Installation of EBUS R12 Suite
Table of Contents
Installing Oracle Applications Release 12 ................................................................................................. 3
1.
System Requirements .................................................................................................................. 3
2.
Software Requirements ............................................................................................................... 3
3.
Kernel Parameters ....................................................................................................................... 4
4.
RPM Packages.............................................................................................................................. 4
5.
Adding user and group ................................................................................................................. 5
6.
Oracle R12 Software .................................................................................................................... 5
6.1 Creating the Stage Area.............................................................................................................. 5
7.
THE INSTALLATION PROCESS ........................................................................................................ 6
7.1 Starting the rapid Install ............................................................................................................. 6
7.2 The welcome screen .................................................................................................................. 6
7.3 The wizard Operation ................................................................................................................. 7
7.4 Oracle Configuration Manager ................................................................................................... 8
7.5 Oracle Configuration Manager Details. ....................................................................................... 8
7.6 Load Configuration file ............................................................................................................... 9
7.7 Global System Settings ............................................................................................................. 10
7.8 Database Node Configuration ................................................................................................. 11
7.9 Licensing Type .......................................................................................................................... 11
7.10 Country-specific Functionalities.............................................................................................. 12
7.11 Internationalization Settings .................................................................................................. 13
7.12 Primary Applications Node Configuration ............................................................................... 14
7.13 Node Information .................................................................................................................. 14
7.14 Validate System Configuration ............................................................................................... 15
7.15 Component Installation Review .............................................................................................. 15
7.16 Alert wizard ........................................................................................................................... 16
7.17 Installation started ................................................................................................................. 16
7.18 Post –Installation checks ........................................................................................................ 17
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7.19 Installation Completed ........................................................................................................... 17
7.20 Login Page.............................................................................................................................. 18
8. HOW TO START EBS ...................................................................................................................... 18
9. R12 Directory Structure ................................................................................................................. 19
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Installing Oracle Applications Release 12
Step by Step instructions to install Oracle Applications R12 on Oracle Enterprise Linux are described in
this article. This is a single node installation, meaning that the database, all product directories and AD
core directories, and all servers (concurrent processing, forms, and Web) are installed on a single node
under one common APPL_TOP.
1. System Requirements
Check below table for the system requirements for the Oracle R12 Installation.
Node
Space Required
Applications node file system (includes Oracle AS
10.1.2 Oracle Home, Oracle AS 10.1.3 Oracle Home,
COMMON_TOP, APPL_TOP, and INST_TOP)
35 GB (50 GB on HP-UX Itanium)
Database node file system (Fresh install)
55 GB
Database node file system (Vision Demo Database)
208 GB (210 GB on HP-UX Itanium)
Stage area(unzipped files)
47 GB
The total space required for a standard system (not including the stage area) is 85 GB for a fresh
install with a production database, and 233 GB for a fresh install with a Vision Demo database.
2. Software Requirements
The following maintenance tools must be installed on machine, and their locations specified
both in the PATH of the account that runs Rapid Install and in the PATH of the accounts that will own
the database tier and application tier file systems.
Operating System
Required Maintenance Tools
Linux x86
ar, gcc, g++, ld, ksh, make, X Display Server
Linux x86-64
ar, gcc, g++, ld, ksh, make, X Display Server
HP-UX Itanium
ar, cc, aCC, make, X Display Server
HP-UX PA-RISC
ar, cc, aCC, make, X Display Server
IBM AIX on Power Systems (64-bit)
ar, cc, aCC, make, X Display Server
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Microsoft Windows Server (32-bit)
ar, cc, ld, linkxlC, make, X Display Server
Sun Solaris SPARC (64-bit)
ar, ld, make, X Display Server
3. Kernel Parameters
Add the following lines to the "/etc/sysctl.conf" file.
kernel.shmall = 2097152
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.msgmni = 2878
kernel.msgmax = 8192
kernel.msgmnb = 65535
kernel.sem = 250 32000 100 142
fs.file-max = 131072
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
net.core.rmem_default=262144
net.core.rmem_max=262144
net.core.wmem_default=262144
net.core.wmem_max=262144
Run the following command to change the current kernel parameters:
/sbin/sysctl –p
Add the following lines to the "/etc/security/limits.conf" file.
