Oracle EBS R12.2.6 on Virtual Box Pt2

If you followed my previous post Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.6 on Virtual Box you will have already downloaded the 19 required zip files, and be ready to go.

Ok, change directory to the location of the downloaded files, unzip and concatenate them into a single OVA file using the following:

$ unzip ‘V*.zip’

$ cat Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.6_VISION_INSTALL.ova.* > Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.6_VISION_INSTALL.ova

Getting started – Virtual Box

Start Virtual Box and navigate to File -> Import Appliance

Click on ‘Expert Mode’ and edit the ‘Virtual Disk Image’ path to a location with adequate space (~500GB), in this example I am using my Samsung Portable SSD T1 1TB dive mounted at ‘/Volumes/Samsung_T1’

Click ‘Import’, go to lunch or grab a coffee and watch the progress bar if you prefer, the remaining time will re-calulate periodically.

Once complete, start up your new Oracle EBS R12.2.6 VM from within Oracle VirtualBox

Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2.6

The initial boot will prompt you to change the ‘root’, ‘oracle’ and ‘applmgr’ passwords, the process will continue to start and configure an Oracle 12.1.0.2 database called ‘EBSDB’.

Use ‘ifconfig -a’ to determine your VM’s IP address from you VirtualBox console before using SSH from your host to connect using your preferred client.

Add the IP address to your local ‘/etc/host’ file so your browser can resolve your Oracle EBS VISION sandbox environment. e.g.

#
192.168.0.23 apps.example.com apps
#

Change directory to ‘/u01/install/APPS/scripts’ to access the database and application stop / start scripts and run ‘startdb.sh’ and ‘startapps.sh’

• startdb.sh
• stopdb.sh
• startapps.sh
• stopapps.sh

[oracle@apps scripts]$ ./startdb.sh
Logfile: /u01/install/APPS/12.1.0/appsutil/log/EBSDB_apps/addlnctl.txt

You are running addlnctl.sh version 120.4

Starting listener process EBSDB …

LSNRCTL for Linux: Version 12.1.0.2.0 – Production on 15-AUG-2017 07:42:19

Copyright (c) 1991, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Starting /u01/install/APPS/12.1.0/bin/tnslsnr: please wait…

TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 12.1.0.2.0 – Production
System parameter file is /u01/install/APPS/12.1.0/network/admin/EBSDB_apps/listener.ora
Log messages written to /u01/install/APPS/12.1.0/admin/EBSDB_apps/diag/tnslsnr/apps/ebsdb/alert/log.xml
Listening on: (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=apps.example.com)(PORT=1521)))

Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=TCP)(HOST=apps.example.com)(PORT=1521)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
————————
Alias EBSDB
Version TNSLSNR for Linux: Version 12.1.0.2.0 – Production
Start Date 15-AUG-2017 07:42:19
Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 0 min. 0 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File /u01/install/APPS/12.1.0/network/admin/EBSDB_apps/listener.ora
Listener Log File /u01/install/APPS/12.1.0/admin/EBSDB_apps/diag/tnslsnr/apps/ebsdb/alert/log.xml
Listening Endpoints Summary…
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=apps.example.com)(PORT=1521)))
Services Summary…
Service “EBSDB” has 1 instance(s).
Instance “EBSDB”, status UNKNOWN, has 1 handler(s) for this service…
The command completed successfully

addlnctl.sh: exiting with status 0

addlnctl.sh: check the logfile /u01/install/APPS/12.1.0/appsutil/log/EBSDB_apps/addlnctl.txt for more information …

You are running addbctl.sh version 120.1

Starting the database EBSDB …

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Tue Aug 15 07:42:19 2017

Copyright (c) 1982, 2014, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to an idle instance.
ORA-32004: obsolete or deprecated parameter(s) specified for RDBMS instance
ORACLE instance started.

Total System Global Area 2147483648 bytes
Fixed Size 2926472 bytes
Variable Size 1308625016 bytes
Database Buffers 822083584 bytes
Redo Buffers 13848576 bytes
Database mounted.
Database opened.
Disconnected from Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 – 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options

addbctl.sh: exiting with status 0

[oracle@apps scripts]$ ./startapps.sh 
Starting the Oracle E-Business Suite Application Tier Services
You are running adstrtal.sh version 120.24.12020000.11
…
All enabled services for this node are started.

adstrtal.sh: Exiting with status 0

adstrtal.sh: check the logfile /u01/install/APPS/fs1/inst/apps/EBSDB_apps/logs/appl/admin/log/adstrtal.log for more information …

Before you can logon you will need to enable SYSADMIN and the Demo accounts, Oracle have provided scripts to do this  e.g.

[oracle@apps scripts]$ ./enableSYSADMIN.sh

This script will let you set a new password for the SYSADMIN EBS Applications User, the default password most likely was “sysadmin”, so pick a different one now.

