Recently I tried to build a cloned instance of our production instance over VirtualBox for some emergency issues faced by our inventory module. As this instance was supposed to be only accessed by me, I opted to use my desktop machine for the same. Throughout the last many years I built my own machines, choosing the best available hardware at the time of building them. My current desktop configuration is like following
i7 processor, 16GB memory, 2x1TB 7200 RPM HDD, 2x2TB 5200 RPM HDD, 1x500GB HDD for the OS (Windows 8.1 64Bit)
and throughout the years I built dozens of Virtual Machines using Oracle VirtualBox, mainly for testing un-certified Oracle & other products in a sand-boxed environment, against the crippled VMplayer, VirtualBox’s unrestricted interface supported almost everything I needed from a virtual environment.
So I built my R12 instance, that is around 600GB roughly in size with almost 4.5-5 years of business data, media etc. The following resources were dedicated for the fresh VM
4 processors
10GB memory
40GB fixed size SATA VDI for the Operating System (I used both OEL 5 & OEL 7 64bit)
1.2TB fixed size SATA VDI for the instance files
A dedicated D-Link 10/100MB NIC
Once the instance came online, I removed, cancelled all the scheduled concurrent programs, changed the database level parameters like job_queue_processes etc, however the lag experienced throughout the access attempts remained the same. Sometimes the HTML pages took 5-6 minutes to open, forms based modules took 8-10 minutes to open and timeouts were happening, frustrating me to the most possible levels
That is when I decided to give VMPlayer a try, I converted the existing VDI for the OS as vmdk and created a fresh 850 fixed size vmdk for the instance files and attached the same as SCSI to the VM. Did the complete clone process and to my utter surprise, the login page loaded within a minutes once after the instance was started!
This lead me to do various attempts with the fresh instance, I was able to shutdown the instance much faster, forms were opening faster, though LOVs having more than thousands of items were taking more time than anticipated
Once again, I created another fresh VM with VirtualBox and attached the disks created for VMplayer with it and repeated the tests. Well, I got the same performances from the new VM and somehow I came to a conclusion that, both VirtualBox and VMPlayer provide better I/O for SCSI interfaces compared to plain SATA emulators, ironically, the disks were created over SATA drives!
This difference you may not experience with VMs those are not hosting resource hungry applications like Oracle E-Business Suite. So, if you are attempting what I had described above and notice the differences, please update me with comments section.
Recently I were requested to build a report by the HR/Payroll team, running which they can generate the salary paid details for employees. Ie, a tabular listing with paid month, and total salary earned, grouped by year factor
I found the request being one of the toughest, as my exposure to Payroll module and base tables was limited almost none, other than knowing the person and assignment tables and views!
Gradually I started going through the custom reports developed by our implementer and restructured few of their custom functions into a best possible view what meets our current requirements. As we are not using customized packages for the salary calculations, you should able to alter the below SQL and create your own with almost no efforts. We hope you will enjoy the solution!
Script for view
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW XXEMPLOYEE_SALARIES_MONTHLY
AS
SELECT pap.person_id, pap.employee_number,to_char(ppa.date_earned,'Mon-YYYY') earned_month,
TO_NUMBER(to_char(ppa.date_earned,'MM')) MONTH_NUMBER,
TO_NUMBER(to_char(ppa.date_earned,'YYYY')) YEAR_FACTOR,
sum(to_number(prrv.result_value)) PAID_AMOUNT
FROM PAY_ELEMENT_TYPES_F petf
,PAY_INPUT_VALUES_F pivf
,PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIONS ppa
,PAY_ASSIGNMENT_ACTIONS paa
,PAY_RUN_RESULTS prr
,PAY_RUN_RESULT_VALUES prrv
,PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F paaf
,PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F pap
,PAY_ELEMENT_CLASSIFICATIONS pec
WHERE 1=1
AND pec.classification_id = petf.classification_id
and prrv.input_value_id = pivf.input_value_id
AND CLASSIFICATION_NAME IN ('Earnings','Supplemental Earnings')–Add in more based on your setup
and pivf.name in ('Pay Value')
AND petf.element_type_id = prr.element_type_id
AND paa.assignment_action_id = prr.assignment_action_id
AND prr.run_result_id = prrv.run_result_id
AND petf.business_group_id = 81
AND ppa.business_group_id = pap.business_group_id
AND ppa.payroll_action_id = paa.payroll_action_id
AND SYSDATE BETWEEN TRUNC(petf.effective_start_date) AND TRUNC(petf.effective_end_date)
AND last_day(ppa.date_earned) BETWEEN TRUNC(pap.effective_start_date) AND TRUNC(pap.effective_end_date)
AND last_day(ppa.date_earned) BETWEEN TRUNC(paaf.effective_start_date) AND TRUNC(paaf.effective_end_date)
AND paaf.assignment_id = paa.assignment_id
AND paaf.person_id = pap.person_id
–and prrv.result_value > '0'
AND paaf.business_group_id = pap.business_group_id
AND pap.business_group_id = 81–double check
GROUP BY pap.person_id,pap.employee_number, to_char(ppa.date_earned,'Mon-YYYY'),to_char(ppa.date_earned,'MM'),to_char(ppa.date_earned,'YYYY')
UNION ALL
SELECT pap.person_id, pap.employee_number,to_char(ppa.date_earned,'Mon-YYYY') earned_month,
TO_NUMBER(to_char(ppa.date_earned,'MM')) MONTH_NUMBER,
TO_NUMBER(to_char(ppa.date_earned,'YYYY')) YEAR_FACTOR,
nvl(sum(to_number(prrv.result_value)),0)*-1 PAID_AMOUNT
FROM PAY_ELEMENT_TYPES_F petf
,PAY_INPUT_VALUES_F pivf
,PAY_PAYROLL_ACTIONS ppa
,PAY_ASSIGNMENT_ACTIONS paa
