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”

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