps to resolve the issue:

1) Download Certificate Chain from ICS

• Login into ICS console using Firefox browser
• Click on Security Report and More Information

• Go to Security Tab and Click on View Certificate button
• Click on Details tab. Once click on Details tab, you will notice Certificate Chain (Root, Intermediate & Leaf) Read the complete article here.

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Integration Cloud – File Handling Primer by Shreenidhi Raghuram

Introduction

The objective of this blog is to introduce to the reader all available file-based options in Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC). The blog will cover the various tools and techniques available for developers for designing file-based integration solutions

The Integration Cloud documentation does contain these in relevant sections. This blog intends to present only the file-based tools and techniques of Integration Cloud as a single point of easy reference.

Note that most of what is covered here is pertinent to all three flavors of Integration Cloud (AIC, OIC and ICS)

Oracle Autonomous Integration Cloud (AIC)

Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC)

Oracle Integration Cloud Service (ICS)

However, based on the product versions, feature sets could be slightly different across these product offerings. Refer to the respective documentation links for more details.

We will be covering the following topics in the subsequent sections of this blog

1. Integration Cloud tools and options for File Handling
2. We will talk about mainly FTP adapter, File Adapter and their various available options for developers. A short section on SOAP and REST adapters in the context of attachments. We will also see other Integration Cloud constructs like Stage File and some Mapper functions which are vital for designing file handling solutions.

1. FAQs
2. We will answer some common integration questions around file handling

1. Use case scenarios
2. We will list out some real world use-cases and their solutions based on customer experiences. They provide useful insights and innovative uses of Integration cloud to design solutions involving File handling

Integration Cloud tools and options for File Handling

File Based Adapters : FTP, File, SOAP and REST adapters

File based Activities : Stage File, Mapper Functions

File Based Adapters

Integration Cloud provides these adapters that primarily help implement file-based integration flows

• FTP Adapter
• File Adapter

In addition, the SOAP and REST Connections also provide file attachment features and hence help us design flows for sending and receiving file content over SOAP and REST interfaces.

• SOAP Adapter
• REST Adapter
• Read the complete article here.

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ICS to OIC by Phil Wilkins

We have had a number of interesting conversations of late about the transition from ICS to OIC and to spice the discussion whether it should be OIC or Autonomous OIC. The reality of the situation is that the transition between ICS and OIC is a relatively straight forward one using the export and import tooling.

The real challenge is the impact to organisations appears to be the change in licensing models as OIC works with the newer Universal Credit Model (UCM) where as ICS is in the older arrangement of traditional accounts where you buy the use of specific services, in some ways not too different from traditional Oracle traditional product licensing. For organisations that operate with corporate level buying teams this is organisationally more challenging. As just buying credits can feel like your giving the IT children pocket money and you don’t trust them to ensure the money is spent wisely and they don’t come running back a day later when they say spent all the money can we have some more.

IOC or Autonomous OIC

For the smaller customers where they’re generating less than 5000 Messages per hour (think Integration triggers where each message is <50k – which is fairly big for most needs. Although be aware but moving large files is going to eat through your messages as the transfer cost is file size / 50k = no. messages used (consumed or sent), of effectively 250MB per hour. The autonomous option is a no brainer for smaller use cases in terms of cost as it means on current pricing you have your integrations operating for a lot less than £500 per month (£0.5867 x 24 x 30 – using standard with the flex scheme – https://cloud.oracle.com/en_US/OIC/pricing). With that the SaaS adaptors are also included – that means you could operate say Workday to Oracle Financials for an SME without much problem. Read the complete article here.

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Start, Stop and Status of API CS Physical Gateway by Ankur Jain

In our previous blog, we have showcased how to install API Cloud Service physical gateway. In this blog, we’ll execute some useful commands. For instance, how to start, stop and check status of the physical gateway.

Below command must run from the directory where Gateway installer was unzipped.

Command to check the status of Physical Gateway

Run below command to check the status of Physical Gateway

python APIGateway.py -f gateway-props.json -a status

Enter username and password of the Physical gateway which was given during installation
Command to  stop the Physical Gateway

JAVA_HOME path should be set before run the stop command

Run below command to stop Physical Gateway

python APIGateway.py -f gateway-props.json -a stop

Enter username and password of the Physical gateway which was given during installation. Read the complete article here.

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Managing Applications in Oracle API Cloud Service (CS) by Ankur Jain

Applications represent the applications API consumers use to send requests to registered APIs in Oracle API CS. Consumers register applications to APIs they use.

Below are steps to create an application using Oracle API CS console

• Login to API CS console and navigate to Applications tab

• Click on Create button

• Enter below information from the Application Dialog and click Create button
  • Application Name: Enter application name
  • Description(Optional): Enter brief description of the application
  • Application Types(Optional): Select zero or more application type from available list
  • Read the complete article here.

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IP Filter Validation policy to restrict access in Oracle API CS by Ankur Jain

IP white-listing allows to create lists of trusted IP addresses or IP ranges from which a users can access APIs.

IP white-list is a security feature often used for limiting and controlling access only to trusted users or applications.

Oracle API CS (Cloud Service) provides IP Filter Validation policy to control which IP Addresses can successfully send requests to the API.

The IP address originated by the client is received from the HTTPRequest. This policy checks if the address matches allowed or disallowed IP addressed configured as part of the policy. Upon finding a match, it takes appropriate action as configured. Nonstandard HTTP headers such as X-ProxyUser-Ip, X-Forwarded-For , or HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP are not supported.

IP Filter Validation policy can be added in the request flow only. It can not be placed first in the flow. Other security polices must be placed before it.

Let’s see how to configure the IP Filter Validation policy using API CS console. To complete this task there should be API configured in API CS. If not, please go through the blog Creating an API in Oracle API Platform Cloud Service Read the complete article here.

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