,PAY_RUN_RESULTS prr
,PAY_RUN_RESULT_VALUES prrv
,PER_ALL_ASSIGNMENTS_F paaf
,PER_ALL_PEOPLE_F pap
,PAY_ELEMENT_CLASSIFICATIONS pec
WHERE 1=1
AND pec.classification_id = petf.classification_id
and prrv.input_value_id = pivf.input_value_id
AND CLASSIFICATION_NAME IN ('Voluntary Deductions','Involuntary Deductions','Social Insurance')–Add in more based on your setup
and pivf.name in ('Pay Value')
AND petf.element_type_id = prr.element_type_id
AND paa.assignment_action_id = prr.assignment_action_id
AND prr.run_result_id = prrv.run_result_id
AND ppa.business_group_id = pap.business_group_id
AND ppa.payroll_action_id = paa.payroll_action_id
AND SYSDATE BETWEEN TRUNC(petf.effective_start_date) AND TRUNC(petf.effective_end_date)
AND last_day(ppa.date_earned) BETWEEN TRUNC(pap.effective_start_date) AND TRUNC(pap.effective_end_date)
AND last_day(ppa.date_earned) BETWEEN TRUNC(paaf.effective_start_date) AND TRUNC(paaf.effective_end_date)
AND paaf.assignment_id = paa.assignment_id
AND paaf.person_id = pap.person_id
— and prrv.result_value > '0.00'
AND paaf.business_group_id = pap.business_group_id
AND pap.business_group_id = 81–double check
GROUP BY pap.person_id,pap.employee_number, to_char(ppa.date_earned,'Mon-YYYY'),to_char(ppa.date_earned,'MM'),to_char(ppa.date_earned,'YYYY')
order by 2,5,4;
Sample Query
SELECT PERSON_ID, EMPLOYEE_NUMBER,earned_month,year_factor,
SUM(PAID_AMOUNT) PAID_SALARY
FROM XXEMPLOYEE_SALARIES_MONTHLY
WHERE
1=1
AND EMPLOYEE_NUMBER =:P_EMPLOYEE_NUMBER
AND YEAR_FACTOR BETWEEN NVL(:P_START_YEAR,YEAR_FACTOR) AND NVL(:P_END_YEAR,YEAR_FACTOR)
GROUP BY PERSON_ID,EMPLOYEE_NUMBER,earned_month,YEAR_FACTOR, MONTH_NUMBER
ORDER BY YEAR_FACTOR, MONTH_NUMBER
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "You must supply either start or stop command while calling this script! correct usage: weblogic_start_stop.sh start|stop"
exit
fi
bold=`tput bold`
normal=`tput sgr0`
case "$1" in
‘start’)
echo "Starting Management Node & Weblogic Server 10.3.6"
There could be occasions when as an apps DBA you would be asked to provide a fresh clone either over test or development environment to address a serious issue.
Rapid Clone hierarchy usually requires a DBA to pre-clone both application & database tiers, shutting down the source system and then souring the relevant folders to target system.
Today we are going to share a minor hack which could help you, when you cannot JUST shutdown a Production instance, however the cloned instance is a mandatory element to deal with a particular situation.
(Please note, this hack is ONLY applicable to situations where the backups were made without running PRE-CLONE or errors were raised stating
Control file creation failed : ORA-01503: CREATE CONTROLFILE failed
Certain database files were not recognized as part of the database : ORA-01565: error in identifying file)
Errors and example scenarios as mentioned with this thread
#cd /backup
#time tar –zcvf apps.tar.gz /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/*
(use “time” to check how much time the activity has taken)
Once the application tier has been tar balled
#time tar –zcvf db.tar.gz /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/*
Wait until the tar ball created
Now you can SCP the tar balls to your target system
The approximate time to transfer a database tar ball in 100GB size should be 33-35 minutes and the application tar ball in size 31GB around 9-10 minutes
Backup (if required after running the pre-clone) of your TEST/Development instance and delete the application and database folders (make sure you have shutdown the application and database instances)
#cd /u02/oratest/TEST/db
#rm –rf *
#cd /u02/appltest/TEST
#rm –rf *
Now extract the tar balls to respective base paths
#time tar –zxvf /backup/apps.tar.gz
We are already in the folder /u02/appltest/TEST so the application instance files will be extracted in the same location
Once the extraction is over, we can go ahead with extracting the database tier files
#cd /u02/oratest/TEST/db
#tar –zxvf db.tar.gz
Wait until the extraction part is over
The real hack starts from here
#cd /u02/oratest/TEST/db/tech_st/10.2.0/appsutil
#rm –rf *
Switch to source system (Aka Production instance)
#su – oraprod
If the .bash_profile has an exclusive call for the environment sourcing, your environment will be automatically sourced, else source it
Run pre-clone for the database tier now
$perl adpreclone.pl dbTier
Once the pre-clone activities completed successfully, switch to
$cd $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil
Create a tar file
$tar –zcvf appsutil.tar.gz *
Now move the new tar file to your TEST/Development instance
Once the database tier cloning completes successfully, you can proceed with application tier cloning, which doesn’t require any specific hacks
Side notes:
In my case I found that the “Gather schema statistics” program was missing from the scheduled jobs list. If you are experiencing slowness with your freshly cloned instance, it is highly recommended to run the said program prior going ahead with any other activities.
Make sure you would clear the cache under global configurations.
Hope you enjoyed another “hack” from us! Our sincere thanks and gratitude to Ravi Purbia (Sr. Apps DBA Consultant) who has provided us the details about this particular hack.
*General Note: The below instructions, which were successfully completed and tested are from the prospective of a person who do not have any previous knowledge about cloning, advance level Linux administration etc. If you find it too amateurish, please let us know with the comments session and corrections. We will be more than happy to amend the post.
Most probably few of the errors we received with write permissions missing to /tmp for applprod user should because of missing Rapid Clone patches.