Enter new password for SYSADMIN:
Re-enter password for SYSADMIN:
Changing password for SYSADMIN
Log filename : L7583909.log
Report filename : O7583909.out
[oracle@apps scripts]$

[oracle@apps scripts]$ ./enableDEMOusers.sh

Enter a new password for the EBS Applications Users, the default password
most likely was “welcome”, so pick a different one now…

Enter new password for DEMO users:
Re-enter password for DEMO users:
Setting password for DEMO users…
Log filename : L7583911.log
…
[oracle@apps scripts]$

Oracle EBS R12 Dashboard

You should now be able to logon as ‘SYSADMIN’ or explore your Oracle EBS R12.2.6 VISION sandbox environment using the Demo users (see below) and the password defined above at: http://apps.example.com:8000/

“AFENG”, “AMARLIN”, “AMILLER”, “APOTTER”, “BPALMER”, “BWEBB”
“CBROWN”, “CONMGR”, “CONTMGR”, “CSADM”, “DBAKER”, “EBUSINESS”
“FBRAMER”, “HRMS”, “ILANG”, “ISUPPORTADMIN”, “JFROST”
“KJONES”, “LJONES”, “MFG”, “MGRMKT”, “MNT”, “OPERATIONS”
“PHENRY”, “PIMMGR”, “PLMMGR”, “PROCESS_OPS”, “PROJMFG”
“PSTOCK”, “RBATES”, “SCRIPTUSER”, “SERVICES”, “SFM”
“SPAIN”, “SVYADMIN”, “TRADEMGR”

Sales Dashboard – LJONES

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Oracle EBS 12.2.6 on VirtualBox

Back in May, Oracle announced the general availability of Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for E-Business Suite 12.2.6 for download from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud.

In this series of Blog posts I will detail how you can build an Oracle EBS 12.2.6 environment with VirtualBox for use on a laptop / PC.

Getting Started

Logon to the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud using you SSO credentials and search for ‘Oracle Virtual Appliance‘ , select the Product as below and click ‘Continue’ to download the Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite.

Compatible with VirtualBox

As you can see from above, the Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite supports both Oracle VM and Oracle VirtualBox. Once download the Virtual Appliance can be imported into VirtualBox for running on a laptop / PC.

The Oracle VM Virtual Appliances for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6.0.0 for x86 64bit is packaged in 19 files requiring 69.4 GB, so may take some considerable time to download depending upon your network / internet connection.

The Download

You can download the 19 Oracle VM Virtual Appliances files individually by clicking on the file name or them all use wget, if you have never used wget you can read the following post on how to use wget for downloading.

The distribution includes the entire Oracle EBS Technology and Apps stack including the example Vision database.

COMPONENT	VERSION
RDBMS Oracle Home	12.1.0.2
Application Code Level	Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6 Release Update Pack (My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2114016.1) + AD and TXK Delta 8 (My Oracle Support Knowledge Document 2159750.1)
Oracle Forms and Reports	10.1.2.3
WebLogic Server	10.3.6
Web Tier	11.1.1.9
JDK	JDK 1.7 build 1.7.0_121-b15
Java Plugin	J2SE 1.7
Critical Patch Update (CPU)	October 2016

In my next post I will detail how build an Oracle E-BS 12.2.6 environment within VirtualBox.

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Docker, Oracle 12c and Persistent Storage

Introduction

If you have read my previous posts on Docker you may have already installed Docker and have an Oracle 12c database running in a Docker container, if not you may want to read my first post on Docker – Running Oracle 12.2.01 on Docker

However, since I wrote the above post Oracle have published Docker images for many of their products, these can be found at the Docker Store. The Oracle images on the Docker Store are not just a great resource and help accelerate adoption, but are also certified and supported by Oracle.

Before continuing with this post you need to check-out my posts on using the new Oracle 12c Docker images and the Pure Storage Docker plugin as this post can be considered the ‘Return of the Jedi’  in the series.

Oracle 12c with Persistent Storage

In this post I will create a Docker container running an Oracle 12c database called PSTG using 4 mount points /u01, /u02, /u03 & /u04 mounted from a Pure Storage FlashArray.

Database environment Layout

/u01 – OraInventory and Oracle 12c product directories
/u02 – Oracle Datafile
/u03 – Fast Recovery Area
/u04 – RedoLog files.

The 4 mount points will all be using persistent All Flash Storage providing low latency performance, space efficient crash consistent snapshots and requiring no local storage.

First, confirm that you have installed the Oracle 12c image using the the following:

$ docker images list

You should be able see the store/oracle/database-enterprise 12.1.0.2 Docker Image, if missing you need to read my previous post.

Ok, copy the db_env.dat file created in the previous post to a new environment file $ORACLE_SID_env.dat and update database name and password e.g.

