Oracle e-Business Suite (EBS) on VirtualBox

Experience an EBS Appliance for Development and Testing Purposes

Oracle EBS R12.2.x Instance on VirtualBox

  • Oracle EBS R12.2.X Instance On VirtualBox

  • For a long time, Applications DBAs have been asking Oracle for an EBS appliance to use for testing purposes. Oracle EBS les

  • installation media is available for download with size approaching half a terabyte. Common challenges faced when preparing

  • a test environment were the download connection speed and reliability, and the not inconsequential disk, CPU and memory

  • requirements.

  • The introduction of Oracle VirtualBox and Oracle VM Server ushered in a new era of learning and discovery through

  • virtualization enabling testing sandboxes to keep you one step ahead. EBS Installation procedures are disparate and while

  • building a test system takes time, the learning curve can be steep. While this will surely help you assimilate skills required

  • when facing production installations, a working appliance is a quick way to get some experience with new application

  • functionalities.

  • Oracle Corporation recently released the following EBS R12 virtual appliances:

  • Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite Deployment Guide, Release 12.2.8 (Doc ID 2462176.1)

  • EBS R12.2.6

  • EBS R12.2.7

  • EBS R12.2.8

  • EBS R12.2.9

  • These appliances are available and ready for download.

  • Technically speaking, the same install procedure implies to all.

  • In this blog, we’ll be focusing on R12.2.6 as a way to test the upgrade to higher releases. Oracle provides full upgrade

  • documentation and it will be an excellent exercise for all learning communities.

  • The dierences will be in the downloaded le names and sizes. After import, we’ll have EBS R12 based on appliance release.

  • Let’s start by creating the virtualized environment

  • A. Follow the link

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  • B. Choose appliance

  • Download and install VBox

  • There are possibilities of dierent versions based on your Operating System.            

  • On the  Oracle Software Delivery Cloud page: https://edelivery.oracle.com

  • –   Search by Select “Release” from the drop-down list.

  • Linux/VM/ already checked for you.

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  • Search for ‘Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6’

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About  ContactFRSearch..- Click on Select; a message will pop-up saying “added to download”.

  • Click the Continue button: Choose the platform “x86 64 bit”

  • Click the Continue button again and accept the Oracle Standard Terms and Restrictions.

  • The File Download window appears with your selected “Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite (12.2.6) for

  • x86 64 bit”, Listing all the needed les

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  • The Oracle VM Virtual Appliances for Oracle E-Business Suite 12.2.6 for x86 64bit is packaged in 19 les requiring 69.4 GB,

  • They are all in zipped format. Expect some time to get it downloaded depending upon your network/internet connection.

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About  ContactFRSearch..- Below are the versions of the components of the Appliance that will be downloaded.

  • Click the windows install manager and the download start. It may take a while before you get it done.

  • Go for coee (a few hours) or even more based on your Processor/Memory.

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  • C. Staging and reconstructing the Appliance:

  • After the download is nished. Files will need to be unzipped in the staging area

  • Download 7-zip  software  from https://www.7-zip.org/download.html

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  • Select the 64bit version

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About  ContactFRSearch..- C.1.  Unzip the files

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  • 7-zip will overcome the WinZip le size limitation that leads to some corrupted les and a waste of time WinZip-ing.

  • You will need another additional +-70 Gbytes of space (depending on the appliance version)

  • No worry after the reconstruction of the appliance, all the zipped and the unzipped les can be removed and you will regain

  • your free space.

  • If you keep the zip les, the unzipped OVA parts and the constructed les it’s a total close to 200 gigabytes

  • C.2.  Merge or assemble the unzipped files.

  • Open a command prompt and copy and paste the expression below:

  • Preferably, paste it in a text editor like Notepad to remove any hidden characters; recopy the expression from it and paste it

  • to the command prompt.

  • type Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.6_VISION_INSTALL.ova.00 Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.6_VISION

  • It will start processing the merge after hitting enter:

  • Note: For R12.2.7, R12.2.8 and R12.2.9  we have a dierent set of les and dierent lenames.

  • The import scripts are ready for use below for the  R12.2.7, R12.2.8 and R12.2.9 versions, you just need to download

  • and unzip the les.

  • Business-Suite-12.2.7_VISION_INSTALL.ova.17 > Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.7_VISION_INSTALL.ova

  • E-Business-Suite-12.2.8_VISION_INSTALL.ova

  • E-Business-Suite-12.2.9_VISION_INSTALL.ova

  • It takes at least 1 to 2 hours or even more based on your Processor/Memory to get the merged le.

