applprod@erp-prodbak.my.home:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/au/12.0.0/forms/US>frmcmp_batch module=$AU_TOP/forms/US/XXITMDTLS.fmb userid=apps/apps output_file=$ONT_TOP/forms/US/XXITMDTLS.fmx Module_Type=FORM compile_all=Special frmcmp_batch: error while loading shared libraries: libig.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory applprod@erp-prodbak.my.home:/u01/applprod/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl/au/12.0.0/forms/US>
Recently I cloned our Production instance to check the feasibility of OEL 6.7 & as usual securely copied most of the bash profile for the Oracle and Application manager users from the production server.
I came across the “cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory” error while trying to compile an old form module & hadn’t have a clue for how to deal with this error, that happened to me first time in last 8 years with Oracle applications.
I crosschecked the folder permissions against production instance and everything was fine. All I could remember which could have gone wrong was narrowed down to the bash profile for the application user and after validating I realized that I was sourcing a wrong environment file!
Instead of sourcing the “/apps/apps_st/appl/APPSPRODBAK_hostname.env” file, I was sourcing “/apps/apps_st/appl/PRODBAK_hostname.env”. I realized it while trying to echo the $ORACLE_HOME variable as application manager user.
So, if you come across “error while loading shared libraries” error while trying to compile, before start dismantling your instance, try to see whether you have sourced the environment variables correctly.
I’m posting a sample script for creating suppliers, sites and contacts. I’ve referred multiple sample scripts and believe the below code block is a fine tuned one, however standing refinement at all levels. Please note, I haven’t added the API block for creating banks for suppliers. Will, and update the scripts as I make advancements.
[code language=”sql” gutter=”false”]
/* Formatted on 10/5/2015 11:12:16 AM (QP5 v5.163.1008.3004) */
SET DEFINE OFF;
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON;
BEGIN
–Please note: This API was tested against Release 12 (12.0.6)
–You are warned against undesired results, if tried against unsupported application releases
— Supplier MUST have a global level payment method
— So that individual companies can defer the default payment method while sites are created
— I have tried the following @ site levels, didn’t work until at supplier level assigned. You may post corrections with
— Comments section
— if the Payable System setup is set automatic numbering for the suppliers (table ->AP_PRODUCT_SETUP Column -> SUPPLIER_NUMBERING_METHOD = ‘AUTOMATIC’)
— You can get the next number from column NEXT_AUTO_SUPPLIER_NUM
— if you are following manual numbering (Alpha Numeric )
— p_vendor_rec.segment1 :=’865′; –(insert non duplicate number, in case if the supplier numbers are not fetched from a sequence, check your setups)
— We do have an automatic numbering for suppliers, hence the below block is used
— If your setups are not as explained above
— Comment from BEING until p_vendor_rec.segment1 := p_vendor_number;
BEGIN
Select NEXT_AUTO_SUPPLIER_NUM into p_vendor_number from AP_PRODUCT_SETUP
where SUPPLIER_NUMBERING_METHOD= ‘AUTOMATIC’;
EXCEPTION
WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND then
local_failed_at := ‘NUMBER’;
RAISE local_exception;
END;
pos_vendor_pub_pkg.create_vendor_site (
— ——————————
— Input data elements
— ——————————
p_vendor_site_rec => l_vendor_site_rec,
— ———————————
— Output data elements
— ———————————
x_return_status => lc_return_status,
x_msg_count => ln_msg_count,
x_msg_data => lc_msg_data,
x_vendor_site_id => ln_vendor_site_id,
x_party_site_id => ln_party_site_id,
x_location_id => ln_location_id);
IF (lc_return_status <> ‘S’)
THEN
IF ln_msg_count > 1
THEN
FOR i IN 1 .. ln_msg_count
LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (
SUBSTR (FND_MSG_PUB.Get (p_encoded => FND_API.G_FALSE), 1, 255));
END LOOP;
END IF;
local_failed_at := ‘SITE’;
RAISE local_exception;
ELSE
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (‘Vendor Site Id: ‘ || ln_vendor_site_id);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (‘Party Site Id: ‘ || ln_party_site_id);
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (‘Location Id: ‘ || ln_location_id);
END IF;
EXCEPTION
WHEN local_exception
THEN
IF local_failed_at = ‘SUPPLIER’
THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (‘API failed at Supplier Creation’);
ELSIF local_failed_at = ‘SITE’
THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (‘API failed at Site Creation’);
ELSIF local_failed_at = ‘CONTACT’
THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (‘API failed at Contact Creation’);
ELSIF local_failed_at = ‘NUMBER’
THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (‘API failed at getting Supplier Number’);
END IF;
ROLLBACK;
WHEN OTHERS
THEN
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE (SQLERRM);
ROLLBACK;
END;
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We have an instance, with the database which has grown to almost 1TB in size within last four years of time & the main culprit were the attachments end users uploaded with the purchase requests. Now, the approach to upload documents to database was a wrong wrong wrong choice, however, with what we lived for last many years.