Prerequisites
Oracle VirtualBox (We don’t support a physical system as detailing a cloning for a Linux system wouldn’t fit entirely within the discussed topic)
Minimum 4GB of memory to spare for the Virtual Machine
500GB of free hard disk space (If you don’t have additional 500GB, you can use the same source machine for cloning, by backing up the necessary folders and after removing the E-BIZ folder entirely)
Step #1
Create a folder on a partition where you have 500GB or more space and call it “ebiznew”
Copy and paste both System.vdi and ebs1211db.vdi from your other virtual machine folder, where you have a properly working Vision Instance (We are not going to clone the existing VM using the VirtualBox clone utility)
Change the uuid for both System.vdi and ebs1211db.vid
E:\ebiznew>C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands
sethduuid System.vdi
UUID changed to: 5dbdd6e3-c8ff-431d-bdd8-edf31c3012fb
E:\ebiznew>C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands
sethduuid ebs1211db.vdi
UUID changed to: 05068998-dc4d-46ef-8f8f-1ae07b786bfa
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E:\ebiznew>"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands
sethduuid System.vdi
UUID changed to: 5dbdd6e3-c8ff-431d-bdd8-edf31c3012fb
E:\ebiznew>"C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe" internalcommands
sethduuid ebs1211db.vdi
UUID changed to: 05068998-dc4d-46ef-8f8f-1ae07b786bfa
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Now start creating a new VM using VirtualBox and attach System.vdi and ebs1211db.vdi under SATA
As we have changed the kernel to NON Xen, you should able to boot up the VM immediately
Once logged in as “root”, let us drop the existing E-BIZ/* folders for cloning purpose
Make sure from your HOST box you can ping the new VM by both hostname and IP address
*Special note: If you have a total of 8GB(only) memory with your box, you have to change the memory allocations for both your VMs (one which already has the Vision instance configured & the new VM on which you are going to execute the cloning) to 2GB each
Boot up you VM with Vision instance configured and running (Aka source system)
Edit /etc/hosts file and add the IP address and hostname of your new VM
As root
vi /etc/hosts
192.168.0.50 ebs1213.rhome.com ebs1213
Where ebs1213 is the new hostname you have set for the new VM. Adjust it according to the name you have chosen
Save and exit the vi editor and try to ping the new VM from your source VM
ping ebs1213.rhome.com
Make sure you are getting ping replies from the new VM
Start dbTier and appsTier sequentially and make sure that you can access the application
Step #2
Now we are all set to “try” our first cloning process
Prior cloning we MUST prepare the source system for cloning. Hence switch user to “oracle” and switch to following folder (Adjust the path according to your environment)
cd /u01/E-BIZ/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/scripts/VIS_appvis
$perl adpreclone.pl dbTier
(provide the apps password when it is promoted)
The pre-clone should complete within few minutes time, and if there are no errors (in our case), we can proceed to prepare the application tier now
As user “Oracle” switch to
/u01/E-BIZ/inst/apps/VIS_appvis/admin/scripts
$perl adpreclone.pl appsTier
(provide the apps password when it is promoted)
Let the pre-clone procedure complete.
Once the pre-clone procedure has been completed, shutdown the application tier and database tier sequentially
Check for FNDLIBR processes, until the count reaches two(2)
$ps –ef | grep FNDLIBR | wc –l
Now we have to copy the database and application tier folders to our target VM. For our exercise we will create individual tar.gz files for both database and application folders
We will create a new folder with /u01 on the source system
As root
[sourcecode language="text"]
#cd /u01
#mkdir backup
#cd backup
# time tar -zcvf db.tar.gz /u01/E-BIZ/db/*
This will create a new tar ball with the name “db.tar.gz” inside /u01/backup folder
Sit back and relax, it is going to take some time
Once the tar process finishes, we will attempt to create a tar ball for the application tier
#time tar -zcvf apps.tar.gz /u01/E-BIZ/apps/apps_st/*
The entire tar processes may take more than couple of hours time (Depending upon the resources you have allocated for the source VM)
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Now we will copy the tar files created to our target system using SCP
You will be given a warning, accept the prompt. After that, you will be asked to enter the root password for your target machine, in our case “ebs1213”
If your vision instance is fresh without much data added after it was put online, the tar ball will be something less than 30GB, and the transfer should complete within 16-20 minutes time
Once the database tar ball transferred you can proceed with transferring your application tar bar
Amount of time required will vary depending upon the resources available. Wait until the transfer completes
Now you can shutdown your source system (So that you can release the memory/processors allocated and increase them with your new VM on which we will continue with the cloning process)
Shutdown your new VM (Target system)
Make changes to your new VM with more memory, processors etc
Boot up the new VM and logon to the VM as root
Step #3
We are going to MIMIC a production instance with our new VM (Please note, do not attempt to violate Oracle’s licensing agreements, our intention is not to help you with doing something which is against Oracle’s licensing terms and Vision instance usage)
We will create two new users and add them to existing oinstall and dba groups
As root
Now switch to /u01 folder (or other mount point as you have created it)
We will create a number of folders, which will be entirely different from the Vision Instance structure
Now we will extract the tar balls to appropriate folders
#cd /u01/oraprod/PROD/db
#time tar –zxvf /u01/backup/db.tar.gz
Approximately the extraction process will take around 3 hours for the database tar ball and around one hour for the application tar ball
Once the database tar ball extracted, we will start extracting the application tar ball
cd /u01/applprod/PROD/apps
time tar –zxvf /u01/backup/apps.tar.gz
Now we can start the actual cloning process
Step #4 Cloning the database tier
[sourcecode language="bash"]
[root@visclone u01]# su - oraprod
[oraprod@ebs1213 ~]$ cd /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin
[oraprod@ebs1213 bin]$
#
[root@visclone u01]# su - oraprod
[oraprod@ebs1213 ~]$ cd /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin
[oraprod@ebs1213 bin]$ perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier
Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation
Redwood Shores, California, USA
Oracle Applications Rapid Clone
Version 12.0.0
adcfgclone Version 120.31.12010000.8
Enter the APPS password :
Running:
/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/../jre/bin/java -Xmx600M -cp /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/java:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/xmlparserv2.jar:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/ojdbc5.jar oracle.apps.ad.context.CloneContext -e /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/../context/db/CTXORIG.xml -validate -pairsfile /tmp/adpairsfile_3095.lst -stage /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone 2> /tmp/adcfgclone_3095.err; echo $? > /tmp/adcfgclone_3095.res
Log file located at /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/CloneContext_1007224741.log
Provide the values required for creation of the new Database Context file.
