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Ad Utilities in
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1.
What are the AD utilities ?
2.
Which are the AD Utilities and their role ?
3.
How could I run an AD utility (like adpatch,
adadmin, adctrl) ?
4.
What are the restart files ?
1.
What are the AD utilities ?
AD
Utilities (abbreviation from Applications DBA) are
programs which perform a variety of tasks, including generating files,
updating your system, merging and applying patches, installing off-cycle
products.
These
AD Utilities are executable files in $AD_TOP/bin
2.
Which are the AD Utilities and their role ?
| Utility |
Executable/ Interface |
Role |
| AD Administration |
adadmin
Oracle Application Manager |
Performs maintenance tasks on the Oracle
Applications file system and database. |
| AutoPatch |
adpatch |
Applies patches to the Oracle Applications and
Oracle database (also you can add new languages and products as
a patch). |
| AD Controller |
adctrl |
Which this utility you can restart, see the status
of parallel workers in AutoPatch, AD Administration and
AutoUpgrade. |
| AutoUpgrade |
adaimgr |
Upgrades your database code and objects from an
old version to the last 11i version. This is a time consuming
step. |
| AD Relink |
adrelink |
Used to re-link apps executables with product
libraries. This must be done if some library definition is
changed or an executable is corrupted. |
| AD Merge Patch |
admrgpch |
Used to merge multiple patches into a single one.
This is useful when we have to apply many patches to reduce the
patching time. |
|
|
| AD Splicer |
adsplice |
Used to register the off-cycle products (a new
oracle released product which is not delivered with the initial
package). |
| File Character Set Converter |
adncnv |
Used to convert a file from one character set to
another. |
| AD Configuration |
$AD_TOP/sql/adutconf.sql |
Shows information about the installed
configuration of the APPS. |
| AD Job Timing Report |
$AD_TOP/admin/sql/adtimrpt.sql |
Shows timing statistics about the parallel
workers. |
| AD File Identification |
adident |
Shows the header file of one Oracle Application
file. In the header we can see the version and the timestamp of
the file. |
| License Manager |
Oracle Application Manager |
Licenses products, country-specific
functionalities or languages. |
| Patch Wizard |
Oracle Application Manager |
Determines which patches was applied and which
need to be applied. |
| Applied Patches |
Oracle Application Manager |
Keeps a history of the patches which have been
applied. |
3.
How could I run an AD utility (like adpatch, adadmin, adctrl) ?
An
AD utility starts like a normal executable file: type the name of the
file to execute, press "Enter", answer the prompts. Type
"abort" to any prompt to exit.
NOTES:
-
You
can restart the same utility after a failure by typing his name again at
the OS prompt. However, the AD utilities, by default, will start
running from the point where it was failed. The utility will ask you
to confirm if you want to restart the utility from the beginning (Oracle
recommends continuing a prior session to completion );
-
AD
utilities accept arguments and flags to change the
execution behaviour of the AD utility. The arguments must be
typed in lowercase without whitespace characters between them.
4.
What are the restart files ?
The
restart files are files used by the managers or workers to restart a
failed job. When a job complete the restart files are deleted, but
backup files still are saved on the system with the extensions .bak,
.bk2 or bk3.
The
restart files are located in the $APPL_TOP/admin/<SID>/restart
directory.
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