Autoconfig in Apps template files Contd….
If you are reading Autoconfig post on this site read my previous post to understand about Autoconfig
Autoconfig Basics
Unwrapping Autoconfig Config file, XML file or Context File
Autoconfig Questions on My Site
Now lets understand how Autoconfig populate/creates files , In order to understand whole process you as apps dba need to understand template files under each product top or tech stack directory in oracle Applications 11i.
These template directory are under each top as well as under $FND_TOP/admin/template . In order to explain here I am taking example on how Apache (Oracle Web Server) related files are created when you run Autoconfig.
If you go to $FND_TOP/admin/template directory, all template files related to iAS ORACLE HOME like http.conf , jserv.conf, zone.properties .. are stored in this their respective directories under template directory.
So template file to create httpd.conf is stored in $FND_TOP/admin/template
similarly template file for jserv.conf will be in
$FND_TOP/admin/template
In these directories you will see file like httpd.conf or jserv.conf with parameter like
ApJServGroup OACoreGroup 1 1 %s_weboh_oh%/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties (in jserv.conf under template directory)
or
ServerAdmin applmgr@%s_domainname% ( in httpd.conf under template directory)
Now when Autoconfig executes , its picks up these files & replaces parameters like
%s_weboh_oh% & %s_domainname% from Autoconfig Configuration File i.e. Context file or XML file of format SID_HOSTNAME.xml (Discussed in previous post)
So in my case for vision instance in xml file has these values
s_weboh_oh is /u01/applmgr/VIS11i/ora9/iAS
s_domainname is co.in
that’s how all my configuration files are created on execution of Autoconfig .
Now there is one issue on executing Autoconfig file i.e. If you have put in some customization in any of these files it will be overwritten by Autoconfig.
How to preserve customization …
important parameter/tags in xml context file
How to change Hostname or Domain name of Apps Server
Coming in future posts ….
Related :
http://becomeappsdba.blogspot.com/2007/09/preserving-customizations-in-oracle.html