In this article i will explain how we can take clone in Oracle EBS

Lots of EBS forum users ask same question in forum, “How i can take clone”.

If you take first time of your source system,than you have to check your source system has Rapid Clone patches. For all steps and patches name please refer:

Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone [ID 406982.1]
Cloning Oracle Applications Release 11i with Rapid Clone [ID 230672.1]

Before  start to process let us define something about clone.

Source system means, our existing instance. It could be test or prod(even clon) instance.

Target system means, our new instance which is same as like source system.Its mean clone is 1 of 1 copy of our source system. Same data, same user etc.

We assume our operating system is Linux and we assuem we are try to taking clone of our PROD system.

Our source system users are:

applprod user for Application Tier

oraprod user for Db tier

Our target system users are:

applclon user for Application Tier

oraclon user for Db tier

1. Run preclone on source system:

When you are running preclone you dont need to close your system.

DB Tier

Login as  oraprod user,

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts/ SID_HOSTNAME
perl adpreclone.pl dbTier

Apps Tier

Login as  applprod user,

$ cd $COMMON_TOP/admin/scripts/SID_HOSTNAME

perl adpreclone.pl appsTier

2. Copy the source system to the target system

For this steps you need to close your apps+db+listener.

A. Close your apps&db services

Apps tier:

Shutdown the App

Login as  applprod user,

$ cd $COMMON_TOP/admin/scripts/SID_HOSTNAME

$./adstpall.sh apps/<apps_pass>

be sure there is no any process for applprod user,you can use below command:

ps  -u  applprod

Db Tier:

Login as  oraprod user,

$lsnrctl stop SID

$sqlplus “/as sysdba”

SQL> shutdown immediate;

be sure there is no any process for oraprod user,you can use below command:

ps  -u  oraprod

B. Start to copy process from source to target

When you are sure all services down and no any process for apps&db user you have to copy your all folder from source to target.

Please dont forget; If you have any session for apps+db it will cause error in clone process on target server

Let us say all folder under /u01/PROD in your source server and you want to copy this folder to /data/CLON in target server. So please follow below

1.Login as root user to your source system

2.scp -r /u01/PROD root@10.x.x(target machine IP):/data/CLON

it will ask you clon server’s root user password,enter password and you will see it will start to copy

When copy process compliate than you can open your source system

C. Rename folders name in target server

After copy process you can rename folder names in target

R11:

mv prodcomn clonecomn
mv prodora clonora
mv prodappl cloneppl
mv proddata clonedata
mv proddb clonedb

R12:

cd /data/PROD <<< its our target server path

ls

mv inst inst_old

mkdir inst

3. Start Clone process on target node:

Before start to clonning process we must set perl and per5lib for apps and db tiers.

For more details please check:

Setting the Perl Environment PERL5LIB [ID 395294.1]
Common Perl Setup Issues and Solutions for E-Business Suite 11i [ID 404055.1]

A. If you dont have clone user  on source system than create user

useradd -g dba -d /home/applprod applprod

useradd -g dba -d /home/oraprod oraprod

B. Start post clone on dbtier first

For r12 clonning:

Set perl and perl5lib for db tier.

R12-dbTier:

Login as oraclon user

export PATH=/xx/db/tech_st/11.1.0/perl/bin/perl:$PATH
export PERL5LIB=/xx/db/tech_st/11.1.0/perl/lib/5.8.3/:/xx/db/tech_st/11.1.0/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3/

$ cd [RDBMS ORACLE_HOME]/appsutil/clone/bin
$ perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier

R12-appsTier:

Login as applclon user

export PATH=/xx/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/perl:$PATH
export PERL5LIB=/xx/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/perl/lib/5.8.3:/xx/apps/tech_st/10.1.3/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3

$ cd [COMMON_TOP]/clone/bin
$ perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier

Set perl and perl5lib for apps tier:

For r11 clonning:

R11-dbTier:

Login as oraclon user

export PATH=/xx/clondb/10.2.0/perl:$PATH
export PERL5LIB=/xx/clondb/10.2.0/perl/lib/5.8.3:/xx/clondb/10.2.0/perl/lib/site_perl/5.8.3

$ cd [RDBMS ORACLE_HOME]/appsutil/clone/bin
$ perl adcfgclone.pl dbTier

R11-apps Tier:

export PATH=$xx/clonora/iAS/Apache/perl/bin:$PATH
export PERL5LIB=/xx/clonora/iAS/Apache/perl/lib/5.00503/:/xx/clonora/iAS/Apache/perl/lib/site_perl/5.00503

$ cd [COMMON_TOP]/clone/bin
$ perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier

References:

Cloning Oracle Applications Release 12 with Rapid Clone [ID 406982.1]
Cloning Oracle Applications Release 11i with Rapid Clone [ID 230672.1]

Setting the Perl Environment PERL5LIB [ID 395294.1]
Common Perl Setup Issues and Solutions for E-Business Suite 11i [ID 404055.1]


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