Cloning Oracle Applications Release 11i

with Rapid Clone

April 2009

Cloning creates an identical copy of an existing Oracle Applications system. There are
various reasons for cloning an Oracle Applications system such as:

• Creating a copy of the production system for testing updates.

• Migrating an existing system to new hardware.
• Creating a stage area to reduce patching downtime.

This document describes the process of cloning an Oracle Applications Release 11i
system. The most current version of this note is document 230672.1 on OracleMetaLink.
A FAQ is also available in document 216664.1 on OracleMetaLink.

Note: Rapid Clone is currently not supported on Windows Itanium and HP

OpenVMS Alpha.
Attention: Windows users. This document typically uses UNIX syntax when
specifying directories; Please substitute the appropriate Windows syntax

• Section 1: Prerequisites
Tasks to perform before using Rapid Clone.
• Section 2: Clone Oracle Applications 11i
Tasks to prepare, copy, configure, and verify a cloned Applications System.
• Section 3: Finishing Tasks
Tasks to complete the cloning process.
• Section 4: Advanced Cloning Methods
Tasks for advanced options such as refreshing and multi-node cloning.

Conventions

Convention Meaning
Source system Applications system being cloned.
Applications system being created as a copy of the
Target system
source.
User which owns the applications file system
APPLMGR (APPL_TOP and application tier technology
stack)
User which owns the database file system
ORACLE
(RDBMS ORACLE_HOME and database files).
CONTEXT_NAME The CONTEXT_NAME variable refers to the
name of the Applications Context file. For
systems installed with Rapid Install 11.5.8 or
 earlier, this value will typically be set to <SID>.
For new AutoConfig or Rapid Clone customers,
CONTEXT_NAME will be set to
<SID>_<HOSTNAME>.
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Section 1: Prerequisites

Before cloning, prepare the source system by applying patches and running AutoConfig.

1. Verify source and target nodes software versions

In addition to the Oracle Applications software requirements (see Installing
Oracle Applications Release 11i Part No. B10638-01), the following software
component versions must exist on the source and/or target nodes. The location
column indicates the node where the software component must be present.
Minimum
Software Location Details
Version

Apply OUI22 patch 5035661 on every

Oracle iAS and RDBMS ORACLE_HOME to
All source
Universal 2.2.0.19 be cloned. Do not apply the patch to your
system nodes
Installer RDBMS ORACLE_HOME, if you have
Oracle 10g or higher installed.
Use the Perl shipped with iAS1022 and
Source and
RDBMS 9i if available or download it
target
Perl 5.005 from Perl.com. Perl must be in the
database
PATH before cloning. Windows users:
nodes
do not use Perl from MKSToolKit.
If the RDBMS ORACLE_HOME was
Source not installed using Rapid Install, install
JRE 1.1.8
database node JRE 1.1.8 into the <RDBMS
ORACLE_HOME>/jre/1.1.8 directory.
Windows users only: install JRE 1.3.1
into the <RDBMS
Source
JRE 1.3.1 ORACLE_HOME>/jre/1.3.1 directory.
database node
See Appendix A for installation
instructions.
Target
Refer to Upgrading to JDK 1.3 with
middle-tier
JDK 1.3.1 Oracle Applications 11i on
applications
OracleMetaLink for instructions.
nodes
 All source Download from InfoZip. Zip must be in
Zip 2.3
nodes your PATH for cloning.
OS utilities (see 11i Install Manual) must
All target be in the the PATH when running
OS utilities N/A
nodes adcfgclone.pl (Unix: make,ld,cc,ar -
Windows: gnumake,link,cc,cmd)
2. Apply the latest AD Minipack
Apply patch 6502082 (11i.AD.I.6) or higher.
Please refer to OracleMetaLink to obtain the latest MiniPack available for AD.
3. Windows users only:
Apply patch 2237858 to enable long file names support.
4. Apply the latest AutoConfig Template patch
Update the Oracle Applications file system with the latest AutoConfig template
files by applying the TXK AutoConfig Template rollup patch to all application
tier server nodes.
Please refer to document 165195.1 on OracleMetaLink to obtain the latest
Autoconfig Template Rollup Patch available.
5. Apply the latest Rapid Clone patches
Update the Oracle Applications file system with the latest Rapid Clone files by
applying the following patches to all application tier server nodes :
o 3453499 : 11i.ADX.F
o 6718351 : 11i RAPIDCLONE CONSOLIDATED FIXES JUL/2008
o 7307102 : Required for Windows Platforms
o 7425146 : Required for Windows x86-64 (EM64T)
o 8217144 : Required for Windows Platforms
o 8251658 : Required for Windows Platforms
6. Setup Rapid Clone on the Applications Tier

