Oracle E-Business Suite 12.0.4 Installation on 32 bit Linux
This document demonstrates step by step procedure with screenshots to do multinode installation of oracle Applications R12.0.4 and then upgrading it to 12.0.6
This article will be helpful for the beginners who want to learn how to Install and configure oracle E-business suite 12.0.4 on multiple nodes using Linux OS platform
R12.0.4 Multi Node Installation on 32 Bit Linux
Hope this helps. Happy learning!
-Anand M
Common Database Wait Events
Below is the document containing the most common database waits seen during the day to day activity of an Oracle DBA. It contains the possible causes and different ways to alleviate the wait.
Happy reading!
-Anand
Log file location in Oracle application 11i
Below is the ready reckoner for the location of various log files in Oracle apps 11i. This is very much helpful when troubleshooting any issue
- Database Tier
- Alert Log File – $ORACLE_HOME/admin/$CONTEXT_NAME/bdump/alert_$SID.log
- Trace file – $ORACLE_HOME/admin/SID_Hostname/udump
- Autoconfig Log file – $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/log/SID_Hostname/DDMMTime/adconfig.log
- Application Tier
- Autoconfig Log file – $APPL_TOP/admin/SID_Hostname/log/DDMMTime/adconfig.log
- Start/Stop script log files – $COMMON_TOP/admin/log/CONTEXT_NAME/<mmddhhmi.log>
- Concurrent log file – $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG
- Patch Log file – $APPL_TOP/admin/<SID>/log
- Worker Log file – $APPL_TOP/admin/<SID>/log
- Apache Log file – $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Apache/logs/
- Jserv log File – $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Jserv/logs/
- JVM Log File – $IAS_ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Jserv/logs/jvm
- ICM log file – $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG/
- Workflow Mailer log file – $APPLCSF/$APPLLOG/FNDCPGSC*.txt
Microsoft AD and OID synchronization not happening
Support team reported an issue where they were not able to see some of the new users created in AD (Active Directory) flowing to OID (Oracle Internet Directory)
I started looking into the issue. I checked ODI synchronization services (odisrv process)
Logged into the infra tier and ran the command
$ $ORACLE_HOME/ldap/bin/ldapcheck Checking Oracle Internet Directory Processes ...ALL Process oidmon is Alive as PID 30596 Process oidldapd is Alive as PID 30603 Process oidldapd is Alive as PID 30609 Not Running ---- Process oidrepld Process odisrv is Alive as PID 17381
then checked the ldap synchronization log ($ORACLE_HOME/ldap/oid/log/_.aud
and this showed last successful synchronization happened on 23rd Feb 2015
No Errors were seen in the ldap trace file, oidsrv log or oidmon log.
I looked into the highest COMMITTED USN in the AD
$ ldapsearch -h -b "" -s base "objectclass=*" highestcommittedusn highestCommittedUSN=464557938
And searched for highest committed USN from the DIP profile
$ ldapsearch -h -p -D "cn=orcladmin" -w -b "cn=subscriber profile,cn=changelog subscriber,cn=oracle internet directory" -s sub "objectclass=*" > /tmp/PROD_DIP_Profile.txt $ grep -i "orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum" /tmp/PROD_DIP_Profile1.txt $ orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=0 orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=455736457 orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=0 orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=0 orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=0 orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=0 orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=0 orclodipcondirlastappliedchgnum=0
So there was huge difference between the highestCommittedUSN between AD and that in the DIPprofile.
This is the reason Synchronization got stopped.
I followed below steps to make this synchronization work again.
