A Comprehensive Training on

Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.x:

Deployment and System Administration

Presented by: Md Mozammel Hoque ,

CEO & BPO Consultant at InfraOptimization

Hosted by: PHP Family

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Expected Training Outcome
 Minimizing EBS R12.2.n Maintenance
Downtimes followed by Oracle & ITIL

 IT Operation Excellence

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Presenter Profile
Name Md Mozammel Hoque
Designation CEO & BPO Consultant at InfraOptimization

Career at a glance 17 years+ as Executive leader, Consultant, Researcher, Enterprise Architect, Program Manager, and Software Engineer
in Telco, Banking, Manufacturing and Retail Industries. He focuses on customer experience, Business strategy and
Process Optimization, innovation, leadership, and improved operational efficiency. He supported more than 70
Clients (on site and off-shore) with hundreds of projects Implementer and Designer on Oracle ERP, Telco Billing,
DWH, Campaign Management, Fraud and Revenue Management, Security and Audit, covering North America,
Europe, West Africa and Asia. He worked as (Assistant) Researcher on the field of Socio-Anthropology, and had
teaching experience.

He has served as CEO and BPO Consultant at InfraOptimization, as Management & Strategy Consultant at E-Tec Ltd.,
as CTO at NTS, as Sr. Technical Consultant at Huawei (Base Zone: West Africa), as Oracle Trainer at IBCS-PRIMAX and
as APPS DBA at DatabaseIntelligence (Russia) on behalf of DataIntensity (USA).

Publication A number of Technical and Non-Technical articles were published in 3MS/HUAWEI Case Center.
Introduced 7 RIGHTS concept for better business output, which was disclosed (and organized by) at the Faculty of
Business Administration, University of Chittagong, Bangladesh on May 25, 2016.

Public Speaker He has been the speaker on Optimization: Business and IT hosted by the University of Chittagong, Bangladesh and
IBCS-Primax (Dhaka, Bangladesh).

Professional Certification Oracle Certified Expert (OCE) - Oracle RAC 11g Release 2 and Performance Tuning, Oracle Certified Specialist (OCS) -
Oracle Database 11g Data Warehouse, Oracle Certified Professional (OCP) - R12, 11g, 10g and 9i.ITIL V3 Foundation
Certified from EXIN. Passed Total 31 exams with all distinct result i.e. Database, Operating System, Network, Security,
OCS/CBS, Storage, ITIL etc. in HUAWEI exam system.

Reward Honorable Performance Reward for the year of 2013, Best performance award for the year of 2012 for Etisalat Nigeria
project from Huawei, and Two times best performance award (2010 and 2011) from Zain (now Airtel) Telco in Nigeria
on behalf of International Turnkey System.

Education MSC and BSC in Applied Informatics in Economics from Rostov State University of Civil Engineering, Russia in 2006
MA in 1997 and BA in 1996 in History from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh

Languages known Bengali, English, Russian, and French

Our Philosophy

Learn from Learners & Feel it.

- What to Know | Do
Process:
Key Learning Principle
- Why to know | Do

- How to Know | Do Procedure

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Content of Training

 Pathway to Enterprise Architecture: Business Architecture & IT Architecture

 EBS R12.2.x Technology Architecture & Roadmap
 Pathway to Design Label - Deployment, Implementation & Upgrade
 System Administration on - Install, Patch, Clone, Concurrent Manager,
Autoconfig, Fusion Middleware , Weblogic & Maintenance Tools.
 Pathway to Performance Tuning & Troubleshooting
 IT Service Continuity Management: Beyond DR (Disaster Recovery)

Forms of Training

 Lecture: Concept
 Lab: Practical
 Case Study: Live & Past

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Applications Technology Release 12.2 Value Proposition
Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Technology provides the technology infrastructure to
develop, manage, and integrate Oracle E-Business Suite applications.

The Applications Technology team incorporates and adapts products from Oracle Database
and Oracle Fusion Middleware to suit the unique requirements of Oracle E-Business Suite.
The breadth and depth of the technology adoption is extensive, including:

• System Management Tools, such as the Application Management Suite

• Developer Productivity Tools, such as Oracle Jdeveloper

• Business Intelligence Tools, such as KPIs, and Oracle BI Publisher

• Infrastructure Tools, such as Identity Management

• Integration Tools, such as Applications Integration Architecture

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Applications Technology Release 12.2 Value Proposition Cont 1
The result is that Oracle E-Business Suite offers unparalleled productivity, scalability,
performance, and availability - thereby reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) for
enterprises of all sizes.

Oracle E-Business Suite Applications Technology Release 12.2 is focused on the following
strategic areas:

• Technology Update
• Usability
• Integration
• Security
• Manageability

Source:
ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE RELEASE VALUE PROPOSITION
Release 12.2 Applications Technology
Prepared by E-Business Suite Product Management and Strategy
Last Updated: September 18, 2013
Version: 2.0

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Reference Doc IDs on EBS R12.2.x
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Information Center (Doc ID 1581299.1)
Release Schedule of Current Database Releases (Doc ID 742060.1)
https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenchan/resource/certifications.html

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Technology Stack Documentation Roadmap (Doc ID 1934915.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release Notes, Release 12.2 (Doc ID 1320300.1)

Oracle E-Business Suite Product Specific Release Notes, Release 12.2.3 (Doc ID 1605928.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.3 Readme (Doc ID 1586214.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack and Applications DBA Release Notes for Release 12.2.3 (Doc
ID 1606170.1)

Oracle E-Business Suite Product Specific Release Notes, Release 12.2.4 (Doc ID 1903217.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.4 Readme (Doc ID 1617458.1)

Oracle E-Business Suite Product Specific Release Notes, Release 12.2.5 (Doc ID 2049015.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.5 Readme (Doc ID 1983050.1)

Oracle E-Business Suite Product Specific Release Notes, Release 12.2.6 (Doc ID 2114173.1)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.6 Readme (Doc ID 2114016.1)

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2: Technical Planning, Getting Started, and Go-Live Checklist (Doc ID
1585857.1)

Recommended Browsers for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 389422.1)

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EBS R12.2 Architecture

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Concepts and Terminology:
Tier, Node, Service/Server
A Tier is a logical grouping of services, potentially spread across more than one
physical machine. The three-tier architecture that comprises an Oracle E-Business
Suite installation is made up of the database tier, which supports and manages the
Oracle database; the application tier, which supports and manages the various
Oracle E-Business Suite components, and is sometimes known as the middle tier;
and the desktop tier, which provides the user interface via an add-on component to
a standard web browser.

Application Tier Services

Root services, Web Entry Point services, Web Application services, Batch Processing
services, Other services

A Node is a logical set of processes running on one hardware machine. Sometimes a

node is also referred to as a "server" or an "instance". In a single-node installation of
Oracle E-Business Suite, all the Applications processes (including the database
processes) run on one node, whereas in a multi-node installation, the processes are
distributed across multiple nodes. For example,
Node 1 : DB 11.2.0.3,
Node 2: Web and forms,
Node 3 : concurrent manager.

A multi-node installation of Release 12 supports both shared and non-shared

application tier file systems.

A Service is a functional set of Oracle E-Business Suite application processes running

on one or more nodes. Where applicable, the term 'service' is replacing the more
traditional term of 'server'. For example, Web services process HTTP requests,
and Forms services process requests for activities related to Oracle Forms.
The Concurrent Processing server supports data-intensive programs that run in the
background.
Source: Configuring Applications Node Services in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 (Doc ID 406558.1)
Understanding Three‐tier Technical Architecture:
EBS R12.2 Three-Tier Architecture Perspective
EBS R12.2 Technology Architecture

Desktop or Client Tier - provides the user interface using a web browser to access the applications.
Application Tier - The application tier, sometimes referred to as the middle tier, hosts the various services and
servers that implement and execute the business logic, and mediates communications between the desktop tier
and the database tier.
Database Tier - supports the Oracle RDBMS and is the main data storage area. The database server does not
communicate directly with desktop clients
EBS R12.2 Application Tier Structure
Source: Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts Release 12.2 Part Number E22949-12

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EBS R12.2 Application Tier Services at-a-glance

Service Group Service(s) Service Control Script

Root Service Node Manager adnodemgrctl.sh

Web Administration WebLogic Admin Server adadminsrvctl.sh

Oracle HTTP Server adapcctl.sh

Web Entry Point Services
Oracle Process Manager adopmnctl.sh

oacore
oafm
Web Application Services admanagedsrvctl.sh
forms
forms-c4ws

Oracle TNS Listener adalnctl.sh

Concurrent Manager adcmctl.sh
Batch Processing Services
Fulfillment Server jtffmctl.sh
Oracle ICSM ieoicsm.sh

Forms Server adformsrvctl.sh

Other Services
Oracle MWA Service mwactlwrpr.sh

Most notably, the Web Administration service group contains WebLogic Administration server, and - unlike other
service groups - can be enabled only on one of the Application tier nodes. In other words, it is not supported to
enable WebLogic Administration server on any other Application tier node except the node on which it was
enabled during Rapid Install.

