Oracle Service Bus WebService Control (Start/Stop Online/Offline)

        Purpose of the Document

To show the steps needed to control the Web Services hosted on the Oracle Service Bus

Steps

Take a backup of the existing configuration (Take a backup of the fmwconfig folder in the Domain Home Directory)

 Login to the service Bus console and configure the SMTP Server as per the below screen in the System -> SMTP Server -> smtp server section

Click on Create and then update the values as per the following or the relevant values of the SMTP Server and the Port Number in the Server URL and Port Number Section respectively

Save the changes

 Create an Alert Destination so that once the alert is triggered, it can be sent to the respective destination. Alert Destination is the recipient of the alert

You can do it by Right clicking on the Web Service -> Create -> Resource

Then select

Configure the destination and give it a name

Enter the recipient names of the alert

In the alert destination setting, make sure that you have selected Reporting

  Once you have the alert destination , go to the Business Service of the respective web service for which you want to configure the notification

Follow the below screens to complete the alert

Search for the alert destination which you had created earlier

Click Next

Select update the condition (two arrows)

Click Create to save

Save and activate the changes

Repeat through the above steps to create an another alert (but this time for the notification if the WSDL is up)

  Login to the em console of the osb

In the Home Page

Select SOA -> Service Bus

Select Operations and click on Search

This will list all the web services

Select the web service which you wish to stop

Select Offline Endpoint URLs and select Monitoring enabled and click apply

Got to the previous tab and click “toggle URL state” if it is not appearing as offline and the state should be show as offline as below

Tip: It will be greyed out state. You need to click on the state below (it will be online to begin with ) and then you can toggle the URL state.

Vice versa also is true That is if you wish to mark the URL online, click on the state and then click toggle URL state.

This will make the WSDL unavailable and the recipient will receive an email alert

To make the webservice available once again, you need to uncheck the

“Offline Endpoint URLs” and select Monitoring enabled and click apply