1) Stop the odisrv process
$ oidctl connect= server=odisrv instance=1 stop
2) Disable the DIP profile
– Set the DISPLAY
– Open a VNC sessions and run the below command
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/oidadmin
Login to oid console with user as “cn=orcladmin”
Go to Integration Server
Select the profile which should be something like <OID_SID>_PortalImport
Edit the same and make it “Disable”
You can check this by running the below command on Infra Node.
ldapsearch –h [oid_hostname with fully qualified domain] –p 389 –D “cn=orcladmin” –w –b “orclodipAgentName=xxxx_PortalImport,cn=subscriber profile ,cn=changelog subscriber,cn=oracle internet directory” –s base “objectclass=*” orclodipagentcontrol
3) update the Highest committed USN in the DIP profile with that obtained from AD
— Now again edit the same profile and go into ‘Status’ Tab
— Update the value against “Last Applied Change Number” with the value obtained above from AD
4) Enable the profile again
— Edit the Profile and make it enable
5) Move the old and existing odisrv log, odimon log, synchronization log ($ORACLE_INFRA_HOME/ldap/oid/log/*.aud and *.trc)
6) Start the odisrv process
$oidctl connect==[tns_alias] server=odisrv instance=1 configset=1 flags=”host=[oid_hostname with fully qualified domain] port=389″ start
7) Run “ldapcheck” command to see the odisrv process.
$ORACLE_HOME/ldap/bin/ldapcheck Process oidmon is Alive as PID 28339 Process oidldapd is Alive as PID 28347 Process oidldapd is Alive as PID 28361 Not Running ---- Process oidrepld Process odisrv is Alive as PID 28348
Now again search for Highest Committed USN in AD and in DIP profile and it matches.
This resolved the issue and synchronization resumed between Microsoft AD and OID.
File o7725967.tmp creation for FND_FILE failed
Today support team sought a help for the issue they were encountering in the TEST instance.
Error as given by the support team
ErrBufORA-20100: File o7725967.tmp creation for FND_FILE failed. You will find more information on the cause of the error in request log.
I tried a quick test to see if there is any issue with utl_file_dir
SQL>exec FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.LOG, 'THIS IS A TEST'); BEGIN FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.LOG, 'THIS IS A TEST'); END; * ERROR at line 1: ORA-20100: File o7725970.tmp creation for FND_FILE failed. You will find more information on the cause of the error in request log. ORA-06512: at "APPS.FND_FILE", line 410 ORA-06512: at "APPS.FND_FILE", line 517 ORA-06512: at line 1
Above test threw an error. Then I verified 2 more things
1) APPLPTMP directory should be the first one appearing when UTL_FILE_DIR parameter is queried – this looked Ok
SQL>show parameter utl_file NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ utl_file_dir string /d05/apptest/common/temp, /usr /tmp, /d12/oratest/product/9.2. 0/appsutil/outbound/TEST, /d05/ apptest/11.5/xxbb/4.0.0/edi/ou t, /d05/appltest/11.5/xxdd/4.0. 0/US/utl_file_dir, /d05/appltest t/common/admin/log/TEST_host_name , /d05/appltest/common/admi n/out/TEST_host_name, /d05/ap pltest/common/admin/log/TEST_host_name, /d12/oratest/product/ 9.2.0/ccr/hosts/host_name/st ate, /d05/appltest/11.5/xxcal/s mart, /d05/appltest/11.5/xxcal/ bartender
2)Missing permissions on APPLPTMP directory – I found that the permission was not correct. I gave the permission (777) to the directory and this resolved the issue.
To confirm, I ran the same procedure again and it returned the expected result.
SQL>exec FND_FILE.PUT_LINE(FND_FILE.LOG, 'THIS IS A TEST'); PL/SQL procedure successfully completed. Elapsed: 00:00:01.15
Other probable causes of error
3)APPLPTMP directory is missing &
4)APPLPTMP directory pointing to wrong location
Hope this helps.
PASSWORD column NULL in DBA_USERS from 11g onwards
I got a request from support team to reset the DBA user password as they were getting some error due to password expiration.
However support person was not aware of the password.
SQL> select USERNAME,ACCOUNT_STATUS,EXPIRY_DATE 2 from dba_users 3 where USERNAME = 'PEOPLE'; USERNAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCOUNT_STATUS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPIRY_DATE --------------- PEOPLE EXPIRED 03-NOV-14
Oracle 11g brought several security enhancements, as it is well known by the 11g users. On previous Oracle versions it was possible to query the DBA_USERS PASSWORD column to get the hashed password string. It was useful when someone tried to temporarily reset the user’s password and restore it to its original value without actually knowing it.
