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| Wednesday, August 09, 2006 |
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From now to next few sessions I will be discussuing very important product from DBA's prespective i.e. AD also called as Application DBA ( ;-) I think its named AD after Application DBA )
AD_TOP is product in Aplication which is under directory APPL_TOP/ad/11.5.0 ( If you are not familiar with TOP please read my previous post about TOP's )
This top containin Utilities & program code which is very frequently used by DBA's . So where are these utilities or program in file system ? (I think you all know but for begineers its in AD_TOP/bin )
Lets see one line definition of each
AD Utility ?
AD Utilities are a group of tools designed to install, upgrade, maintain, and patch applications.
ADPATCH ?
is a utility that is used to apply individual patches, mini-packs, or maintenance packs to an Oracle Applications instance.
ADADMIN ?
AD Administration (adadmin) is used performs maintenance/administration tasks on an Oracle Appls Instance. Task associated with adadmin are divided into two broad categories database and file system task.
ADCTRL ?
Utility to determine status of worker (started by adpatch , adadmin or other ad utility) and to control ( restart/drop/skip) workers.
ADRELINK ?
Used to relink apps executables with product libraries , if some library defination is changed or executable is corrupted.
ADMRGPCH ?
To merge different patches & create single patch . This is helpful when you have too many patches , you can merge them & apply in one shot.
ADCLONE ?
Utility to clone Insatnce from Test to Prod , Vice Versa
ADCONFIG ?
To configure different components in Aplications like changing port number or domainname or incresing number of JVM's
ADIDENT ?
utility to find version of a file in oracle applications (Identification )
ADLICMGR ?
To license a product in applications , you might have license to use only 10 products initially then later decided to use 5 more so license them first by this utility
ADSPLICE ?
You add a product in application, by default you might have 90-105 ( may be more ) products like AP, GL, AR and now oracle released one more product so add this product using this utility .
This is overview & usages of each application DBA Utility , now in next topic I will start with patching & how these utilities are used & options available with them . If you are amazed/confused whats this patching donot worry I will explain in deatil but if you are a DBA you might already be knowing patching & might have applied coupel of database patches using opatch now lets use ADPATCH to apply application or apps patches.
Donot forget to leave your comment & feedback .
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posted by Atul Kumar @ 2:36 PM
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What is the difference between a patch and a minipack, family pack etc.
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Next topic is applying patch i guess ?
Can you please let us know with a sample example, also link to download a small patch and apply the same.
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very helpful. Thanks and keep the good work.
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Sure, I will include demo patch or give a link to download it from my site . If I forget please do remind me to upload a sample demo patch .
Oracle Apps DBA
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good work keep the good job
fadi
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Hi Users,
I checked with Oracle Team , If I can pass on any Demo patch to User's without metalink ID & they came back saying I am not allowed to do so , Hence I will not Upload any patches .
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This is very good. please include cloning documenst for multinode to single ode on hp/solaris env and also on rapid clone ..
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Hi,
I will post multinode to single node clone & rapid clone. I am afraid I might not be able to go to detail specific to Operating System. I am trying to give overview of topics used by Apps DBA. I'll definately point out specific metalink note specific to O.S.
Atul
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Sanjay,
In such cases you have to come out of first patch session by ctrl + C or ctrl + D when you restart adaptch again it will prompt you if you want to restart from where you left last time say No & then select new patch you want to apply .
Atul
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my question is still unanswered...
could you please let me know whats the option "Copy files to destination" in adadmin?
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Anonymous,
For Copy file to destination , It checks file version in respective location with one in patch directory & if it finds higher version in patch directory of a product it replaces them with one in patch directory .
Do you wish to copy UNCONDITIONALLY when a target file exists [No] ?
Processing files Application Object Library...
Processing files Application Utilities...
Processing files Applications DBA...
Processing files Common Modules-AK...
Processing files Subledger Accounting...
In logs you will see entry like
Version check:
/u01/test/appl/asn/11.5.0/media/ASNFUNL1.gif
version is equal to or lower than
/u01/test/comn/java/oracle/apps/media/ASNFUNL1.gif.
File will not be copied to destination.
Up-to-date : cztag.jar
WARNING: The following path(s), defined in /u01/test/appl/cz/11.5.0/ja
va/make/czjar.dep as elements of the output file cztag.jar, could not be found i
n any area:
oracle/apps/cz/runtime/tag
Atul
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i want to know about ad utilities , ad patching n ad clone
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Hi Pavan,
adpatch, adclone, adident, adadmin ... are all ad utility . Do let me know on which ad utility you want to hear more & to what deapth . Few things about adpatch you can find in "PATCHING" at left menu bar of this blog
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whats generate jar files?what exactly does adadmin do when it generates the jar files?
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Hi Anonymous
This is from Apps maintenance utilities guide
It signs JAR files (if on the web server) and does the following:
■ Generates product JAR files in JAVA_TOP and copies them to APPL_TOP.
■ Generates other Java-related files under APPL_TOP and JAVA_TOP.
■ Recreates Java libraries (appsborg.zip and appsborg2.zip) under APPL_TOP and
JAVA_TOP.
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I have already read this guide but it doesnt answer my question thats why tried ur blog.it generates jar files means???what exactly does it do while generation????
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Anonymous JAR files are java archives (collection of java files with ext .java) these java files are used in java programming on which apps is built . Generate jar files wil generate these jar files in your JAVA_TOP & copy them to APPL_TOP. This option (generate jar files) also create some zip files (java related) & other java files.
Do let me know if you have any further doubt in this.
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i think ur understanding is wrong. java code is never shipped. its the class files that are shipped and class files cant be compiled witout the java code. thats why i was wondering what exactly happens during this step???sorry to bug u but i guess u dont have the answer with u....
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Hi Anonymous,
Thanks for the feedback.
Atul
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Hi Atul!
U have done a great job!
These are all very usefull for DBA starters.
Keep Going!!
Cheerz,
Nikhil
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hi atul!!
u have done really a good job!!
kepp going .
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Hi,
Nice work dude.Very helpful to me.Can u post the adutilities in detail.
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Thanks for your valuable information. It will help to understand AD utilities within hours.
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CAN u tell me abt CUSTOM EXTENSION in detail..
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How does ADADMIN know which is the database tier and which is the Forms tier...because I can see two sets of different option which comes up when adadmin is used in different tiers..
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what exactly happens when u run adpatch what exactly it does?
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when you use adrelink it generates the corrpted executables but how it does?
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do you have any patching and cloning issues if so can you please update them
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What is the difference between a patch and a minipack, family pack etc.