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Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12:

Maintenance, Patching and Cloning Tools

Max Arderius

Development Manager

Applications Technology G

roup

The following is intended to outline our general

product direction. It is intended for inform

ation

purposes only, and m

ay not be incorporated into any

contract. It is not a commitment to deliver any

material, code, or functionality, and should not be

relie

d upon in m

aking purchasing decisions.

The development, release, and tim

ing of any

features or functionality described for Oracle’s

products remains at the sole discretion of Oracle.

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Program Agenda

•Lifecycle M

anagement

•Application M

anagement Pack

•Roadmap


LifecycleManagement

LCM

LCM

Rapid Install

/ Clone

iSetup

Oracle

Applications

Manager

Oracle

Diagnostics

Patch

Wizard

Deployment

Utilities

Pack for

Change

Mgmt Implement

Implement

Manage

Manage

Application

Management

Pack

Upgrade

Upgrade

Lifecycle Management


Application Management Pack

for E-Business Suite

E-Business Suite System



Application Management Pack for

E-Business Suite

Enterprise Manager Grid Control

EM Agent

EM Agent

EM Agent


Architecture

2.0.1


2.0

2.0.2

10.2.0.3

10.2.0.4


Versions

Centralized Management

Manage single / m

ultiple O

racle E-Business Suite

systems from a single console

Proactive Monitoring

Proactively m

onitor Infrastructure and End User

experience through Service Level Management

Automated Cloning

Automatically Clone O


systems through Clone Dashboard



Links directly into

Oracle Applications

Manager


Application System Performance View

Infrastructure

Services


Application System Topology View

•Users can record key application business flows and have

beacons playback the same

•Service Level Types

•Web Transaction M

onitoring

•Form

s Transaction M

onitoring

•Advantages

•Measure perform

ance and availability of critical business functions

•Identify common problems

•Receive Alerts

•Diagnose causes of problems

Proactive Monitoring

Service Level Management

Automated Cloning

Functionality

•Prepare Source System

•Does not alter the Source System

•Can be executed at any tim

e

•Users can be connected to the System

•Obtains Database Inform

ation

•Creates Clone Directory

•Configure Target System

•Configures System for the new Target

•Can be re-executed in case of failure

•Same O

S Requirements than Rapid Install

Source-to-Image

Image-to-Target

Data Scrambling


Source-to-Target

Automated Cloning

Cloning Scenarios

Source System

Target System

Automated Cloning

Source-Image-Target

Image

Image

AMP

Dev System

Automated Cloning

Image-To-Target

Pre-Production System

Test System

Image

Image

AMP

Source System

Target System

Automated Cloning

Data Scrambling

Image

Scramble

Data

Repackage

Database

AMP

Automated Cloning

Key Features

•Allo

ws Source-to-Image

•Deploy Image to Different Targets

•Allo

ws Automation

•Schedule C

lones

•Customizable


Roadmap

Source System

Target System

Image

AMP

RMAN

Hot Backup

Live

Database

dbTeckStack

appsTier

Roadmap

Automated Cloning: Hot Cloning

Source System

Target System

Image

AMP

RMAN

Hot Backup

appsTiers

dbTier

Primary Node

Roadmap

Automated Cloning: RAC Support

Customization Management

Automate packaging, deployment, m

igration of

customizations across O

racle E-Business Suite instances

Patch Management

UI based impact analysis and deployment of patch

across EBS instance from a single console

Setup Management

Manage, transport and document changes in functional

setups across O

racle E-Business Suite instances

Change Management

Roadmap

Pack for Change Management

Related Sessions:ATG

Tuesday

September 23, 2008

09.00 Customer Case Study: GE Infrastructure

Centrally M

anaging your Oracle E-Business Suite, Using O

racle Application M

gmt Pack

Benjamin Cabanas, GE Infrastructure & Biju Mohan, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

11.30 Change Management

Change M

anagement in the Lifecycle of Oracle E-Business Suite

Kenneth Baxter and Uma Prabhala, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

17.00 Install and Cloning Techniques Deep Dive

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Max Arderius and Biju Mohan, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

Thursday

September 25, 2008

12.00 Managing Oracle E-Business Suite Customizations and

Patches, using Oracle Enterprise Manager

Uma Prabhala, Oracle

Moscone West 2005

13.30 Understanding the Oracle Diagnostics Security Model and

Support for Custom Responsibility

Angelo Rosado, Oracle

Moscone West 2007


Monday

September 22, 2008

16.00 Integration Simplified

Native Service-O

riented Architecture in O


Neeraj Chauhan and Veshaal Singh, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

Tuesday

September 23, 2008

09.00 Customer Case Study: GE Infrastructure

Centrally M

anaging your Oracle E-Business Suite, Using O

racle Application M

gmt Pack

Benjamin Cabanas, GE Infrastructure & Biju Mohan, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

