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ORACLE APPS DBA 11i/R12 Concepts-Orapundits Management
Orapundits Consulting Services, A11/12, Banjara Gardens, Banjara Hills, Road No.12, Hyd-34 Page 1
AD UTILITIES
==================================================AD also called as Application DBA.
AD_TOP is product in Application which is under directory APPL_TOP/ad/11.5.0.
This top containing Utilities & program code which is very frequently used by DBAs. So where are
these utilities or program in file system? (its in AD_TOP/bin )
Lets see one line definition of each
AD Utility ?AD Utilities are a group of tools designed to install, upgrade, maintain, and patch applications.
ADPATCH?
Is a utility that is used to apply individual patches, mini-packs, or maintenance packs to an Oracle
Applications instance
ADADMIN?
AD Administration (adadmin) is used performs maintenance/administration tasks on an Oracle Apps
Instance. Task associated with adadmin are divided into two broad categories database and file
system task.
ADCTRL ?
Utility to determine status of worker (started by adpatch , adadmin or other ad utility) and to control
( restart/drop/skip) workers.
ADRELINK ?
Used to relink apps executables with product libraries , if some library defination is changed or
executable is corrupted.
ADMRGPCH ?
To merge different patches & create single patch . This is helpful when you have too many patches ,
you can merge them & apply in one shot.
ADCLONE ?
Utility to clone Insatnce from Test to Prod , Vice Versa
ADCONFIG ?
To configure different components in Aplications like changing port number or domainname or
incresing number of JVM's
ADIDENT ?
utility to find version of a file in oracle applications (Identification )
ADLICMGR ?
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To license a product in applications , you might have license to use only 10 products initially then
later decided to use 5 more so license them first by this utility
ADSPLICE ?
You add a product in application, by default you might have 90-105 ( may be more ) products like AP,
GL, AR and now oracle released one more product so add this product using this utility .
AD Admin
Adadmin is a utility that performs a number of tasks required from maintain and administering an
Oracle Applications instance.
On a broad level the tasks performed by adadmin can be categorized into database activities and
Applications file system management tasks.
In addition to these, adadmin in 11.5.10 onwards you can use adadmin to put the system in
Maintenance Mode also.
Maintenance mode is special mode introduced to facilitate maintenance tasks like patch application.
Before you run adadmin you must ensure the following.
Set your applications environment
Ensure that you have sufficient space in tmp disk.
For certain adadmin task you may require to shut down your concurrent managers
You can run adadmin by typing adadmin at the command prompt after setting the environment.
$adadmin
At the time of execution adadmin prompts you to verify and enter several information pertaining to
your applications installation like APPL_TOP location, ORACLE_HOME.adadmin log file name, batch
size etc.
The main menu of adadmin presents you with the following six choices
AD Administration Main Menu
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1. Generate Applications Files menu
2. Maintain Applications Files menu
3. Compile/Reload Applications Database Entities menu
4. Maintain Applications Database Entities menu
5. Change Maintenance Mode
6. Exit AD Administration
First two options are related to maintaining applications file system the second two options relate to
database activities, the fifth option here is used to put the system in maintenance mode and bring it
back from maintenance mode.
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Under the Generate Applications Files Menu you can perform the following tasks
Generate Applications Files
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1. Generate message files
2. Generate form files
3. Generate report files
4. Generate graphics files
5. Generate product JAR files
6. Return to Main Menu
Under the Maintain Applications Files menu you can perform the following tasks
Maintain Applications Files
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1. Relink Applications programs
2. Create Applications environment file
3. Copy files to destinations
4. Convert character set
5. Maintain snapshot information
6. Check for missing files
7. Return to Main Menu
Under the Compile/Reload Applications Database Entities menu you can perform the following
tasks
Compile/Reload Applications Database Entities
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1. Compile APPS schema
2. Compile menu information
3. Compile flexfields
4. Reload JAR files to database
5. Return to Main Menu
Under the Maintain Applications Database Entities menu you can perform the following tasks
Maintain Applications Database Entities
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1. Validate APPS schema
2. Re-create grants and synonyms for APPS schema
3. Maintain multi-lingual tables
4. Check DUAL table
5. Maintain Multiple Reporting Currencies schema
6. Return to Main Menu
Under the Change Maintenance Mode you can do the following
Change Maintenance Mode
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Maintenance Mode is currently: [Disabled].
Maintenance mode should normally be enabled when patching
Oracle Applications and disabled when users are logged on
to the system. See the Oracle Applications Maintenance
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Utilities manual for more information about maintenance mode.
Please select an option:
1. Enable Maintenance Mode
2. Disable Maintenance Mode
3. Return to Main Menu
If you notice the message this menu selection also shows the maintenance status (disabled in our
case) of the system.
You can also forcefully exit adadmin at any point of time by typing abort, This will however result in
a unclean exit of adadmin and the next time when you run adadmin you will be prompted with the
option to start fresh or continue with the previous session