Archive Monthly Archives: May 2008

Unix/Linux Introduction

Any Computer system consists of      * Hardware      * Operating System      * Applications and Utilities Unix is an operating system which was first developed in the 1960s in Bell Labs. Unix is a popular OS because of multi user, multi tasking, stability and portability capabilities. what is an Operating System?    Operating system […]

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Good Metalink Notes or Documentation on Apps 11i/R12/12i Patching

Here are few good metalink notes to understand Oracle Apps Patching (adpatch), You need Metalink Account to access these notes.  181665.1 – Release 11i Adpatch Basics 457566.1 – Oracle Applications Patching FAQ for Release 11i 459156.1 – Oracle Applications Patching FAQ for Release 12 60766.1 – 11.0.x : Patch Installation Frequently Asked Questions 225165.1 – Patching […]

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Install VMware on LINUX & Windows Server 2000 as Virtual Machine

This post covers installation of VMware on Linux machine and then install virtual windows 2000 Server. Later (in coming posts) we’ll configure Microsoft Active Directory on this windows server and finally Integrate/Synchronise Microsoft Active Directory (AD) with Oracle Internet Directory (OID) Here are simple steps to install VMware on Linuxas host machine. Download VMware for Linux from here http://www.vmware.com/download/ws Download […]

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Configure 10.1.3.X OC4J to access from 10.1.2.X Web Server

This post covers overview and key points you should know with documentation link on how to integrate 10.1.2 Oracle Application Server(Webcache, HTTP Server – Portal, J2EE, Forms and BI) with 10.1.3.X Application Server (OC4J) This post is useful if your company already have an existing 10.1.2 installation (Portal or BI) and you wish to use new features […]

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Configure Oracle Data Guard Part II

This is in continuation of Oracle Dataguard configuration part I  which I posted long back and forgot to update next one.    One of my friend was looking for steps so I thought of finishing this (If you think I missed any post just leave comment and I’ll try to post on that topic) Ensure that […]

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SSO : How to deal with “Your Account is Locked”

 You have applications (E-Business Suite 11i/R12, Portal, Discoverer, BI Publisher) integrated with Oracle Single sign-On (SSO) and users complain that they receive message “Your Account is Locked“. Here are few things which can help you in understanding this – First thing to do in case “User account is locked” You should know how to unlock SSO account.  These are various […]

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Cloning : OAM System Name pointing to Source Instance

On one of Oracle Applications 11i cloned instance, OAM (Oracle Application Manager) was showing  “Application System Name” as source Instance. like http://<url>/oa_servlets/weboam/oam/oamApps$target=source 1. My first thought was to look at FND_NODES to see if any node entry still pointing to source instance. All records in this table were pointing to target instance. If FND_NODES contain entry to source […]

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Change “hosts” file in Windows Vista

If you wish to connect to a machine by hostname (which is not registered in DNS (Domain Name Server)) you need to add <IP> <Fully Qualified Hostname> <Hostname> in Hosts file.    Adding an entry in Non Vista (Microsoft O.S. XP, 2000, NT) is pretty simple. Open hosts file (using text editor like notepad, wordpad..) and hostname entry […]

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Oracle Content Server (UCM) installation overview

Oracle Content Server provide Repository and Core Services required for Oracle Universal Content Management (UCM, Content Management product from Stellent) This post covers key points for Content Server Installation and documentation related to Content Server and UCM – – Installation Requirement Apart from operating system you need following software to install content server 1) JVM 1.5 (This comes […]

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Unix/Linux Administration for Oracle DBA’s

           Hi Friends, I want to start posting Unix/Linux Administration concepts, as we are gettting lot of requests in the Forum. Since most of the Oracle Databases runs on Unix/Linux Platforms, as an Oracle DBA we need to have some Unix/Linux Knowledge, which we can not entirely depend on Unix/Linux Administrators. Here in coming posts, i […]

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