Target System Hostname (virtual or normal) [ebs1213] :
Target Instance is RAC (y/n) [n] :
Target System Database SID : PROD
Target System Base Directory : /u01/oraprod
Target System utl_file_dir Directory List : /usr/tmp
Number of DATA_TOP's on the Target System [1] : 1
Target System DATA_TOP Directory 1 [/u01/E-BIZ/db/apps_st/data] : /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/apps_st/data
Target System RDBMS ORACLE_HOME Directory [/u01/oraprod/db/tech_st/11.1.0] : /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2
Do you want to preserve the Display [appvis:0.0] (y/n) : n
Target System Display [ebs1213:0.0] :
Do you want the the target system to have the same port values as the source system (y/n) [y] ? : n
Target System Port Pool [0-99] : 42
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Database cloning will kick start now, and should complete without throwing errors. Some sample outputs like below
[sourcecode language="text"]
Checking the port pool 42
done: Port Pool 42 is free
Report file located at /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/temp/portpool.lst
Complete port information available at /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/temp/portpool.lst
Creating the new Database Context file from :
/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/template/adxdbctx.tmp
The new database context file has been created :
/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/PROD_ebs1213.xml
Log file located at /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/CloneContext_1007224741.log
Check Clone Context logfile /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/CloneContext_1007224741.log for details.
Running Rapid Clone with command:
perl /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/adclone.pl java=/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/../jre mode=apply stage=/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone component=dbTier method=CUSTOM dbctxtg=/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/PROD_ebs1213.xml showProgress contextValidated=true
Running:
perl /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/adclone.pl java=/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/../jre mode=apply stage=/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone component=dbTier method=CUSTOM dbctxtg=/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/PROD_ebs1213.xml showProgress contextValidated=true
APPS Password :
Beginning database tier Apply - Mon Oct 7 22:50:46 2013
/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/bin/../jre/bin/java -Xmx600M -DCONTEXT_VALIDATED=true -Doracle.installer.oui_loc=/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/oui -classpath /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/xmlparserv2.jar:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/ojdbc5.jar:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/java:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/oui/OraInstaller.jar:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/oui/ewt3.jar:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/oui/share.jar:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/oui/srvm.jar:/u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone/jlib/ojmisc.jar oracle.apps.ad.clone.ApplyDBTier -e /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/PROD_ebs1213.xml -stage /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/clone -showProgress
APPS Password : Log file located at /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/log/PROD_ebs1213/ApplyDBTier_10072250.log
/ 0% completed
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Once the cloning completes without errors, the database instance will start automatically and you can proceed with cloning the application tier
Step #5 Cloning the application tier
[sourcecode language="text"]
[oraprod@visclone u01]# su - oraprod
[applprod@ebs1213 ~]$ cd /u01/oraprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin
[applprod@ebs1213 bin]$
[applprod@ebs1213 bin]$ perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier
Copyright (c) 2002 Oracle Corporation
Redwood Shores, California, USA
Oracle Applications Rapid Clone
Version 12.0.0
adcfgclone Version 120.31.12010000.8
Enter the APPS password :
Running:
/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/../jre/bin/java -Xmx600M -cp /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/java:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/xmlparserv2.jar:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/ojdbc14.jar oracle.apps.ad.context.CloneContext -e /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/../context/apps/CTXORIG.xml -validate -pairsfile /tmp/adpairsfile_11049.lst -stage /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone 2> /tmp/adcfgclone_11049.err; echo $? > /tmp/adcfgclone_11049.res
Log file located at /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/CloneContext_1007230323.log
Provide the values required for creation of the new APPL_TOP Context file.
Target System Hostname (virtual or normal) [ebs1213] :
Target System Database SID : PROD
Target System Database Server Node [ebs1213] :
Target System Database Domain Name [rhome.com] :
Target System Base Directory : /u01/applprod
Target System Tools ORACLE_HOME Directory [/u01/applprod/apps/tech_st/10.1.2] : /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/tech_st/10.1.2
Target System Web ORACLE_HOME Directory [/u01/applprod/apps/tech_st/10.1.3] : /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/tech_st/10.1.3
Target System APPL_TOP Directory [/u01/applprod/apps/apps_st/appl] : /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl
Target System COMMON_TOP Directory [/u01/applprod/apps/apps_st/comn] : /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn
Target System Instance Home Directory [/u01/applprod/inst] : /u01/applprod/PROD/inst
Target System Root Service [enabled] :
Target System Web Entry Point Services [enabled] :
Target System Web Application Services [enabled] :
Target System Batch Processing Services [enabled] :
Target System Other Services [disabled] :
Do you want to preserve the Display [appvis:0.0] (y/n) : n
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We had an error, applprod user failing to write to /tmp folder
Target System Display [ebs1213:0.0] : RC-50004: Error occurred in CloneContext: AC-00005: No write permissions for creating the Context file – /tmp/temp.xml Raised by oracle.apps.ad.context.AppsContext Check Clone Context logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/CloneContext_1007230323.log for details.
ERROR: Context creation not completed successfully. For additional details review the file /tmp/adcfgclone_11049.err if present.
Hence I have changed the ownership & permissions for /tmp folder
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login as: root
root@ebs1213.rhome.com's password:
Last login: Mon Oct 7 16:18:34 2013 from 192.168.0.200
[root@ebs1213/]# ls -al | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwx 7 root root 20480 Oct 7 23:06 tmp
[root@ebs1213/]# chown -R applprod:dba /tmp
[root@ebs1213/]# chmod -R 777 /tmp
[root@ebs1213/]# ls -al | grep tmp
drwxrwxrwx 7 applprod dba 20480 Oct 7 23:06 tmp
[root@ebs1213/]#
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Re-run the application tier cloning as user “applprod”
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Checking the port pool 42
done: Port Pool 42 is free
Report file located at /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/out/portpool.lst
Complete port information available at /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/out/portpool.lst
UTL_FILE_DIR on database tier consists of the following directories.
1. /usr/tmp
2. /usr/tmp
3. /u01/oraprod/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/outbound/PROD_ebs1213
4. /usr/tmp
Choose a value which will be set as APPLPTMP value on the target node [1] : 1
Creating the new APPL_TOP Context file from :
/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/ad/12.0.0/admin/template/adxmlctx.tmp
The new APPL_TOP context file has been created :
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/appl/admin/PROD_ebs1213.xml
Log file located at /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/CloneContext_1007233459.log
Check Clone Context logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/CloneContext_1007233459.log for details.
