Oracle Fusion Applications installation – Step by step guide

Oracle Fusion Applications installation – Step by step guide

Fusion Applications 11.1.1.5.1 installation is not straightforward unlike E-Business Suite 11i/R12 installation. So we need to divide the installation into following main steps. Please note that we have changed the default order since we are going to host both RCU in one database which is fine since both have different schemas. This will save us a lot of Memory for the VM. Please note that we will be performing single node installation so all components will be installed on single node. All steps are provided with detailed screenshots.

Preparing for Oracle Fusion Applications installation

  1. Downloading Oracle Fusion Applications media
  2. OR

    Installing Oracle Linux 5 (Update 7) on a Physical machine

  3. Staging/Creating Oracle Fusion Applications provisioning repository

Installing Oracle Fusion Applications – steps

  1. Installing Fusion Applications Provisioning Framework
  2. Installing Oracle 11g Database (Applications Transactional Database)
  3. Running Oracle Fusion Applications Repository Creation Utility (Applications RCU)
  4. Creating another database for Oracle  Identity Management Infrastructure (optional)
  5. Running Repository Creation Utility (RCU) for Oracle Identity Management components
  6. Installing Oracle Identity and Access Management Components
  7. Configuring Oracle Identity and Access Management components
  8. Integrate Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) and Oracle Access Manager (OAM)
  9. Creating a New Provisioning Plan
  10. Provisioning an Applications Environment

We are going to install Fusion Applications 11.1.1.5.1 for Linux x86-64 Operating system.

So we will download the installation media for Oracle Fusion Applications 11.1.1.5.1 for Linux x86-64 from http://edelivery.oracle.com

Login first to access following screen.

Select “Oracle Fusion Applications” and “Linux x86-64” from the list. Click Go

Download the first 13 media files. We will not need rest of the media for this installation.

Unzip all these files into one Stage directory.

Important Note: Since some of the files have very long directory path (very close to 255 characters), please unzip these files into <Drive>:\Stage folder only to keep short name. At least 2 files have very long path so let us try to avoid this.

At the end of this exercise you will have following directory structure. Ignore the name FusionStage as in this image. Keep the name as Stage since some file paths have are very close to 255 characters.

We will mount this directory in Linux later.

Next, we must have Linux x86-64 OS installed either on physical or a virtual machine. We will use Oracle (Sun) VirtualBox to host our virtual machine and Oracle Linux 5 (update 7) as base operating system. In short we will use Oracle products only during this installation.

Note: We can also use VMWare to host the Virtual Machine. We will post another guide on setting up VMWare virtual machine. But the good thing is that the virtual machine/disks which we create in VirtualBox, same we can use in VMWare as well since we will create .vmdk format disks. This will add flexibility for you to use it anywhere later.

Next: Creating Oracle VirtualBox Virtual Machine with Oracle Linux

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  1. Sammy
    Apr 10th, 2012 at 23:37 | #1

    Hello ORATraining Admins,

    Sorry to repeat this question. :)

    What’s the least hardware config I need to have to install Fusion Apps on a single node for a product which takes the least amount of space?
    I just want to learn the process of installing and probably take a sneak peak at how it looks.
    Please let me know.

    Regards,
    Sammy

  2. Apr 10th, 2012 at 14:27 | #2

    @Krishna
    Unfortunately unlike E-Business suite we don’t have a demo installation like Vision which has a seeded demo company data. We can wait for next releases with demo application data.

  3. Krishna
    Apr 10th, 2012 at 14:08 | #3

    Dear Admin,

    Thanks for your detailed posts. We have been able to complete the provisioning now. I had a query re: seed data (reference implementation). I did not see any reference implementation provided with the provisioned fusion apps. For example, I would have expected some basic master data to be present by default (such as sample users, enterprise structures (departments etc.) so that we could start using the applications right away.

    What has been your experience with this? I just want to confirm if we did not do any mistakes during the provisioning step which resulted in the master data not getting loaded.

    Thanks!
    Krishna

  4. Apr 4th, 2012 at 11:55 | #4

    @Daniel
    Yes this is still 11.1.1.5.1 yet.

    We will post steps for 11.1.3 soon for Linux and Windows. But we have made sure to check the release notes for all 3 versions for common workarounds and patches.

  5. Daniel
    Apr 4th, 2012 at 11:53 | #5

    @admin

    Dear admin,

    just to confirm: this is still 11.1.1.5.1 installation – not 11.1.3, right?