* soft
* hard
* soft
* hard
nofile
nofile
nproc
nproc
65536
65536
16384
16384
4. RPM Packages
The following additional packages are required. Depending on the update/respin version of
Enterprise Linux, the exact package versions and locations may vary.
binutils-2*
compat-db-*
compat-gcc-32-3*
compat-gcc-32-c++-3*
compat-libstdc++-296-2*
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compat-libstdc++-33-3*
control-center-2*
gcc-3*
gcc-c++-3*
glibc-2*
glibc-common-2*
gnome-libs-1*
libaio-0*
libstdc++-3*
libstdc++-devel-3*
make-3*
openmotif21*
setarch-1*
sysstat-5*
xscreensaver-4.*
5. Adding user and group
Create following users and groups in oracle before start installing,
groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
groupadd oper
useradd -g dba -d /u01/home/ -m oracle
useradd -g dba -d /u01/home/ -m applmgr
chown -R oracle:dba /u01/
chown -R applmgr:dba /u01/
chmod -R 775 /u01/
chmod -R 775 /u01/
passwd oracle
passwd applmgr
6. Oracle R12 Software
Download the Oracle R12 Application software from the oracle official website and create a
stage area to do the installation.
6.1 Creating the Stage Area
The Release 12 Software comes in a DVD format. The individual disks included in the Release 12
software bundle are labeled as follows:
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Start Here
APPL_TOP
RDBMS
Tools
Databases
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Disk 1
Disk n
Disk n
Disk n
Disk n
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For creating stage area, insert the Start Here DVD in the DVD-ROM format drive and mount the same.
Run the adautostg.pl script as follows,
$ cd /mnt/cdrom/Disk1/rapidwiz
$ perl adautostg.pl
At the prompt for stage directory, enter the name of the system top-level directory. The rapid
Install stage12 will be created in this path. For example, if you enter /d1 as top-level directory ,the stage
will be created in /d1/stage12.The components that are to be staged need to be indicated next ,
viz.,Apps, DB ,AppsDBA ,iAS.
7. THE INSTALLATION PROCESS
7.1 Starting the rapid Install
Once the stage is created, we can start the Rapid Install as follows,
$ cd /<path of stage>/startCD/Disk1/rapidwiz
$ ./rapidwiz
7.2 The welcome screen
The welcome screen lists the components included in the release of Oracle Applications.
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---Click Next.
7.3 The wizard Operation
The below screen asks for the action to be performed by Rapid Install either a fresh install or
upgrade. Here we will go with fresh installation. Uncheck the Express install, the only difference
between normal installation and express installation is that here (Express installation) supply only basic
parameters such as database name, top-level installation directories and port settings. The remaining
directories and other settings are taken by Rapid install using default values.
---Select Install Oracle Applications R12 and click Next
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7.4 Oracle Configuration Manager
Here accepting the oracle connection agreement to available for support of oracle products. We can
either accept or decline, if you chose to accept it will prompt for another OCM screen.
---Select Accept Oracle Connection Tools Agreement and then click Next
7.5 Oracle Configuration Manager Details.
The following details need to be given on the Oracle Configuration Manager details Screen:
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Support Identifier (CSI) : It is the unique Customer Support Identifier provided from oracle.
Metalink Account
: It is the email address by which your company is registered to metalink.
Country
: Select the country from the drop down list.
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7.6 Load Configuration file
In this screen the rapid install can create new configuration file or either load an existing
configuration file.
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----Click create a new configuration and click next.
7.7 Global System Settings
By increasing the port pool value the Database port, RPC port values will increase respective to
the port pool.
For example: - Set port pool = 5 and Database port will change from its initial value to 1521 to 1526.
Check below figure for the information.
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7.8 Database Node Configuration
The database node configuration prompts for the following details and enter the details as you
wanted,
Database type: Fresh or vision database
Database SID
The hostname of the database server
The Domain name
The operating system
The database OS User who will own the Oracle file system
The database OS group
The Base Directory of the oracle.
7.9 Licensing Type
The below screen shows two types of licensing i.e., Suite Licensing and Component Licensing
from Oracle Corporation.
---click suite licensing and click next to prompt for the other licensing screen.
In case of component licensing it prompts for the screen to select the product that you have licensed.
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7.10 Country-specific Functionalities
Many applications system need country-specific or local functionality. In order to select this,
choose the country from the list which is shown on the left side of the screen by using the ‘> ‘ button.
Incase if you don’t want it just ignore and click next.
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7.11 Internationalization Settings
In the screen you can the select languages other than the American English. Select any
additional language using ‘ > ‘button. Chose the database Character Set as UTF8 and click next.