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R12.2 Technical Configuration
Configuration Activity In Release R12.2 Configuration Management Tools

Oracle E-Business Suite Database,

Concurrent Processing, Oracle
Developer 10g, profile options, Oracle Applications Manager. OAM & AutoConfig
and other Oracle E-Business Suite
components.

Most HTTP configuration is managed via native

Oracle WebLogic Server tools, Fusion Middleware
HTTP Configuration. Control, or manually editing of the configuration Fusion Middleware Control
files. Only a limited set of HTTP configuration files
are maintained via AutoConfig.

Properties for the oacore, oafm, forms and forms-

c4ws services, including the classpath and JVM
arguments, need to be updated through native
Configuration of oacore, oafm, forms
WebLogic tools such as WebLogic Administration
and forms-c4ws services
Console. The context variable values are used only
to set the initial values during managed server
creation. WebLogic Server Admin Console

Each JVM instance of a service corresponds to a

managed server of that service type. The number
Managing JVM instances of the oacore,
of instances needs to be controlled by explicitly
oafm, forms and forms-c4ws services.
creating or deleting managed servers for the
service.

Tables: FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES, FND_NODES etc.

Understanding Client & Application Tier Components

HTML-Based Applications Architecture

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EBS Release 12.2 Technology Stack

FM 11g

End User

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EBS Release 12.2 Architecture
From Weblogic Perspective: WHAT TO KNOW

Java code including OAF

All EBS Forms Functionality

Web Services, Secure Search etc.

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EBS Release 12.2 Architecture
From Weblogic Perspective: WHAT TO KNOW ON SCALING

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EBS R12.2 Deployment Planning Consideration

1. Performance
2. Scalability – Vertically | Horizontally
3. Maximum Availability
4. Ease of Management & Maintenance

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EBS R12.2 Deployment Architecture

Deployment Design Decisions

MOS Doc ID: 1375686.1
 File system configuration: Distributed | Shared

 Load balancing: DNS Load balancing: DNS| HTTP (using load balancer)

 Web Entry Point: One | Multiple

 DMZ Configuration (Doc ID 1375670.1)

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EBS R12.2 Deployment Design Decisions

Distributed File Systems

MOS Doc ID 1383621.1

Shared File System

MOS Doc ID 1375769.1

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EBS R12.2 Deployment Design Decisions
MOS Doc ID 1375686.1

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EBS R12.2 Deployment Design Decisions

PCP - Parallel Concurrent Processing Oracle E‐Business Suite Setup

Guide Release 12.2

MOS Doc ID 1570554.1

Oracle Database Real Application Clusters (RAC)

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EBS Release 12.2 Technology Stack Certification

Source:
ORACLE E-BUSINESS SUITE RELEASE CONTENT DOCUMENT
Applications Technology Releases 12.1 and 12.2 (inclusive of 12.0.2 – 12.0.7)
Prepared by ATG Documentation
Last Updated: March 6, 2015
Version: 3.0

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Pathway to Sizing for EBS R12.2
Considering Factor for Sizing for EBS R12.2

 Oracle Applications is certified on operating systems, not specific models of hardware.

Certified Platform:
Linux x86,Linux x86-64,HP-UX Itanium,HP-UX PA-RISC (64-bit),IBM AIX on Power Systems (64-
bit),Microsoft Windows Server (32-bit),Oracle Solaris SPARC (64-bit)

 Number of concurrent E-Business Suite users, i.e. Oracle Application Testing Suite

 Sizing information systems: SPC - Storage Performance Council & TPC - Transaction
Processing Performance Council

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EBS R12.2 Architecture & File System Structure
Source: Sharing The Application Tier File System in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (Doc ID 1375769.1)
General Three Tier Architecture Application/Database Tier Components

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EBS R12.2 File System Structure
Source: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E26401_01/doc.122/e22949/T120505T120509.htm (Part Number E22949-12)

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EBS R12.2 File System Structure Cont 1
• 10.1.2 OH holds the AS
components for Forms
and Reports
• Fusion Middleware
Home contains
WebLogic Server, HTTP
configuration files
• INST_TOP contains only
maintenance scripts
• Fusion middleware home contains the following directories
– EBS_Domain: E-Business Suite weblogic domain, contains all domain-specific configuration and log files.
– wlserver_10.3: Binaries and libraries required to support WebLogic Server
– oracle_common: Java Required Files (JRFs) used by EBS.
– webtier: HTTP configuration and log files used by EBS.
– Oracle_EBS-app1: Contains configuration files related to oacore, forms, oafm, and forms-c4ws
• FS_NE contains files needed by both the file systems
– Patch staging area, ADOP log files & ADOP utility
• Not all log files are not stored under $INST_TOP
– HTTP log files are located under the native instance home ($FMW_HOME/webtier)
– Oracle WebLogic Server log files are located under the domain home ($EBS_DOMAIN_HOME)
– Concurrent processing log files are located on the none-editioned file system (fs_ne)
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Deciding RAID Levels for EBS R12.2 File System
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_RAID_levels

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Oracle Applications Technology Layer
The Oracle Applications technology layer is an integrated collection of components whose
functionality is applicable to all Oracle Applications modules, i.e. CRM, HRMS, Financials,
Manufacturing. Components in the Oracle Applications technology layer include:

Applications DBA (AD) Set of tools for administration

Application Object Library (FND)  Consists of a collection of reusable code, programs, and
database objects that provides common functionality across all products.
Applications Utilities (AU)  To maintain the Oracle Applications system.
Workflow (WF)  To Model and maintain your business processes using a graphical
workflow builder.
Alert (ALR)  To email system notifications to users when an exception or event occurs.
OA Framework (OAF/FWK)  A Java and XML-based development method to develop
HTML-based applications
Oracle XML Publisher (XDO)  To produce output reports in the desired format.

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Oracle Applications Database Objects

• Data objects - Used for storing and accessing business data. These objects include tables,
indexes, sequences, and index-organized tables.
• Code objects - Used to process the data. These objects include triggers, PL/SQL packages,
Java stored procedures, synonyms, and views.
• Hybrid objects - Used to both store and process data. Materialized views are an example of
hybrid objects.

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Oracle Applications Schemas
(Global Schema)
Product Schema and its own objects a better name for APPLSYS would or could
be FND
Code Objects

Schemas Used During Signon

When you sign on to Oracle Applications, you initially connect to the public schema, APPLSYSPUB. Once your user name and password have
been verified, Oracle Applications connects you to the APPS schema and allows you to choose a responsibility. You can then use the Forms
interface or HTML interface to access data that resides in a product schema.

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Purpose of 2 applsyspub entries in context file

egrep -i APPLSYSPUB $CONTEXT_FILE

<username oa_var="s_gwyuid_user">APPLSYSPUB</username>  This is used to generate

the env variable $GWYUID at OS level

<GWYUID oa_var="s_gwyuid">APPLSYSPUB/PUB</GWYUID>  This is used to populate the

passoword in DBC file ($FND_SECURE/ <SID>.dbc).

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EBS R12.2 Login Process Doc ID: 1569732.1, 2072420.1,
Reference Doc ID 1984710.1 1316142.1
Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts Release 12.2 Part Number E22949-12
http --> HS/mod_wl_ohs
Oracle Application Framework Architecture --> http --> WLS

s_wls_admin_
user

Session Tables
ICX_SESSIONS
FND_LOGINS
EBS R12.2 Login Process
Reference Doc ID 1984710.1

Doc ID: 1569732.1, 2072420.1,

 When a HTTP request is made for EBS, the request is received by the Oracle HTTP 1316142.1
Server (OHS). http --> HS/mod_wl_ohs
($FMW_Home/webtier/instances/EBS_web_<instance_name>_OHS1/config/OHS/E --> http --> WLS
BS_web_<instance_name>/httpd.conf)

 When the configuration of OHS is for a resource that needs to be processed by

Java, such as logging into EBS, the OHS configuration will redirect the request to the
Web Logic Server (WLS) Java process (OACore in this case).

 WLS determines the J2EE application that should deal with the request, which is
called "oacore".