The command:
ALTER USER IDENTIFIED BY VALUES ‘F28740221A2D9A70’;
it could take the hashed value from the DBA_USERS data dictionary view. However starting with Oracle 11g this column is null … so where are we supposed to take this hashed value from?.
SQL> SELECT USERNAME, PASSWORD 2 FROM DBA_USERS 3 WHERE USERNAME='PEOPLE'; USERNAME PASSWORD --------------- ------------------------------ PEOPLE
Starting with Oracle 11g, there is a view called SYS.USER$ which stores the PASSWORD, the way it was stored prior to 11g.
Oracle 11g only makes it a little bit more difficult to get the hashed password, but if you login with “SYS” account, you can still apply the conventional (prior to 11g method) to temporarily reset the password, and still have access to the hashed password.
SQL> SELECT NAME, PASSWORD FROM SYS.USER$ WHERE NAME = 'PEOPLE' 2 3 ; NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PASSWORD -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PEOPLE F28740221A2D9A70
And the command used to reset the password
SQL> alter user PEOPLE identified by values 'F28740221A2D9A70'; User altered. SQL> select USERNAME,ACCOUNT_STATUS,EXPIRY_DATE 2 from dba_users 3 where USERNAME = 'PEOPLE'; USERNAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ACCOUNT_STATUS -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXPIRY_DATE --------------- PEOPLE OPEN 14-JUN-15
How to change “orcladmin” user password when it is expired
- Login to $ORACLE_HOME/bin (Infra Home)
- Make sure vnc process is running and DISPLAY variable is configured to the VNC port
- export DISPLAY=<server_name>:<port_no>
- Invoke the script -oidamin
- $ ./oidadmin
- Now login to the GUI (onVNC) with the following credential
- User = “cn=orcladmin”
- Password = default it is the same as that of “ias_admin”
- Once logged in, navigate as below
- Entry Management
- cn=OracleContext
- dc=com
- dc=abc <domain_name>
- cn=Users
- cn=<orcladmin>
- cn=OracleContext
- Click on cn=<orcladmin>
- Scroll to the bottom in “Properties” tab
- Look for the attribute “userpassword”
- Update the value with the password and then click on “Apply”
Usage of various pgp command
Recently I got a request from a bank where the customer transmits some of the files. Bank was upgrading and changing their target server and hence we need to accommodate certain changes on our side to do the testing before the same is done in production environment.
Command to list the existing Key IDs on the keyring
appluser.DEV.pdc-xyz-ibm> /usr/local/bin/pgp -kv Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8 (c) 1999 Network Associates Inc. Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc. Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government. Type bits keyID Date User ID RSA 1024 ********** 2009/07/02 *** DEFAULT SIGNING KEY *** XY_ABCBANK_TEST RSA 1024 ********** 2009/07/06 abc pqr <a href="mailto:abc.pqr@domain.com">abc.pqr@domain.com</a>> RSA 2048/2048 ********** 2012/02/21 expires 2014/05/01 File_Transfer_Services <<a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>> RSA 2048/2048 ********** 2009/03/04 *** KEY EXPIRED *** ABCBANK_ECS_QA_2011 <<a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>> 4 matching keys found.
Bank sends the new public key from their TEST/QA server. This is done so as to do point to point testing from our DEV/QA to Bank DEV/QA server.
