The definitive guide to EBS cloning ( EBS Clone ) of R12.1 Oracle Support Doc ID 406982.1

The definitive guide or one of them to EBS cloning of R12.1 is the Oracle Support Doc ID 406982.1
Also referred to as Rapid Clone – EBS Clone
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BTW, if the source system was integrated with SSO / Oracle Access Manager – that connection needs to be removed and optionally recreated on the target – use the following Doc ID for 12.1.
Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.1 Environments Integrated with Oracle Access Manager 11gR2 (11.1.2) and Oracle E-Business Suite AccessGate (Doc ID 2164728.1)
Miscellaneous / Summary info on cloning:
Patch AD and TXK and latest Rapid Clone patches (suggested) – to get the latest Rapid Clone and utilities
Prepare the source system with adpreclone.pl (both dbtier and appstier)
Gather some info as the applmgr user:

echo $CONTEXT_NAME

Prepare the source system database tier for cloning:
Log on to the source system as the ORACLE user, and run the following commands:

$ cd $ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/scripts/[CONTEXT_NAME]
$ perl adpreclone.pl dbTier

Prep the source system application tier for cloning
Log on to the source system as the APPLMGR user, and run the following commands on each node that contains an APPL_TOP:

$ cd $INST_TOP/admin/scripts
$ perl adpreclone.pl appsTier

Clone the Database tier first
Copy the $ORACLE_HOME from the source to the target
Clone the database – rman active duplicate if you are at 11gR2 or higher works… expdp, RMAN backups, or cold otherwise
Clone the application tier
Log on to the source system application tier nodes as the APPLMGR user and shut down the application tier server processes.
applmgr tier directories to copy from source to target on a 12.1 clone:

1.<APPL_TOP> & <COMMON_TOP>
2.<AS Tools ORACLE_HOME>
3.<AS Web IAS_ORACLE_HOME> or <IAS_ORACLE_HOME>

So, figuring out where while logged in as your applmgr UNIX user APPL_TOP & COMMON_TOP is is just a matter of:

echo $APPL_TOP
echo $COMMON_TOP
echo $IAS_ORACLE_HOME
echo $ORACLE_HOME  — note this is the Oracle Home under applmgr unix account
e.g. /u01/oracle/VIS/apps/tech_st/10.1.2

For AS Tools and AS Web – you can also look at the Oracle Inventory – this will point you in the right direction:

cat /etc/oraInst.loc

In my sandbox – that file pointed me to the inventory.xml and it looked like this:

[applmgr@o66-ebs ContentsXML]$ pwd
/u01/oracle/oraInventory/ContentsXML
[applmgr@o66-ebs ContentsXML]$ ls
comps.xml inventory.xml libs.xml
[applmgr@o66-ebs ContentsXML]$ cat inventory.xml
<?xml version=”1.0″ standalone=”yes” ?>
<!– Copyright (c) 2008 Oracle Corporation. All rights Reserved –>
<!– Do not modify the contents of this file by hand. –>
<INVENTORY>
<VERSION_INFO>
<SAVED_WITH>10.1.0.6.0</SAVED_WITH>
<MINIMUM_VER>2.1.0.6.0</MINIMUM_VER>
</VERSION_INFO>
<HOME_LIST>
<HOME NAME=”VIS_DB__u01_oracle_VIS_db_tech_st_11_1_0″ LOC=”/u01/oracle/VIS/db/tech_st/11.1.0″ TYPE=”O” IDX=”1″/>
<HOME NAME=”VIS_WEBOH__u01_oracle_VIS_apps_tech_st_10_1_3″ LOC=”/u01/oracle/VIS/apps/tech_st/10.1.3″ TYPE=”O” IDX=”2″/>
<HOME NAME=”VIS_TOOLS__u01_oracle_VIS_apps_tech_st_10_1_2″ LOC=”/u01/oracle/VIS/apps/tech_st/10.1.2″ TYPE=”O” IDX=”3″/>
</HOME_LIST>
</INVENTORY>

Notice the 2nd and 3rd home name corresponds to <AS Web IAS_ORACLE_HOME> and<AS Tools ORACLE_HOME> respectively
 

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