 This J2EE application needs to be deployed and available for processing requests
in order for the request to succeed. The J2EE application needs to access a
database and does this via a datasource which is configured within WLS. s_wls_admin_
user

All code must access the data model via the APPS synonym!
Session Tables
ICX_SESSIONS
ICX_PARAMETERS
FND_LOGINS
Differences between Forms Server and Forms Servlet
Source: Troubleshooting Forms Applet issues in E-Business Suite (Doc ID 1300317.1)
Reference: Using Forms Socket Mode with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 384241.1)
Although Forms Server (or SOCKET mode) and Servlet implementation mainly affects the Application tier there is some
important differences on how communication is done between the Forms applet and run-time process making it useful to
provide some background information on this topic.
EBS R12.2.x Password management
Steps to change the APPS, APPLSYS, and APPS_NE password using FNDCPASS or AFPASSWD for EBS 12.2 (Doc ID
1674462.1)
source EBSapps.env run ; env |grep -i base, grep BASE $CONTEXT_FILE

• FNDCPASS and AFPASSWD utilities can be used for setting Oracle E-Business Suite schema passwords
• It is recommended that the FND_USER and FND_ORACLE_USERID tables are backed up before system passwords (APPLSYS, APPS,
APPS_NE) are changed
• AFPASSWD is an enhanced version of FNDCPASS, only prompts for passwords required for the current operation.
AFPASSWD [-c <APPSUSER>[@<TWO_TASK>]] -f <FNDUSER> (Application Users)
AFPASSWD [-c <APPSUSER>[@<TWO_TASK>]] -o <ORAUSER> (Apps Product users)
AFPASSWD [-c <APPSUSER>[@<TWO_TASK>]] –a (All Apps Product users)
AFPASSWD [-c <APPSUSER>[@<TWO_TASK>]] -l <ORAUSER> <TRUE|FALSE> (Locks Single User)
AFPASSWD [-c <APPSUSER>[@<TWO_TASK>]] -L <TRUE|FALSE> (Locks non-essential users)
AFPASSWD [-c <APPSUSER>[@<TWO_TASK>]] -s <APPLSYS> (Changes APPLSYS)
AFPASSWD [-c <APPSUSER>[@<TWO_TASK>]] -m <HASH-MODE> [MIGRATE] (Migrated to non-recoverable Hashing
scheme passwords)
AFPASSWD -c apps@PROD -s APPLSYS
AFPASSWD -f SYSADMIN Enter the ORACLE password of Application Object Library
Enter the ORACLE password of Application Object Library ‘APPSUSER’: ‘APPSUSER’:
Connected successfully to APPS. Connected successfully to APPS.
Working… Enter the password for your ‘SYSTEM’ ORACLE schema:
Enter new password for user [SYSADMIN]: Connected successfully to SYSTEM.
Verify new password for user [SYSADMIN]: Working…
Password is changed successfully for user SYSADMIN. Enter new password for user:
Password is changed successfully for user SYSADMIN. Verify new password for user:
AFPASSWD completed successfully. Working…
AFPASSWD completed successfully.

Note: For Changing APPLSYS/APPS/APPS_NE Password We Need To Shutdown Application Tier And Once We Finish
Changing The Password We Need To Run Autoconfig On All Tiers
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EBS R12.2.x APPS Password change
• Shut down the application tier services
• Change the APPLSYS password using FNDCPASS or AFPASSWD utility.
• Start AdminServer using the adadminsrvctl.sh script from your RUN filesystem
• Update the “apps” password in WLS Datasource as follows:
– Log in to WLS Administration Console.
– Click Lock & Edit in Change Center.
– In the Domain Structure tree, expand Services, then select Data Sources.
– On the “Summary of JDBC Data Sources” page, select EBSDataSource.
– On the “Settings for EBSDataSource” page, select the Connection Pool tab.
– Enter the new password in the “Password” field.
– Enter the new password in the “Confirm Password” field.
– Click Save & Click Activate Changes in Change Center.
• Execute Autoconfig to update all application tier files
• Start all the application tier services using the adstrtal.sh script.

• Log in to WLS Administration Console, Under Domain

Structure tree select Data Sources.
• On the “Summary of JDBC Data Sources” page, select
EBSDataSource.
• On the “Settings for EBSDataSource” page, select Monitoring >
Testing.
• Select “oacore_server1” & click Test DataSource
• Look for the message “Test of EBSDataSource on server
oacore_server1 was successful”.

Doc ID 1377400.1 - Install Sanity Check: How To Deploy A Basic Java Web Application To Confirm Your WebLogic Domain Is Functional
Doc ID 1940996.1 - Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Data Source Connection Pool Diagnostics
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OAM Generic Collection Service concurrent manager
Source:
How To Determine The Current Value and Set The Retention Time To Keep the Runtime Instance Data Of Table
FND_OAM_FORMS_RTI In The Database? (Doc ID 1600075.1) & What Are .RTI And .FLI Files? (Doc ID 470850.1)
How To Find The IP Address Of The Client Machine From Where A Particular Forms User Is Connected ? (Doc ID
879092.1)

env|grep FORMS_RTI_DIR

1. To determine the current retention time, run the following select:

select FCQ.CONCURRENT_QUEUE_NAME, FCQS.SERVICE_PARAMETERS

from FND_CONCURRENT_QUEUES FCQ, FND_CONCURRENT_QUEUE_SIZE FCQS
where FCQ.CONCURRENT_QUEUE_NAME like 'OAMGCS%'
AND FCQ.APPLICATION_ID = FCQS.QUEUE_APPLICATION_ID
AND FCQ.CONCURRENT_QUEUE_ID = FCQS.CONCURRENT_QUEUE_ID;

2. To Manually change the time:

a. Navigate: (Responsibility) System Administrator > Concurrent > Manager > Define > Query out record 'OAM Generic Collection
Service%'
b. Click button 'Work Shifts' > Edit the value of 'Parameter' and save.

Notes:
Data in table FND_OAM_FORMS_RTI is populated by the OAM Generic Collection Service concurrent manager and the
information is cleaned up and repopulated by the same program. The OAM Generic Collection Service takes these parameters:
NODE: the name of the node on which the service runs.
LOADINTERVAL: the load interval for periodic runtime instance information uploading.
ORACLE_HOME: the ORACLE_HOME in which the Forms Listener runs.
RTI_KEEP_DAYS: the number of days to keep the runtime instance data in the database.
FRD_KEEP_DAYS: the number of days to keep Forms Runtime Log files.

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Oracle E-Business Suite SYS.DUAL PUBLIC Privileges Security Issue (CVE-2015-0393)

Source:
Use of Common Vulnerability Scoring System version 2.0 (CVSS 2.0) by Oracle (Doc ID 394487.1)
Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2015 Documentation Map (Doc ID 1935468.1)

SELECT * FROM sys.dba_tab_privs WHERE owner = 'SYS' AND table_name = 'DUAL';

SELECT 'revoke ' || privilege || ' ON sys.dual FROM public;' "SQL" FROM sys.dba_tab_privs WHERE
owner = 'SYS' AND table_name = 'DUAL' AND grantee = 'PUBLIC' AND privilege != 'SELECT';

Note:

For R12 only, the CPU patch has manual instructions to run the adgrants.sql script. This script will create
the AD_ZD_SYS package in the SYS schema. AD_ZD_SYS has a single procedure FIX_SYSUSER, which
revokes unnecessary grants on SYS.DUAL.

select count(*) from sys.dual; Must return only one row.

select count(*) from fnd_dual;

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Monitoring & Auditing User Activity
E-Business Applications Performance Basic Skills Cookbook (Doc ID 1516355.1)
Concurrent Request Data Gathering (Doc ID 740770.1)
APXINWKB APP-10771 Could Not Reserve Records Due to Database Record Lock (Doc ID 140969.1)
How To Kill Inactive Sessions Based on the Information in the Monitor User Form (Doc ID 103516.1)
Oracle Critical Patch Update January 2015 Documentation Map (Doc ID 1935468.1)

Use of Common Vulnerability Scoring System version 2.0 (CVSS 2.0) by Oracle (Doc ID 394487.1)
Oracle Database Security Assessment Tool (DBSAT) (Doc ID 2138254.1)

How to find or see the requests ran in a module or a responsibility or by a user or for a specific period
(Doc ID 2098951.1)

Monitor Users: System Administrator Responsibility  Security: Users > Monitor  CTL + F11

Enable User Tracking – Setting the Sign-On: Audit Level profile option:

Log in to Oracle APPS with system administrator responsibility

Navigate to Profile > System
Make sure the Site option is checked.
Navigate to Profile and search for sign > Click Find
Select the “Sign-On: Audit Level” > Click Find
Change its value to be Form
From the Menu bar click File > Save

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Technology Stack Registration
Global and Local Inventory explained (Doc ID 360079.1)
FAQs on Central Inventory and Oracle Home Inventory (Local Inventory) in Oracle RDBMS (Doc ID 564192.1)
How To Create, Update or Rebuild The Central Inventory For Oracle Applications E-Business Suite Release 12 ? (Doc ID
742477.1)

oraInst.loc oraInst.loc
inventory_loc=/etc/oraInventory Under /etc on Linux and AIX
Under /var/opt/oracle on Solaris and HP-UX

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Oracle Universal Installer Inventory Essentials for Apps Sysadmins
Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/ebs_oui_inventory_primer

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Oracle Universal Installer Inventory Essentials for Apps Sysadmins
Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/ebs_oui_inventory_primer
Oracle Universal Installer Inventory Essentials for Apps Sysadmins
Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/ebs_oui_inventory_primer
 Cloning
 Cloning is the process used to create a copy of an existing E-Business Suite System

