Oracle Fusion Applications Installation: Create new Response File

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This step has to be done on node 2 (Fusion Applications Node). Make sure you are having /etc/hosts or DNS entry for  node 1 in node 2 and vice versa and you can reach both servers from each other.

Since Provisioning Wizard comes as part of Provisioning framework, you must Install Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework on node 2 as well. Follow this link for steps of the same.

Install Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework

Once this is done, in order to create a new fusion applications Response File we should launch the provisioning wizard again from <framework_location>/bin

<framework_location> is same what we mentioned in previous post. i.e. /app/fusion/provisioning

 

Note: The step which was earlier called “Provisioning Plan” is now called “Response File” since last couple of releases.

Unzip the JDK from stage directory.

[fusion@fahost ~]$ cd /app/fusion/

[fusion@fahost ~]$ unzip /mnt/hgfs/setup/installers/jdk/jdk6.zip

[fusion@fahost ~]$ export JAVA_HOME=/app/fusion/jdk6

[fusion@fahost ~]$ cd /app/fusion/provisioning/bin

[fusion@fahost bin]$ ./provisioningWizard.sh &

 

Click Next

 

Select “Create a New Applications Environment Provisioning Response File” and click Next

 

Deselect the checkbox and click Next

 

Click Yes

 

We are installing Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub here. You can select the product which you want to configure. Please note that just like eBusiness Suite, here also it will configure other modules regardless which module you have selected due to the dependencies between modules.

You can see how many Admin and managed servers will be created for this configuration in the below panel.

Click on details to see how many Domains, Admin and managed servers will be created with this selected configuration.

 

 

Enter desired values here and click Next

 

Enter following values.

User Name: weblogic

Installers Directory Location: <Repository_location> (for our case /stage or /mnt/hgfs/stage)

Applications Base: /app/fusion

Applications Configuration: /app/fusion/instance

 

RDP Password: <Enter the same password as earlier here>

Note: You would see a change in this screen. We don’t specify the idmDomainConfig.param file here in this screen as we used to do till 11.1.4 release. There is a dedicated screen for this later.

 

The default Base port is 7000 and since now we have 2 nodes installation, there will not be any conflict with IDM node which also has few overlapping ports. Remaining are automatically selected based on what value you give as base port.

 

Enter the database details here and click Next

 

Enter same password for all accounts and click Next

 

Enter password here and click Next. Must have one uppercase and number in the password. Click Next

 

Since we are doing single node installation, enter our host name here. Click Next

 

We are not publishing any URLs outside so don’t select DMZ. Enter values as follows.

DMZ : Unchecked

Host: <hostname>

Virtual Host mode: Port based

Domain name: Full domain name

HTTP Port and HTTPS ports: Don’t change

Click Next

 

Review the information and click Next

 

Click Next

 

Click Next

 

This is new screen since 11.1.5. Here you can browse for the idmDomainConfig.param file as generated in previous steps.

Make sure that you have copied the idmDomainConfig.param file from node 1 (IDM node) from $IAM_HOME/idmtools/bin/ idmDomainConfig.param to any location on this node 2. You can FTP this file in ascii mode since it contains text values.

 

[root@fahost ~]# ls –ltr /app/fusion/idmDomainConfig.param

-rw-r—– 1 fusion dba 1231 Apr 6 04:43 /app/fusion/idmDomainConfig.param

 

Most of the values will be populated from the idmDomainConfig.param file.

Enter remaining values as follows.

Super User name: weblogic_fa

Check all following 3 check boxes.

Enter all passwords.

 

OIM Administrator User name: weblogic_idm

OIM Managed Server Port: 14000

HTTP endpoint URL: http://<hostname>:7777

Click Next

 

Again here most values will be populated.

OAM Administrator User Name: oamadmin

AAA Server Port: 5575

Access Server Identifier: WLS_OAM1

Due to a known bug, Set to Simple, enter password and again change to Open. Click Next

 

OPSS Policy store JPS Root Node: cn=FAPolicies

Make sure to select “Create OPSS Policy Store JPS Root Node

Click Next

 

Enter database details and for schema owner, enter the same value as created during RCU. In our case prefix was FA so value is FA_MDS. Enter password and click Next

 

Review the summary and click Finish to create the response file and provisioning summary files.

