Creating a Forms System

As we discussed earlier, you have to create a Forms System target that contains the Oracle Web Cache or Oracle HTTP Server/Apache HTTP Server targets, Forms Server as shown in the following screenshot. We have also learnt about system modeling in Chapter 4,Managing Oracle WebLogic Server.

You must include these components as of part of your Forms application or as part of a key Redundancy Group. The Redundancy Group for HTTP Server is referred to as the HTTP Server HA Group.

Creating Forms application

Creation of Forms application is similar to web application. You can create a Forms application Target by going to Services page and selecting Forms Target from the Add drop-down list, as shown in the following screenshot.

Then, you provide a unique name for the Forms application. If you are planning to use the Forms application monitoring from Grid Control extensively, then you should select a good user-friendly name.

Then you can select the availability, either...