Jar Signing in Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2(without Hardware Security Module)

For quite a long time, EBS Jar signing has been done through adadmin. However, as of June 1st, 2023, all new code-signing certificates issued by 3rd party trusted Certificate Authority(CA), employ an HSM (Hardware Security Module) or Token. With this process, the signing is now executed using a utility supplied by the CA. You would … Continue reading Jar Signing in Oracle E-Business Suite R12.2(without Hardware Security Module)

R12.2 adcfgclone fails with libclntsh.so.10.1 error

During a cloning operation in R12.2 and subsequent execution of perl adcfgclone.pl appsTier dualfs, the operation failed with the following error: /ebs/R122/fs1/EBSapps/10.1.2/bin/sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libclntsh.so.10.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory As per the Oracle E-Business Suite Installation and Upgrade Notes Release 12 (12.2) for Linux x86-64 (Doc … Continue reading R12.2 adcfgclone fails with libclntsh.so.10.1 error

Clone Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 instance on Oracle Database 19c

This blog outlines steps to clone an Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Release 12.2 system with Oracle Database 19c using Rapid Clone. Unlike EBS applications running on pre-19c Oracle databases, this configuration is structured as multitenant with EBS database being the pluggable database within a container database. To initiate the process of cloning... Prepare source Oracle … Continue reading Clone Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 instance on Oracle Database 19c

Invalid certificate chain – unable to validate signed jar file

After a typical Oracle Forms installation, it is recommended to sign custom JAR files, including jacob.jar to avoid Java run time warning messages such as “Do you want to run this application?", "Application Blocked by Java Security", "Running this application may be a security risk", etc. Prior to signing the custom jar files, we obtain … Continue reading Invalid certificate chain – unable to validate signed jar file

Configure WebLogic Admin and Managed servers as native Windows service

Following the installation of Oracle Fusion Middleware components, it is advisable to configure those as Windows operating system services. A typical WebLogic installation has the script for installing or removing Node Manager as a Windows service under DOMAIN_HOME\bin directory. However, for both the WebLogic Admin Server and managed server, you will need to create scripts. … Continue reading Configure WebLogic Admin and Managed servers as native Windows service

Oracle Workflow Notification Mailer issues

1. Not Receiving PROD Alert emails Background Business stopped getting alert emails. Although an alert email is generated everyday, users haven’t received any. Action Plan Workflow reply-to-address changed to NoReplyto, stopping the Periodic alerts altogether for 1 month or so. This was caused by Jan RU Patching (28th Jan), which triggered Autoconfig and caused a change in the XML file configuration. Here's an extract from … Continue reading Oracle Workflow Notification Mailer issues

ODS Cluster Servers down and ODSM inaccessible

Recently, I came across an issue with starting ODS managed servers after the backend server reboot. The error captured under OID $DOMAIN_HOME/sysman/log/emoms.log was - "javax.net.ssl.SSLKeyException: [Security:090479]Certificate chain received from hostname - IP failed date validity checks." The solution was applied on an OID 11g environment but should be applicable on other versions as well. 1. … Continue reading ODS Cluster Servers down and ODSM inaccessible

Oracle Access Manager managed server cluster node deletion

Consider a scenario where you need to eliminate node(s) from an Oracle Access Manager managed server cluster instance, as a configuration with one fewer node is capable of handling single sign-on requests. In this blog post, we will guide you through the steps to accomplish this goal. 1. Shutdown Managed Servers on the node to … Continue reading Oracle Access Manager managed server cluster node deletion

12.2.1.4 Oracle Access Manager post upgrade issues

The issues outlined and elaborated in this blog were specific to the environment and therefore, to the Oracle Fusion Middleware configuration. Let's go through a few scenarios. OAM SSO authentication failure Due to tightening of URI parsing method in Java SE 8 Update 331 (April 2022 CPU) and later, login fails with "Invalid Username or … Continue reading 12.2.1.4 Oracle Access Manager post upgrade issues

Upgrade Oracle Access Manager to 12.2.1.4 – part 2

After upgrading OAM to 12.2.1.4, proceed with reconfiguring the WebLogic domain. cd /u01/oracle/products/12.2.1.3/access/oracle_common/common/bin ./reconfig.sh -log=oam_reconfg.log -log_priority=ALL -- -- When the progress bar reaches 100%, click Cancel. Crosscheck config.xml file for the updated domain version. -- grep domain-version $DOMAIN_HOME/config/config.xml <domain-version>12.2.1.4.0</domain-version> Post Upgrade validation -- WLS version cd /u01/oracle/products/12.2.1.3/access/inventory grep "WebLogic Server for FMW" registry.xml <distribution status="installed" … Continue reading Upgrade Oracle Access Manager to 12.2.1.4 – part 2