Source System Target System

Single Node to Single Node

Single Node to Multi Node
Type of Clone
Multi Node to Single Node
Multi Node to Multi Node

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Pre-Requisite Before Cloning
Reference Doc ID: 1383621.1
Before cloning to a new system, you must first prepare the Source System by following the
below steps:

 Verify disk space requirements on Source System

 Verify OS requirements on Target System
 Verify Inventory Requirements /* It is required and must be identified by the value defined in oraInst.loc file */
 Verify Source and Target System software components and versions: Source and Target must be on the
same Operating System (OS) and patch level
 Apply required patches
 Check for in-progress online patching cycle: On the Source system, there should not be any in-progress
online patching cycle, i.e. cleanup and fs_clone should be run.
 Run AutoConfig on the application tier (Optional)
 Synchronize appsutil on the database tier nodes (Optional)
 Run AutoConfig on the database tier (Optional)
 Run EBS Technology Codelevel Checker (ETCC) (Doc ID 2008451.1) on DB and APPS tier (Optional)
 Maintain snapshot information of APPL_TOP (adadmin tool): Current view snapshots & Named snapshots
 You must run this task once for each APPL_TOP before you can apply any patch that contains a
"compatible feature prereq" line on that APPL_TOP
 A complete snapshot is required for the automatic prerequisite patch checking feature to operate
 APPL_TOP snapshot information is stored in the AD_SNAPSHOTS, AD_SNAPSHOT_FILES, and
AD_SNAPSHOT_BUGFIXES tables

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Pre-Requisite Before Cloning
Cleaning Environments

Clean Global Inventory

Clean Temporary Directories
Delete Database Technology Stack
Delete Applications Database
Delete Applications Technology Stack
Delete Application File System

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 Cloning
Techniques

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Cloning Techniques

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Cloning Methods
 Off-Line
 On-Line/ Hot Cloning/AMP Cloning
Note:
 Apps Tier can be cloned on-line at any point in time.
 DB Tier, i.e. Database, can be cloned on-line by RMAN only.

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Cloning Techniques
Rapid Clone
Reference Doc ID
• Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone (Doc ID 406982.1)
• Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with Rapid Clone(Doc ID 1383621.1)
• Setup Guide: Part No. E22953-10 (Chapter 17 Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite with Rapid Clone)
• How To Collect Log Files from Cloning in 12.2 (Doc ID 1961471.1)
• E-Business Suite Clone Log Parser Utility (Rapid Clone) (Doc ID 1447553.1)
• Cloning Oracle Applications Release 11i with Rapid Clone (Doc ID 230672.1)
• Troubleshooting RapidClone issues with Oracle Applications R12.0 & R12.1 (Doc ID 603104.1)
• http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11857_01/em.111/e18709/T508706T512065.htm

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Cloning Techniques
Rapid Clone at EBS Application Tier

/appsprod/fs1 /appstest/fs1
Up To R12.2.x-4 PATCH PATCH
Critic on this Clone Architecture: Repetitive Task
Source Target
1. Clone (Source RUN FS): Source to Target
2. Clone (Target RUN FS): Target RUN FS to Target PATCH FS.

From R12.2.5-6
1. Clone (Source RUN FS): Source to Target

perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier dualfs RUN RUN

/appsprod/fs2 /appstest/fs2

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Cloning Phases
Prepare Source System by applmgr & oracle user, NOT root

$ cd <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/scripts/<CONTEXT_NAME>
$ perl adpreclone.pl dbTier

$ cd $INST_TOP/admin/scripts
$ perl adpreclone.pl appsTier

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Cloning Phases
Copy Bits by ‘application’ OS user, i.e. NOT root user
Note:

Comparing the size of the file systems between Target and Source

du -sk EBSapps (source)

du -sk EBSapps (target)

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Cloning Phases
Configure Target System

## As Oracle User
cd $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/clone/bin
perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier /* perl adcfgclone.pl <component> [context] */

## As applmgr user

…/EBSapps/comn/clone/bin
perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier
WHERE:
<component> on Apps Node : { appsTier | atTechStack | dev10gHome | fmwHome | wlsConfig | ohsConfig | appltop }
<component> on DB Node : { dbTier | dbTechStack | database | dbconfig | addracnode }
<context> : Target Context File
Cloning Techniques
Configure Target System

Configclone dbTier

Configclone appsTier

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Cloning Techniques
Other Configuration Commands

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Cloning Techniques
Other Configuration Commands

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Cloning Techniques
Custom Cloning: Source-to-Target Refreshing

 Source-Target direct Synchronization

 Ideal for refreshing environments
 Rsync use for faster copy

Target System

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Cloning Techniques
Maximum Availability Techniques

Target System

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AutoConfig:
To Manage EBS System Configurations
 You must run AutoConfig for your system to make any context file updates to your
system

 Doing so generates the new configuration files for the associated technology stack

 AutoConfig uses the parameters stored in the context file and system configuration
templates to create new process control scripts and update system profiles

Running AutoConfig - Application Tier: $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/adautocfg.sh apps/<apps_passwd>

Running AutoConfig - Database Tier:
<RDBMS_ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/scripts/<CONTEXT_NAME>/adautocfg.sh apps/<apps_passwd>

Rolling Back an AutoConfig Session:

<INST_TOP>/admin/out/<MMDDhhmm>/restore.sh
<RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/out/<CONTEXT_NAME>/<MMDDhhmm>/restore.sh
Note (Doc ID 1582473.1):
If the run file system data is missing from the database simply source the run file system
environment and run autoconfig.
If the patch file system data (managed servers or context file) is missing from the database
then run the following after sourcing the run file system environment.

$ADJVAPRG oracle.apps.ad.autoconfig.oam.CtxSynchronizer action=upload contextfile=<full path to

patch context file> logfile=/tmp/patchctxupload.log
AutoConfig Operation

• AutoConfig creates configuration files by reading several

different types of file from various locations.

• AutoConfig template files are used as the starting point for creating
site-specific configuration files. AutoConfig evaluates the context
variables in a template file, determines the actual values required, and
creates a configuration file with these values substituted. This process,
described in more detail later in this chapter, is called instantiation.
There is one template file for each configuration file. Template files are
located in the various <PROD>_TOP/admin/template directories on the AutoConfig Instantiation Mechanism
application tier, and in the
<RDBMS_ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/template directory on the
database tier.

• AutoConfig driver files are used to list the corresponding template

files and locations, and specify the commands to be executed. For
example, the commands might update profile options. Driver files are
located in each <PROD>_TOP/admin/driver directory on the application
tier, and in the <RDBMS_ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/template directory
on the database tier.

• AutoConfig configuration files, such as httpd.conf, are created as a

result of AutoConfig instantiating the corresponding template files.
Configuration files contain values corresponding to the settings
specified for a particular site. After AutoConfig has been run, Reference: Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts R12.2
numerous configuration files will have been created in various
directories.

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Reference Doc ID to Autocinfig

Note 387859.1 - Using AutoConfig to Manage System Configurations in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Note 949160.1 - Interesting Documents Around Autoconfig in E-Business-Suite

Note 387859.1 - Using AutoConfig to Manage System Configurations in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12
Note 458282.1 - Context Variables
Note 461326.1 - Unable to Create a Custom Product TOP
Note 845700.1 - How to troubleshoot autoconfig errors
Note 406558.1 - Configuring Applications Node Services in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1
Note 2072420.1 - E-Business Suite 12.2 Detailed Steps To Change The R12.2 Default Port To 80

Note 218089.1 - Autoconfig FAQ

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 Net Services Topology Data Model

The Net Services Topology Data Model stores the entire topological information about a single Oracle
Application instance. The data model stores information about each node in the Oracle Applications
instance which is then used to generate the Net Service configuration files (for example tnsnames.ora).
AutoConfig seeds the data model with relevant data.
The Net Services Topology Data Model stores the following information:

On the database tier: Hostname, Database SID, Database Name, Instance Name, TNS Descriptors.....
On the application tier: Hostname, FNDFS and FNDSM alias descriptors.........

The Net Services Topology Data Model is seeded every time you run AutoConfig on the respective tier.
Every time you run AutoConfig on the database tier, the relevant data is seeded/updated for the database
tier. Respectively, every time you run AutoConfig on the application tier, the relevant data is
seeded/updated for the application tier.

To deregister the current application tier from the Net Services Topology Data Model, invoke the
following command:
$ perl <AD_TOP>/bin/adgentns.pl appspass=<APPSpwd> contextfile=<CONTEXT> -removeserver

To deregister the current database tier from the Net Services Topology Data Model, invoke the following
command:
$ perl <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/bin/adgentns.pl appspass=< APPSpwd>
contextfile=<CONTEXT> - removeserver

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 Context Files
XML based Context Files, uses by Autoconfig, is a Repository of all the installed Configuration Parameters with value: Application Context File and Database
Context File, i.e. hundreds of config and env files present in EBS.

