PeopleSoft Performance Occasionally I have to diagnose a performance issue in PeopleSoft. This is a reminder to myself of the tools available and what I can check. PeopleSoft Ping This is a really useful tool because it gives real performance indications as to how the system as a whole is performing from the desktop to the database. The user can see the time taken at the browser, web server, application server and the database server for a simple query.

Installing Apache and Ucam Webauth on Centos/RHEL7 Apache is pretty easy: 1 yum install httpd Done. Ucam Webauth It is hosted on github, but won’t be much use to anyone who doesn’t have a need to authenticate users with the University of Cambridge’s single sign on which is called raven. I downloaded the SRPM from the raven page as suggested, and compiled it. The following packages are prerequisites.

Database Links Our PeopleSoft system suddenly started showing spikes in network usage. Users were complaining of slow performance. Enterprise manager shows big spikes in network waits. Strangely these don’t seem to be reflected in the SQL. The table on the left doesn’t have as much beige/grey as the one on the right. Lets click on network and see what the waits really are. SQL*Net message from dblink. Ok brilliant. It is confusing why we don’t see it reflected in the SQL, but we know it is a dblink that is slowing things down.

Oracle Critical Patches It was critical patch Tuesday this week. Because of the time differences between here and the USA we actually only get to find out about the critical patches on Wednesday, though there is a pre release announcement. With software as complex as Oracles you can pretty much guarantee that there will be serious bugs somewhere in there which need patching every quarter. Considering the types of organisations that run Oracle - the ones who can afford to pay the license fees, i.

Install Jenkins. Automatically? The documentation for Jenkins is pretty sparse, but fortunately a colleague had set up Jenkins already, and was able to give me some pointers. The idea is to use the Apache web server as a reverse proxy to access Jenkins. This can also take care of user authentication. Prerequisites So first of all download Java from Oracle. I download it manually and keep it in case the link changes.

Automating The Build of New Environments. The Problem I look after a Peoplesoft Campus Solutions system, which we call CamSIS. This is the student records system for the University of Cambridge. It is a pretty important system, as it is core to the mission of the University. This means that there is always some kind of work going on to improve it, upgrade it, or add new functionality. Having a lot of changes, and work going on means there are a lot of test, development and training environments.