12.2 Installation problem - adrunfmw.sh shell script

There is an installation problem with the 12.2 EBS system. After creating the stage and start the installation process the progress bar hang at 38% and nothing happens.

I have looked after into the log files and find that the installation stopped at invoking of the adrunfmw.sh shell script. (it starts the deploying process of the new FMW server and EBS middleware programs).

I have search for it on Oracle Support site - nothing found - second on Google and found this forum:
https://forums.oracle.com/message/11203198

Behind the 12.2 scenes 1. - the new file structure

Behind the 12.2 scenes 1.

Now that the 12.2.2 version of Oracle EBS is publicly available we could go inside, go behind the marketing. We have already downloaded the new software and searching places for creating a new demo site from it. Until it's created I am reading the Concept, Install Guide, admin and etc documentations for searching the documented changes.

First from file directory structure - cause of why is increased the apps tier size from about 40GB to 64GB

Some comments for 12.2 Technology updates

My comments for the technology updates.

"On the application middle tier, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 now includes Oracle Fusion Middleware 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6) which provides more flexible capabilities for high availability and performance to Oracle E-Business Suite nodes."  

The good news that the really old OAS software finally dropped out from EBS. But why not 12c version of Weblogic? The 12.2 still contain the old 10.1.2 forms server, why? There is the 11g version of forms server which is using Weblogic too.

12.2 is really near at the gates?

Hi All!

Today I have surfed on edelivery - searching for EBS 12.1 install kit - and amazingly I have found a new full media pack of R12.2.2 for Linux x86-64-bit operating system!

I have downloaded the first zip file to check it's content, it contains a readme.txt with these Support notes.

1. Document 389422.1, Recommended Browsers for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.html
• Added Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2
2. Document 1155883.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Desktop Client Hardware and Software Requirements.html
• no changes yet.

And these new documents now available for non beta testers too.

1. Document 1314621.1, Oracle E-Business Suite NLS Release Notes, Release 12.2.html
2. Document 1330701.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.2) for Linux x86-64.html
3. Document 1330702.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.2) for Oracle Solaris (64-bit).html
4. Document 1330703.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.2) for IBM AIX (64-bit).html
5. Document 1330704.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.2) for HP-UX Itanium.html
6. Document 1355068.1, Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2 Patching Technology Components Guide.html
7. Document 1376618.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Technology Stack Release Notes for Release 12.2.2.html
8. Document 1469456.1, DATAINSTALL AND HRGLOBAL APPLICATION 12.2 SPECIFICS.html
9. Document 1506669.1, Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2.2 Readme.html
10. Document 1560906.1, Applying the Release 12.2.2 AD and TXK Release Update Packs.html

12.2.2 Release Update patches are available for Linux x86, HP-UX,  Solaris and IBM AIX.
They are huge! 2.6 GB per a patch file...

Good news :)

The bad news:  12.2 documentations are still not available on OTN. :(

Zoltan

Implementing a demo RAC 12c system

Hi all!

I am working on a new post series. I am trying to build a whole workable demo Oracle 12c RAC system.
The demo system will use only free or trial licencesed downloadable virtual components.

The planned system components:

• Oracle virtualbox for virtualization
• 2 virtual node with Solaris operating system, 
• a ZFS virtual storage node, 
• Oracle 12c Enterprise Edition RAC
• Container and pluggable database instances

The new post series other goal is to show how fastly is possible to create a working Oracle 12c RAC database for demonstrating purposes of RAC, Solaris or ZFS storage functions, features.

I will begin it as soon as possible.

Zoltan

Building a 5 nodes Oracle EBS using RAC and shared appl top 8.

Finish the configuration

What we have got now?

• Grid infrastructure
• RAC database software
• 2 node RAC EBS database
• A to be configured application tier

The already made steps:

1. Prepare the RAC database software
2. Prepare the source database for the conversion
3. Convert database into RAC
4. Post database conversion steps
1. turn on autoconfig
2. server parameter changes
3. create new EBS specific cluster listeners

So I have to configure the application tier to use the new RAC database. The remaining steps are:

1. Configure application tiers for using RAC database service
2. Post configuration steps

Building a 5 nodes Oracle EBS using RAC and shared appl top 7.

Forming the RAC database

What we have got now?

• Grid infrastructure
• RAC database software
• 1+3 node Oracle EBS system

It's time to copy the EBS single node database data into the new RAC database.

I will use the 823587.1 note for transfering data from the single node EBS database into the new RAC one.
The main steps will be:

1. Prepare the RAC database software
2. Prepare the source database for the conversion
3. Convert database into RAC
4. Post database conversion steps
1. turn on autoconfig
2. server parameter changes
3. create new EBS specific cluster listeners
5. Configure application tiers for using RAC database service
6. Post configuration steps

This post will contain the steps until the application tier configuration, all remaining steps will be in the next one.

Building a 5 nodes Oracle EBS using RAC and shared appl top 6.

Add the 2 remaining node to the system

What we have got now?

• Grid infrastructure
• RAC database software
• 2 node Oracle EBS system

It's time to add the 2 remaining node using the shared APPL_TOP method.

I will use the 384248.1 note during the implementation. 

Building a 5 nodes Oracle EBS using RAC and shared appl top 5.

Begin to build the shared APPL_TOP

Now we have a well configured Oracle 11g RAC infrastructure and an installed cluster database software.
All independent tasks are finished so we are ready to begin to build the 5 node system.

First I will create a 1+3 node system, 1 node for database and 3 node for application tier (with shared appl_top). This task could be splitted into 2 subtask. The first one is to create a 2 node Oracle EBS system, the second one is add the remaing 2 application tier node and reconfigure the first application tier node.
The first task is nothing more then an ordinary EBS cloning task, the second subtask is same complexity as the first one :)

So what we will do at this time?

• prepare application tier nodes
• prepare source system
• create 2 node EBS system
• add the additional application nodes

Building a 5 nodes Oracle EBS using RAC and shared appl top 4.

Install Oracle Database Software

In the previuos step we have successfully installed the Oracle Cluster infrastructure. Now it's time to install the RAC enabled Database software.

The installation will takes these steps

• Install the base 11g R2 version 11.2.0.3 software
• Implement EBS - 11gR2 interoperability note's step

Building a 5 nodes Oracle EBS using RAC and shared appl top 3.

Building the RAC infrastructure

This step is an independent step from half of the other step. I you think you could do it at later for example you could made a 1+3 node Oracle EBS system (1 node database and 3 node apps tier) with configured load balancer and SSL.

But now I am starting with this.

The main steps will be:

1. install operating system on the 2 database node,
2. create and configure all necessary storage partitions and mount points,
3. check the installed operating system and configure it for Oracle RAC and EBS database,
4. create unix users and groups,
5. create stage area,
6. create asm disk groups,
7. install Oracle Clusterware 11g Release 2,
8. install latest PSU patches