IBM System i™
IBM System i
i want a real business system.
i want control.
i want an i.
iCustomer Perspective:ERP InfrastructureHindustan Petroleum Corporation Limited
Vijayendra Kumar
Chief Manager ERP
Mumbai, INDIA
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HPCL
� History & Culture– Erstwhile Esso & Caltex
– A Global Fortune 500 Company
� Third among the Public Sector Oil Companies in the Country
� 2 Refineries with over 500 distribution nodes and 8000 Retail Outlets
– 23 Million customer base
� Major Upcoming Projects– Punjab Refinery
– JV with Mittal
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HPCL Vision & Mission
� To be a World Class Energy Company known for caring and delighting the customers with high quality products and innovative services across domestic and international markets with aggressive growth and delivering superior financial performance. The Company will be a model of excellence in meeting social commitment, environment, health and safety norms and in employee welfare and relations.
� HPCL, along with its joint ventures, will be a fully integrated company in the hydrocarbons sector of exploration and production, refining and marketing; focusing on enhancement of productivity, quality and profitability; caring for customers and employees; caring for environment protection and cultural heritage. It will also attain scale dimensions by diversifying into other energy related fields and by taking up transnational operations.
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IT at HPCL
� IBM 1401 – Second in AsiaPac
� Prior to ERP
– Legacy : Cobol applications running in Batch Mode
� BPR recommendations
– Thrust on IT
– SBU Formations
– ERP
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ERP at HPCL
� Oracle (JD Edwards) OW Xe
� Design & Development
– Consultants – CGEY
– Localization - Systime
� Pilot Phase Rollout
– Feb 2003
� Rollout
– Rollout Completed by Dec 2005
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Current Infrastructure
� Enterprise Server– i595 32CPUs/ 384GB RAM / 10 TB DASD
� HA Server– i870
� DR Server– i840 24 CPU/ 96GB RAM / 5TB DASD
� Development server– i520
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Infrastructure
� 60+ servers
– Citrix Farms/ Hoblink servers/
– RSA radius / Open VPN /
– X-Series Boxes / Blades /
� ESS SAN Storage
� 3584 LTO Tape Library
� Gigabit Ethernet
� Pix Firewall & SEFW
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ERP at HPCL
� Oracle JDE OW Xe 2330 Users
� 1100 concurrent users at peak time
� 20000 Batch Jobs daily
� 500 Locations spread across the country
� Access through Leased Lines/VPNs/VSATs/Broadband
� 24x7 Operations
� IT DC Infrastructure – One of the Largest among the Indian Public sector companies
� Production data 2.8TB
– GL Table > 500 million records
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IBM System iTechnical Architecture
Remote location Users
HEWLET TPACKARD
Mod e m Ban k
A B C D E F G H
SELE CTE D
ON -LIN E
Mod e m Ban k
Sniffer Servermonitor ing/analysi s
INTERNET
I595
ES
LTO Tape
Library
ESS Storage
SAN Switch
Modem
Router
CISCO PIX
Firewall & IDS
HPNET
WAN Router
HPNET
Remote location Users
NORTEL SwitchBatch Server
Deployment Server
Symantec
Firewall
Aelton Load
Balancer
VSAT
Citrix Serve
Farmr
Application Serve
Farmr
Tivoli Serve
FarmrWeb Serve
Farmr
AS/400
i870
I840 at DR
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ERP Data Centre
� ERPDC - Crucial for Business
� Availability
– 24x7 Operations
� High Availability (HA) setup
– 870 server
� DR Setup
– DR setup at Hyderabad
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Security
� Firewalls
– Pix
– Symantec Enterprise FW
� i-Series Access
– Limited Users, Role Based
– SQL Logging
– TELNET/FTP access Logging
– ODBC Security
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Application Security
� JDE Security
– SignOn/Application/Action/Row/Column/Processing Option/Tab etc.,
� Parivartan Login
– Wraps the JDE Login mechanism effectively
– Captures user details
– Enforces ADS & JDE Login ID to be same
– Captures the logout details
– Additional Security – Prevents unauthorized users prior to JDE login stage
– Disables the User IDs when invalid attempts exceed threshold
– Remembers the user locations
� DB Triggers on Security Tables
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HPCL IT Challenges
� Moving toward Real Time Enterprise
– Monitoring, Capturing and Analyzing the ROOT
CAUSES & Events that are critical to the success of
the Company at the moment when they occur.
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Performance Monitoring
� Monitors
– ASP Size growth
– Page Fault Counts
– Job Status
� Indexing Strategy
– DBMON output analyzed
� Share Pool Allocation
� Posting Jobs
– Job Queue Alignment reduced the time by half
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WSJ Snapshot
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UBE Jobs Analysis
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Change Management Reports
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Audit Trail – SQL Logging
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Audit Trail: FTP Log Details
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Admin Reports
� Reports
– Version Job Queue mismatches
– Reduces the waiting times drastically
– Integrity issues are avoided
– Job Execution Process / Wait Times
– Identifies the real bottleneck
– Access Details
– Telnet/ FTP etc.,
– SQL logging
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Availability
� Redundancy
– Servers – Production / HA /DR
– Storage– Mirrored
– Power– Battery Support 4 Hrs – Two UPS Systems Ratings 80KVA– Input from two different UPS units– Power Generator with Auto startup on Power failure
– Cooling– Two AC Units Ratings 15Tonnes each
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Availability
� MIMIX for DB replication
� Preparedness
– Monthly exercise to switch over to HA server
– Switchover Activity – Transparent to users
– Mainly for planned maintenance activities
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DR Activity
� HPCL & IBM Co Hosting Site at Hyderabad
– Interim measure till Own DR site comes up
� Own DR Site at Hyderabad
– Building Complete
– DC Work in Progress - 1stQtr 2008
� Approval obtained for an Additional i-Series Server for DR
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MIMIX Configuration� One-to Many setup
– One link over LAN & Other over WAN
– Delay over WAN will cause HA & DR m/c out of sync
– Reverse replication – not possible
45Mbps WAN Linki595
i840i870GigabitEthernet
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MIMIX Configuration
� Cascaded Setup
– Production to HA & HA to DR
– Production server failure Only
– HA & DR both would be available
– After Synchronization, Reverse Replication is possible easily between DR & HA systems
45Mbps WAN Link
i595
GigabitEthernet
i870 i840
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MIMIX Replication
� Total Journal receivers 500GB Appx/day.
� Replication being monitored continuously.
� All Queries are being done on HA server
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Future Plans
� Co-hosting Site to HPCLs DR Site
� Additional iSeries (595) for the DR Site
� Upgrading the Standby Server
� New Hardware to replace the x-series
� Enterprise Application Integration (EAI)
– JDE to SAP for Oil Exchange
– JDE to e-Payment Gateways
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