This post covers reader’s question around Cloning in Oracle Apps R12/11i :
I want to clone my production instance without shutting down Application Tier and Database Tier. As per Metalink note 230672.1 “Cloning Oracle Applications 11i with Rapid Clone”, I have to shutdown Application Tier and Database Tier. For Database I can use RMAN for hot backup but How […]

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Platform Migration of Oracle Applications
Migrate Platforms with Oracle Applications 11i to Linux platform
While migrating to a new platform, we must make sure that the new platform is certified/supported by Oracle for both the database and the Apps tiers, if migrating both.
If migrating just one of the tier to the new platform, then that architecture is […]

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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 instance, I could […]

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Hello all, As per the request and with experience I am again returing to Cloning of Oracle Application. I know most of them know what exactly happens in cloning but still here I am trying to touch the depths.
Before starting I want to ask question. Why you need to do cloning ? Why we need to […]

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Cloning is the act of creating an identical copy of an already existing Oracle Applications system.
Simply copying all of the components from source to target system does not provide us a working Oracle Applications system, there are various configuration files that must be changed & for this purpose we do Cloning.
      Do keep in mind […]

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Today’s post covers hgh level steps for cloning Oracle Apps Instances (11i/R12/12i) integrated with SSO/OID (10.1.2.0.2 or 10.1.4)
Option available for integration of 11i/R12/12i
Option 1 : Integrate only OID & SSO - In this option you integrate only Infrastructure Tier of 10g AS (10.1.2.0.2) or Identity Management (10.1.4) . This is useful if you wish to integrate Apps […]

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Cloning Principle
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1. Cloning is creating replica of your source instance (prod,..) to target (test,dev..) so that patch level & data in target instance is same as source instance.
2. Overview of cloning steps
2.1 Ensure you are autoconfig enabled on both Application Tier & Database tier (This is for Rapid Clone)
2.2 Maintain snapshot is executed at least […]

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