Oracle E-Business Suite Cloning Questions & Answers (12.1.1 & 12.1.3)

Oracle E-Business Suite Cloning Questions & Answers (12.1.1 & 12.1.3)

1. What is the location of adpreclone.pl in oracle database?
$ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts/$CONTEXT_NAME

2. What is the location of adcfgclone.pl in oracle database?
$ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/clone/bin

3. What is the location of adpreclone.pl in oracle application?
$INST_TOP/admin/scripts

4. What is the location of adcfgclone.pl for applmgr user?
$COMMON_TOP/clone/bin

5. How often do you clone?
Cloning happens weekly or monthly depending on the organization requirement.

6. When do you run adpreclone on Production?
If any changes made to either TechStack,database or any patches applied.

7. When we run perl adpreclone.pl dbTier why it requires apps password?
It requires a database connection to validate apps schema.

8. When we run perl adpreclone.pl appTier why it will not prompt for apps password?
It doesn’t require db a connection.

9. What happens after running adcfgclone.pl?

It will take inputs and creates xml file.
After creating xml file,it runs autoconfig.
It registers the ORALCE_HOME with GLOBAL INVENTORY.

10. What adpreclone.pl does on appsTier?
It will collects all the information about the source system, creates a cloning stage area, and generates templates and drivers. All of these are to reconfigure the instance on a Target machine.

11. What Perl adcfgclone.pl dbTechStack do?

Create context file
Register ORACLE_HOME
Relink ORACLE_HOME
Configure ORACLE_HOME
Start SQL*NET listener

12. What Perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier do?

Create context file.
Register ORACLE_HOME
Relink ORACLE_HOME
Configure ORACLE_HOME
Recreate controlfile
Configure database
Start SQL*NET listener


13. What Perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier do?

Create context file
Register ORACLE_HOME
Relink ORACLE_HOME
Configure ORACLE_HOME
Create INST_TOP
Configure APPL_TOP
Start Apps Processes.

14. When we run adcfgclone.pl which script it will call?
It will call adclone.pl which is located at $AD_TOP/bin .

15. What are the parameters are mandatory in RMAN DUPLICATE 11g?

db_file_name_convert
log_file_name_convert