Run the following script to determine if all context files have been registered in the database. The script should return a run and patch context
file for each application server and one for the database server.

select path,status,serial_number,version from fnd_oam_context_files where name not in ('TEMPLATE','METADATA') and (status is null or status !='VALID');

If the run file system data is missing from the database simply source the run file system environment and run autoconfig.
If the patch file system data (managed servers or context file) is missing from the database then run the following after sourcing the run file
system environment. This command is executed on the RUN file system to upload the PATCH context file:

$ADJVAPRG oracle.apps.ad.autoconfig.oam.CtxSynchronizer action=upload contextfile=<full path to patch context file> logfile=/tmp/patchctxupload.log

Example (Doc ID 1582473.1):
$ADJVAPRG oracle.apps.ad.autoconfig.oam.CtxSynchronizer action=upload contextfile=/oraapps/applprod/fs2/inst/apps/PROD_phpdb02/appl/admin/PROD_phpdb02.xml
logfile=/tmp/ctx_upload.log

Editing Context Files by OAM

By Autoconfig

Doc ID : 455492.1
Open the $APPL_TOP/admin/adovars.env file and
ensure that the environment variables below are
defined. Allows to sync multiple nodes
$ADJVAPRG –version
echo $CLASSPATH
$AFJVAPRG –version
echo $AF_CLASSPATH
Understanding AutoConfig
Reference Doc ID 387859.1

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Using AutoConfig to Manage Oracle E-Business Suite Services
Service Group Service(s) Service Control Script

Root Service Node Manager adnodemgrctl.sh

Web Administration WebLogic Admin Server adadminsrvctl.sh

Oracle HTTP Server adapcctl.sh

Web Entry Point Services
Oracle Process Manager adopmnctl.sh

oacore
oafm
Web Application Services admanagedsrvctl.sh
forms
forms-c4ws

Oracle TNS Listener adalnctl.sh

Concurrent Manager adcmctl.sh
Batch Processing Services
Fulfillment Server jtffmctl.sh
Oracle ICSM ieoicsm.sh

Forms Server adformsrvctl.sh

Other Services
Oracle MWA Service mwactlwrpr.sh
Most notably, the Web Administration service group contains WebLogic Administration server, and - unlike other
service groups - can be enabled only on one of the Application tier nodes. In other words, it is not supported to
enable WebLogic Administration server on any other Application tier node except the node on which it was
enabled during Rapid Install.
AutoConfig Components
Doc ID 387859.1

APPS: <INST_TOP>/appl/admin/<CONTEXT_NAME>.xml
Context File DB: <RDBMS_ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/<CONTEXT_NAME>.xml

<PROD_TOP>/admin/template
Temp late File
<RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/template

Driver <AD_TOP>/admin/driver/
<FND_TOP>/admin/driver/

AutoConfig Tools: 1. <INST_TOP>/admin/scripts/adautocfg.sh 2. <AD_TOP>/bin/adchkcfg.sh |

adtmplreport.sh | admkappsutil.pl 3. <FND_TOP/patch/115/bin/GenCtxInfRep.pl
AutoConfig Check Utility Tool & Performance Profiler
The check config utility is a great method for analyzing the impact of AutoConfig. Simply execute the utility and
review the HTML output file.

Another utility, the Performance Profiler will allow you to review and resolve performance related issues that
are experienced during the execution of autoconfig. Like the check config utility, you run the tool and analyze
the HTML output file.

Both tools allow you to refine and tune autoconfig executions.

Optimizing AutoConfig Performance Through Profiling:

Previewing AutoConfig Changes on All Tiers
Identifying AutoConfig Performance Bottlenecks

• Review the affects of executing

AutoConfig • Review the timings of executing AutoConfig
• HTML file is generated by the Check • HTML file is generated by the Performance
Config Utility Profiler Utility
• Execute Check Config Tool: • Execute Performance Profile Utility:
$AD_TOP/bin/adchkcfg.sh perl $AD_TOP/bin/adconfig.pl
contextfile=<CtxFile>
[product=<product_top>] –profile

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AutoConfig Search Utility
https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/everything_you_ever_wanted_to_know_about_autoconfi
Using AutoConfig to Manage System Configurations in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 (Doc ID 387859.1)

The AutoConfig Search Utility (formally known as the TXK Context Variable Information Utility) scans your
AutoConfig infrastructure for a requested string and generates a detailed report about the relevant
AutoConfig variables and their usage. The report contains, among other things, the following information
about relevant AutoConfig variables:

1. Description
2. Current value
3. Default value
4. Relevant AutoConfig template files
perl $FND_TOP/bin/txkrun.pl -script=GenCtxInfRep -keyword="<keyword>"

perl $FND_TOP/bin/txkrun.pl -script=GenCtxInfRep -keyword=jdbc -outfile= txkContext_Apps.html

The utility takes the following arguments:

keyword (required): all or part of a context variable name

outfile (required): the report file. If only the name and not the complete path for the report file is
provided, the report will be generated in the <APPLTMP> directory.
contextfile (optional): complete path to the context file.
reportType (optional): the report type. Valid values are html (default) or text

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Running AutoConfig in Parallel in EBS 12
Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/power_tools_autoconfig_parallel_runs_in_ebs12
In an R12 E-Business Suite instance, AutoConfig can now be run simultaneously across multiple nodes.
This new feature significantly lowers maintenance downtime for multi-node installations.

Executing AutoConfig in Parallel Mode

The following command can be used to run AutoConfig in 'parallel mode'
Application Tier: perl $AD_TOP/bin/adconfig.pl contextfile=<CtxFile> [product=<product_top>] –parallel
Database Tier: perl $ORACLE_HOME/appssutil/bin/adconfig.pl contextfile=<CtxFile> –parallel
where
<CtxFile> is the absolute path to the context file
<product_top> is the Product short name
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Configuring EBS R12 Database Tiers with AutoConfig
Source: https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/autoconfig_build_context_for_ebs12

The AutoConfig Build Context utility (adbldxml.pl) is needed like in case of cross-platform migrations and
database upgrades.

The AutoConfig Build Context utility

reads information from EBS DB
and environment variables and
builds the context file out of the
database context template
($ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/template/adxd
bctx.tmp).

perl $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/bin/adbldxml.pl

Note: In R12, this utility is supported only on the database tier.

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Phases of Operation of AutoConfig

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 Oracle EBS R12.2:
Concurrent Processing Server

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Concurrent Processing Server

Most user interactions with Oracle Applications data are

conducted via the HTML interface or the Forms interface.
However, some reporting and updating programs may
need to be run either periodically or on an ad hoc basis. As
these programs may require a large number of
computations, they are run in the background at a time,
and with a priority, such that the work of interactive users
is not impeded. Such programs are run on the Concurrent
Processing server. You submit a request to run a
concurrent program through an Oracle Applications form.
The request inserts a row into a database table, specifying
the program to be run. Concurrent managers read the
applicable requests in the table and start the relevant
concurrent programs.

Note: Log and output files from concurrent programs are

generated on the Concurrent Processing server. These
should be monitored for errors, and archived or deleted
when no longer needed. Failure to do so will eventually
result in a shortage of disk space.

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Concurrent Manager:
Introduction
 Batch Processing Sub-System
 Programs are run as operating system background processes.
 These programs may be written using variety of Oracle tools, programming languages for executables, or OS
scripts.

The Internal Concurrent Manager (ICM), which functions as the "boss" of all the other managers, i.e. controls all
other concurrent managers. It administers the startup and shutdown of managers as defined by their work shift,
monitors for process failure, and cleans up if a failure occurs.
Warning: You cannot alter the definition of the Internal Concurrent Manager.

The Conflict Resolution Manager (CRM) enforces rules designed to ensure that incompatible concurrent requests
do not run in the same conflict domain.

The Standard Manager as shipped with Oracle Applications will accept and run any concurrent requests. It has no
specialization. The Standard manager is active all the time; it works 365 days a year, 24 hours a day.
Warning:
You should not alter the definition of the Standard concurrent manager. If you do, and you have not defined
additional managers to accept your requests, some programs may not run. Use the Standard manager as a safety
net, a manager who is always available to run any request. Define additional managers to handle your installation
site's specific needs.
Monitoring Concurrent Manager

Concurrent > Manager > Administer

Are the
Managers up
and running ?
Concurrent Request – Lifecycle
High Level

Phase Activity

Pending / Normal The request is waiting to be run

Pending / Standby The request is waiting at CRM
Running / Normal The request is running
Completed / Normal The request has finished
Inactive / No Manager The request cannot be run. No manager
available to process it.
Concurrent Request – Lifecycle
Phase Status Description

Normal Request is waiting for the next available manager.

Standby Program to run request is incompatible with other program(s) currently running
Pending Scheduled Request is scheduled to start at a future time or date
Waiting A child request is waiting for its Parent request to mark it ready to run. For example, a report in a report
set that runs sequentially must wait for a prior report to complete.

