Setup guide
Cloning an Oracle E-Business Suite System 11-3
Terms
The following table lists some cloning terms used in this document.
Term Meaning
Source Oracle E-Business Suite system being cloned.
Target Oracle E-Business Suite system being created as a copy of the source
system.
Smart Clone The cloning utility in Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle
E-Business Suite. Smart Clone allows you to use a database target cloned
using an external solution as an input to its cloning procedures.
Requirements and Setup Steps
• Cloning using Oracle Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business suite
requires Perl 5.005 or higher on the Oracle Enterprise Manager agent. The user who
starts the agent processes must set the PERL5LIB environment variable pointing to
Perl 5.005 (or higher) libraries. Also, the Perl executable 5.005 must be used.
• While upgrading the database from 9i to 10g (or 11g) with and Oracle E-Business
Suite Release 11i instance, you need to ensure that the source instance perl.exe is
pointed to the database 10g (11g) ORACLE_HOME of the Oracle E-Business Suite.
• All the virtual internet protocol (VIP) addresses configured in the Oracle Cluster
Ready Services (CRS) of the targets nodes identified for the created RAC instance
must be up and running.
• With Release 11i, for a clone job from Single Node - Single User to Single Node -
Multiple User, ensure that you have write permissions for user IDs to the target
base directory. Give 770 permissions to the directories from/to the target base
directory with the following command:
$ chmod -R 770 <target base directory>
• If for a cloning process the target is multi-node and the database node domain and
the applications node domain are different, perform the following step:
1.
Include the target database node server name in the /etc/hosts file of the target
applications node so that the applications node will be able to resolve the
database node without the domain name. The modification should be like the
following (this entry is for Linux x86; change as appropriate for your platform):