Recently the we have decided to stop uploading the attachments to database, instead start using certain other methods. That’s how we started to find a “method” to disable the attachment functionality. There were not many leads, however we stumbled upon the following thread
As all we needed were just some kind of leads, browsing through the “Application Developer=> Attachments=>Attachment Functions”
We were able to locate the Name “PO_POXRQERQ”, that refers to Requisitions. All we were supposed to do was the remove all the lines found under “Blocks”, that disables the attachment button available with purchase requisition form! Read more about it from the link provided above.
Hope this information comes handy for few others out there!
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
Select “Workflow Administrator Web Applications” and Select the function “Status Monitor”. This opens a jsp page show below.
For the purchase orders stuck in the flow, please locate “PO Approval” workflow using search function. This windows provides multiple choices to limit the amount of data retrieved. Apply it whenever it is possible to reduce the time collecting and producing data.
Image: Finding the correct workflow (for Purchase requests stuck in the workflow)
For Purchase Requests stuck in the work flow, please use the following query
select requisition_header_id, segment1, wf_item_type, wf_item_key, authorization_status, org_id from po_requisition_headers_all where segment1 = ‘1980’ and org_id = 105;
for Purchase order change the table name to PO_HEADERS_ALL
to find the wf_item_key which is referred as “item key” with the JSP form.
Once the desired information derived
Click on “Activity History” button
Now you may use “Reassign” function (Shown within green rectangle) to reassign the Purchase Request for approval by next immediate subordinate.
You may use the “Rewind” button to rewind the workflow to an earlier stage as well
*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&quot; internalcommands
sethduuid System.vdi
UUID changed to: 5dbdd6e3-c8ff-431d-bdd8-edf31c3012fb
E:\ebiznew>C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox\VBoxManage.exe&quot; internalcommands
sethduuid ebs1211db.vdi
UUID changed to: 05068998-dc4d-46ef-8f8f-1ae07b786bfa
[code language=”text” gutter=”false”]
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
Just 24 hours back, I made another attempt to setup a vision instance at home using VM templates from Oracle and, guys, it was a total success *grin* (Will post the installation steps later, stay tuned, it is loads of fun!)
However I was stuck with an issue, the html/jsp pages will not render properly in Internet Explorer 10 (I am using Windows 8 Pro 64bit) and started with my favorite search toy “google” once again
I came across a blog post from Oracle discussing about the certification path here
and within the thread there was another reference towards a later blog entry, which explained the certification details(here). Unless you are in a hurry, you shouldn’t miss the minimized quote says
Compatibility Mode for IE 10 + EBS 12
To prevent issues with certain OA Framework pages, you should run IE 10 in “Compatibility Mode.” See the “Known Issues” section in Note 389422.1 for more details.
How to? have a look at the below images
That’s all
hope the post was useful for minimum few out there
Why not? From our experiences, Oracle applications has one of the best transaction auditing approach, by logging who created and updated transactions while data is processed through a form based application.
Adapting the same methodology, recently we have created almost similar functionality for our upcoming custom applications. If you intend to use this solution with your own forms applications, make sure that your tables have the following four columns as mandatory.
ALTER TABLE BAC_MENU
ADD(
CREATED_BY NUMBER ,
CREATION_DATE DATE ,
LAST_UPDATE_DATE DATE ,
LAST_UPDATED_BY NUMBER
);
set_who procedure
PROCEDURE set_who IS
blk_name VARCHAR2(40);
curr_item VARCHAR2(40);
curr_mode VARCHAR2(40);
trx_date date := sysdate;
curr_user NUMBER;
BEGIN
--Get the current block name
blk_name := name_in(':SYSTEM.CURRENT_BLOCK');
--Judge the current transaction mode
curr_mode := name_in(':SYSTEM.RECORD_STATUS');
--if you are passing login details
--using global variables, adjust the following
--lines accordingly
curr_user := name_in(':PARAMETER.P_USER_ID');
if curr_mode='CHANGED' then
COPY(curr_user,blk_name||'.LAST_UPDATED_BY');
COPY(to_char(trx_date,'dd/mm/yyyy HH24:MI:SS'),blk_name||'.LAST_UPDATE_DATE');
elsif curr_mode = 'INSERT' then
COPY(curr_user,blk_name||'.CREATED_BY');
COPY(to_char(trx_date,'dd/mm/yyyy HH24:MI:SS'),blk_name||'.CREATION_DATE');
end if;
--Mandatory columns with tables
--against which you will log
--the insert, update user details &amp; time
/*
CREATED_BY
CREATION_DATE
LAST_UPDATE_DATE
LAST_UPDATED_BY
*/
END;
Now attach this procedure with individual forms or make it a part of a custom PL/SQL library for global calls. You can call the procedure from PRE-INSERT and PRE-UPDATE triggers at block level to achieve the scope.
