How to Clone Application Server

Here are the steps outlined  to How to Clone Application Server

Given  source machine is SUN1 and target machine is SUN2.

Prepare steps

1) On the source and target ensure that the PERL5LIB variable is set.

2) $ export PERL5LIB=$ORACLE_HOME/perl/lib/5.6.1:$ORACLE_HOME/perl/lib/site_perl/5.6.1

3) cd $ORACLE_HOME/clone/bin

4) ./prepare_clone.pl ORACLE_HOME=$ORACLE_HOME

Create tar file and copy to target system

5) Create a tar file of the Oracle Application Server Home

$cd /u001/appl/oracle/
$ tar -cvf XPROD.tar XPROD

6) scp this tar file to the source machine and untar the file

scp XPROD.tar SUN2:/u001/appl/oracle Login to SUN2 cd /u001/appl/oracle tar -xvf XPROD.tar

Clone to target destination

7) set the oracle env

export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/XPROD export PATH=/u01/app/oracle/XPROD/bin:$PATH cd $ORACLE_HOME/clone/bin perl clone.pl ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/XPROD ORACLE_HOME_NAME=XPRODNEW -instance XPRPD10g -ias_admin_old_pwd Xyz -ias_admin_new_pwd xyz

What is Oracle application server 10g

Oracle Application Server 10g Enterprise Edition is an application platform suite (APS) that offers a comprehensive solution for developing, integrating, and deploying all of your enterprise’s applications, portals, and Web sites. Enterprise Edition combines robust business integration, leading J2EE performance, and capabilities for enterprise portal, real-time business activity monitoring, business intelligence, identity management, and wireless deployment.

It forms part of Oracle Corporation’s Fusion Middleware technology stack. The heart of Oracle Application Server consists of Oracle HTTP Server (based on Apache HTTP Server) and OC4J (OracleAS Containers for Java EE) which deploys Java EE-based applications.