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Application Management Pack for

Oracle E-Business Suite
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Program Agenda
• E-Business Suite Lifecycle Management <Insert Picture Here>
• Application Management Pack

for Oracle E-Business Suite
• Overview
• Features
• Bundled Features Vs. Licensed Features
• Tips

Program Agenda

• Overview
• Features

Lifecycle Management (LCM)
Overview
• End-to-end application ownership
experience for IT
• Implement to deliver business functions and
flows
• Manage and maintain to ensure business
service levels
• Upgrade to meet evolving business needs
Benefits
• Low total cost of ownership
• Reduced risk in IT operations
• Increased IT agility to respond to changing
business needs

E-Business Suite LCM Tools
iSetup
Oracle Applications
Rapid Install Manager
/ Clone
Enterprise Manager
Applications DBA Utilities Grid Control

E-Business Suite & Enterprise Manager
Database Deployment Middleware E-Business Suite
Apps Oracle
Application AS Applications
RDBMS DB Control Server Control Manager
Enterprise Manager
Repository Oracle HTML

Management UI
Server

Program Agenda

• Overview
• Features

Application Management Pack for
Oracle E-Business Suite
• Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business
Suite extends Enterprise Manager 10g Grid Control to
help monitor and manage an E-Business Suite
system more effectively .
• The pack integrates Oracle Applications Manager with
Enterprise Manager to provide a consolidated, end-to-
end E-Business Suite management solution
• Many features backward compatible with 11i
• License fee based

Pack: Key Features
• Automated Discovery of Oracle E-Business Suite system

• E-Business Suite Cloning
• Enterprise Wide status of Clone jobs
• Automated clone process
• Customizable Templates
• Data Scrambling
• Service Level Monitoring
• Availability and Performance of Key Business Transactions
• Application
• Infrastructure
• Configuration Reporting
• Reporting on 100 plus configuration (technology stack)
• Much more…

Pack: Value Proposition
•  Cost
• Reduce effort to manage multiple environments
• Centralizes monitoring and management of Oracle E-
Business Suite instances and other IT infrastructure
•  Risk
• Faster discovery and diagnosis of incidents
• Improve application service levels and performance
•  Agility
• Rapid provisioning and scaling of E-Business Suite
• Capturing activity metrics for trend analysis

Pack: Grid / OAM Integration Architecture
Enterprise Manager 10g

EM
Grid Control Repository
OMS EBS
E-Business Suite Pack Pack
UI Drilldown
Oracle Applications EBS

Manager (OAM) Database EM 10g
Data Agent
Collection
Oracle Diagnostics AD and Job
EBS
(EBS) Utilities Execution
Pack
Applications Tier
E-Business Suite System

Program Agenda

• Overview
• Features

Features
• Automatic discovery of E-Business Suite system

• Cloning
• Service Level Management
• Configuration Management
• Intuitive User Interface
• Monitor JVM Usage

Features

• Cloning

Automatic Discovery of E-Business
Suite System
• Automatic discovery of the E-Business Suite system
by Enterprise Manager agent.
• Benefits
• Swift and easy discovery process, useful when monitoring
large number of Oracle Application instances on the Grid.
• Easier re-registration (with the Enterprise Manager Grid
Control) of the Oracle E-Business system when the topology
changes (new nodes added)

Features

• Cloning

Cloning
• Oracle E-Business Suite systems can be automatically cloned

via the Enterprise Manager provisioning framework.
• Step-by-step interview guides administrators though the cloning
process.
• Can execute any required application-specific actions.
• Ability to modify the standard cloning process to include custom
actions.
• Benefits
• Plan, organize and execute enterprise-wide clone jobs from a single
location
• Maintain mirror systems at the same patch level and data
• Flexibility to adapt to an enterprise’s custom clone process

Cloning
Feature Highlights
• Clone Dashboard
• Monitor enterprise wide status of clone jobs
• Clone Procedure
• Best practices provided by Oracle for cloning Oracle
Applications
• Data Scrambling:
• Option to obfuscate data when cloning an environment
containing sensitive data

Cloning
Clone Dashboard
• Clone Dashboard consist of three views

• Home View: Provides enterprise-wide status of clone jobs
• Images View: Deploy images on to a target system
• Procedure View
• Contains best practices provided by Oracle
• Provides ability to view / customize / run a specific clone
procedure

Cloning
Clone Procedure
• Step-by-step interview that guides administrators

through the cloning process
• Cloning procedure classified into:
• Source to Target:
• Cloning process where the source system data is
extracted and applied onto a target system.
• Source to Image
• Cloning process where Source system data is extracted
and stored as an image.
• Image to Target:
• Process where the image is applied to a target system.

Cloning
Data Scrambling
• Obfuscating or removing sensitive data when cloning

an environment
• Process is irreversible
• Original data cannot be derived from the scrambled data.
• Data scrambling configured from within Oracle
Applications Manager
• Can be utilized in source to target and source to
image clone procedure

Cloning
Clone Dashboard: Home View

Cloning
Clone Dashboard: Image View

Cloning
Clone Dashboard: Procedure View

Cloning
Clone Procedure

Cloning
Clone Procedure: Creating a Custom Procedure

Overview

• Cloning

Service Level Management

Suite automatically provides service level reporting for
the key Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure and
application services.
• Service level alerts can be configured for throughput
and availability metrics.

