Support the Availability and Responsiveness of Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
Deliver reliable access to critical campus services with the Progress® Kemp® LoadMaster® platform.
Why Resilience Matters for Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions helps higher education institutions manage critical services and processes across the student lifecycle. Because these services need to remain consistently available, Oracle recommends a high-availability PeopleSoft architecture with multiple application instances deployed across separate servers.
A load balancer provides the application delivery layer needed to distribute traffic across these resources. The LoadMaster solution helps strengthen this architecture by improving application availability and resilience, helping PeopleSoft Campus Solutions remain accessible to students, faculty and staff.
Keep Campus Services in Higher Education Available as Demand Changes
Availability matters when users depend on Campus Solutions for essential institutional processes. A resilient application delivery architecture can help reduce the impact that individual infrastructure failures have on access to PeopleSoft services.
Oracle specifically describes PeopleSoft functions, including Campus Solutions, as mission-critical and says high availability and disaster recovery strategies are important for uninterrupted access to essential processes on the campus.
Maintain Access to Critical Campus Services
Balance Changing User Demand
Uphold sufficient capacity for groups of PeopleSoft servers to support peak load even when one server becomes unavailable. With the LoadMaster solution, you can balance incoming application connections across available resources and support an architecture designed for both availability and capacity.
Protect Critical Applications
Preserve PeopleSoft User Sessions
Provide consistent user sessions as traffic moves through a load-balanced PeopleSoft environment. Oracle requires sticky sessions in its documented load-balancing configuration so requests from a user's browser session continue to reach the same server instance. The LoadMaster solution supports this through persistence.
Scale the PeopleSoft Web Tier
Distribute PeopleSoft traffic across multiple web servers as additional resources are added to the environment. Oracle's PeopleTools guidance explicitly describes load balancing across multiple web-server instances on multiple machines.
Improve Operational Visibility
Gain clearer visibility into PeopleSoft application traffic, server health and application delivery performance. The LoadMaster 360 solution helps IT teams monitor the delivery layer and identify issues that could affect access to critical PeopleSoft Campus Solutions services.
How LoadMaster Supports Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions
The LoadMaster platform distributes user traffic across multiple Oracle PeopleSoft application instances, helping maintain availability if a server goes down. Deployed as a high availability (HA) pair, the LoadMaster product can add resilience to the application delivery layer, complementing Oracle's approach to PeopleSoft availability and business continuity.
Designed for Critical PeopleSoft Workloads
The LoadMaster load balancer can support PeopleSoft Campus Solution environments used to deliver:
- Student information and records
- Course registration and enrollment
- Admissions and applicant services
- Student financials and financial aid
- Student and faculty self-service
- Academic advising
Support a More Reliable Digital Campus with the LoadMaster Solution
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Learn moreFrequently Asked Questions
What is Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions?
Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions is a student information system designed to help higher education institutions manage services and processes across the student lifecycle. It includes capabilities spanning recruiting and admissions, student records, academic advising, financial aid, student financials and campus self-service. These interconnected services make the platform an important part of day-to-day campus operations.
Is high availability important for Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions?
Yes. PeopleSoft Campus Solutions supports services that students, faculty and administrators rely on, making consistent application availability important. Oracle’s Maximum Availability Architecture recommends deploying multiple instances of PeopleSoft application components on separate servers to help protect against individual server failures. A highly available application delivery architecture can help institutions maintain access to these services when infrastructure issues occur.
How does LoadMaster support Oracle PeopleSoft Campus Solutions?
The LoadMaster platform can sit in front of multiple PeopleSoft application instances and distribute user traffic across available resources. This supports a resilient PeopleSoft architecture while helping organizations scale the application tier as requirements change. The LoadMaster solution also provides capabilities including health checking, session persistence, SSL/TLS and application security controls.
How does load balancing improve the availability of PeopleSoft?
Load balancing distributes incoming connections across multiple PeopleSoft web or application servers instead of directing users to a single resource. If a configured backend resource becomes unavailable, LoadMaster health checking can support directing traffic to available resources. This complements the multi-instance architecture Oracle recommends for highly available PeopleSoft environments.
How does the LoadMaster solution help protect PeopleSoft applications?
The LoadMaster platform provides security capabilities at the application delivery layer, including an integrated web application firewall (WAF), SSL/TLS, authentication and traffic controls. These capabilities can help protect web-based PeopleSoft services from common application threats while securing application traffic. They complement, rather than replace, the broader security controls protecting the PeopleSoft environment.