Running Rapid Clone with command:
perl /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/adclone.pl java=/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/../jre mode=apply stage=/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone component=appsTier method=CUSTOM appctxtg=/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/appl/admin/PROD_ebs1213.xml showProgress contextValidated=true
Running:
perl /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/adclone.pl java=/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/../jre mode=apply stage=/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone component=appsTier method=CUSTOM appctxtg=/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/appl/admin/PROD_ebs1213.xml showProgress contextValidated=true
APPS Password :
Beginning application tier Apply - Mon Oct 7 23:36:52 2013
/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/bin/../jre/bin/java -Xmx600M -DCONTEXT_VALIDATED=true -Doracle.installer.oui_loc=/oui -classpath /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/xmlparserv2.jar:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/ojdbc14.jar:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/java:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/oui/OraInstaller.jar:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/oui/ewt3.jar:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/oui/share.jar:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/oui/srvm.jar:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone/jlib/ojmisc.jar oracle.apps.ad.clone.ApplyAppsTier -e /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/appl/admin/PROD_ebs1213.xml -stage /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/clone -showProgress
APPS Password : Log file located at /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/log/ApplyAppsTier_10072336.log
- 0% completed
Completed Apply...
Mon Oct 7 23:43:12 2013
Do you want to startup the Application Services for PROD? (y/n) [y] : y
Starting application Services for PROD:
Running:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adstrtal.sh -nopromptmsg
You are running adstrtal.sh version 120.15.12010000.3
The logfile for this session is located at /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adstrtal.log
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adopmnctl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
You are running adopmnctl.sh version 120.6.12010000.5
Starting Oracle Process Manager (OPMN) ...
opmnctl: opmn started.
adopmnctl.sh: exiting with status 0
adopmnctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adopmnctl.txt for more information ...
.end std out.
.end err out.
****************************************************
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adalnctl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
adalnctl.sh version 120.3
Checking for FNDFS executable.
Starting listener process APPS_PROD.
adalnctl.sh: exiting with status 0
adalnctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adalnctl.txt for more information ...
.end std out.
.end err out.
****************************************************
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adapcctl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
You are running adapcctl.sh version 120.7.12010000.2
Starting OPMN managed Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) instance ...
opmnctl: opmn is already running.
opmnctl: starting opmn managed processes...
adapcctl.sh: exiting with status 0
adapcctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adapcctl.txt for more information ...
.end std out.
.end err out.
****************************************************
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adoacorectl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
You are running adoacorectl.sh version 120.13
Starting OPMN managed OACORE OC4J instance ...
adoacorectl.sh: exiting with status 0
adoacorectl.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adoacorectl.txt for more information ...
.end std out.
.end err out.
****************************************************
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adformsctl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
You are running adformsctl.sh version 120.16.12010000.3
Starting OPMN managed FORMS OC4J instance ...
Calling txkChkFormsDeployment.pl to check whether latest FORMSAPP.EAR is deployed...
Program : /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/patch/115/bin/txkChkFormsDeployment.pl started @ Mon Oct 7 23:44:32 2013
*** Log File = /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/rgf/TXK/txkChkFormsDeployment_Mon_Oct_7_23_44_31_2013/txkChkFormsDeployment_Mon_Oct_7_23_44_31_2013.log
File "/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/j2ee/forms/applications/forms/formsweb/WEB-INF/lib/frmsrv.jar" exists. Proceeding to check the size...
=============================================
*** Latest formsapp.ear has been deployed ***
=============================================
Program : /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/fnd/12.0.0/patch/115/bin/txkChkFormsDeployment.pl completed @ Mon Oct 7 23:44:32 2013
Perl script txkChkFormsDeployment.pl got executed successfully
adformsctl.sh: exiting with status 0
adformsctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adformsctl.txt for more information ...
.end std out.
*** ALL THE FOLLOWING FILES ARE REQUIRED FOR RESOLVING RUNTIME ERRORS
*** Log File = /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/rgf/TXK/txkChkFormsDeployment_Mon_Oct_7_23_44_31_2013/txkChkFormsDeployment_Mon_Oct_7_23_44_31_2013.log
.end err out.
****************************************************
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adoafmctl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
You are running adoafmctl.sh version 120.8
Starting OPMN managed OAFM OC4J instance ...
adoafmctl.sh: exiting with status 0
adoafmctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adoafmctl.txt for more information ...
.end std out.
.end err out.
****************************************************
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/adcmctl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
You are running adcmctl.sh version 120.17.12010000.5
Starting concurrent manager for PROD ...
Starting PROD_1007@PROD Internal Concurrent Manager
Default printer is noprint
adcmctl.sh: exiting with status 0
adcmctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adcmctl.txt for more information ...
.end std out.
.end err out.
****************************************************
Executing service control script:
/u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/admin/scripts/jtffmctl.sh start
script returned:
****************************************************
You are running jtffmctl.sh version 120.3
Validating Fulfillment patch level via /u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/comn/java/classes
Fulfillment patch level validated.
Starting Fulfillment Server for PROD on port 9342 ...
jtffmctl.sh: exiting with status 0
.end std out.
.end err out.
****************************************************
All enabled services for this node are started.
adstrtal.sh: Exiting with status 0
adstrtal.sh: check the logfile /u01/applprod/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_ebs1213/logs/appl/admin/log/adstrtal.log for more information ...
[applprod@ebs1213 bin]$
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A year back, following the Oracle’s blog, got excited and engaged with a tedious task to setup a Vision instance for Oracle R12 12.1.3 using the templates.
Against all the warnings and negative responses, I did manage to setup Oracle VM Manager and other repositories using Oracle Virtual Box and put the Vision instance online.
The efforts were unjustified as the tasks involved were supposed to be carried out by a seasoned DBA with advance level Linux knowledge. Apparently I lost the appetite to continue with the solution and discarded the entire setup along with the data repositories.
which explained a different approach towards setting up a Vision instance using the same Oracle templates for R12 12.1.3 and decided to give it a try.
I must say, John Piwowar @ pythian has put everything in place, so that a novice like me could follow the instructions without making any kind of mistakes and get the vision instance up and running.
