BPM 11gR1 now available on Amazon EC2

The new Oracle BPM 11gR1, including the latest Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 Patchset-2 is now available as an Amazon Machine Image (AMI). This is a fully configured image which requires absolutely no installation and lets you get hands on experience with the software within minutes. This image has all the required software installed and configured and includes the following:

• Oracle 11g Database Standard Edition
• Oracle SOA Suite 11gR1 Patch-set 2
• Oracle BPM 11gR1
• Oracle Webcenter with BPM Process Spaces
• Oracle Universal Content Management
• Oracle JDeveloper with SOA and BPM plugins

Note: Use of this AMI requires acceptance of Oracle Technology Network (OTN) terms of use.

To use this AMI, follow these steps:

•  Login to your Amazon account and browse to Amazon AWS Console. If this is the first time you are using Amazon Web Services please visit https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/ for information on Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing and how to get started with Amazon EC2
• Make sure your security group that you will be using to launch the instance allows the following ports to be opened:
• 22 (SSH)
• 1521, 7001, 8001, 8888, 9001

• Click on AMIs
• Change the Viewing filters to 64-bit and enter soa-bpm in the search box. You should see the following AMI:
  083342568607/oracle-soa-bpm-11gr1-ps2-4.1-pub
  
• Select the AMI and click on Launch or Spot Request. For more information on spot requests, please visit the Amazon EC2 link above
• Accept all the defaults and launch the instance
• When the instance state changes to running, copy the assigned public host name and connect to it using either PuTTY or SSH command. For PuTTY usage, refer to this document.
• Once you are connected to the instance using PuTTY or SSH, you will be presented with the terms of use.
• Accept the terms of use to proceed. This will prompt you to set passwords for your oracle OS login as well as for VNC. Note that the instance will not be usable until you have accepted the terms of use.
• The instance is now ready to use. The SOA/BPM and other servers are automatically started once you accept the term of use. Initial startups can take about 5-10 minutes.
  
• If you would like to use the JDeveloper installed in the AMI, you can access it either using VNC or NX. You can get the NX client from NoMachine.
• /home/oracle/README.txt contains all the URLs that you can use to access the Enterprise Manager, BPM Composer, BPM Workspace, Webcenter etc.