Once the new public key is recived,this needs to be added into the keyring using below command
/usr/local/bin/pgp -ka <BANK_PUBLIC_KEY.ASC> Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8 (c) 1999 Network Associates Inc. Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc. Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government. Looking for new keys... RSA 2048/2048 ************ 2012/02/21 File_Transfer_Services <<a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>> sig? ************ (Unknown signator, can't be checked) keyfile contains 1 new keys. Add these keys to keyring ? (Y/n) Y New userid: "File_Transfer_Services <a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>>". New signature from keyID ********* on userid File_Transfer_Services <a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>> Keyfile contains: 1 new key(s) 1 new signatures(s) 1 new user ID(s) Summary of changes : New userid: "File_Transfer_Services <a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>>". New signature from keyID ********** on userid File_Transfer_Services <a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>> Added : 1 new key(s) 1 new signatures(s) 1 new user ID(s)
Comand to extract the key for the user XY_ABCBANK_TEST (copies ID’s key to keyfile from keyring )
XY_ABCBANK_TEST is the user ID signing the encrypted file
/usr/local/bin/pgp -kx XY_ABCBANK_TEST /tmp/pgp_key_XY_Nov2013.asc
Getting a warning message while encrypting and signing the file
Key for user ID: File_Transfer_Services <<a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>> 2048-bit RSA key, Key ID ******, created 2012/02/21, expires 2014/05/01 WARNING: Because this public key is not certified with a trusted signature, it is not known with high confidence that this public key actually belongs to: "File_Transfer_Services <<a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>>".
Now to overcome the error, we need to sign the public key received from 3rd party using our secret key on key ring
pgp -ks <HER_USERID>-u <YOUR_USERID>keyring
appluser.DEV.pdc-xyz-ibm> pgp -ks File_Transfer_Services -u XY_ABCBANK_TEST_2013 Pretty Good Privacy(tm) Version 6.5.8 (c) 1999 Network Associates Inc. Uses the RSAREF(tm) Toolkit, which is copyright RSA Data Security, Inc. Export of this software may be restricted by the U.S. government. Key for user ID: File_Transfer_Services <<a href="mailto:connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com">connectivity.services.engineering@abc.com</a>> 2048-bit RSA key, Key ID ***********, created 2012/02/21, expires 2014/05/01 Key fingerprint = XY PQ 86 14 PO E9 9F 11 9Q E7 2G 80 69 75 U8 37 F6 8S 7C C3 READ CAREFULLY: Based on your own direct first-hand knowledge, are you absolutely certain that you are prepared to solemnly certify that the above public key actually belongs to the user specified by the above user ID (y/N)? y You need a pass phrase to unlock your secret key. Key for user ID "XY_ABCBANK_TEST_2013" Key does not have a passphrase. Attach a regular expression to this signature, or press enter for none: appluser.DEV.pdc-xyz-ibm>
Reference URL for other various PGP command summary
http://www.dsj.net/pgp/pgphelp.html
-Anand
adstpall.sh on Web tier and giving “Timeout specified in context file: 100 second(s)” error
Today our development team complained of ‘Development’ instance of Oracle 11 Ebiz is not accessible. Even the login page is not loading.
I tried to login and got the login page but later on after keying the login credential, it was taking extremely long time to open and later on threw ‘page not found’ error. I thought of bouncing apache.
When I tried to bounce apache, I got below error.
ORACLE error 604 in afpodbinit
Cause: afpodbinit failed due to ORA-00604: error occurred at recursive SQL level 1
ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called
ORA-06512: at "APPS.FND_GLOBAL", line 101
ORA-06512: at "APPS.FND_GLOBAL",.
The SQL statement being executed at the time of the error was: begin fnd_global.bless_next_init('FND_PERMIT_0000'); fnd_global.initialize(:session_id, :user_id, :resp_id, :resp_appl_id, :security_group_id, :site_id, :login_id, :conc_login_id, :prog_appl_id, :conc_program_id, :conc_request_id, :conc_priority_request, :form_id, :form_application_id, :conc_process_id, :conc_queue_id, :queue_appl_id, :server_id); fnd_profile.put('ORG_ID', :org_id); fnd_profile.put('MFG_ORGANIZATION_ID', :mfg_org_id); fnd_profile.put('MFG_CHART_OF_ACCOUNTS_ID', :coa); fnd_profile.put('APPS_MAINTENANCE_MODE', :amm); end; and was executed from the file &ERRFILE.
Apache Web Server Listener :httpd ( pid 17197 ) is running.