Infrastructure Service
• Oracle E-Business Suite infrastructure being

monitored are:
• Concurrent Processing
• Forms Applications
• Workflow Services
• Self Service
• Infrastructure services status is determined from the
status of:
• The Core service
• Key components the service is dependant on, for eg:
Database Instance, Apps Listener. .etc.

Application Service
• Detailed guidelines to record and playback application services

(forms and html based) will be made available.
• Sample out-of-the-box application services for vision demo
database include:
• Order Management Module services like
• Order Management Infrastructure Service: Services monitored
are Concurrent Processing, Forms Applications, Self service
applications and workflow required by Order Management.
• Order Information Portal: Monitors Order Information Portal (OA
Framework) pages availability using beacons
• Order Entry: Monitors Order Entry (Form based) transaction
availability using beacons
• Ship Confirm: Monitors Ship Confirm (Form based) transaction
availability using beacons

Infrastructure and Application Service Status Page
Infrastructure
Application
Infrastructure Service Home Page

Infrastructure Service: Root Cause Analysis

Features

• Cloning

Configuration Management
• View, compare and search the following Oracle E-Business Suite

configuration data:
• Application system configuration
• Application context files and key configuration files
• Patches applied
• Technology stack inventory
• Concurrent processing configuration
• Workflow configuration
• Benefits
• Compare snapshots of configuration information across multiple
Oracle E-Business Suite Systems
• View configuration information of various middle tier components
• Save configuration snapshots for comparative reporting

Application System Configuration: System Overview

Application System Configuration: Patch Information

Application System Configuration: Custom Objects

Application Context File: Database Tier

Application Context File: Database Tier

Application Context File: Application Tier

Application Context File: Application Tier

Patches Applied

Technology Stack Inventory

Concurrent Processing

Workflow Configuration

Workflow Configuration: Notification Mailer

Workflow Configuration: Deferred Agent Listener

Features

• Cloning

User Interface
 Provides a comprehensive view of the E-Business

Suite system, plus links to common administrative
tasks in Oracle Applications Manager from Enterprise
Manager.
 Views available are:
• Home
• Performance
• Administration
• Maintenance
• Diagnostics
• Topology

User Interface
Home View

User Interface
Home View

User Interface
Performance View
Links directly into

Oracle Applications
Manager

User Interface
Administration View
View
Configuration
information of Links directly
system into Oracle
components Applications
within the Manager
Enterprise
Manager

User Interface
Maintenance View
Links
directly into
Oracle
Applications
Manager
Clone Operations
can be driven from
within Enterprise
Manager

User Interface
Diagnostics View
Links directly
into Oracle
Applications
Manager

User Interface
Topology View
• View the infrastructure service

topology of the Oracle E-
Business Suite system
• View dependencies between
the infrastructure services, the
key system components, and
other services that define their
availability.
• Potential causes of failure, as
identified by Root Cause
Analysis are highlighted in the
topology view

Features

• Cloning

Monitor JVM Usage
• Enterprise Manager monitors JVM usage in the latest

Java technology employed by Oracle E-Business
Suite.
• Monitors JVMs deployed across multiple nodes.
• Monitors the following JVM components:
• Application Module pool: Monitor active Application Modules
and the database connection used
• Locked AOL / J Connections: Monitor AOL / J connections
utilized by applications
• Cache Components: Monitor cache components of OA
Framework.

Monitor JVM Usage
View the finer details within

Oracle Applications Manager

Program Agenda
• Grid Control Plug-in V1.2

• Overview
• Features

Bundled vs. Licensed
Oracle Applications Manager Application Management Pack for

(Bundled) E-Business Suite (Licensed)
Dashboard for local Apps system in Central dashboard for all Apps systems
OAM. in EM, with drill downs into local OAM
instances.
Current availability and performance Current and historical availability and
metrics. performance metrics.
Rapid Clone command line utility. Central UI and automation of cloning
activities.
View and edit local configuration. View and compare configurations
across instances.
View local patch history. Compare history across instances.
View topology information (text). View graphical topology map with root-
cause fault analysis.

Tips for Application Management Pack
• EBS R12 or 11i (11.5.10 with ATG Family Pack H

Rollup 4)
• Apply OAM Patch #5489352 in EM environment
• Apply these patches to EBS
• EBS 11i: Patch# 5473292
• EBS R12: Patch# 5843357
• Getting Started with the Application Management
Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (Release 2.0)
• Metalink Doc ID 394448.1
Suite Release 2.0 Troubleshooting Guide
• Metalink Doc ID: Note 412044.1

Tips for Application Management Pack
(continued)
• Oracle Applications Release 12 Upgrade Sizing and Best

Practices
• Metalink Doc ID: Note 399362.1
• Oracle Applications Upgrade Guide: Release 11i to Release 12
• http://download-
west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B40089_02/current/acrobat/r12upg11i.zip
• Application Management Pack for EBS blog
• http://blogs.oracle.com/schan/newsItems/departments/release12/20
07/02/23#a1242
• Additional Configuration and Deployment Options in R12
• http://blogs.oracle.com/schan/newsItems/departments/release12/20
07/02/22#a1240

Summarize..
Pack Capabilities:
• Automated E-Business Suite
discovery
• Cloning Automation
• Service Level Monitoring
• Intuitive UI with Topology
views
• OAM integration
Grid Control 10gR3
Value:
•  Cost – Reduce effort to manage multiple environments
•  Risk – Faster discovery and diagnosis of incidents
•  Agility – Rapid provisioning and scaling of E-Business Suite

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