Normal Request is running normally

Paused Parent request pauses for all its child requests to complete. For example, a report set pauses for all
reports in the set to complete.
Running
Resuming All requests submitted by the same parent request have completed running. The Parent request is
waiting to be restarted.
Terminating Running request is terminated, by selecting Terminate in the Status field of the Request Details zone.

Normal Request completes normally.

Error Request failed to complete successfully
Warning Request completes with warnings. For example, a report is generated successfully but fails to print.
Completed
Cancelled Pending or Inactive request is cancelled, by selecting Cancel in the Status field of the Request Details
zone.
Terminated Running request is terminated, by selecting Terminate in the Status field of the Request Details zone.

Disabled Program to run request is not enabled. Contact your system administrator.
Inactive On Hold Pending request is placed on hold, by selecting Hold in the Status field of the Request Details zone.
No Manager No manager is defined to run the request. Check with your system administrator.
Concurrent Requests, Programs and Processes
Concurrent Manager:
Tables

Table Content
FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS Details of user requests, including status,
start date, and completion date.
FND_CONCURRENT_PROGRAMS Details of concurrent programs, including
execution method, whether the program is
constrained, and whether it must be run
alone.
FND_CONCURRENT_PROCESSES Cross-references between concurrent
requests and queues, and a history of
concurrent manager processes.
FND_CONCURRENT_QUEUES Information about each of the concurrent
manager queues.
Concurrent Manager
FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS

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Job Run SelectARunnable
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Running
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Worker 2
SelectARunnable
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Complete
Job Run
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A X  Update
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for Running
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Worker 3

Lock?
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Job Run SelectC
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Worker 4
Job Run SelectNone
SelectC Runnable
ARunnable
B
D
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Lock?
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A XX Select  Update
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Service Management
With Service Management, the Internal Concurrent Manager
(ICM) manages the various service processes across multiple
hosts. On each host, a Service Manager acts on behalf of the
ICM, allowing the ICM to monitor and control service processes
on that host. System administrators can then configure, monitor,
and control services though a management console which
communicates with the ICM.

Service Management provides a fault tolerant system. If a

service process exits unexpectedly, the ICM will automatically
attempt to restart the process. If a host fails, the ICM may start
the affected service processes on a secondary host. The ICM
itself is monitored and kept alive by Internal Monitor processes
located on various hosts.

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Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Consideration
• 50%of performance tuning is in the business!
– Review long-running auto resubmitted jobs
– Review short/long-running jobs – selective parameters?
– Don’t purge jobs that the users then have to run again
• Points to note
– More managers/workers != more throughput (More workers = More
accesses)
– Avoid enabling an excessive number of managers/workers
• New systems: a start point is 1-2 target process per CPU
– Balance with resources required by online activity
– managers/workers
• Carefully consider reducing the CRM sleep time to 5 ~ 10 secs
• Set Concurrent: Force Local Output File Mode" to "Yes“
• Set CONC_PMON_METHOD=LOCK

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Concurrent Manager:
Enhancing Performance – Best Practice
 Tuning Concurrent Queue Parameters

• Sleep Seconds  is the number of seconds your Concurrent manager waits between checking the list of
pending concurrent requests (concurrent requests waiting to be started).
Tips: High number, e.g. 120s avoids constant polls to check for new requests. Low number ,
e.g. 20s is good enough when number of submitted requests is very high.
Note: Concurrent Manager will not sleep at all if there are pending requests.
• Cache Size  at least twice the number of target processes.
• Process  Increase it if the pending/normal requests are high based on physical server
capacity
Backend queue concurrent manager details
• Purging & Defragmentation associated tables
• Gather Schema Statistics
Select rpad(user_concurrent_queue_name
,50,'-') "Queue Name",TARGET_NODE,
 Workload Management
MAX_PROCESSES,running_processes,
nvl(to_char(SLEEP_SECONDS), 'Not Set')
• Specialized Concurrent managers
Sleep_Second,
nvl(to_char(cache_size),'Not
 Output Post Processor – OPP
Set')Cache_size
from FND_CONCURRENT_QUEUES_VL fcq
• Java Heap Size
order by 1;
 Transaction Managers
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Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Generic Guideline
 Throughput
To maximize throughput consider reducing the sleep time of the Conflict Resolution Manager (CRM). The default value is
60 seconds. You can consider setting to 5 or 10 seconds.
Avoid enabling an excessive number of standard or specialized managers. It can degrade the performance due polling on
queue tables (FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS...). You need to create specialized managers only if there is a real need.

 Avoid enabling an excessive number of standard or specialized managers. It can degrade the performance due polling
on queue tables (FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS...). You need to create specialized managers only if there is a real need.

 Purging Tables and Log Files;

and Defragment the tables

Truncate the reports.log file in log directory. Refer Note.844976.1 for more details

$APPLCSF/$APPLLOG/
$APPLCSF/$APPLOUT

FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS, FND_CONCURRENT_PROCESSES,FND_CRM_HISTORY, FND_ENV_CONTEXT,FND_TEMP_FILES

 Gather Schema Statistics

 Run cmclean.sql followed by Doc ID: 134007.1 and CCM.sql followed by Note: 171855.1

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Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Pending/Normal Requests

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Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Pending/Standby Requests

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Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Other Status Requests

Running / Normal
If the request is taking longer time, enable Database Trace and tkprof and
find out expensive DML.

Completed / Error
Check the request log file and take action accordingly

Inactive / No Manager
If “Standard Manager” has “Specialization Rules” defined which has rows with
“Include”. You must only define exclude. If you add any program with “Include”
options, other programs get excluded automatically.

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Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Inactive/No Manager Requests

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 Troubleshooting Concurrent Manager:
Enable Tracing

Enable Tracing On Program Level

System Administrator Responsibility
• Navigation: Concurrent -> Program -> Define
• Click the “Enable Trace” button

Note:- It is not suggested as this generates trace for all the request submitted by all end- users.
Hence this could generate lots of trace files which is an additional overhead and degrade
performance.

Enable Tracing On Request Level (Recommended )

Responsibility: System Administrator
Navigate: Profiles > System
Query Profile Option “Concurrent: Allow Debugging”
Set profile to Yes
Logon to the Responsibility that runs the Concurrent Program
In the Submit Request Screen click on Debug Options (B)
Select the Checkbox for SQL Trace and select desired Trace level.
Submit the Request.
Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Options
Sleep Seconds
• Sleep Seconds - is the number of seconds your Concurrent manager waits between checking the list
of pending concurrent requests (concurrent requests waiting to be started). A manager only sleeps if
there are no runnable jobs in the queue.
Tip: During peak time, when the number of requests submitted is expected to be high, Set the sleep
time to a reasonable wait time(e.g. 30 seconds) dependent on the average run time and to prevent
backlog. Otherwise set the sleep time to a high number (e.g. 2 minutes) . This avoids constant polls to
check for new requests.
• If you have multiple manager processes, sleep time is the max time to wait until the new request is
picked up from the queue.
• e.g. 5 Standard managers, sleep time 60 saeconds = average time to pick up the new
request from the queue if all managers are idle: 60/5 = ~12 seconds.
• Guideline for tuning:
• Set «sleep seconds» = avg requirement * processes * (1 - utilization)
• Example 1: Req = 20s, util =20%, proc = 3
– 20 * 3 * (1 - 0.2) = 20 * 3 * .8 = 48 seconds
• Example 2: Req = 20s, util =90%, proc = 3
– 20 * 3 * (1 - 0.9) = 20 * 3 * .1 = 6 seconds , less then requirement? The problem is
somewhere else!

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Concurrent Manager:
Tuning Options
Cache size
• Cache size = The number of pending requests being fetched for execution from the requests queue
• What cache size to choose?
• Small cache sizes are better for managers executing long running requests
• Small cache sizes are better for managers with lots of processes
• Larger cache size is good for managers with few processes executing quick (or both quick
and slow) requests
• Larger cache size is good if you have a lot of new requests incoming all the time
• If at least one request was fetched, the queue will be checked again right after all the cached requests
have been processed
• This reduces the significance of the cache size
• Guideline for tuning:
• Increase the cache size (number of requests cached) to at least twice the number of target
processes. For example, if a manager's work shift has 1 target process and a cache value of
3, it will read three requests, and try to run those three requests before reading any new
requests.
Tip: Enter a value of 1 when defining a manager that runs long, time-consuming jobs, and a
value of 3 or 4 for managers that run small, quick jobs.
This is only guidance and a balance needs to struck in tuning the cache, so with fast jobs you
need to cache to get enough work for a few minutes. With slow jobs, a small queue helps
should you need to reprioritize requests.

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 Concurrent
Requests

At least 1 job

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RRA - Report Review Agent (FNDFS )
 Online viewing of report log and output files
 Viewing of reports one page at a time
 Storage of report output on the concurrent processing node

The log or output file that results from a concurrent request is sent to
a utility known as the Report Review Agent, which passes a file
containing the entire report to the Forms services, which passes the
report back to the user’s browser one page at a time.