Stopping Apache Web Server Listener (dedicated HTTP) ...
Oracle error -6508: ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called
has been detected in FND_GLOBAL.INITIALIZE.
Oracle error -6508: ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called
has been detected in FND_GLOBAL.INITIALIZE.
Apache Web Server Listener (PLSQL) :httpd ( pid 17521 ) is running.
Stopping Apache Web Server Listener (dedicated PLSQL) ...
Oracle error -6508: ORA-01013: user requested cancel of current operation
ORA-06508: PL/SQL: could not find program unit being called
has been detected in FND_GLOBAL.INITIALIZE.
adapcctl.sh: exiting with status 0
Later on when I tried to run adstpall.sh on Web tier, I got following in the error.
Setting service Oracle Apache Server DEV_pdc-al-lnx12 to mode 3 Executing service control script: /d01/wfmdev/common/admin/scripts/DEV_pdc-al-lnx12/adapcctl.sh stop Timeout specified in context file: 100 second(s) script returned: **************************************************** ERROR : Timed out( 100000 ): Interrupted Exception adapcctl.sh version 115.50
Later on when I looked into the database, I got following latches/library pin waits and hence decided to go for database bounce.
1 71 library cache lock JDBC Thin Client APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 1117 1 87 library cache lock ? @pdc-al-lnx12 APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 1084 (TNS V1-V3) 1 88 library cache lock APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 817 1 104 library cache lock JDBC Thin Client APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 520 1 132 library cache lock APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 1169 1 150 library cache lock ? @pdc-al-lnx12 APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 817 (TNS V1-V3) 1 164 library cache lock JDBC Thin Client APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 1117 1 233 library cache lock ? @pdc-al-lnx12 APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 189 (TNS V1-V3) 1 142 library cache pin ? @pdc-al-lnx12 APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 302 219 (TNS V1-V3) 1 171 library cache pin ? @pdc-al-lnx12 APPS ############ 5.0440E+17 202 11
DB bounce helped to resolve the issue. ‘adstpall.sh’ and ‘adstrtal.sh’ executed successfully. Application was very much accessible.
-Anand
ORA-01017 error while accessing DB link from 9i to 11g
Today I faced a strange issue. Support team needed to extract some data from PeopleSoft database (11.2.0.1) via oracle ERP database (9.2.0.6). A database links already exists between the 2 databases but when SELECT query is fired, we were getting below error.
SQL>SELECT * FROM <a href="mailto:apps.PS_ORACLE_DATA_AL@PEOPLESOFT.WORLD">PS_ORACLE_DATA_AL</a>; SELECT * FROM <a href="mailto:apps.PS_ORACLE_DATA_AL@PEOPLESOFT.WORLD">PS_ORACLE_DATA_AL</a> * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied ORA-02063: preceding line from PEOPLESOFT.WORLD Elapsed: 00:00:01.62
and I was pretty sure that the login credential for the remote database is perfectly correct. Even I was able to connect remote DB using the same credential.
SQL>conn <a href="mailto:EMP_EXTR@Remote_DB">EMP_EXTR@Remote_DB</a> Enter password: ********* Connected. and ses.sid=(select sid from v$mystat where rownum=1) * ERROR at line 7: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist Elapsed: 00:00:00.57 SQL>show user USER is "EMP_EXTR" SQL>
I tried dropping and then recreating the DB link but still got the same error. I searched the error in Metalink got one direct HIT – Note ID 473716.1.
This asks to create the database link with ‘double quotes’ around the password (IDENTIFIED by clause). I dropped and recreated the database link as advised. This is due to the fact that user passwords are case-sensitive by default from 11gR1 onwards.
This resolved the error.
SQL>select sysdate from <a href="mailto:dual@PEOPLESOFT.WORLD">dual@PEOPLESOFT.WORLD</a>; SYSDATE --------- 25-JUL-13 Elapsed: 00:00:00.73 SQL>
-Anand
Oracle Application Technology 