a.If the source Applications system was created with Rapid Install version
11.5.5 or earlier and has not been migrated to AutoConfig, follow the
instructions Migrating to AutoConfig on the Applications Tier in document
165195.1 on OracleMetaLink).
b. All users must run AutoConfig on the Applications Tier (see section 5:
Maintaining System Configuration in document 165195.1 on
OracleMetaLink).
2. Setup Rapid Clone on the Database Tier
Implement AutoConfig in the RDBMS ORACLE_HOME (Follow the instructions
in section Migrating to AutoConfig on the Database Tier in document 165195.1
on OracleMetaLink).
Attention: Every time that a new Rapid Clone or Autoconfig patch is applied on the
APPL_TOP, the RDBMS ORACLE_HOME must be updated with the files included on
those patches.
Follow the instructions in section Maintaining System Configuration in document
165195.1 on OracleMetaLink to synchronize the Rapid Clone and Autoconfig files on the
RDBMS ORACLE_HOME.
3. Maintain Snapshot information
 Log in to each Application Tier Node as the APPLMGR user and run Maintain
Snapshot information in AD Administration.
See Oracle Applications Maintenance Utilities for more information.

Section 2: Clone Oracle Applications 11i

Use Rapid Clone to create template files for cloning on the source system. After the
source system is copied to the target, Rapid Clone updates these templates to contain the
new target system configuration settings. Rapid Clone will not change the source system
configuration.

There are three phases to the cloning process:

1. Prepare the Source System

Execute the following commands to prepare the source system for cloning.
a. Prepare the source system database tier for cloning
Log on to the source system as the ORACLE user and run the following
commands:
cd <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/scripts/<CONTEXT_NAME>
perl adpreclone.pl dbTier
b. Prepare the source system application tier for cloning
Log on to the source system as the APPLMGR user and run the following
commands on each node that contains an APPL_TOP:
cd <COMMON_TOP>/admin/scripts/<CONTEXT_NAME>
perl adpreclone.pl appsTier
2. Copy the Source System to the Target System
Copy the application tier file system from the source Applications system to the
target node by executing the following steps in the order listed. Ensure the
application tier files copied to the target system are owned by the target
APPLMGR user, and that the database tier files are owned by the ORACLE user.
a. Copy the application tier file system
Log on to the source system application tier nodes as the APPLMGR user.
 Shut down the application tier server processes
 Copy the following application tier directories from the source
node to the target application tier node:
 <APPL_TOP>
 <OA_HTML>
 <OA_JAVA>
 <OA_JRE_TOP>
 <COMMON_TOP>/util
 <COMMON_TOP>/clone
 <COMMON_TOP>/_pages (when this directory exists)
 <806 ORACLE_HOME>
 <iAS ORACLE_HOME>
b. Copy the database tier file system
 Log on to the source system database node as the ORACLE user.
 Perform a normal shutdown of the source system database
 Copy the database (DBF) files from the source to the target system
 Copy the source database ORACLE_HOME to the target system
 Start up the source Applications system database and application
tier processes
Note: Unix/Linux users, make sure that the softlinks are preserved when copying.
3. Configure the Target System
Execute the following commands to configure the target system. You will be
prompted for the target system specific values (SID, Paths, Ports, etc)
a. Configure the target system database server
Log on to the target system as the ORACLE user and type the following
commands to configure and start the database:
cd <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/clone/bin
perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier
b. Configure the target system application tier server nodes
Log on to the target system as the APPLMGR user and type the following
commands:
cd <COMMON_TOP>/clone/bin
perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier

Attention: Windows user only: add <806 ORACLE_HOME>\bin to the

system path before running this step.

