Installation and usage

This section discusses the following:

Installing SiebelODA

To install SiebelODA, use the WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Adapter Installer. Follow the instructions in the Installation Guide for WebSphere Business Integration Server Express. When the installation is complete, the following files are installed in the directory on your system where you have installed the product:

Note:
Except as otherwise noted, this document uses backslashes (\) as the convention for directory paths. All WebSphere Business Integration Server Express Plus product pathnames are relative to the directory where the product is installed on your system.

Before using SiebelODA

Before you can run SiebelODA, you must copy the required Siebel application's .jar files to the %ProductDir%\connectors\Siebel\dependencies directory. The following files must be copied to this directory:

Siebel 7.x

SiebelJI_enu.jar
SiebelJI_Common.jar

The default version of Siebel is set to 7.x. Ensure that the REM in the following line is not removed:

REM set SIEBELVERSION="6.x"

Siebel 6.2.x

SiebelDataBean.jar
SiebelTC_enu.jar
SiebelTcCommon.jar
SiebelTcOM.jar

You must edit the start_SiebelODA.bat file to remove the REM in the line:

REM set SIEBELVERSION ="6.X"

After installing the SiebelODA, you must do the following to generate business objects:

  1. Start the ODA.
  2. Start Business Object Designer Express.
  3. Follow a six-step process in Business Object Designer to configure and run the ODA.

The following sections describe these steps in detail.

Launching the SiebelODA

You can launch SiebelODA with this startup script.

Windows

start_SiebelODA.bat
Note:
The Windows Installer provides shortcuts to startup the ODAs it installs. If you have used this Installer to install SiebelODA, you will find a shortcut to start it under the menu Programs > IBM WebSphere Business Integration Express > Adapters > Object Discovery Agents.

You configure and run SiebelODA using Business Object Designer Express. Business Object Wizard, which Business Object Designer Express starts, locates each ODA by the name specified in the AGENTNAME variable of each script or batch file. The default ODA name for this connector is SeibelODA.

Running SiebelODA on multiple machines

You can run multiple instances of the ODA, either on the local host or a remote host in the network. Each instance runs on a unique port.

Working with error and trace message files

Error and trace message files (the default is SiebelODAAgent.txt) are located in the \ODA\messages, subdirectory under the product directory. These files use the following naming convention:

AgentNameAgent.txt

If you create multiple instances of the ODA script or batch file and provide a unique name for each represented ODA, you can have a message file for each ODA instance. Alternatively, you can have differently named ODAs use the same message file. There are two ways to specify a valid message file:

Important:
Failing to correctly specify the message file's name when you configure the ODA causes it to run without messages. For more information on specifying the message file name, see Table 10.

During the configuration process, you specify:

Table 9 describes these values.

Table 9. Tracing levels

Trace Level Description
0 Logs all errors
1 Traces all entering and exiting messages for method
2 Traces the ODA's properties and their values
3 Traces the names of all business objects
4 Traces details of all spawned threads
5 * Indicates the ODA initialization values for all of its properties * Traces a detailed status of each thread that SiebelODA spawned * Traces the business object definition dump

For information on where you configure these values, see Table 10.

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