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PeopleSoft & Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES)

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search (SES) provides a familiar user interface to internet search users and gives secure access to all of yourorganization’s data sources—Web sites, file servers, content management systems, enterprise resource planning and customer relationship

management systems, business intelligence systems, and databases.

Looks familiar?

That is indeed familiar, that’s Google with an Oracle logo… Oracle seems to have build a search engine and has made use of the familiarity of theGoogle GUI and behaviour to position this tool. Oracle is supplying SES as stand alone product and has integrated SES with it’s other products like

Siebel, JD Edwards, E-Business Suite & PeopleSoft.

Where Google will search the internet based on supplied keywords, SES will search your Enterprise data based on keywords. Oracle has created an

embedded framework in PeopleSoft to integrate and communicate with SES, called PeopleSoft Search FrameWork.

PeopleSoft Search Framework is a PeopleTools 8.52 indexed search technology that relies on Oracle SES (Secure Enterprise Search) engine by wayof Integration Broker. It leverages indexes, and requires the use of PeopleSoft Query or Connected Query to create search definitions that identify the

objects and attributes to make available to the indexes. Integration Broker provides the interface between PeopleSoft Search Framework and Oracle

SES engine to deploy the search definitions, build the indexes, and return the search results.

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PeopleSoft Search Framework supports both application (global) and search pages (component) search capabilities. Application search provides analternate navigation mechanism that bypasses the classic PeopleSoft navigation. The Search Pages feature allows keyword-based searches within

administrative components. Both searches target the PeopleSoft pages and components as if you navigated directly to them, while providing flexibility in

searching. Data is secured so that search results return only data rows to which the user has role and permission list access. Users can choose to display

the search results in list or grid format.

SES is part of the PeopleTools 8.52 Media Pack on eDelivery. The installation manual of PeopleTools 8.52 describes the steps you need to take to

configure SES and PeopleSoft to be able to communicate. Unfortunately the installation manual of PeopleTools 8.52 does not explain how to install

SES. Luckily the installation steps of SES are quite simple. The installation manual of SES can be downloaded from Technet.

In this post I will describe the installation steps of SES and integration with PeopleSoft.

Prerequisites SES

First thing you need to do, is to disable IPv6. To do this open the register editor and add or modify parameter DisabledComponents in the path shown

below.

After this you need to create a loopback adapter.

Open the Control Panel and choose Add Hardware.

Select the second option as shown above. In the next screen of the wizard choose Network adapters.

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In the next screen choose Microsoft Loopback Adapter from the list of network adapters.

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Finish the wizard by clicking next and you will see a second network connection in your Network Connections.

Open the properties of the newly created network connection and choose to modify the properties of TCP/IPv4.

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Assign an IP address that is in the range of your DHCP and save the changes.

Change your hosts file to reflect the loopback adapter like this:

192.168.0.100 myserver.domain.com myserver

Restart your server to apply the changes.

Make sure PeopleSoft Integration is setup properly!

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Installing SES

Double click on setup.exe found in the installation folder of SES. You will see the following screen.

Enter a Search Server Name to your liking and supply a password for the admin (eqsys) user. Default port is 7777. After this click Next and theinstaller will check if the prerequisites are met for SES. If all prerequisites are met, click on Next. The installer will now install Weblogic Server as thewebserver hosting SES and Oracle Database 11g EE to store the search indexes. After the installer finishes you will be presented with the summayscreen containing three URL’s.

SES end user search page (the one that looks like Google)SES admin consoleWeblogic admin console

In the start menu of Windows a new program group is now created with two shortcuts to start and stop SES. The shortcuts will start and stop the entireSES architecture (Weblogic Server, Oracle Listener, Oracle DB), so no need to create additional startup or shutdown scripts.

Settingup SES for Integration with PeopleSoft

Start the SES admin console and login with the password you supplied during installation of SES.

Choose tab Global Settings and then click on FederationTrusted Entities.

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Enter an Entity name and provide a password. This doesnot need to be the password you supplied during installation of SES, but note this password, you will need to supply it in PeopleSoft later on. Click addand back on the Global Settings tab choose the link Identity Management Setup.

Select Plug-in PeopleSoft from the list and click on the Activate button. On the next screen enter the PeopleSoft Integration Broker endpoint and useridand password of the default local node.

Click Finish and back on the Global Setting tab choose thelink Query Configuration.

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Change the timeout settings as shown above.