Once the vision instance was up and running, I started wondering whether I could try something further. Oracle’s template based approach was involving two independent virtual machines serving two different roles
One server providing the database node
Second server providing the application node
At work I am used to deal with a single server hosting both database and application nodes which makes few things like server administration, OS patching etc easier.
Hence I started pondering the possibilities of merging both database and application servers into a single server.
Right now, after around 48 hours, I have successfully managed to merge both the nodes into a single server (virtual) and online with the Vision instance & I am going to share the entire procedures in detail so that you can also!
PART-1 Collect and arrange your stuff
Minimum Requirements
A desktop/laptop machine with minimum 4GB free RAM for the virtual machine. That means you must have 6-8GB base memory
Loads of free storage space. If your fixed disk doesn’t have minimum 500GB free disk space, I recommend you to buy a 1T external HDD (the read/write speed may be compromised, USB3 could be a minor exception)
Access to a very fast internet connection to download the templates from Oracle e-delivery portal
You have to download 11 files, 38GB by continuing
Pythian post describes a method to use wget to download all the files listed, using a file list input parameter, from a OSx/Linux host.
I downloaded the above files from a Windows machine, and must say it was a painful process.
PART-2 Convert the template files into .img and then .vdi files
I am not going to repeat the steps which are already clearly narrated with pythian article. Only suggest that, don’t use a Windows machine and 7zip to do all the unzip and joining the files. You use a Linux Virtual machine to do those jobs. It would be faster, and it would be the best. I created a Oracle Linux 6 VirtualBox to do those jobs by sharing the downloads folder with the Virtual Machine.
PART-3 Backup everything!
So once the img files are converted as .VDI files, the most import thing is to backup the .VDI files to somewhere else! Yes, you may corrupt the sources available inside the .VDI files while attempting to setup the Vision instance. If you don’t have a backup, you have to go through the painful process of unzipping, combining and converting the .img files to .VDI formats. Trust me, this exercise could easily run into 4-6 hours time, depending upon the efficiency of your hardware.
PART-4 1st Gear, slow start
Create a folder called “myvision” (name it anything)
Copy both System.vdi and ebs1211db.vdi (While converting the .img files I gave the .VDI files the same image names) from your database template folder or backup folder to “myvision” folder
The actual size of ebs1211db.vdi over Windows environment will be approximately 220GB, which will be few GB smaller over Linux environment.
As we are planning to host both the dB and Application tier from a single server, we MUST increase the size of ebs1211db.vdi
Let me explain why, prior going ahead
Oracle’s approach towards the VM setup was purely involving two servers(virtual) and both database & application files are placed on /u01 mount point
ie, Database server has a mount point called /u01 and so does the application server
All the clone scripts available for both database & applications servers have certain scripts hardcoded with /u01 as base path. Hence, one could get into useless activities of editing scripts to change the hardcoded base path values to adjust the cloning (Which was done successfully)
PART-5 2nd Gear, Resize ebs1211db.vdi
Fortunately, ebs1211db.vdi doesn’t have multiple partitions. Hence resizing the volume is pretty easier using Virtual Box command line tools & free linux tools like Gparted
Switch to command prompt (if you are on Windows 7 & 8 make it elevated)
Release ebs1211db.vdi from the Gparted Virtual Machine. Let us start creating a Virtual Machine using Oracle’s VirtualBox. Please note we are using the latest version of VirtualBox, if you are not, please update prior you move ahead with rest of the exercises
Please check the VM configurations I made for my Vision Instance Server with the below image
You can see that I have attached both System.vdi & ebs1211db.vdi files under SATA
Now, most important: You must have a .iso image or a physical DVD/CD for a recent release of Oracle/CentOS/RHEL linux, as we have to alter few attributes of the Virtual Machine we are going to put online.
Oracle has created the VM compiling a XEN kernel, which will not work under VirtualBox & you will fail to boot your Vision Instance VM, unless the kernel pointers are changed and recompiled.
Don’t worry it is pretty easy
Follow pythian article until the new kernel installation part
If you have just downloaded the templates from Oracle, you have the latest release of Oracle Linux embedded with System.img/.vdi file, and you don’t have to install a new kernel.
As root
#rpm –qa | grep kernel
If your uek kernel version matches as one provided with the image or higher, you can safely move ahead with creating a new initrd entry. As root issue the following command
Reboot your Virtual Machine, after removing the Linux media from the CD rom drive (or detach the linux iso image)
If you were following pythian post attentively, your new virtual machine MUST boot, without throwing any errors and prompt you for a login
The default password for root is “ovsroot”
I hope you did change the /etc/fstab entry for “/u01” mounting point prior rebooting the server as mentioned last time and that you have changed the
/etc/sysconfig/oraclevm-template entry to RUN_TEMPLATE_CONF=YES
If you haven’t, please do & restart the Virtual Machine. Optionally you can set a static IP to your box, so that you can start using a ssh client like putty, which will genuinely make many things easier while setting up the server at later stages.
Once the server restarted, you will notice that Oracle will automatically start the cloning process based on the “RUN_TEMPLATE_CONF=YES” entry
Throughout, we were using a hostname “appvis”, hence all the instructions, workarounds will utilize the same hostname. Please adjust the hostname according your preferences
Enter static IP address: 192.168.0.30 Enter netmask: [255.255.255.0] Enter gateway: 192.168.0.1 Enter DNS server: 192.168.0.1
Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ] Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Configuring network settings. IP configuration: Static IP address
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ] Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
Enter hostname (e.g, host.domain.com): appvis.rhome.com
Network configuration changed successfully. IP configuration: Static IP address IP address: 192.168.0.30 Netmask: 255.255.255.0 Gateway: 192.168.0.1 DNS server: 192.168.0.1 Hostname: appvis.rhome.com
Database node related prompts
Enter the APPS password :apps
Provide the values required for creation of the new Database Context file.
