Siebel 8 Admin Question Answers and Explanation.

Siebel Administration Quick Refresh, Answers and Explanation.

Siebel Enterprise Architecture Components.

Just for a quick refresh, Siebel Enterprise Environment contains:-

• Siebel Gateway Server
• Siebel Server
• Siebel Native Load Balancer
• 3rd Party HTTP Load Balancer
• Siebel Web Server/SWSE/SWE
• Siebel File System
• Siebel Database
• Siebel Report Server
• Web Client
• Mobile Web Client
• Dedicated Web Client

1. Gateway Server

• Serves as a single entry point for accessing Siebel Servers and provides enhanced scalability, load balancing, and high availability across the Enterprise Server.
• Name Server
• Siebel Gateway Server does not function as a resource intensive server. With clustering technologies and powerful CPU(s), it usually scales up very well.

2. Siebel Server

• The Siebel Server is the middle-tier platform that supports both back end and interactive processes for every Siebel client. These processes are component within the Siebel Server architecture, and support functions such as:
• Mobile web client synchronization
• Operation of business logic for Siebel web clients, as well as connectivity and access to the database server and file system
• Integration with legacy or third-party data
• Automatic assignment of new accounts, opportunities, service requests, and other records
• Workflow management
• Siebel server runs as a service on Microsoft NT/Windows 2000 platform and runs as background daemon processes on Unix platforms.
• Unlike Siebel Gateway Name Server, Siebel server is a heavy-duty constituent of Siebel Enterprise. This is particularly true in Siebel7, as it needs even more processing power than in prior releases due to the fact that Siebel7 fully supports the three-tiers architecture.
• With proper load balancing, Siebel Server can scale up with more powerful CPU(s) and scale out with more servers.

3. Server Component

• The various programs that operate on the Siebel Server are implemented as components. A component represents only a specific type of program; a component is executed or operated as a task, or instantiate of a component, on a specific Siebel Server.
• Server Request Broker, Server Request Processor, Server Connection Broker, File System Manager.

4. Server Component Group

• A collection of components that provide related Siebel Server functionality and are grouped together for ease of administration.
• Assignment Management.
• Made up of the following components: Assignment Manager, Batch Assignment, Siebel Call Center
• Made up of the following components: Call Center Object Manager, Service OM

Siebel Remote
Made up of the following components: Database Extract, Generate New Database, Parallel Database Extract, Replication Agent, Synchronization Manager, Transaction Merger, Transaction Processor, Transaction Router

• Call Center Object Manager
• Assignment Manager
• Workflow Manager
• Communication Manager
• EAI Object Manager

5. Siebel Object Manager

• A Siebel component that runs on Siebel server
• Instantiates and processes UI, Business Objects, and Data Object layers
• Handles communications with the Siebel Web Server Extension and the database.
• Manages user connections
• Multi-Process
• Multiple SOM processes per Server Component
• Dynamic load balancing allows Siebel Object Manager to run across multiple machines
• Multi-Threaded
• Process overhead spreads across all threads in a process, reducing server CPU and RAM requirements.