Oracle Applications (11.5.10.2) Installation on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

 

Before start installation:

 

1. The installation of E-Business Suite R11 needs minimum of 2G swap, secure Linux disabled and the following package groups installed:

• X Window System
• GNOME Desktop Environment
• Editors
• Graphical Internet
• Server Configuration Tools
• Development Tools
• Administration Tools
• System Tools

I strongly suggest , choose “install everything” option while you are making Redhat Enterprise Linux installation. Its little hard to try install-add some rpms and other tools on Redhat Enterprise Linux.In this article, i assume that you have been installed everything.

2.The installation size of Oracle E-Business Suite R11 is:

• 57 GB for a fresh install with a production database:

Application tier file system – 26 GB
Database tier file system (fresh install with a production database) – 31 GB

• 91 GB for a fresh install with a Vision Demo database.

Application tier file system – 26 GB
Database tier file system (fresh install with a production database) – 65 GB

3. Create stage area folder:

You need to setups file for can make Oracle E-Business Suite R11 installation. You can use edelivery.oracle.com site for can download Oracle E-Business Suite the lastest version.

PS: It’s not avaliable to download Oracle E-Business Suite R11 setup file from edelivery.oracle.com for a now. If you need setups file please log a SR(service request) or please contact with your local office)

Oracle E-Business Suite R11 setup files almost have 31 GB size.

You can create stage folder by following:

Oracle E-Business Suite R11 installation manual – Page 1-14 Setting Up the Stage Area

Mainly;

Put all the files under one directory (i.e. /data/R11stage), and extract all the files under the same directory and give it 777 permission For instance:

[root@test]# mkdir /data/R11Stage

 

[root@test]# chown –R 777 /data/R11Stage

 

[root@test]# cd /data/R11Stage

For Start Here DVD create below:

mkdir startCD

For APPL_TOP DVD create below:

mkdir oraApps

For RDBMS DVD create below:

mkdir oraDB

For Tools DVD create below:

mkdir oraiAS

For Databases DVD create below:

mkdir oraAppDB

Before start to installation, i strongly suggest check below:

MD5 Checksums for 11i10.2 Rapid Install Media [ID 316843.1] note for can observe you have any problem wiht your stage or not(Corrupted zip etc)

 

Ensure that /etc/hosts and /etc/oraInst.loc are set right:

[oracle@erp ~]$ cat /etc/hosts
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.1.50    erp.freeoraclehelp.com erp
[oracle@erp ~]$ cat /etc/oraInst.loc 
inventory_loc=/oracle/erp/R12/oraInventory
inst_group=oinstall
[oracle@erp ~]$ 

Create OS User:

# groupadd oinstall -g 2000
# useradd -g oinstall -u 2000 oracle
# chown -R oracle:oinstall /oracle

 

Set Kernel Parameters:

[root@erp ~]#  tail /etc/sysctl.conf
# Oracle Recommendations for Apps  #
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 4294967295
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.sem = 256 32000 100 142
fs.file-max = 131072
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 10000 65000
kernel.msgmni = 2878
kernel.msgmax = 8192
kernel.msgmnb = 65535
net.core.rmem_default = 262144
net.core.wmem_default = 262144
net.core.rmem_max = 4194304
net.core.wmem_max = 262144
# Oracle Recommendations for Apps  #

[root@erp ~]# sysctl -p

Increase user limits: Add the following to /etc/security/limits.conf

  * hard nofile 65535
  * soft nofile 4096
  * hard nproc 16384
  * soft nproc 2047

Add the following to /etc/profile

if [ $USER = "oracle" ]; then 
        if [ $SHELL = "/bin/ksh" ]; then 
              ulimit -p 16384 
              ulimit -n 65536 
        else 
              ulimit -u 16384 -n 65536 
        fi 
fi 

Ensure the following RPMs are installed: compat-db-4.1.25-9
compat-gcc-32-3.2.3-47.3
compat-gcc-32-c++-3.2.3-47.3
compat-libgcc-296-2.96-132.7.2
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-132.7.2
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-47.3
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-devel-6.8.1-23.EL
xorg-x11-deprecated-libs-6.8.1-23.EL
openmotif-2.1.30-x

[root@erp RPM_OEL4]# ls -ltr
total 8
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 5814 Feb  5  2011 p4198954_40_LINUX.zip
[root@erp RPM_OEL4]# pwd
/dumps/ERP/11i/RPM_OEL4
[root@erp RPM_OEL4]# unzip p4198954_40_LINUX.zip 
Archive:  p4198954_40_LINUX.zip
  inflating: compat-libcwait-2.1-1.i386.rpm  
  inflating: compat-oracle-rhel4-1.0-5.i386.rpm  
  inflating: README.txt              
[root@erp RPM_OEL4]# rpm -ivh compat-*
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:compat-oracle-rhel4    ########################################### [ 50%]
   2:compat-libcwait        ########################################### [100%]
[root@erp RPM_OEL4]#  