11.30 Change Management

Change M

anagement in the Lifecycle of Oracle E-Business Suite

Kenneth Baxter and Uma Prabhala, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

17.00 Install and Cloning Techniques Deep Dive

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12

Max Arderius and Biju Mohan, Oracle

Moscone West 2007


Wednesday

September 24, 2008

13.00 Customer Case Study: General Electric

Accelerating O

racle E-Business Suite Implementations with O

racle iSetup

Judy Warfield, General Electric and Uma Prabhala, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

17.00 Java Authentication and Authorization Service for

Oracle E-Business Suite

Veshaal Singh, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

Thursday

September 25, 2008

09.00 Centralize your Oracle E-Business Suite Search

Powered by O

racle Secure Enterprise Search

Rajesh Ghosh and Veshaal Singh, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

10.30 Customer Case Study: Forsythe Technologies Inc

Oracle E-Business Suite SOA Implementation

Samuel Tong, Forsythe Technologies Inc and Neeraj Chauhan, Oracle

Moscone West 2007


Thursday

September 25, 2008

12.00 Managing Oracle E-Business Suite Customizations and

Patches, using Oracle Enterprise Manager

Uma Prabhala, Oracle

Moscone West 2005

13.30 Opening Up Oracle Application Framework Applications

through Web Services and Portlets

Ramkumar Sekar, Oracle

Moscone West 2005

13.30 Understanding the Oracle Diagnostics Security Model and

Support for Custom Responsibility

Angelo Rosado, Oracle

Moscone West 2007

Demogrounds

•Oracle Applications Management Pack for


•Oracle iSetup and Oracle Diagnostics

Framework

•Oracle E-Business Suite Cloning

Techniques

•Native Service Enablement of Oracle

E-Business Suite

•Integration Repository and E-Business

Suite Adapter

•Oracle SOA Suite for Oracle E-Business

Suite

•The Next-Generation Semantic Search

Experience

•Design and Develop New Searchable

Objects, Using the Search Modeler

•Powered by Oracle Enterprise Search

•Extract Portlets from Oracle OAF

Applications

•Generate, Test, Deploy, and Integrate Web

Services

•Desktop Integrators Using Oracle Web

Applications Desktop Integrator

Oracle Secure Enterprise Search

Pod K26

E-Business Suite Lifecycle Management

Web Services / Portlets in Oracle OAF

Pod K25

SOA Enablement of E-Business Suite

Pod K24

Pod K30

Application Lounges @ Oracle OpenWorld 2008

�E-Business Suite –Tools and Technology

�Wednesday, 09:00 –11:00 (Section 1)

�Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Upgrade (Technical Upgrade)

�Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Advanced Configuration

�Managing and Maintaining the Oracle E-Business Suite

�SOA-Enablement of E-Business Suite

�Wednesday, 12:00 -2:00 (Section 2)

�Oracle Business Intelligence Publisher for Oracle Applications

Moscone West -2ndFloor (Lobby)

“Meet the Experts”

“Meet the Experts”

For More Information

search.oracle.com


OR

http://blogs.oracle.com/LCM


Appendix

OAM vs. AMP

View graphical topology m

ap

View topology inform

ation (text).

Compare history across instances

View local patch history

View and compare configurations

across instances

View and edit local configuration

Central UI and automation of cloning

activities

Rapid Clone command line utility

Current and historical availability and

perform

ance m

etrics

Current availa

bility and perform

ance

metrics

Central dashboard for all Apps

systems in EM, with drill downs into

local OAM instances

Dashboard for local Apps system in

OAM



Oracle Applications Manager

(OAM)

•Extends Enterprise M

anager 10g G

rid Control to help m

onitor

and m

anage an O

racle Applications system m

ore effectively

•Integrates O

racle Applications M

anager with G

rid Control to

provide a consolidated, end-to-end E-Business Suite

management solution

•Provides a single place to collect, configure and compare

multiple E-Business Suite systems across the company

•Configuration data from Application systems automatically

uploaded to the O

racle Enterprise M

anager repository

Application Management Pack for E-Business Suite

Overview

•Compatible with 11i and R12

•Replaces older “G

rid Control Plug-in for E-Business Suite”