####################################################################
## Copyright(c) Oracle Corporation 1998,2016. All rights reserved.##
##                                                                ##
##                   Docker OL7 db12c dat file                    ##
##                                                                ##
####################################################################
##------------------------------------------------------------------
## Specify the basic DB parameters
##------------------------------------------------------------------
## db sid (name)
## default : ORCL
## cannot be longer than 8 characters
DB_SID=PSTG
## db passwd
## default : Oracle
DB_PASSWD=Oracle
## db domain
## default : localdomain
DB_DOMAIN=localdomain
## db bundle
## default : basic
## valid : basic / high / extreme 
## (high and extreme are only available for enterprise edition)
DB_BUNDLE=basic
## end

We will now create the 4 volumes using the docker volume create command and Pure Storage Docker plug-in providing name, size and label.

 docker volume create --driver=pure --opt size=20GB --name=PSTG-u01 --label=product
 docker volume create --driver=pure --opt size=100GB --name=PSTG-u02 --label=oradata
 docker volume create --driver=pure --opt size=200GB --name=PSTG-u03 --label=fast_recovery_area
 docker volume create --driver=pure --opt size=10GB --name=PSTG-u04 --label=redo

We can use the docker volume ls command with a filter to list the 4 database volumes we are interested in using the following syntax

$ docker volume ls -f name=environment

The Pure Storage Docker Plugin also supports docker volume inspect, from here we can see the labels which we defined earlier, great way to see where and what the mount is being used for.

$ docker volume inspect volume name

Now that we have installed the Oracle 12c Docker image and created the 4 volumes we are ready to create our Oracle 12c container using the docker run command with -v to present our newly volumes to our container.

docker run -d –env-file ./PSTG_env.dat -p 1527:1521 -p 5507:5500 -it –name PSTG -v PSTG-u01:/u01 -v PSTG-u02:/u02 -v PSTG-u03:/u03 -v PSTG-u04:/u04 –shm-size=”8g” store/oracle/database-enterprise:12.1.0.2

Progress can be monitored using the docker logs command.

docker logs -f PSTG

Once the container has started we can now connect to it and check out our Oracle 12c environment using the docker exec command and container name

docker exec -it PSTG /bin/bash

From within our Oracle 12c ‘PSTG’ container we can see our Pure Storage volumes (/u01, /u02, /u03 & /u04) and the sizes we specified.

Now we are in our Docker container we can use SQLPlus to see data file locations, instance name, docker assigned hostname etc…

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Docker Volume plugin for Pure Storage

You may have noticed that you can now download a Docker Volume Plugin for Pure Storage from the Docker Store. The Pure Storage Docker Volume plugin provides seamless integration with Docker containers, enabling persistent storage which is a must for many enterprise and database applications

Installation of the Docker Volume is extremely simple and is well documented at the Docker Store.

Once installed the first thing you must do is to let the Volume plugin know about your Pure FlashArray, update /etc/pure-docker-plugin/pure.json to use your FlashArray’s management (not iSCSI) IP address and API Token.

Starting pure-docker-plugin

You can now start the pure-docker-plugin using systemctl start e.g.

[root@z-oracle ~]#  systemctl start pure-docker-plugin

You can also check the log file using systemctl status e.g.

[root@z-oracle ~]#  systemctl status pure-docker-plugin -l

Create a Volume

You can create a Pure Storage FlashArray volume from your Linux server using the docker volume create command.

[root@z-oracle ~]# docker volume create –driver=pure -o size=100GB –name=ron101 –label=ron
ron101

You should now be able to see the newly created volume within the Pure Storage FlashArray.

List a Volume

You can also use the docker volume ls command and filters to show available volumes.

[root@z-oracle ~]# docker volume ls -f name=ron
DRIVER              VOLUME NAME
pure                ron100
pure                ron101

Inspect a Volume

You can use the docker volume inspect command to get a bit more info and to also see where it’s being used.

[root@z-oracle ~]# docker volume inspect ron101
[
{
“Name”: “ron101”,
“Driver”: “pure”,
“Mountpoint”: “”,
“Labels”: {
“ron”: “”
},
“Scope”: “global”
}
]

When the Docker Volume is used the Mountpoint will be visible e.g.

[root@z-oracle ~]# docker volume inspect ron100
[
{
“Name”: “ron100”,
“Driver”: “pure”,
“Mountpoint”: “/pure-docker-mounts/z-oracle/ron100”,
“Labels”: {
“ron”: “”
},
“Scope”: “global”
}
]

Delete a Volume

The Pure Storage Volume plugin also supports volume delete.

[root@z-oracle ~]# docker volume rm ron101

ron101

[root@z-oracle ~]# docker volume ls -f name=ron

DRIVER              VOLUME NAME

In this Blog I have shared how we can create, inspect and delete Docker Volumes using the Pure Storage Docker Volume plug-in, in my next post I will share you you can use these volumes for persistent database storage.

Check-out the Pure Storage Developer Community for more examples.

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