1. The Concurrent Processing server

communicates with the data server using
Oracle Net.
2. The resultant concurrent program log or
output file from a request is passed back as a
report to the Report Review Agent.
3. The Report Review Agent passes a file
containing the entire report to the forms
server.
4. The Forms Services component passes the
report back to the user’s browser one page
at time. Profile options can be used to
control the size of the files and pages passed,
to suit report volume and available network
capacity.

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Output Post Processor - OPP
Concurrent Processing uses the Output Post Processor (OPP) to enforce Post Processing actions for concurrent requests.
Tip :
It is suggested to increase the number of "threads" as far as you can until you start hitting the memory limit. If you still need more
throughput, then you can increase "Processes". If you run lots of "Huge Reports" and running into OutOfMemoryError then you can
increase the "Processes".
The limiting factor with increasing "threads" is memory, if you set the max heap size of a JVM to 2GB, then all "threads" will share this
memory.
Concurrent -> Manager -> Define > "Output Post Processor"
oracle.apps.fnd.cp.opp.OPPServiceThread:2:0:max_threads=5

Increase Number of
OPP processes

OR

Increase the
number of
Threads
Output Post Processor - OPP
Heap Size
To prevent the error "java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space“ check the current value :

SELECT service_id, service_handle, developer_parameters

FROM fnd_cp_services
WHERE service_id =
(SELECT manager_type FROM fnd_concurrent_queues
WHERE concurrent_queue_name = 'FNDCPOPP');

Increase the maximum Java heap size for the OPP to 1024MB ( Max 2GB):

UPDATE fnd_cp_services SET developer_parameters =

'J:oracle.apps.fnd.cp.gsf.GSMServiceController:-mx1024m'
WHERE service_id = (SELECT manager_type FROM fnd_concurrent_queues
WHERE concurrent_queue_name = 'FNDCPOPP');
Output Post Processor - OPP

Error
The Output Post-processor is running but has not picked up this request. No further
attempts will be made to post-process this request, and the request will be marked with Warning status.

Action
Setting the Profile Option ‘Concurrent: OPP Response Timeout’ to a higher value may be necessary.

If the value of the Profile Option ‘Concurrent:OPP Response Timeout’ is 120 then increase it to 240.
(Value * 2).

Increase the number of processes or threads (or both) .

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Output Post Processor - OPP
Error
The Concurrent Manager has timed out waiting for the Output Post Processor to finish this
Request.
Check that there are enough Output Post Processor Service Processes running. More information
may be found in the Service Process logfile.

Action
 Check the Profile Option "Concurrent:OPP Process Timeout".
 Increase Increase the setting to a higher value.
For example: Set the value to 10800 sec (3 hours).
After this change, the Concurrent Request will wait maximum 3 hours, for the Output Post
Processor to finish the Request.

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Oracle EBS R12.2
Data Model

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EBS Data Model
Reference Doc

Oracle® E-Business Suite Concepts Release 12.2 Part No. E22949-12 September 2016
Oracle Applications Tablespace Model FAQs (Doc ID 269293.1)

Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts Release 12.2 Part Number E22949-12

Oracle E-Business Suite Setup Guide Release 12.2 Part Number E22953-15
Useful E-Business Suite 12.2 Documents (Doc ID 1585889.1)

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 Information Center - Implement (Doc ID 1583153.1)

EBS File Comparison Report [VIDEO] (Doc ID 1446430.1)

EBS ATG Seed Data Comparison Report (Doc ID 1327399.1)
EBS Data Model Comparison Report Overview (Doc ID 1290886.1)

https://support.oracle.com/epmos/main/downloadattachmentprocessor?parent=DOCUMEN
T&sourceId=1327399.1&attachid=1327399.1:EBS_SEED_DATA_VID&width=100%&height=10
0%

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Database Features
Schema
product code objects (Packages, Procedures, Functions, Triggers, Views, Materialized views,
Java classes, Queues) are stored in the APPS schema, whereas product data objects (Tables,
Sequences, Indexes, Constraints, Queues) are stored in the relevant base product schemas, i.e.
GL, INV, AP etc.
Relationship Between APPS Schema and Base Product Schemas

Schemas and Data Access

Some views access packages or functions, where the value returned by the package or function may depend on the
environment having been set up properly. The environment is initialized automatically when accessing Oracle E-Business Suite
through the Sign-On screen, or when using concurrent processing with Oracle Reports or SQL scripts.

Consequently, if you connect directly to a schema, the rows returned by the view may be different from those returned when
you are running in an Oracle E-Business Suite environment. For example, a view may reference a profile option: when accessed
from SQL*Plus, the site value of the profile option will be used, rather than the setting for a particular Oracle E-Business Suite
user.
Space Management:
Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM)
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 requires an Oracle database block size of 8K. No other
block size may be used.
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 utilizes as standard a modern infrastructure for tablespace management,
the Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM). The Oracle Applications Tablespace Model is similar to the
traditional model in retaining the system, undo, and temporary tablespaces. The key difference is that Oracle E-
Business Suite products in an OATM environment share a much smaller number of tablespaces, rather than
having their own dedicated tablespaces.

Oracle E-Business Suite schema objects are allocated to the shared tablespaces based on two main factors: the
type of data they contain, and I/O characteristics such as size, life span, access methods, and locking granularity.
For example, tables that contain seed data are allocated to a different tablespace from the tables that
contain transactional data. In addition, while most indexes are held in the same tablespace as the base table,
indexes on transaction tables are held in a single tablespace dedicated to such indexes.

The Oracle Applications Tablespace Model provides a variety of benefits, which are summarized in the list below:

 Simplifies maintenance and recovery by using far fewer tablespaces than the older model.
 Uses locally managed tablespaces, whose choice of extent management types (autoallocate or uniform) allows
more precise control over unused space and hence can help reduce fragmentation.
 Takes advantage of automatic segment space management, eliminating the need for manual space
management tasks.
 Increases block-packing compared to the older model, reducing the overall number of buffer gets and thereby
improving runtime performance.
 Makes best use of the restricted number of raw devices available in Oracle Real Applications Cluster (Oracle
RAC) and other environments, where every tablespace requires its own raw device.
 Maximizes usefulness of wide disk stripe configurations.
Oracle Applications Tablespace Model (OATM):
Types & Contents
Object type Tablespace Type
Index Organized Transaction_tables
Tables
Global Temporary The database automatically always creates these objects in the TEMP tablespace.
Tables
Advanced Queuing Advanced Queuing/AQ
tables
Materialized View Summary
Materialized View Transaction_tables
Logs
Domain Indexes Transaction_indexes
Indexes With the exception of indexes on Tables classified as 'Transaction_Tables', all indexes will share the same
tablespace type as the base object (table/mv).

Tablespace Type Tablespace Name Contents

Transaction Tables APPS_TS_TX_DATA Tables that contain transaction data.
Transaction Indexes APPS_TS_TX_IDX Indexes on transaction tables.

Reference APPS_TS_SEED Reference and set-up data and indexes.

Interface APPS_TS_INTERFACE Interface and temporary data and indexes.
Summary APPS_TS_SUMMARY Summary management objects, such as materialized views, and other objects that record
summary information.
Nologging APPS_TS_NOLOGGING Materialized views not used for summary management and temporary objects.

Advanced Queuing/AQAPPS_TS_QUEUES Advanced Queuing and dependent tables and indexes.

Media APPS_TS_MEDIA Multimedia objects, such as text, video, sound, graphics, and spatial data.
Archive APPS_TS_ARCHIVE Archive-purge-related objects
Undo UNDO Automatic Undo Management (AUM) tablespace. UNDO segments are identical to ROLLBACK
segments when AUM is enabled.
Temp TEMP Temporary tablespace for global temporary table, sorts, and hash joins.
System SYSTEM System tablespace.
 Online Patching:
Pathway to Minimizing Planned Downtime

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Online Patching:
References

 Using the Online Patching Readiness Report in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 (Doc
ID 1531121.1)

 Oracle E-Business Suite Release Notes, Release 12.2 (Doc ID 1320300.1)

 Oracle E-Business Suite Developer's Guide Release 12.2 Part Number E22961-14

 Online Patching with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2

Kevin Hudson Senior Director, Applications Technology, Oracle E-Business Suite Development
September 22, 2016

 Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2: Online Patching FAQ (Doc ID 1583902.1)

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source EBSapps.env run
adop -help
adop –examples

Oracle Patch Application Assistant (PAA):admsi.pl

perl $AD_TOP/bin/admsi.pl -patch_top=<patch-top-directory> -appspass=<apps-password>

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Online Patching:
Copy the Code, NOT the Data
• In 12.2 all patching operations are online by adop utility
– EBS will remain available to users during patching operations. In another word, critical business
operations were not interrupted by maintenance operations
– Downtime Redefined as "Cutover“, which is predictable: The time taken to bounce the Middle
Tiers
• Online patching uses
– EBS Edition Based Redefinition (EBR)
– Web Logic Server

• Copy the production code

• Apply patches to the copy

• EBS uses both the file system and the database to store the code and data that make up the
application
– Code
• Stored both on the File system & In the Database
• Any code object changed in a patch is copied
– Data
• Stored both on the File system & In the Database
• Application data is NOT copied by a patch
Edition-Based Redefinition:
The key to Online Application Upgrade and Maintenance

The revolutionary new capability is edition-based redefinition:

 Code changes are installed in the privacy of a new edition

 Data changes are made safely by writing only to new columns or new tables not • Used by Online Users
seen by the old edition. An editioning view exposes a different projection of a table • Never changed by a
into each edition to allow each to see just its own columns. Patch
• Used by the Patching Tools
 A cross-edition trigger propagates data changes made by the old edition into the • Changes do no affect the
new edition’s columns, or (in hot-rollover) vice-versa. running Application

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AD Online Patching:
ADOP Patching Procedures

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Adop Phase Scope

Gets patching filesystem ready to apply a patch.