•License fee based on number of E-Business Suite production

system CPUs


Overview

•Main Features

•Automated Discovery

•Configuration M

anagement

•Patch Level Reporting

•Topology views

•OAM integration

•Service Level Monitoring

•Cloning Automation

•Data Scrambling


Overview

•Enterprise M

anager 10g G

rid Control 10.2.0.3

•Required Disk Space

•agent10g : 560 M

b

•db10g : 1.1

Gb

•oradata : 3.8

Gb

•oms10g : 2.2 G

b

Installing EM Plug-In for Oracle Applications E-Business Suite

Requirements

•Oracle Applications Patches

•Release 11i

•ATG_PF.H RUP4 -Patch 4676589

•I/O Patch 5473292

•Release 12.0

•I/O Patch 5843357

•Oracle Applications Plug-In Patch 5489352

•Repository –

OMS

•Agent

Installing EM Plug-In for Oracle Applications E-Business Suite

Installation



Registering Oracle E-Business Suite

Systems with Grid Control

Registering Oracle E-Business Suite Systems with

Grid Control

Overview

•Automatic discovery of the E-Business Suite System by

Enterprise M

anager agent

•Process initiated by

•Selecting the target E-Business Suite instance database

•Providing Application Database credentials for discovery

•Discovery activity involves

•Connecting to the target E-Business Suite instance database and

accessing the configuration inform

ation

•Registering the target types: Application Server, Concurrent

Processor, Form

s Listener, W

orkflow, Database

Registering Oracle E-Business Suite Systems

with Grid Control


with Grid Control

Add Oracle Applications Database


with Grid Control

Database Credentials

Associate Applications Targets with Grid Control


with Grid Control

Oracle Applications Discovery

Define availability of Member Targets


with Grid Control


Define Primary Database and Web Application Targets


with Grid Control


Summary Screen


with Grid Control




Grid Control Pages

for Oracle Applications

Grid Control Pages for Oracle Applications

Overview

•Provides a comprehensive view of the system, plus links to

common administrative tasks in O

AM

•Application System View available are:

•Home

•Perform

ance

•Administration

•Maintenance

•Diagnostics

•Topology


Registered E-Business Suite Systems


Application System Home View


Application System Home View


Application System Performance View

Links directly into

Oracle Applications

Manager


Application System Administration View

View

Configuration

information of

system

components

within the Grid

Control

Links

directly into

Oracle

Application

s Manager


Application System Maintenance View

Links

directly into

Oracle

Applications

Manager

Clone Operations

can be driven

from within Grid

Control


Application System Diagnostics View

Links directly

into Oracle

Applications

Manager


Application System Topology View

Infrastructure

Services



Application Service Level Management

•Overview

•Infrastructure Service

•Application Service

•Service Level Monitoring



Overview

•Provides Automatic Service Level Reporting for the key O

racle

E-Business Suite Infrastructure and Application services

•Service level alerts can be configured for throughput and

availability m

etrics

•Ability to record and playback Form

s and HTML-based

Application Services

•Out of the box E-Business Suite Infrastructure Services

•Concurrent Processing

•Form

s Applications

•Workflow Services

•Self Service

•Status determ

ined from the status of

•The Core service

•Key components the service is dependant on, for eg: Database

Instance, Apps Listener. .etc.


Infrastructure Service



•Oracle Concurrent Manager

•Database Instance

•Apps Listener

•Workflow Agent Listener

•Workflow Background

Engine

•Workflow Notification Mailer

Workflow Service

•Oracle HTTP Server


•OC4J (Oracle Application

Framework)

