OAUG SysAdmin SIG Meeting Sunday, Oct 11, 2009 San Francisco, CA Moscone West 3009

Welcome! Welcome to Oracle OpenWorld 2009! Welcome to the SysAdmin SIG! Thank You Oracle!

SysAdmin SIG Share knowledge and experience about a variety of topics relating to Oracle Applications System Administration –Oracle Applications System Administration –Operating System Administration for Oracle Applications Installations

Purpose & Mission Statement The SysAdmin Special Interest Group (SIG) provides a forum for OAUG members and participants to share updates, tips and successful practices relating to System Administration in an Oracle Applications environment. The SysAdmin SIG strives to enable System Administrators to become more effective and efficient in their jobs by providing them with access to people, resources and information that can enhance their System Administration knowledge and experience.

SysAdmin SIG Topic Areas EBS Systems Management Concurrent Managers SysAdmin Scripts Patching Architecture & Security Workflow Administration Printer Drivers & Keyboard Mappings System Administrator Roles & Responsibilities Oracle Tools and Utilities Third-Party Tools Useful Links and Webmaster Oracle Enhancements UNIX Linux System Profiles

Related OAUG SIGs Related SIGs –DBA SIG –Upgrade SIG –Workflow SIG –E-Business Applications Technology SIG –Fusion Middleware SIG –Governance, Risk & Compliance SIG

SysAdmin SIG Meetings Two meetings per year: –Collaborate –Oracle OpenWorld Next Meeting: –Collaborate April in Las Vegas

SysAdmin-Related Sessions See Handout for OOW Sessions Relating to: –EBS System Administration –EBS Technology –EBS Security –Virtualization –OS (Linux, Solaris, etc.)

News & Notes

MetaLink Is Being Retired Classic MetaLink Retires Friday, 11/6 Being Replaced by My Oracle Support Doc ID:  FAQ Doc ID:  Latest details How Many Still Use “MetaLink Classic”? Hopefully more successful than Coca-Cola’s attempt at improvement…

MetaLink Is Being Retired… BENEFITS –User Dashboard –System Health (via Configuration Manager) –Improved Service Request management (via Configuration Manager) –Community

MetaLink Is Being Retired… DRAWBACKS –Tightly coupled with the Configuration Manager –UI is challenging and busy (sometimes distracting) and you can’t: Always copy screen text to clipboard Can’t resize some screen windows Can’t Shift+Insert into search box –Has a learning curve, so don’t wait until last minute. Note: OCM now embedded in RDA

Patch Set Update (PSU) PSUs are proactive cumulative patches containing recommended bug fixes PSUs contain the CPU patches as well as additional “controlled content” (i.e. no optimizer plan changes, no configuration changes) Released on the same quarterly schedule as the Critical Patch Updates (CPU) Rolling RAC installable Regression tested

Patch Set Update (PSU)… A PSU serves as a new baseline version for reporting issues to Oracle (e.g. Initial Release ) A PSU can be applied: –on the base release version –on any earlier PSU –on an any earlier CPU for the base release version –on the CPU released at the same time

PSU vs CPU The PSU and CPU released each quarter contain the same security content. The patches employ different patching mechanisms, so… “…customers need to choose wisely which patch satisfies their needs better…”

PSU vs CPU… Once a PSU has been installed, the recommended way to get future security content is to apply subsequent PSUs. “…Reverting from PSU back to CPU, while possible, would require significant effort, and so is not advised...” “Choose wisely grasshopper…”

Patch Set Update (PSU)… For more information: – Introduction to Patch Set Updates – Does Initial PSU ( ) Change The Database Version to ?

Critical Patch Updates Speaking of CPUs… CPU release dates are the Tuesday closest to the 15th of January, April, July, and October. However, the October 2009 release date has been moved The next four CPU release dates: October 20, 2009 January 12, 2010 April 13, 2010 July 13, 2010

Browser Certifications IE8 Now Certified with EBS 11i Requirements: –Maintenance Pack CU2 or later –11i.ATG_PF.H Rollup 6 (RUP 6, Patch ) or later –Oracle Forms6i Patchset 19 ( x) –Forms6i MLR Patch

Browser Certifications… Firefox 3.5 Now Certified with EBS 11i Requirements: –Maintenance Pack CU2 or later –11i.ATG_PF.H Rollup 6 (RUP 6, Patch ) or later –Oracle Forms6i Patchset 18 ( x) –Applications Framework Patch –Strongly recommended to apply patch to switch Firefox to a non-static versioning model

Browser Certifications… Desktop Client Requirements for both IE8 and Firefox 3.x… –Windows XP Service Pack 2 (min) –Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (min) –Sun JRE 1.5.0_12 or later, or JRE 1.6.0_03 or later

Browser Certifications… Oracle Notes: –Recommended Browsers for Oracle E- Business Suite Release 11i –Upgrading Sun JRE (Native Plug-in) with Oracle Applications 11i for Windows Clients

Database Certifications 11gR2 Database Certified with E- Business Suite 11i – Linux Only now. Other Platforms and R12 Pending

EBS Database Parameters Recently Updated Database Initialization Parameters for Oracle Applications –Release 11i –Release

Next Generation AD Feasibility Studies At OOW Survey and Poll Future, Ongoing Participation With Our SIG

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