Section 3: Finishing Tasks

This section lists tasks that may be necessary depending on your implementation and the
intended use of the cloned system.

1. Update profile options

Rapid Clone updates only site level profile options. If any other profile options are
set to instance specific values, you must update them manually.
2. Update printer settings
If the new cloned system needs to utilize different printers, update the target
system with the new printer settings now.
3. Update workflow configuration settings
Cloning an Oracle Applications instance will not update the host and instance
specific information used by Oracle Workflow. Review the following tables and
columns to verify there is no instance specific data in the Workflow configuration
on the target system.
Table Name Column Name Column Value Details
Value starts with http://<old
WF_NOTIFICATION_ATTRIBUTES TEXT_VALUE web host> : Update to new web
host
WF_ITEM_ATTRIBUTE_VALUES TEXT_VALUE Value starts with "http://<old
web host> : Update to new web
 host
Create a new system defined as
the new global database name
WF_SYSTEMS GUID using the Workflow
Administrator Web Applications
responsibility.
Value needs to be replaced with
WF_SYSTEMS NAME
the database global name
Update database link with the
WF_AGENTS ADDRESS
new database global name.
Update with the new web host
FND_FORM_FUNCTIONS WEB_HOST_NAME
name
Update to point at the new
FND_FORM_FUNCTIONS WEB_AGENT_NAME
PLSQL listener name
Update with the correct path to
FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS LOGFILE_NAME
the logfile directory
Update with the new directory
FND_CONCURRENT_REQUESTS OUTFILE_NAME
path on the target system
4. Verify the APPLCSF variable setting
Source the APPS environment and review that the variable APPLCSF (identifying
the top-level directory for concurrent manager log and output files) points to an
acceptable directory. To modify it, change the value of s_applcsf in the
contextfile and run AutoConfig.
5. Update the SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN value in ICX_PARAMETERS
If the target system is in a different domain name than the source system and
SESSION_COOKIE_DOMAIN was not null in the source system, update that value to
reflect the new domain name.
6. Windows users only reboot the target machine
Once cloning is completed reboot to enable the services.

Section 4: Advanced Cloning Options

This section describes advanced cloning procedures.

1. Refreshing a target system

You may need to refresh the target system periodically to synchronize it with
changes from the source.
Attention: Backup the target context file on the target system before refreshing the
dbTier or appsTier.
2. To refresh the target system, perform the following steps as described in previous
sections:
a. Prepare the Source System
b. Copy the Source System to the Target System
o Copy the application tier file system if the APPL_TOP, 806
ORACLE_HOME, or iAS ORACLE_HOME needs to be
refreshed. Copy the portion of the application tier file system
which has been updated.
 o Copy the database tier file system if the RDBMS
ORACLE_HOME or the database needs to be refreshed. If
refreshing the database, the ORACLE_HOME should be refreshed
at the same time.
c. Configure the Target System
Specify the existing target system context file when running adcfgclone.pl
commands:
o perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier <Database target context
file>
where database context file is:
<RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/<Target
CONTEXT_NAME>.xml
o perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier <Appltop target context
file>
where appltop context file is:
<APPL_TOP>/admin/<Target CONTEXT_NAME>.xml
d. Finishing Tasks
3. Cloning a single-node system to a multi-node system
This procedure allows the original single-node system to be cloned into a multi-
node system. An Applications system comprises five server types:

o Database server (database tier)

o Forms server (application tier)
o Web server (application tier)
o Concurrent Processing server (application tier)
o Administration server (application tier)

During the single-node to multi-node cloning process, each of these servers can be
placed on its own node, resulting in a multi-node target system.

a. Perform prerequisites
Perform these steps on all source and target nodes.
b. Clone Oracle Applications 11i
Prepare, copy and configure the cloned Applications System. When
creating more than one application tier server node from a single node
system, the copy and configure steps must be performed on each target
node. You can specify the server type for each target node while
answering the prompts during the configuration step.
The database ORACLE_HOME and database only need to be copied to
the node on which the database will be run.
c. Finishing Tasks

Note: Another way of changing a single-node system to a multi-node system is

to share the APPL_TOP. See document 233428.1 on OracleMetaLink for
details.
4. Cloning a multi-node system to a multi-node system with same number of
nodes
 A multi-node system can be cloned provided the number of nodes and distribution
of servers in the target system matches that of the source system.