Target System Hostname (virtual or normal) [appvis] :<<press ENTER>>
Target Instance is RAC (y/n) [n] : n<<press ENTER>>
Target System Database SID : VIS
Target System Base Directory : /u01/E-BIZ
Target System utl_file_dir Directory List : /usr/tmp
Number of DATA_TOP’s on the Target System [1] :<<press ENTER>>
Target System DATA_TOP Directory 1 [/u01/E-BIZ/db/apps_st/data] : /u01/E-BIZ/db/apps_st/data
Target System RDBMS ORACLE_HOME Directory [/u02/E-BIZ/db/tech_st/11.1.0] :/u01/E-BIZ/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2
Do you want to preserve the Display [atgtxk05:0.0] (y/n) : n
Target System Display [appvis:0.0] :<<press ENTER>>
Do you want the the target system to have the same port values as the source system (y/n) [y] ? : n
Target System Port Pool [0-99] : 42
Make a note of the System Port Pool you have entered here, as we must use the same while setting up the Application tier, in order to establish a connection to the database & perform the cloning process
Sit back and let the cloning process for database to complete. It may take a while. Once the cloning process is over, the database will be started.
After a successful completion of cloning, the server will come back to a logon prompt
login as “oracle” and the default password is “oracle”
You will be asked to change the password for user oracle and APPS, ignore the prompts this time.
PART-7 4thd Gear, Free on the roads, hacking the Application tier
As I mentioned, what we are going to do is a pure hack, against Oracle’s design structure.
The first step is to create a soft link, which is mandatory for cloning the Application tier
Login as root cd /usr/lib cp libXtst.so.6 libXtst.so.6.backup rm libXtst.so.6 ln -s /usr/X11R6/lib/libXtst.so.6.1 /usr/lib/libXtst.so.6
Change the settings for your new virtual machine and attach ebs1211apps.vdi under SATA
Start the server
As your server starts you will notice that the database server getting started during the boot process itself. I’ll explain the methods to disable the automatic startup later with this post
Once the logon prompt appears, login as root (password: ovsroot)
Let us mount the newly added ebs1211apps.vdi (/dev/sdc1) to a mount point
As root
#mkdir /u02
#mount –t ext3 /dev/sdc1 /u02
The real hacks will take place now
Copy the /u02/E-BIZ/apps folder to /u01/E-BIZ/
As root
#cp –avr /u02/E-BIZ/* /u01/BIZ/
(I slept a whole night after starting the copying process, hence hardly have any idea how long it took, however I am sure you can finish one English movie during the copying period)
A total of 29GB will be copied to /u01/BIZ/apps folder
Once the copy process is over, we are ready to try the Application tier clone.
As prompted with the Database tier clone, a number of prompts you must answer, commonly the following
Enter the APPS password : apps Target System Hostname (virtual or normal) [appvis] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Database SID : VIS Target System Database Server Node [appvis] : gkar Target System Database Domain Name [rhome.com] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Base Directory : /u01/E-BIZ Target System Tools ORACLE_HOME Directory [/u01/E-BIZ/apps/tech_st/10.1.2] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Web ORACLE_HOME Directory [/u01/E-BIZ/apps/tech_st/10.1.3] : <ENTER to take default> Target System APPL_TOP Directory [/u01/E-BIZ/apps/apps_st/appl] : <ENTER to take default> Target System COMMON_TOP Directory [/u01/E-BIZ/apps/apps_st/comn] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Instance Home Directory [/u01/E-BIZ/inst] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Root Service [enabled] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Web Entry Point Services [enabled] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Web Application Services [enabled] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Batch Processing Services [enabled] : <ENTER to take default> Target System Other Services [disabled] : <ENTER to take default> Do you want to preserve the Display [atgtxk-09:0.0] (y/n) : n Target System Display [appvis:0.0] : <ENTER to take default> Do you want the the target system to have the same port values as the source system (y/n) [y] ? : n Target System Port Pool [0-99] : 42 UTL_FILE_DIR on database tier consists of the following directories. 1. /usr/tmp 2. /usr/tmp 3. /u01/E-BIZ/db/tech_st/11.2.0.2/appsutil/outbound/VIS_appvis 4. /usr/tmp Choose 1, default
The cloning will kick start now, and resume until 89% prior ending up with a FATAL error
–Minor update (if it is already NOT too late) 08-October-2013
I was trying to do a cloning & realized that the cloning process terminates with various errors and most of the errors were due to write permissions.
I was able to complete the cloning processes (dbTier & appsTier) individually by changing the permissions on folders like
and after the clone, resetting the ownership of /tmp back to root
chown –R root:root /tmp chmod –R 777 /tmp
Hence the below mentioned error “could be” addressed by changing few OS level rights as mentioned above.
This error is caused by missing “adautocfg.sh” file in the folder /u01/E-BIZ/inst/apps/VIS_appvis/admin/scripts which the auto configuration tries to access.
Without this file in this particular directory, the cloning process will never complete successfully. So we have to find a solution for it (I am not a APPS DBA and genuinely do not have any idea why the heck this file is missing in this particular location. All I could do is a guess work and it is towards avoiding the oracle template configuration wizard part, which initiates few functions. I’ll check it one of the following days and update this post accordingly)
and paste the following (Yes you can do it, just change the VIS_appvis with your CONTEXT name)
#!/bin/sh # dbdrv: none
# # $Header: adautocfg_ux.sh 120.4 2008/02/19 04:28:02 sbandla ship $ # # ############################################################### # # This file is automatically generated by AutoConfig. It will be read and # overwritten. If you were instructed to edit this file, or if you are not # able to use the settings created by AutoConfig, refer to Metalink Note # 387859.1 for assistance. # # ###############################################################
arg=`echo $myarg | sed ‘s/^-//’` case $arg in appspass=*) appspass=`echo $arg | sed ‘s/appspass=//g’` shift ;; nocustom) myparams=”$myparams $arg” shift ;; noversionchecks) myparams=”$myparams $arg” shift ;; promptmsg=*) promptmsg=`echo $arg | sed ‘s/promptmsg=//g’` shift ;; *) echo “$0: unrecognized action specified” exit 1 esac done
if test “${appspass}x” = “x”; then if test “${promptmsg}” != “hide”; then stty -echo printf “Enter the APPS user password:” read appspass printf “\n” stty echo else read appspass fi fi
The cloning process must complete without throwing any further errors and you will be asked whether the application should be started by the end of the cloning process. You can go ahead with starting the application tier.