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About  ContactFRSearch..- And this is it:   Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.2.6_VISION_INSTALL.ova

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  • D. Importing into Virtual Box D.1. Open VirtualBox and Import appliance

  • Click on Expert mode and edit the ‘Virtual Disk Image’ path to a location with adequate space.

  • At this stage, you should have at least 300 gigabytes or the process aborts. You may need to delete the zip les to make

  • room for the import.

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About  ContactFRSearch..- Click Import

  • After the import process completes successfully, the virtual machine is listed in the Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager.

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About  ContactFRSearch..- Some settings changes can be done by selecting the newly imported virtual machine and click Settings:

  • D.2. Virtual Machine configuration

  • Adjust RAM memory, number of CPUs, etc.

  • For Networking, you can attach Adapter as:

  • Bridged Adapter (the default setting)

  • NAT or Host-Only Adapter.

  • Host-Only Adapter allows your browser and SHH client on your laptop to access the VM.

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  • D.3. Starting the VM

  • The VM starts by booting when a red progress bar shows up at the bottom of the screen. Press the ESC key to see the

  • detailed boot progress. At the end of the boot process, the output will pause for about 10 seconds displaying the IP address

  • and hostname information.

  • Shown in the picture below.

  • The information below related to the hostname will be available for 10 seconds.

  • You can log in as root and get the IP address from the /etc/hosts le.

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  • After that, you have the VM login prompt.

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  • D.4. Passwords resets

  • Login and when prompted, enter new passwords for:

  •  root, oracle and applmgr

  • No user input is necessary during this post-install process steps.

  • Nothing to worry about.

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  • D.5. EBS demo Application install

  • At a certain point during the post-install process you will be prompted to:

  • select whether to add start or stop of the database and application tier processes to the OS boot script.

  • Enter VISION to congure the Vision Demo instance.

  • You are connected to the VM as root:

  • Issue: ifcong -a

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  • Step – 5 Access to E-Business suite VISION.

  • To access the EBS Application from your website you will have to make minor changes in the

  • Windows host le by:

  • Getting the IP address of the VM using ifcong -a on the terminal.

  • Edit the le on your Windows, add a line in c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts

  • (You may have to temporarily change permissions if you do have Administrator privileges)

  • apps.example.com apps

  • Use an SSH client, like Putty to ssh to the le system and explore the operating system installation.

  • Use http://apps.example.com:8000 to access EBS Application

  • The default passwords are:

  • SYSADMIN/sysadmin

  • demo/demo

  • apps/apps

  • sys/manager

  • system/manager

  • WebLogic/welcome1

  • All these passwords could be changed but you can keep them as they are until you get used to the Apps.

  • But if you feel the need to change, connect to the VM through SSH as oracle:

  • Change directory to:  /u01/install/APPS/scripts

  • You will nd a script to change the password for Sysadmin and for the Demo users.

  • [oracle@apps scripts]$ ./enableSYSADMIN.sh

  • [oracle@apps scripts]$ ./enableDEMOusers.sh

  • Step – 6   Additional tools for Learning

  • Oracle E-Business Suite has a dual le system; one for running the application and the second one for patching.

  • To understand the structure of the les, it is very convenient to install the “tree” tool.

  • On Linux it’s straightforward.  As root

  • Issue:   yum install tree

  • After installing the use of trees will give an idea of how the directories are spread.

  • tree -a

  • tree -d

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  • Step –7 Installing GUI on Linux:

  • In many cases, when people encounter challenges when trying to set up the networking between the host and the guest VM,

  • they turn to the GUI to run everything from inside the VM.

  • Not the best setup but at least spare sometime guring out the connectivity problem. Linux oers a way of installing it.

  • How to Install GUI with Oracle Linux 7 (Doc ID 2153562.1)

  • Here are some additional materials to get you on your way:

  • https://blogs.oracle.com/ebstech/oracle-vm-virtual-appliance-for-e-business-suite-1226-now-available

  • https://blogs.oracle.com/ebstech/ebs-release-1227-vm-virtual-appliance-now-available

  • https://blogs.oracle.com/ebstech/ebs-1228-vm-virtual-appliance-now-available

  • https://blogs.oracle.com/ebstech/ebs-1229-vm-virtual-appliance-for-on-premise-now-available   

  • Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite Deployment Guide, Release 12.2.9 (Doc ID 2580936.1)

  • Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite Deployment Guide, Release 12.2.8 (Doc ID 2462176.1)

  • Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite Deployment Guide, Release 12.2.7 (Doc ID 2328923.1)

  • Oracle VM Virtual Appliance for Oracle E-Business Suite Deployment Guide, Release 12.2.6 (Doc ID 2254565.1)

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