 

Keep a backup of the Response file if you want.

[fusion@fahost bin]$ cp -pr provisioning.rsp provisioning.rsp.bak

[fusion@fahost bin]$ cp -pr provisioning.summary provisioning.summary.bak

 

Next: Provision an Applications Environment

Apr 14th, 2013 | Posted by Tushar Thakker | Filed under Uncategorized

Fusion Applications: Number of weblogic server instances for each configuration selection

Some of you are asking questions on how many weblogic server instances (Admin server, managed servers etc) are created based on each offering selection/configuration. Here is summary list for you.

1. Oracle Fusion Customer Relationship Management

6 Admin Servers, 21 Application Managed Servers, 17 Middleware Managed Servers

2. Oracle Fusion Financials

8 Admin Servers, 22 Application Managed Servers, 23 Middleware Managed Servers

3. Oracle Fusion Accounting Hub

5 Admin Servers, 12 Application Managed Servers, 14 Middleware Managed Servers

4. Oracle Fusion Human Capital Management

5 Admin Servers, 17 Application Managed Servers, 14 Middleware Managed Servers

5. Oracle Fusion Supply Chain Management

7 Admin Servers, 23 Application Managed Servers, 17 Middleware Managed Servers

6. Customer Data Hub

5 Admin Servers, 12 Application Managed Servers, 14 Middleware Managed Servers

7. Enterprise Contracts

5 Admin Servers, 14 Application Managed Servers, 13 Middleware Managed Servers

8. Oracle Fusion Incentive Compensation

6 Admin Servers, 12 Application Managed Servers, 14 Middleware Managed Servers

 

I am going to post a lot more content on Fusion Applications soon ! Stay tuned..

Tushar

Apr 9th, 2013 | Posted by Tushar Thakker | Filed under Uncategorized

Solution for atgpf-build failure during “install” phase with OUI-67073:UtilSession failed: null error

Some of you who are installing Fusion Applications on Linux Virtual Machine may face this error during Install phase of Fusion Applications provisioning.

ATGPF atgpf-build fails with following error while applying patches using opatch.

OUI-67073:UtilSession failed: null

atgpf-build-error-FA-install-phase

 

This error does not provide any other information so that we can troubleshoot. Even if you manually run the command which is failing you will see the same error in log file.

/app/fusion/fusionapps/applications/OPatch/opatch napply -oh /app/fusion/fusionapps/atgpf -silent -phBaseDir /mnt/hgfs/stage/installers/atgpf/patch

Cause:

This error is caused by one file path which is more than 255 characters

"/mnt/hgfs/stage/installers/atgpf/patch/15986685/files/atgpf/applications/exploded/FndSetup.ear/ApplcoreSetup_ViewController_webapp.war/WEB-INF/classes/oracle/webcenter/activitystreaming/view/jsf/fragments/mdssys/cust/Global/GLOBAL/activityStreamSettings.jsff.xml "

If you are sharing the installation repository directory from your Host to VMWare as “Shared Folders” feature, as you can see that VMWare is by default creating mounts of “Shared Folders” in /mnt/hgfs directory.  Because of this, this particular file path goes beyond 255 characters.

This can also happen even if you are using local stage folder but if you have used long file path for the repository location.

Solution:

The solution is to make sure that the repository is ideally copied on /stage path which is small in terms of characters.

But since VMWare by default creates the share on /mnt/hgfs, we can manually unmount and mount it on different location as follows.

As root user

[root@fahost ~]# umount /mnt/hgfs

[root@fahost ~]# mount -t vmhgfs .host:/stage /stage

(here .host:/stage directory is the alias name given to the shared folder in VMWare shared folders option)

Now if you restart the installation, this error will disappear and install phase will complete without errors.

Happy learning !

– Tushar