To clone a multi-node system to a multi-node system, perform the cloning process

on each node. For example, if the source system contains three nodes, perform the
cloning process three times.

o Clone source system node 1 to target system node 1.

o Clone source system node 2 to target system node 2.
o Clone source system node 3 to target system node 3.
Attention: The database server node must be cloned first.
2. Adding a new node to an existing system
You can use Rapid Clone to clone a node and add it to the existing Application
System. The new node will run the same or a subset of the server types running on
the source node. Follow the instructions in the Application Tier part of Clone
Oracle Applications 11i:
o Prepare the source system, copy it to the new node and configure it.
o After adcfgclone.pl completes, source the Applications environment and
run the following commands on the target system:
o cd <COMMON_TOP>/clone/bin
o perl adaddnode.pl
Note: If the SQL*Net Access security is enabled in the existing system (enabled
by default from 11i10), you first need to authorize the new node to access the
database through SQL*Net. See Managed SQL*Net Access from Hosts in
document 281758.1 on OracleMetalink for instructions on how to achieve this
from OAM.
3. Reducing the number of nodes of a multi-node system (merge APPL_TOP)
You can use Rapid Clone to clone a multi-node system to a single-node system (or
a multi-node system with fewer nodes) by merging the APPL_TOPs filesystem
together. Follow the procedure for Merging existing APPL_TOPs in document
233428.1 on OracleMetaLink.
4. Cloning a RAC system
You can use Rapid Clone to clone a RAC system. While cloning, you have the
possibility to remove or add nodes to the cluster in the target RAC system.
Attention: The following steps apply only for 9i RAC Clusters. For 10g or 11g
RAC environments, please follow the instructions in Document 760637.1.
Note: For complete details on the certified RAC scenarios for E-Business Suite
Cloning, refer to Document 783188.1 available in OracleMetaLink.
6. To clone a RAC system, perform the following tasks:

d. Verify the prerequisites

o Apply TXK patch 3571388 (AutoConfig support for Oracle RAC
instances)
o Migrate the source system cluster ORACLE_HOMES to
AutoConfig as documented in document 165195.1 on
OracleMetaLink
 e. Prepare the Source System
Choose one of the ORACLE_HOMEs on the source cluster. This
ORACLE_HOME will be used as a master to create all the target cluster
system ORACLE_HOME. Run "perl adpreclone.pl dbTier" on it.
Note: You also have the option to clone each ORACLE_HOME from the
source RAC cluster to the target cluster. In that case, run adpreclone.pl on every
ORACLE_HOME.
f. Copy the Source System to the Target System
o Copy the master ORACLE_HOME from the source system to each
node that will compose the target cluster. For example, if your
source RAC system had 2 nodes, and you want to clone it to a 3
node target RAC system, you should copy the source master
ORACLE_HOME to the 3 nodes on the target system.
o Copy the database files from the source to target system.
g. Configure the Target System
o Log on to any ORACLE_HOME in the target cluster and run
 adcfgclone.pl dbTier

This step configures the first node of the target system RAC cluster
and recreates the database control files. The prompts, however, will
gather information about every node in the target RAC cluster and
the data will be re-used when configuring each subsequent node in
the next step.

o For each remaning RDBMS ORACLE_HOME in the target

system, run the following command as the ORACLE file system
owner:
 adcfgclone.pl dbTier
h. Clone the application tier
Follow the steps in section 2 to prepare, copy and configure the application
tier. When prompted for the database SID, specify any one of the RAC
service names.