Self Service Application

Service

•Oracle HTTP Server


•OC4J Forms Server

Forms Application

Service


•Apps Listener

•Internal Concurrent Manager

Concurrent Processing

Service

Key components

Core Service / component

monitored



Application Service

•E-Business Suite Vision Demo database provides an out of the

box m

onitoring of Order Management key flows as an example

for customers to learn how service level monitoring of application

service works

•Infrastructure Services required by O

M

•OM Inform

ation Portal

•OM O

rder Entry

•OM Ship Confirm


Infrastructure Service Home Page


Infrastructure Service: Root Cause Analysis


Service Level Monitoring

•Users can record key application business flows and have

beacons playback the same

•Service Level Types

•Web Transaction M

onitoring

•Form

s Transaction M

onitoring

•Advantages

•Measure perform

ance and availability of critical business functions

•Identify common problems

•Receive Alerts

•Diagnose causes of problems



Clone Automation

•Overview

•Clone Dashboard

•Clone Procedures

Clone Automation

Clone Automation

Overview

•Application M

anagement Pack allows O


systems to be automatically cloned via the G

rid Control

provisioning framework

•A step-by-step interview guides administrators though the

cloning process

•Grid Control automates the creation of clone systems, and

executes any required application-specific actions

•Additionally, administrators can m

odify the standard cloning

process to include custom actions

Clone Automation

Clone Dashboard

•Monitor enterprise wide status of clone jobs

•Consist of three views

•Home View

•Im

ages View

•Procedure View

Clone Automation

Clone Dashboard: Home View

Provides enterprise-wide status of clone jobs

Clone Automation

Clone Dashboard: Image View

Deploy images on to a target system and

Clone Source to Image

Clone Automation

Clone Dashboard: Procedure View

Contains predefined procedures defined by Oracle

Provides ability to run a specific clone procedure

Provides ability to view a specific procedure and create copies

Clone Automation

Clone Procedures

•Best practices provided by O

racle for cloning O

racle Applications

•Provide a step-by-step interview process to initiate clone jobs

•Classified into

•Advanced Clone

•Sim

ple C

lone

•Custom Clone

Clone Automation

Clone Procedures: Advanced Clone

•Detailed step-by-step interview process that allows users to

configure each and every parameter in the clone process

•Clone Source to Target

•The source system data is extracted and applied onto a target

system. On completion of the clone process, the source and

target systems will have the same Data and Patch set level

•Clone Source to Image

•Source system data is extracted and stored. The image can be

applied to any number of target systems

•Deploy Image to Target

•Im

age is applied to a target system

Clone Automation

Clone Procedures: Simple Clone

•Sim

ple clone process skips the long steps provided in Advanced

Clone by automatically setting m

ost values

•Create an exact copy of the source system in three steps

•Executed via Sim

ple Clone Source to Target

Clone Automation

Clone Procedures: Custom Procedure

•Custom copy of a default procedure where steps can be added,

edited or removed

•Executed via Create Like function

Clone Automation

Clone Procedures

Clone Automation

Clone Procedures: Creating a Custom Procedure

Clone Automation

Benefits

•Plan, organize and execute enterprise-w

ide clone jobs from a

single location

•Maintain m

irror systems at the same patch level and data

•Flexibility to adapt to an enterprise’s custom clone process



Data Scrambling

Data Scrambling

Overview

•Process of obfuscating or removing sensitive data

•The scrambling process is irreversible, so that the original data

cannot be derived from the scrambled data

•Configuration of data scrambling is perform

ed within O

racle

Applications M

anager

•Option to scramble data is available in the Advanced Clone

Process (Source to Target and Source to Image)

•Data Scrambling Procedure

•Define Attributes

•Define Tables to Purge

•Define Policies

Data Scrambling

Procedure

Data Scrambling

Procedure

Define Attributes 1/3

Data Scrambling

Procedure


Data Scrambling

Procedure


Data Scrambling

Procedure

Define Tables to Purge

Data Scrambling

Procedure

Define Policies 1/3

Data Scrambling

Procedure

Define Policies 2/3

Data Scrambling

Procedure

Define Policies 3/3

Data Scrambling

Procedure

Define Policy Sets

Data Scrambling

Procedure

•Maxim

ize security

•Sensitive data no longer available

•Ability to hide “Production” data on Development environments

Data Scrambling

Benefits



Sources for Troubleshooting


OMS Log files

•<OMS_ORACLE_HOME>/sysman/logs

•ebsDiscovery_<SID>_oracle_database.log

•ebsDiscovery.log

•emoms.log

•emoms.trc

•ebsDiscovery.log

•<OMS_ORACLE_HOME>/sysman/logs/pafLogs/

•<clone_job_name>_<numeric _job_id>.log

Provisioning advisor framework log for clone job

Each clone run will have a log here


Agent Log files

•<AGENT_ORACLE_HOME>/sysman/logs

•ora_appDiscLog.txt (discovery log on agent side)

•ora_appIASTrgt.xml (for discovery)

•emagent.log & .trc

•emagent_perl.trc

•emagentfetchlet.log & .trc

•emctl.log & .trc

•Useful for debugging m

etric collection or discovery issues:

•modify <AGENT_ORACLE_HOME>/sysman/config/emd.properties

and enable DEBUG level for EMAGENT_PERL_TRACE_LEVEL

andfetchlet.* directives


Scope

•Extensions

•New components for existing applications

•Modifications

•Changes to standard O

racle E-Business suite objects or code

•Localizations

•Solutions for country specific business


Key Features

•Automate creation of customization packages

•AD based deployment of customizations

•Maintain repository to m

anage/catalog customizations

•Integrate with m

ost source control systems

•Support NLS patches

•Generate reports on customization packages

•Leverage EM infrastructure for distributed processing

•Support compilation of Java andpld

(form

s) code (No support for

platform

specific patches)

Patch Management

Key Features

•UI to deploy EBS patches from a single EM console

•Patching m

ultiple EBS instances

•Patch comparisons across EBS instances

•Patch impact analysis capabilities

•Project Based Semantics for deployment of setups

•Orchestrate dependencies between extracts and loads

•Migration support across point releases of EBS

•Instance Scheduling and Synchronization

•Notification of im

plementation project execution status

•Role based user access support

•Offline Transform

ation

•Versioning support

•Share the Extracts, Loads and Reports content with other user.

•Attach project related documents to Projects.

•Schedule project plan

Setup Management

Key Features

For More Information

Note 394448.1

: Getting Started with the Applications M

anagement Pack for


Note 412044.1

: Application M

anagement Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite

Release 2.0 Troubleshooting G

uide

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