Installation

Post-Install Checks

Once installation is complete, verify the logins at http://erp.freeoraclehelp.com:8010. Here are the default passwords.
Database:
SYS/change_on_install
SYSTEM/manager
Application Schema passwords:
APPS Schema: APPS/APPS
GWYUID User: APPLSYSPUB/PUB
Guest User: GUEST/ORACLE
Application Users:
SYSADMIN/SYSADMIN
MFG/WELCOME
OPERATIONS/WELCOME
SERVICES/WELCOME
MRC/WELCOME
HRMS/WELCOME

Admin scripts

RDBMS ORACLE_HOME Control scripts
(located under <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/scripts/<CONTEXT_NAME>)

Control Script	Functionality
addbctl.sh	Control database server
addlnctl.sh	Control Oracle Net listener for the database server

RDBMS ORACLE_HOME Install scripts
(located under <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/install/<CONTEXT_NAME>)

Install Script	Functionality
adsvdlsn.sh	Start Oracle Net listener during installation
adcrdb.sh	Start database and create database control files
addbprf.sh	Set profile option values
adsvdcnv.sh	Perform character set conversion and licensing tasks
adsvdb.sh	Start database during installation

 

 

COMMON_TOP Control scripts
(located under <COMMON_TOP>/admin/scripts/<CONTEXT_NAME>)

Control Script	Functionality	Node
adalnctl.sh	Control Oracle Net8 listener for Applications services	All application tier server nodes
adstrtal.sh	Start all Applications server processes	All application tier server nodes
adstpall.sh	Stop all Applications server processes	All application tier server nodes
adfrmctl.sh	Control Forms server	Forms server node
adfmcctl.sh	Control Forms Metrics Client	Forms server node
adfmsctl.sh	Control Forms Metrics Server	HTTP server node
adtcfctl.sh	Control TCF SocketServer	Concurrent processing server node
adcmctl.sh	Control Concurrent managers	Concurrent processing server node
adrepctl.sh	Control Reports server	Concurrent processing server node
adapcctl.sh	Control Apache processes	HTTP server node
jtffmctl.sh	Control Oracle fulfillment server	HTTP server node

COMMON_TOP Install scripts
(located under <COMMON_TOP>/admin/install/<CONTEXT_NAME>)

Install Script	Functionality	Node
adsvalsn.sh	Start Net8 listener processes for Applications services	All application tier server nodes
adsvfrm.sh	Start Forms server during install	Forms server node
adsvfmc.sh	Start Forms server during install	Forms server node
adsvfms.sh	Start Forms metric server during install	HTTP server node
adsvcm.sh	Start Concurrent manager during install	Concurrent processing server node
adsvtcf.sh	Start TCF server during install	Concurrent processing server node
adsvrep.sh	Start Reports server during install	Concurrent processing server node
adsvapc.sh	Start Apache server during install	HTTP server node
jtfsvfm.sh	Start Fulfillment server during install	HTTP server node

 

Retrieve Apps password in R12 or Forgot Apps Password in R12

Steps to retrieve forgotten apps password in R12

Step 1 : login to DB-Node

sqlplus / as sysdba

STEP 2 : Create Function for to decrypt the encrypted password


SQL> create FUNCTION apps.decrypt_pin_func(in_chr_key IN VARCHAR2,in_chr_encrypted_pin IN VARCHAR2)
RETURN VARCHAR2
AS
LANGUAGE JAVA NAME 'oracle.apps.fnd.security.WebSessionManagerProc.decrypt(java.lang.String,java.lang.String) return java.lang.String';
/

Function created.

STEP 3 : (Query for password)


SQL> select ENCRYPTED_FOUNDATION_PASSWORD from apps.fnd_user where USER_NAME='GUEST';


Output

ENCRYPTED_FOUNDATION_PASSWORD
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ZG37E123746712BDB2D99E048FE44AE662F2713E2EDB443391BABA0414CADDB7A2E6DD45BBAFA7270A663E5EEBA837F5548A

STEP 4:

SELECT apps.decrypt_pin_func('GUEST/ORACLE','ZG37E123746712BDB2D99E048FE44AE662F2713E2EDB443391BABA0414CADDB7A2E6DD45BBAFA7270A663E5EEBA837F5548A') from dual;




Output

APPS.DECRYPT_PIN_FUNC('GUEST/ORACLE','ZG37E123746712BDB2D99E048FE44AE662F2713E2EDB443391BABA0414CADDB7A2E6DD45BBAFA7270A663E5EEBA837F5548A')
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
DEMONSTRATE

STEP 5: (Test apps password)

SQL> conn apps/DEMONSTRATE;
Connected.