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7.12 Primary Applications Node Configuration
The major change in this screen is INST_TOP and also chose the base directory. Check the
hostname, domain name as the same you mentioned in the previous steps. Click Edit Services to make
changes in this screen .Click Next
7.13 Node Information
This screen shows the detailed information of all the nodes .From this screen you can add any
number of nodes, which you want to add in your application system. Click next
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7.14 Validate System Configuration
The rapid install will check for the port availability, port Uniqueness, file space check, OS user
and group check, file system check and host/domain name.
7.15 Component Installation Review
In this window the rapid install will list the components to be installed .Click next to start the
installation.
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7.16 Alert wizard
This screen shows the alert message, as the oracle applications are ready to install, to move with
the installation click YES and NO to abort the installation.
7.17 Installation started
As shown in the figure the installation of Oracle R12 has begun and it will go into 5steps to
complete the installation. It will take several hours for to complete the installation depends on the
system usage.
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7.18 Post –Installation checks
The screen shows the post-installation checks after the completion. It will check for Database
availability, Environment file, HTTP, Login Page, Virtual Directory, Configuration Upload, DBC file, JSP
and help page. Click next to complete the installation.
7.19 Installation Completed
After the completion of the installation click finish button.
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7.20 Login Page
After completion of the installation enter the URL to get the login page of the Oracle application R12.
Can login using the below login credentials,
Username: SYSADMIN
Password: SYSADMIN
To check the URL login to SQL as apps user and enter the below query.
SQL > select home_url from icx_parameters;
8. HOW TO START EBS
1. Login to EBS as oracle User.
2. Source the Database Environment file.
Go to this location  /u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/10.2.0 and source the PROD_advans.env file.
Example:
[oracle@ias1 10.2.0]$ pwd
/u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/10.2.0
[oracle@ias1 10.2.0]$ . PROD_advans.env
3. Start the Database using startup.
Example:
SQL> startup
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1073741824 bytes
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Fixed Size
1264892 bytes
Variable Size
427819780 bytes
Database Buffers 633339904 bytes
Redo Buffers
11317248 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
4. Start the listener using lsnrctl command.
Example: lsnrctl starts PROD
5. Source the Apps environment file from APPL_TOP.
Go to this location  /u01/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl
Example: [oracle@ias1 appl] $ pwd
/u01/oracle/PROD/apps/apps_st/appl
[oracle@ias1 appl]$ . APPSPROD_advans.env
6. Go to INST_TOP and start the EBS.
Go to this location  /u01/oracle/PROD/inst/apps/PROD_advans/admin/scripts
[oracle@ias1 scripts]$ . /adstrtall apps/apps
9. R12 Directory Structure
The following table shows the overview of the filesystem in R12.
Mount Point
Locations
APPL_TOP
<APPS_BASE>/apps/apps_st/appl
COMMON_TOP
<APPS_BASE>/apps/apps_st/comn
ORACLE_HOME
<APPS_BASE>/apps/tech_st/10.1.2
IAS_ORACLE_HOME
<APPS_BASE>/apps/tech_st/10.1.3
INST_TOP
<APPS_BASE>/inst/apps/<context_name>
Context File
$APPL_CONFIG_HOME/admin/$TWO_TASK.xml
OA_HTML
$COMMON_TOP/webapps/oacore/html
JAVA_TOP,OA_JAVA
$COMMON_TOP/java/classes
AF_JLIB
$COMMON_TOP/java/lib
JAVA_BASE
$COMMON_TOP/java/
FND_SECURE(DBC file)
$INST_TOP/appl/fnd/12.0.0/secure/
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ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME
$INST_TOP/admin/scripts/
LOG_HOME
$INST_TOP/logs
FORMS_WEB_CONFIG_FILE
$INST_TOP/ora/10.1.2/forms/server/appsweb.cfg
Log file locations
AD Script log files
$INST_TOP/logs/appl/admin/log
Concurrent manager log files
$INST_TOP/logs/appl/conc/log
AD tools log files
$APPL_CONFIG_HOME/admin/$TWO_TASK/log
OPMN log file
$INST_TOP/logs/ora/10.1.3/opmn
Apache log file
$INST_TOP/logs/ora/10.1.3/apache
The below pictures shows the Directory structure in Oracle Applications R12
Now it’s all set! Installation of Oracle EBS is completed and you can verify it by logging in through the
URL
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