PeopleSoft Installation Using Deployment Packages (DPK's)

Installing PeopleSoft FSCM 9.2 / 8.55 using Deployment Packages on Native OS

In the earlier examples we have seen PeopleSoft installation process on personal desktop / laptop or we can say it was on premise. Installation on on-premise definitely needs many steps to perform, starting from OS installation to installation of individual components to manual configuration of app servers / web servers and process scheduler servers.

Since PeopleTools 8.55 DPK’s (deployment packages) have been introduced to simplify the installation and configuration process.

Through DPK’s not only we can install through the default settings but we can customize the configuration to reflect or organization requirements. For example, we want only mid-tier or only app server or only web server on a machine. Or, let’s say we want to have two app server domains on a single machines. DPK’s provides the facility to achieve all these things in a very systematic and effective way.

Following table summarizes the steps required in manual installation and installation through DPK’s, which clearly shows that using DPK’s will save time and efforts.

Steps	Conventional Method	DPK’s (Native OS)
Create a machine with supported OS installed	Yes	Yes
Install Oracle DB	Yes	No
Install Tuxedo	Yes	No
Install Weblogic	Yes	No
Install PeopleTools	Yes	No
Install PeopleTools patch if required	Yes	No
Install Application	Yes	No
Load Demo DB	Yes	No
Configure PSFT services	Yes	No
Install workstation	Yes	Yes

So, we can see the definitive benefits of using DPK’s which really reduces our time and efforts of installing a PeopleSoft system.

For the OS requirements we have used Red Hat Linux 6 on google cloud. This further reduces time as typical OS installation is not performed. Performing the installation on Windows OS is much more simpler and straight forward process.

We have distributed the installation into three parts -

1. Part 1 - Subscribe to Google Cloud Free Trial and deploy server with Red Hat Linux
2. Part 2 - Start the installation processes.
1. Download the required DPK’s
2. Invoke the bootstrap shell script.
3. Part 3 - Open PIA and database ports to access them over internet.

We will go through each one of these in details.

We will just not stop here, rather we will go further to apply PeopleTools patches and PeopleTools upgrade using DPK’s.

So, let’s start with installation first using DPK’s.