Setting up PeopleSoft for Integration with SES

First thing you need to do, is to assign the Search Framework roles to the user that is assigned to the default locale node.

Now navigate to Main menu – PeopleTools – Search FrameWork – Administration – Search Instance and create a Search Instance

Enter the SES server and port

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Enter the SES admin password you supplied during installation of SESEnter the Federation Trusted Entity and the password you created earlier in SESEnter the call back url (endpoint of Integration Broker) and the userid and password of the default locale node

Verifying PeopleSoft and SES Connectivity

Now navigate to Main menu – PeopleTools – Search FrameWork – Utilities – Diagnostics

Execute all steps and make sure they all completesuccessful.

Create & Deploy Search Indexes

Now you have successfully completed the installation and configuration of the integration between SES and PeopleSoft. You now have to create searchcollections in PeopleSoft and feed these collections to SES. PeopleSoft Search FrameWork uses PSQuery and Connected Query as search collections.If you have installed PeopleSoft HCM 9.1 Feature Pack 2, some search collections have already been supplied with the Feature Pack. If not you willhave to create a Query and create a Search Index with the Query as input and then choose which Query fields should be indexed as keywords. Formore information on how to create a Search Index, see Peoplebooks on this subject. After this navigate to Main menu – PeopleTools – Search

FrameWork – Administration – Deploy/Delete Object.

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In the list of search collections select the search collections you want to use and click on deploy.

After successful deployment, navigate to Main menu – PeopleTools – Search FrameWork – Administration – Schedule Search Index. You will have tocreate a runcontrol for each search index you want to publish to SES. You can then schedule this in the Process Scheduler to keep SES and PeopleSoftin sync.

You can choose to run the build index process incremental,based on the LASTUPDTTM field in the query to avoid load.

When you run this process what happens?

The Schedule Search Index page initiates the PTSF_GENFEED Application Engine programThe Pre Processing Application Engine program defined for the search definition runs

PTSF_GENFEED Application Engine program runs the query (PeopleSoft Query or Connected Query) associated with the search definitionThe output of the query becomes a data source for the Feeds FrameworkThe Feeds Framework converts the query output to an Oracle RSS Schema format and writes the SES Feed to the Integration Broker queue,and the Deletion query defined for the Search Definition runsThe Search Framework then creates an SES Schedule for the SES source associated with the search definition and sets the schedule disposition

to “CRAWL immediately”The Post Processing Application Engine program defined for the search definition runsThe SES Crawler, using the URL of the Integration Broker queue where the SES Feed is located, initiates the crawling of the SES Feed

Enable Global Search & Keyword Component Search

Now you have seeded SES with PeopleSoft data. You now need to enable the search feature in PeopleSoft. This can be done on two places.

To enable Global Search navigate to Main menu – PeopleTools – Portal – General Settings and check Display global search in header.

This will enable the embedded search in the portal banner.

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Make sure users have search indexes assigned through permission lists, otherwise they will not be able to run searches. This is a new tab in thePermissionlists page in PeopleTools 8.52.

To enable Keyword search on Component Search pages, open the search index by navigating to PeopleTools – Search FrameWork – Designer –Search Definition and on the last tab select the components where you want to add the Keyword search.

This will change your search page with a new tab enablingKeyword Search.

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For more information about PeopleSoft Search FrameWork see PeopleBooks on this subject.

Also look at Oracle Support article 1373050.1 for more information about HCM 9.1 and SES.

And finally have a look at this recorded demo of the use of SES stand-alone.

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June 4, 2012Bikram Bhusan Sinha

Hi Hakan,

Thanks for the post. I am trying to integrate WebCenter Portal with Oracle Content Server (UCM) through Oracle SES for search functionalists. I haveconfigured all three components with Oracle Internet Directory (OID) as well. Now, I have created an identity plug-in with OID in Oracle SES. I alsohave added a source in Oracle SES for the content server. The content server source is also secured with “Oracle Secure Enterprise Search ACL” forthe crawl time ACL stamping. I have added 2 users from OID for that. I also have created users and groups in OID and all those are being visible inOracle WebCenter Portal and Content Server as well. The data in the content server is secured with these users and groups. The issue is that when Iam searching the content from Oracle SES through a particular user such as “orcladmin” configured as admin in OID, the results are coming. Now, if Igo to OID and remove the security group for “orcladmin”, then also the user is able to search the same secured document from Content server.

Therefore, integrating all these components and accomplishing a secure search based on users/groups is not working. Do you have any idea on this issue?

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