Oracle Apps R12 Interview/Reader’s Question : opmnctl status

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Q. Why do we get error when we run “opmnctl status” from “$INST_TOP/ ora/ 10.1.3/ opmn/ bin” where as $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/adopmnctl.sh works ?

For those who are new to Oracle Apps R12 or OPMN

ORACLE_HOME in application tier in Applications R12

Similar to Oracle Applications 11i, there are two ORACLE_HOMEs (but of version 10g) on application tier (three in total including database)
i) 10.1.3 (10g R3) for Web-Apps Tier (HTTP, OC4J – oacore, oafm, forms)
ii) 10.1.2 (10g R2) for forms & reports server

For technical differences between 11i & R12 click here

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What is opmnctl/adopmnctl ?

OPMN – Oracle Process Manager & Notification Server is component in Oracle Application Server (10g) to manage (start/stop/status) Application Server components (HTTP, OC4J)

adopmnctl – is wrapper around opmnctl to manage application server (10g R3 & 10g R3) in Oracle Applications (EBS) R12 . More information here

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What is INST_TOP in Oracle Apps ?

INST_TOP
denotes new TOP in Apps R12 INSTANCE_HOME, more information here . INSTANCE_HOME contains scripts, log and configuration files .

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Now back to question Why do we get error when we run “opmnctl status” from “$INST_TOP/ ora/ 10.1.3/ opmn/ bin” although we get output on running $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/ adopmnctl.sh
When you run opmnctl status from $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.3/opmn/bin you get error like below

$ ./opmnctl status
Error reading opmn.xml
Message:{$INST_TOP/ora/10.1.2/opmn/conf/opmn.xml (No such file or directory)}
Filename:{$INST_TOP/ora/10.1.2/opmn/conf/opmn.xml}
FileContent:{}

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This is because when you run “opmnctl status” from $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.3/opmn/bin, opmnctl executable picks up OPMN config file (opmn.xml) from $ORACLE_CONFIG_HOME/opmn/conf/opmn.xml and $ORACLE_CONFIG_HOME by default is set to 10.1.2  ORACLE_HOME .
             It is still possible to display status using $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.3/opmn/bin/status but first set $ORACLE_CONFIG_HOME to 10.1.3  (This can be done by executing 10.1.3 environment file i.e. $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.3/$SID_$hostname.env )
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Why don’t you get above error by running $ADMIN_SCRIPTS_HOME/ adopmnctl.sh ? adopmnctl.sh calls $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.3/$SID_$hostname.env and sets $ORACLE_HOME and $ORACLE_CONFIG_HOME to 10.1.3 related executable and configuration files. adopmnctl.sh is correct script to manage services (start/stop/status) controlled by OPMN in R12.

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6 comments
Umair says January 5, 2010

Once I faced the following question:

How you will suggest the hard disk space if there are 40 users accessing the EBS R12 server concurrently?

NOTE: I still dont know 😀

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Saquib says January 5, 2010

Thanks Atul for your reply

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Atul Kumar says January 5, 2010

@ Umair, Disk usage will depend on kind of data users are dumping in to EBS (It is not dependent on number of concurrent users). Memory requirement is however depends on number of concurrent users and as thumb rule its 2 MB per user for JVM (OC4J in R12)

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Umair says January 5, 2010

thanks alot Atul.

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Short but very accurate information… Thank you
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prathap says October 20, 2015

hi sir
unfortunately my adtop is deleted from r12 can you please explain the procedure how to recover and kindly help me

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