CHEERS :)

Query to find all current Oracle Application user logged in R12 & 11i

There are 2 Queries:-

1) SELECT DISTINCT icx.session_id,
icx.user_id,
fu.user_name,
fu.description
FROM icx_sessions icx, fnd_user fu
WHERE disabled_flag != 'Y'
AND icx.pseudo_flag = 'N'
AND (last_connect +
DECODE (fnd_profile.VALUE ('ICX_SESSION_TIMEOUT'),
NULL, limit_time,
0 , limit_time,
fnd_profile.VALUE ('ICX_SESSION_TIMEOUT')/60) / 24) > SYSDATE
AND icx.counter < limit_connects
AND icx.user_id = fu.user_id;

2) SELECT DISTINCT ic.disabled_flag,
fu.user_name User_Name,
fr.RESPONSIBILITY_KEY Responsibility,
fu.user_id,
fu.description,
fu.employee_id,
ic.responsibility_application_id,
ic.responsibility_id,
ic.org_id,
ic.function_type,
ic.counter,
ic.first_connect,
ic.last_connect,
ic.nls_territory,
ic.time_out,
fr.menu_id,
fr.responsibility_key
FROM fnd_user fu,
fnd_responsibility fr,
icx_sessions ic
WHERE fu.user_id = ic.user_id
AND fr.responsibility_id = ic.responsibility_id
AND ic.disabled_flag ='N'
and IC.RESPONSIBILITY_ID is not null
AND ic.last_connect > sysdate - (ic.time_out/60)/96;

How to clean FND_NODES table in Oracle Applications

Step 1: Always apply the latest cloning patches to avoid all the bugs and fixes

Step 2: SQL> EXEC FND_CONC_CLONE.SETUP_CLEAN;
COMMIT;
EXIT;
It will delete all old data from the table.

Step 3: Run AutoConfig on all tiers, firstly on the DB tier and then the APPS tiers to repopulate the required system tables.

How to migrate responsibility / menu / form (personalizations) from one ERP apps (11i / R12) instance to another using FNDLOAD?

Below are the commands

===========================
RESPONSIBILITY
===========================

For migrating a responsibility we need the responsibility key value.

Steps to get the RESPONSIBILITY KEY VALUE

Login as Sysadmin
System Administrator -> Security : Responsibility -> Define
Press F11 -> Enter the Responsibility Name -> Get the responsibility key value from the Responsibility Key Text Field.

To Download
FNDLOAD apps/[APPS_PWD] 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscursp.lct [give some name].ldt FND_RESPONSIBILITY RESP_KEY=”[RESPONSIBILITY_KEY_VALUE]“

To Upload
FNDLOAD apps/[APPS_PWD] 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afscursp.lct [name given above].ldt

===========================
MENU
===========================

To Download
FNDLOAD apps/[APPS_PWD] 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afsload.lct [give some name].ldt MENU MENU_NAME=”[MENU_NAME]“

To Upload
FNDLOAD apps/[APPS_PWD] 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/afsload.lct [name given above].ldt

=======================
FORMS PERSONALIZATIONS
=======================

For migrating the forms personalizations we need the function name that is associated with the form.
Steps to get the form function name (eg. Users Form)
Login as Sysadmin
System Administrator -> Security : User -> Define
Once the form opens up
On the Tool Bar Click Help -> Diagnostics -> Custom Code -> Personalize
This will open a new form with function name. This is the value we require.
You can perform simillar step for any form that you want to migrate by opening the form to be migrated.

To Download
FNDLOAD apps/[APPS_PWD] 0 Y DOWNLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/affrmcus.lct [give some name].ldt FND_FORM_CUSTOM_RULES function_name=”[FUNCTION_NAME]“

To Upload
FNDLOAD apps/[APPS_PWD] 0 Y UPLOAD $FND_TOP/patch/115/import/affrmcus.lct [give some name].ldt

 

WAS error while installing UPK Professional Release 11.1

Hello Everybody,

While starting the User Productivity Kit Professional Release 11.1 installtion on Windows 2003 R2 Server with SP2 the most common error comes is:-



To resolve the issue we nned to install IIS on Windows 2003. Following are the steps:-

 

1. Click Start, point to Control Panel, and then click Add or Remove Programs.
2. In Add or Remove Programs, click Add/Remove Windows Components.
3. In the Windows Components Wizard, under Components, select Application Server.
4. After the wizard completes the installation, click Finish.
5. Click Next.

 

NOTE:- For thus you need Windows Server 2003 CD

 

After that you can continue with the UPK Server installation.

