As well as reducing required disk space, there are several other benefits of setting up shared application levels:

• More administrative tasks, patching and maintenance need to be done only once, instead of a single layer application node.

• Changes made to the shared file system are immediately accessible on all nodes in the application layer.

• Distributes task processing to run in parallel on multiple nodes (Distributed AD).

• Reduces general disk requirements.

• Add application nodes more easily.

Sharing the File System application between instances.

Capabilities to share the tiered file system application were further extended in version 12.0.4, which introduced the option to share an installation of Oracle E-Business Release 12 with another instance of the database.

An application file system layer installed and configured in this way can be used to access two (or more) database instances.

The restrictions to this are:

• All database instances must have the same patches.

• Only the application can be shared, the database cannot be shared.

Nota: For more information on features, options and implementation steps, see document 384248.1, Sharing the Application Tier File System in Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.

Environment Setting

Rapid Install creates environment files to configure the Oracle database, Oracle’s technology suite, Oracle HTTP Server, and Oracle E-Business Suite environments.

The location of these environment files is shown in the following table:

On UNIX, Oracle E-Business Suite includes a consolidated file called APPS <CONTEXT_NAME> .Env, which establishes both Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle technology stack environments.

  When you install Oracle E-Business Suite, Rapid Install creates this script in the APPL_TOP directory. Many of the parameters are specified during the installation process.

On Windows, the consolidated equivalent environment file is called% APPL_TOP% \ envshell <CONTEXT_NAME> .cmd.

When running it creates a command window with the necessary environment settings for Oracle E-Business Suite. All subsequent operations on APPL_TOP (for example, running adadmin or adpatch) must be performed from this window.

The following table lists the key environment settings in APPS <CONTEXT_NAME> .env.

Most temporary files are written to the location specified by the APPLTMP environment configuration, which is defined in the Rapid Install.

Oracle E-Business Suite products also create temporary PL/SQL output files used in simultaneous processing. These files are written to a location on the database server node specified by the APPLPTMP environment configuration.

The APPLPTMP directory must be the same directory specified by the utl_file_dir parameter in your database initialization file.

Rapid Install sets both APPLPTMP and the utl_file_dir parameter to the same default directory.

Some Oracle Utilities E-Business Suite use your temporary default operating system directory even if you configure the environment settings listed in the previous paragraph. You must therefore ensure that there is sufficient free disk space in this directory, as well as those indicated by APPLTMP and APPLPTMP.

In a multi-node system, the directory defined by APPLPTMP does not need to exist on application layer servers.

Nota: Temporary files placed in the utl_file_dir directory can be protected from unauthorized access, ensuring that this directory has read and write access to the Oracle database account only.

Other environments files

Several other key environment files are used in an Oracle E-Business Suite system.

O arquivo adovars.env

    The adovars.env file, located at $ APPL_TOP/admin, specifies the location of several files, such as Java files, HTML files and the JRE (Java Runtime Environment) files.

It is called from the main application environment file, <CONTEXT_NAME>. Env. The adovars.env file includes comments on the purpose and recommended configuration of each variable. In a 12 release environment, adovars.env is maintained by AutoConfig, and should not be edited manually.

The adovars.env file includes the following parameters:

The adconfig.txt file

AD utility programs perform a variety of database and file management tasks. These utilities need to know information about the right configuration to run successfully. This configuration information is specified when Oracle E-Business Suite is installed and subsequently stored in the adconfig.txt file in <APPL_TOP> / admin. Once created, this file is used by other Oracle E-Business Suite utilities.

Nota: adconfig.txt is created with the APPL_TOP file system, and shows the layers that have been configured on a particular node. It is distinct from the config.txt file configured by Rapid Install.

The fndenv.env file

This file defines environment variables used by the application’s object library. For example, it defines APPLBIN as the name of the subdirectory where executable product programs and shell scripts are stored (bin). This file must not be modified: the default values are applicable for all customers. The file is located in the FND_TOP directory.

The devenv.env file

This file defines the variables that allow you to link third-party software and your own custom applications developed with Oracle E-Business Suite.

In version 12, this script is located in $ FND_TOP / usrxit, and is automatically called by fndenv.env. This allows you to compile and link custom forms for Oracle users to outbound and competing programs with Oracle E-Business Suite.

In the next articles, we will continue to understand the structure of the E-Business Suite and guide best practices for installing the product efficiently.

References

Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 Technology Stack Documentation Roadmap [ID 380482.1]

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