Showing posts with label Oracle Applications. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oracle Applications. Show all posts

Monday, January 28, 2008

Instant Peoplesoft Cloning Refresher Kit


Here are the instant refresher steps for performing a peoplesoft clone.
  • The target system – the system to which the Peoplesoft Instance to be cloned.
  • The source system – the system from which the Peoplsoft Instance is cloned.
  • Oracle Application 9i with the patch at version 7 is installed in the target system.
  • Application and Web Server is also installed in the target system
  • The Database structure files from PSHOME from the source system is copied to the target system’s separate drive.
  • Update the domain names and coordinates in the TNS Listener files
  • Configure the application and web server domain names
Points to Ponder
  • Before initializing the activity, the very first step would be to shutdown the source database using
    • Set Oracle_SID = Domain Name, and
    • Connect Sys as Sysdba shutdown immediate
  • Shutdown the Application Server in the Source system
  • Shutdown the Web Server in the Source system
  • Access the Oracle\Oradata\Domainname and copy the *.dat files to the target system
  • Make sure all the control files, data files and redo log files are in place in the destination system
  • Execute the ‘alter database backup control file to trace’ in the source system
  • Make sure that the file is created under Udump folder as a result of the above script
  • Make the necessary changes in the file and save it as *.sql
  • Copy the parameter file names initdomainname.ora under oracle\ora92\database and edit the coordinates and parameters in order to reflect the target system’s features
  • Startup Nomount; and execute the script generated from the source system
  • Update PSDBOWNER Set DBNAME =”New Domain Name”
  • Use NET Configuration Assistant wizard to configure the listener with the parameters for TNS, Host Name, IP Address, System Name(Target System) and perform a test
  • Using the configuration assistant, test for the access of Peoplesoft Application Designer , Data Mover with the same user access credentials of the Source system database
  • Configure the Web Server by providing the domain name, Peoplesoft web site name and startPIA.exe; Make sure that the environment variables are also set for JavaHome.