 

R12 installation 64 bit on OEL 5 update 5(From Scratch to END)

1. Download R12 64 bit software from

https://edelivery.oracle.com (create your account if you using this site first time).
Select product E-business suite on 64 Bit.

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1.1 Media Pack for Linux x86-64-bit ; download first 39 cd. and unzip them on the host where you want to perform the installation.

2. Set Up Stage Area Directory

$ cd /u01
$ mkdir StageR12

3. Unzip the Files

$ cd /u01/download

$ unzip -d /u01/StageR12 <ZipFile>

Prerequisites before Starting Installation:-

a. Make sure these package has been installed manually:

openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i386
xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386
These two rpm can be download from here:
http://oss.oracle.com/projects/compat-oracle/files/Enterprise_Linux/
For Update 1 or 2:
binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.0.1.x86_642
For Update 3:
binutils-2.17.50.0.6-9.0.1.x86_642
For Update 4 (5.4) or higher, see workaround listed below in the 'After Installing or Upgrading' section.
The following packages must be installed from the Oracle Linux 5 or RHEL 5 distribution media:
gcc-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
glibc-2.5-18.i686 (32-bit)
glibc-2.5-18.x86_64
glibc-common-2.5-18.x86_64
glibc-devel-2.5-18.i386 (32-bit)
glibc-devel-2.5-18.x86_64
libgcc-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
libgcc-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
libstdc++-4.1.2-14.el5.i386
libstdc++-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
make-3.81-1.1.x86_64
gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.i386
gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1.x86_64
libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.i386
libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5.x86_64
libaio-0.3.106-3.2.i386
libaio-0.3.106-3.2.x86_64
libgomp-4.1.2-14.el5.x86_64
sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5.x86_64
util-linux-2.13-0.45.el5.x86_64
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138.i386
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61.i386


b. Kernel Settings
Edit the /etc/sysctl.conf
Parameter Value
kernel.semmsl 256*
kernel.semmns 32000*
kernel.semopm 100*
kernel.semmni 142*
kernel.shmall 2097152
kernel.shmmax Half the size of the physical memory (in bytes), and at least 2147483648
kernel.shmmni 4096
kernel.msgmax 8192
kernel.msgmnb 65535
kernel.msgmni 2878
fs.file-max 65536
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range 10000 65000**
net.core.rmem_default
262144
net.core.rmem_max 262144
net.core.wmem_default 262144
net.core.wmem_max 262144

c. Verify that the /etc/hosts
There should be information of hostname with IP address.

d. Modifying the Number of Open File Descriptors
Edit /etc/security/limits.conf
* hard nofile 65535
* soft nofile 4096
* hard nproc 16384
* soft nproc 2047

e. OS Library Patch for Oracle HTTP Server (on Oracle Linux 5 and RHEL 5 only)
Download and apply the patch 6078836 from My Oracle Support to fix an issue with the Oracle HTTP Server (missing libdb.so.2) bundled

Create User & Group:-

a) Create group dba and user oracle & .

# groupadd dba
#useradd -g dba oracle




b) Create directory

# mkdir -p /d01/oracle
# chown -R oracle:dba /d01/oracle
# chmod -R 775 /d01/oracle

INSTALLATION PROCESS:-

a. Login as applmgr and change directory to /stage/StageR12/StartCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
b. Run Rapidwiz ...Type './rapidwiz' and press Enter
c.  A screen appears which takes you through the installation steps .....Click Next on first 3 screens.
d. Enter the CSI number, Metalink account and country and click Next else Ignore that.
e. Choose create new configuration and Click Next
f. Choose a port pool and Click Next
g. Choose Database type Vision/fresh, Specify a SID,verify host and domain.....
Give the username as applmgr and group as dba and specify the directory as /oraDB and Click Next
h. Select Suite Licensing and Click Next
i. Click Next on the Next 2 screens to accept license products and country specific functionalities.
j. Choose Database character set as UTF8 and click Next
k. Verify the host,domain and specify the base directory as /oraAPP and instance directory as /oraAPP/inst and Click Next
l. Click Next ...The rapidwiz verifies and validates the system configuration and notifies if there are any errors...All the checks have to return a GREEN
tick mark if passed. Correct the errors if there are any RED cross marks and restart the rapidwiz.
m. Click Next and then Yes on the next screen to start the installation .
n. Once the installation is finished it performs post installation checks and notifies if there are any errors. It should return all GREEN marks if successfully installed
o. Click on Finish and that Ends the Installation Steps

Common Error after Installation:-

a) rw-50015 error - HTTP is not responding

ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so /usr/lib/libdb.so.2

but in my case it just created a broken link.

I had to use this instead:

ln -s /usr/lib/libgdbm.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb.so.2

Restart the Application and database server.

Start rapid installation again with $rapidwiz -restart