However, you will notice, the apache HTTP will fail to start, as the CONTEXT FILE will have entries, which were not properly put in place during our last clone process as it has ended up with a FATAL error.
Let us edit the CONTEXT file and correct those entries now.
(This situation arises only if the cloning is done as user root)
Provide the apps password and sit back. It hardly takes few minutes to reset everything. Once the auto configuration part completes, go ahead with starting the application node
Incase if you are not sure about the http port, open up “VIS_appvis.xml” CONTEXT FILE and scan through, you will find it with url address area
Use sysadmin/sysadmin to logon and enjoy!!!
PART-8 5th Gear, Smooth Sailing, Restarting and online
As a system administrator I literally don’t like the idea of starting resource hungry services until the boxes are completed booted up and online. I prefer to start certain services myself and make sure that whatever were started manually completed the startup process successfully.
As root switch to “/etc/init.d” folder
chmod –x ebizdb
and you are done! The database will not startup next time while you are starting your Vision instance.
Go to these folders for starting database and application nodes
Day 3 – Adding Desktop to Oracle’s basic server (system.vdi)
I personally prefer to have a proper GUI, coming from an entirely Windows environment, that is a MUST for many times, regardless whether I am working with Linux or Windows systems
Here are the few things I have done to get the GNOME desktop installed with the basic Oracle linux Server embedded with the Oracle VM templates for Oracle R12 12.1.3
(Please make sure, from your Oracle linux box you have access to internet. Do you a ping www.google.com and confirm you are getting replies)
(Please shutdown both database and application prior proceeding)
(Please increase the size of System.vdi file PRIOR experimenting with any of the below exercises, and be careful while you would use Gparted to do it. Make a backup for system.vdi file and follow the thread provided above with the post to resize the partition (it is easy, I assure))
Around 380MB data will be downloaded and GNOME Desktop will be installed. Sit back and relax
Try to start the Desktop now
As root
#startx
X will crash and you will be provided certain error messages, which are NOT what we want. Hence let us go ahead and “correct” X
#X –config xorg.conf.new
X will start, however, a blank screen with ‘X’ shaped cursor and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace doesn’t kill it (minimum in my case)
Reset the terminal from VirtualBox menu and logon to the box as root once again
#cd /etc/X11
#mv xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup
#startx
Am sure you will be very much pleased to the GUI starting up. However, you don’t have a browser yet, so
#yum install firefox
This will install Firefox 17 (latest from the Oracle public yum repository)
If you want to start the GNOME automatic during the box startup, you need to edit /etc/inittab file
#vi /etc/inittab
and change the line
“id:3:initdefault:”
with
“id:5:initdefault:”
Save the file and exit the editor
Now a final reboot
#init 6
Once the box rebooted, you will be provided a graphical interface for the login process. Login and enjoy your GUI
However, if you would try to install the VirtualBox guest addons you will end up with FATAL errors, reporting missing headers. So you should, as root install the missing header files
#yum install kernel-uek-devel
A 6mb download will install the missing headers and, now you can safely complete the VirtualBox guest addons
Majority of the scripts, which you want to startup certain services during the boot process itself are usually placed (CentOS, RHEL, OUL(Oracle Unbreakable Linux)) in /etc/init.d folder
We had a requirement to disable the automatic startup of Oracle database, which was a part of Oracle Vision Instance 12.1.3
The vision database node server on Oracle linux, starts up the database services during the boot process itself, thus delaying the booting process.
After a long scrutiny (as I am not very familiar with Linux) I found that during the boot up, one particular service “ebizdb” was being executed and I found a script with automatic execution within “/etc/init.d” folder
Recently I have learned that I could change a .sh script using “chmod” command to executable so that I could call it without using “./” and the syntax was
chmod +x myscript.sh
Just keeping my fingers crossed (make a note of my acceptance that I am not a linux geek) I tried the following
chmod –x ebizdb
and bingo!
Prior that I tried
chconfig ebizdb off
and kept on receiving error message stating “service ebizdb does not support chkconfig”
The job was done by just the script’s behavior from executable to non-executable.
Hope this helps few out there, who are Linux noobies like me!
We always refer www.oracle-base.com for exclusive tips on installing various Oracle products and we would suggest, it is one of the best repositories you can also depend upon for.
Recently we were having a requirement to migrate our legacy 10.1.2.x Oracle database to 11gR2 and we followed this thread by www.oracle-base.com to.
Our scenario was involving a VM instead of physical server which was hosted on Windows 8 64 Professional edition using Oracle’s VirtualBox 4.2.18
Following the straight forward instructions we installed Oracle Linux 6.2 X86_64 (64bit) and added Oracle’s own public repository for yum repository (instructions here)
Next we ran an update cycle, and our distro was upgraded to 6.4 from 6.2 and the first issue we realized was X terminal. To resolve, we did the following few activities
Then went ahead with instructions available with the oracle-base post for the 11gR2 installation.
Even though all the instructions were tailored for a successful installation of 11GR2 we were stuck as soon as we tried to start the installation process by calling
./runInstaller
A number of Java exceptions where thrown and while digging around, came to a conclusion that, it was due to the exporting DISPLAY and later allowing access to the same.
We found a thread on stackoverflow, with a solution and the solution was
as root
set DISPLAY
$DISPLAY=:0.0
$export DISPLAY
$xhost +
then as user oracle
$su – oracle
$DISPLAY=:0.0
$export DISPLAY
$cd /stage/database
$./runInstaller
A number of .so files were upgraded to recent versions during the 6.2 to 6.4 upgrade process, hence the installer will prompt missing library files which you can safely ignore (We would recommend you to resolve such warning if you are doing a production installation, a test scenario could overlook these wanings)
It is painful, however, please do confirm all the recommended packages or new versions are already available with your linux installation prior going ahead with the installation.
We installed unixODBC package(s) using the add remove software, a newer version than the one suggested by Oracle and proceeded with the database installation.
Even though we were able to complete the installation successfully, left us with huge concerns like the time and efforts required, the level of knowledge about linux and complexities resolving the dependency which is almost nothing in the case of Windows environment.
Anyway, we hope you would enjoy another quality post by us!