Note: To clone from RAC to non-RAC, follow the same above steps but copy
the master ORACLE_HOME to one target node only, and answer "No" to the
question "Target instance is a Real Application Cluster (RAC) instance (y/n)",
when prompted by adcfgclone.pl.
5. Adding a node to an existing RAC Cluster
You can use Rapid Clone to add one or several nodes to an existing RAC Cluster.
Attention: The following steps apply only for 9i RAC Clusters. For 10g or 11g
RAC environments, please follow the instructions in Document 760637.1.
Note: For complete details on the certified RAC scenarios for E-Business Suite
Cloning, refer to Document 783188.1 available in OracleMetaLink.
7. Perform the following tasks:

i. Choose any one of the ORACLE_HOMEs in the existing cluster and run
 "perl adpreclone.pl dbTier" on it. This ORACLE_HOME will be used as a
master to create the additional node(s).

j. Copy the master ORACLE_HOME filesystem to the new node(s).

k. On the init.ora, set the variable "cluster_database_instances" to match the

new number of nodes.

Note: After the RAC conversion, the context variable %s_dbClusterInst% will
need to be set on the Database Context files to reflect the new number of nodes.
From the OAM Context Editor, set the variable with the new number and run
Autoconfig on each ORACLE_HOME.
l.
m. Reconfigure the RAC Cluster to include the new node(s):
o Log on to the new node, or any one of the new nodes if adding
more than one, and run the following command:
 cd /appsutil/clone/bin
 perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier
Note: You will be prompted for information about all the nodes forming the
new cluster and asked to perform the next step before completing adcfgclone.pl
on this node.
o When instructed so by the previous step, log on to every node from
the original cluster and run the following command on each of
them:
 cd /appsutil/clone/bin
 perl adcfgclone.pl addracnode <context file>
o Go back to the first node and complete adcfgclone.pl
o If you are adding more than one node to the original cluster, log on
to each of the remaining new nodes and run
 cd /appsutil/clone/bin
 perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier

8. Cloning a Shared File System

You can use Rapid Clone to clone a shared APPL_TOP system. Since all the
nodes share a unique APPL_TOP you only need to fully clone one of the source
system nodes to its target machine and add more nodes directly sharing the
APPL_TOP on the target system. Choose one of the shared APPL_TOP nodes on
source system (the rest of this section will refer to it as Node A) and perform the
following tasks:

n. Perform prerequisites
Perform these steps on Node A and and every target nodes.
o. Clone Oracle Applications 11i
Perform a full clone (Prepare, copy and configure steps) of the Database
Tier and Node A (Application tier).
p. Add the shared file system nodes to the target system
 On the target system, follow the instructions for adding a node to a shared
APPL_TOP system in document 233428.1 on OracleMetalink and add
more nodes sharing the target system APPL_TOP to match the source
system topology.

Appendix A: Install JRE 1.3.1 into RDBMS ORACLE_HOME

Windows customers will need to perform the following steps:

• Download JRE 1.3.1 from Sun Microsystems.

• Run the install executable
• When prompted for the location to install jre, click browse and enter the location:
<RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>\jre\1.3.1
• Accept the default installation options.

JRE 1.3.1 will be installed into the <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>\jre\1.3.1 directory.

Appendix B: Recreating database control files manually in Rapid Clone.

This Appendix documents the steps to allow manual creation of the target database
control files within the Rapid Clone process. Examples of when to use this method are for
databases on raw partitions or hot backup cloning. Replace section 2.3a (Configure the
target system database server) with the following steps:

• Log on to the target system as the ORACLE user

• Configure the <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>
o cd <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/clone/bin
o perl adcfgclone.pl dbTechStack
• Create the target database control files manually
• Start the target system database in open mode
• Run the library update script against the database
o cd <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/install/<CONTEXT NAME>
o sqlplus "/ as sysdba" @adupdlib.sql <libext>
where <libext> is "sl" for HP-UX, "so" for any other UNIX platform and
not required for Windows.
• Configure the target database (the database must be open)
o cd <RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/clone/bin
o perl adcfgclone.pl dbconfig <target context file>
where target context file is:

<RDBMS ORACLE_HOME>/appsutil/<Target CONTEXT_NAME&gt.xml