Checks that ETCC has been run against the database Oracle Home and that all required patches are applied.
synchronize filesystems - If any configuration changes have been made, this will cause the prepare phase to initiate a fs_clone of the current run
filesystem to the patch filesystem.
Prepare run autoconfig if necessary.
check tablespaces for sufficient free space before starting.
check APPS_FNDFS listener to make sure concurrent requests will launch.
launch concurrent request - "Online Patching In Progress" (ADZDPATCH).
synchronize snapshots between run and patch filesystems.

merging patches - ADOP determines correct options automatically.

patch repository location.
ADOP log directories.
Apply
how to run ADOP unattended by passing the required passwords into the ADOP command.
how to use adctrl with ADOP.
viewing the ADOP patch log file while ADOP is running.

compiles invalids objects in the patch edition.

determines DDL statements to execute at cutover.
Finalize
validates that the system is ready for a cutover.
gathers statistics for performance.

once started, the abort phase can not be issued.

runs the finalize phase if it was missed.
cancels concurrent request - "Online Patching In Progress" (ADZDPATCH).
shuts down the internal concurrent manager.
stops any processes that may have been started on the patch filesystem.
Cutover
stops the RUNNING applications tiers.
executes the DDL statements prepared during the finalize phase.
loads jar files into the database.
synchronizes snapshots between run and patch filesystems.
broadcasts a message to local users that a cutover is taking place and to re-source their working environment.

cleans up old editions

explains the three methods of cleanup.
QUICK cleanup performs removal of obsolete crossedition triggers and seed data.
Cleanup
STANDARD cleanup performs removal of obsolete crossedition triggers and seed data, drops (removes) obsolete editioned code objects (covered
objects). (DEFAULT MODE)
FULL cleanup performs maximum cleanup, which drops all obsolete code and data from earlier editions
Online Patching Cycle
References
Oracle E-Business Suite Maintenance Guide Release 12.2 Part Number E22954-21
Oracle E-Business Suite Concepts Guide Release 12.2
OOW16 - Online Patching with Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 [CON6710]
(http://www.slideshare.net/vasuballa/oow16-online-patching-with-oracle-ebusiness-suite-
122-con6710)

https://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/entry/webcast_replay_available_technical_preview
http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/ebs/ebs121/atg/OnlinePa
tching.pdf

The Patch "19045166" (p19045166_R12_GENERIC.zip: Run the master perl script

adzddiagnostic.pl with the command "perl adzddiagnostic.pl") is particularly useful in
identifying the causes of issues with the adop patching utility and other AD-TXK utilities.

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 Monitoring:
Online Patching Session

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1. Way of knowing history of online patching

select adop_session_id,prepare_status,apply_status,finalize_status,cutover_status,cleanup_status,abort_status,status,abandon_flag,node_name from

ad_adop_sessions order by adop_session_id;

Note:
Y denotes that the phase is done
N denotes that the phase has not been completed
X denotes that the phase is not applicable
R denotes that the phase is running (in progress)
F denotes that the phase has failed
P (is applicable only to APPLY phase) denotes at least one patch is already applied for the session id
C denotes that the status of this ADOP session has completed

Note: Numerical statuses are only relevant for the cutover phase...

These status values are updated when a step has completed, and are as follows:

N denotes that the phase has not been completed

0 denotes that cutover/force_shutdown has started
1 denotes the "force_shutdown" step has successfully executed
3 denotes the "db_cutover" step has successfully executed
4 denotes the "fs_cutover" step has successfully executed
6 denotes the "force_startup" step has successfully executed
Y denotes that the phase is done

cutover statuses

cutover_status='Y' 'COMPLETED'
cutover_status not in ('N','Y','X') and status='F' 'FAILED'
cutover_status='0' 'CUTOVER STARTED'
cutover_status='1' 'SERVICES SHUTDOWN COMPLETED'
cutover_status='3' 'DB CUTOVER COMPLETED'
cutover_status='D' 'FLIP SNAPSHOTS COMPLETED'
cutover_status='4' 'FS CUTOVER COMPLETED'
cutover_status='5' 'ADMIN STARTUP COMPLETED'
cutover_status='6' 'SERVICES STARTUP COMPLETED'
cutover_status='N' 'NOT STARTED'
cutover_status='X' 'NOT APPLICABLE'
2. Check the current status of the adop cycle

adop –status

usage
adop -status generates a summary report
adop -status <sessionID> generates a summary report for that session ID
adop -status -detail generates a detailed report

3. Way of finding issues on different adop phases

sqlplus <apps_schema_name>/<apps_Schema_password>
@$AD_TOP/sql/ADZDSHOWLOG.sql  adzdshowlog.out file generated

select * from ad_zd_logs order by log_sequence desc;

4. Way of knowing the enabling problem

@$AD_TOP/sql/ADZDSHOWDDLS.sql

select count(1) from ad_zd_logs;  If the count is increasing then enablement is

progressing.
5. Way of knowing which patches were applied in each ADOP_SESSION_ID (patching cycle)

select * from ad_adop_session_patches order by end_date desc;

or
set pagesize 200;
set linesize 160;
column adop_session_id format 999999999999;
column bug_number format a15;
column status format a15;
column applied_file_system_base format a23;
column patch_file_system_base format a23;
column adpatch_options format a15;
column node_name format a15;
column end_date format a15;
column clone_status format a15;
select adop_session_id, bug_number, status, applied_file_system_base, patch_file_system_base, adpatch_options, node_name, end_date,
clone_status
from ad_adop_session_patches
order by end_date desc;

Note: STATUS
N - Not Applied In the current node but applied in other nodes
R - Patch Application is going on.
H - Patch failed in the middle. (Hard Failure)
F - Patch failed in the middle but user tried to skip some failures.
S - Patch Application succeeded after skipping the failed jobs.
Y - Patch Application succeeded.

C - Reserved for clone and config_clone. Indicates clone completed

select ADOP_SESSION_ID,BUG_NUMBER,CLONE_STATUS,STATUS,NODE_NAME from AD_ADOP_SESSION_PATCHES order by

ADOP_SESSION_ID;
6. Log File for Errors

$COMMON_TOP/clone/FMW/logs/CLONE<timestamp>.error
$COMMON_TOP/clone/FMW/logs/CLONE<timestamp>.log
$INST_TOP/admin/log/clone directory
$APPLRGF/TXK/ohsCloneLog ( this captures cloning failures for OHS )

7. Ensure the following RUN and PATCH file system ORACLE_HOME(s) are registered in the inventory.xml
- 10.1.2 Oracle Home
- Oracle_EBS-app1 Oracle Home
- webtier Oracle Home
- oracle_common Oracle Home

more …/ContentsXML/inventory.xml |grep LOC

8. Confirm that the FND_OAM_CONTEXT_FILES table now holds the correct data

Run the following script to determine if all context files have been registered in the database. The script should return a run and patch
context file for each application server and one for the database server.

select path,status,serial_number,version from fnd_oam_context_files where name not in ('TEMPLATE','METADATA') and (status is null or
status !='VALID');

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Run the following script to determine the number/types of managed servers registered in the run and patch file systems. The script should
return an equal number of managed servers between the run and patch file systems

SELECT extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//host[@oa_var="s_hostname"]'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//oacore_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//forms_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//oafm_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//forms-c4ws_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//oaea_server_ports')
from fnd_oam_context_files
where name not in ('TEMPLATE','METADATA')
and (status is null or status !='H')
and EXTRACTVALUE(XMLType(TEXT),'//file_edition_type')='run'
and CTX_TYPE = 'A';

SELECT extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//host[@oa_var="s_hostname"]'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//oacore_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//forms_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//oafm_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//forms-c4ws_server_ports'),
extractValue(XMLType(TEXT),'//oaea_server_ports')
from fnd_oam_context_files
where name not in ('TEMPLATE','METADATA')
and (status is null or status !='H')
and EXTRACTVALUE(XMLType(TEXT),'//file_edition_type')='patch'
and CTX_TYPE = 'A';

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