Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c installation guide

22 Sep 2020 oracleappsadmin

Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c is used for developing, administering, and managing applications that needs monitoring of real-time streaming events (IoT) providing high throughput and low latency platform. The blog provides the Oracle Event Processing (OEP) installation and configuration steps. 

Pre-requisites for Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c

  1. The Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c  installer can be downloaded from the Oracle Edelivery download page. 
  2. The Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c  is to be installed on the existing middleware home with SOA Suite installed.  Refer the blog SOA Suite 12c quickstart installation guide
  3. Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c  installer provides Oracle JRockit as the Default JVM  at the below location <Middleware_Home>/jrockit_<Java-Version>_<RjRockit-Version>
  4. If Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c is to be installed on Solaris SPARC then Sun JVM is the default JVM and is included in the Solaris SPARC installer for OEP 12c
  5. The Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c  Typical Domain Configuration option is recommended for installing OEP for the production environment. 
  6. Select Custom domain configuration to get the OEP installed with the default ocep_domain

OEP 12c Installation Process with Screenshots

Open the Command Prompt and Run it as Administrator

Open the folder where quick start installer are being downloaded and extracted

Execute the below command in the Command Prompt

%JAVA_HOME%\bin\java.exe -jar fmw_<12c-version>_oep.jar

The Installer opens the Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c installation window

Skip the Auto Update Screen

Enter the directory location for the Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c Installation , Click Next

Oracle Event Processing Installation screenshot

Select Event Processing with Examples to install the event server with sample applications

The next screen provides the Installation pre-requisite check performed

The next screen provides the Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c Installation summary details

Click Next and OEP installation progress can be tracked.

Oracle Event Processing Installation progress

Click Finish 

Oracle Event Processing (OEP) 12c Domain Configuration Steps

Once the Oracle Event Processing installation  is completed, we need to configure the domain ocep_domain for the OEP Server.

  1. Navigate to the Configuration Wizard location 
<OEP_Installation_Home>/oep/common/bin/config.cmd  (Windows) 
<OEP_Installation_Home>/oep/common/bin/config.cmd (Linux)

2. The OEP Configuration Wizard screen appears. 

Oracle Event Processing configuration wizard

Click Next 

Select the Create New Domain Option  . Click Next . 

Configure Administrator Password:

Enter the Username and Password for the New OEP domain.  Click Next. 

Configure Server:

Enter the Server Name : oep_server

Enter the port: <listen-port-number>.   Click Next

Configure Domain Identity Keystore:

Enter the keystore file :  <DOMAIN-NAME> /ss/evsidentity.jks

Enter the keystore password:  

Configuration Options:

Do you want to perform any optional configurations for JDBC Datasources :  Select No

Create OEP Domain:

Domain Name: oep_domain

Domain Location:  <OEP_Middleware_Home>/user_projects/domains

Click Next . The domain creation progress can be seen. 

Configuration wizard confirms the successful completion of oep_domain. 

Click  Done. 

Start OEP Server 

Navigate to the OEP Domain location  (<OEP_Middleware_Home>/user_projects/domains /oep_domain) 

Run the startwlevs.sh script on Linux /  Run the startwlevs.cmd script on Windows