    Thanks for all this info

    Regards

    Daniel

  6. Apr 3rd, 2012 at 11:48 | #6

    Dear All,

    We have now posted updated step by step guide for Fusion installation. Make sure to follow the steps exactly as mentioned in the posts and you will not have any issues in the installation. I will post the JVM and other memory tuning details soon. This will help you keep the installation going without running out of memory.

    Please press Refresh the CACHE of the pages by pressing CTRL+F5 so that you don’t see older posts. I would suggest clearing browser cache and still use CTRL+F5 just in case any proxy cache is there.

    - ORA Training Admin

  7. Mar 27th, 2012 at 10:57 | #7

    @sreedhar
    As Hasif already informed you follow the steps to eliminate this error.

    Just a note that if you have applied the latest pre-requisite patches before starting the installation then due to another bug you might get error stating “Global passphrase does not match with the entered pass phrase”. In this case you may need to enter the same passphrase in “global passphrase for simple mode” by logging into oamconsole and then editing the access manager settings on second tab.

    If you do not receive this error then you can skip this step.

    Regards
    Tushar
    For ORA Training

  8. Hasif
    Mar 27th, 2012 at 10:38 | #8

    Hi sreedhar

    Please follow below step for your issue.

    1.
    If you already started provisioning but encountering this error, then exit the Provisioning Wizard by closing the window.
    2.
    Start or restart the Provisioning Wizard.
    If you are restarting, select Update an Existing Provisioning Plan in the Installation Options page, and select the provisioning plan that you used earlier.
    3.
    Navigate through the Provisioning Wizard UI to the Access and OPSS Configuration page.
    4.
    For OAM Security Mode
    a.
    Select Simple.
    b.
    Enter any text in the OAM Simple Model Passphrase field.
    c.
    Click Save.
    d.
    Switch the OAM Security Mode to Open.
    e.
    Click Save again.
    5.
    Continue with updating the provisioning plan through the Summary page in the Provisioning Wizard and exit.
    6.
    Delete the entire Oracle Fusion Application Home (APPLICATIONS_BASE) directory that you entered in the provisioning plan.
    7.
    Restart the Provisioning Wizard and start Provisioning an Application Environment again.

    Regards
    Hasif

  9. sreedhar
    Mar 26th, 2012 at 23:30 | #9

    Hi,

    I have started the “Provisioning a New Applications Environment” step, but I am facing the issues at “Prerequisite Checks” stage.

    I have checked in the log file and found the error “The required attribute ‘oamPassphrase’ is missing!BUILDFILE=/u01/ofa/product/framework/provisioning/provisioning-build/common-misc-build.xml!LINENUMBER=107!”

    log file: Middleware_Home/logs/provisioning/plan1332762041441/ofmw/runProvisioning-preverify.log

    Below is the detail error message I found in the above log file:

    “[2012-03-26T13:06:24.366-04:00] [runProvisioning-preverify] [NOTIFICATION] [] [runProvisioning-preverify] [tid: 10] [ecid: 0000JPFxsWwEWNT_u91FiX1FSA6g000001,0] [logStatus] STATE=BUILD_ERROR!TIMESTAMP=2012-03-26 13:06:24 EDT!TARGET=preverify!CATEGORY=none!DOMAIN=NONE!HOSTNAME=ofmw.appsassociates.com!PRODUCTFAMILY=orchestration!PRODUCT=orchestration!TASK=none!TASKID=orchestration.orchestration.NONE.preverify.NONE!MESSAGE=An Error Occured: !DETAIL=The following error occurred while executing this line:|/u01/ofa/product/framework/provisioning/provisioning-build/orchestration-build.xml:2121: The following error occurred while executing this line:|/u01/ofa/product/framework/provisioning/provisioning-build/base-product-family-build.xml:50: The following error occurred while executing this line:|/u01/ofa/product/framework/provisioning/provisioning-build/fs-build.xml:194: The following error occurred while executing this line:|/u01/ofa/product/framework/provisioning/provisioning-build/common-preverify-build.xml:323: The required attribute ‘oamPassphrase’ is missing!BUILDFILE=/u01/ofa/product/framework/provisioning/provisioning-build/common-misc-build.xml!LINENUMBER=107!”

    Can you please let me provide the solution for above issue.

    Thanks,
    Sri

  10. Sammy
    Mar 22nd, 2012 at 13:23 | #10

    Hello ORATraining Admins,

    What’s the least hardware config I need to have to install Fusion Apps on a single node for a product which takes the least amount of space?
    I just want to learn the process of installing and probably take a sneak peak at how it looks.

    Please let me know.

    Regards,
    Sammy

  11. Mar 22nd, 2012 at 11:51 | #11

    @Yury , @Henk , @Ivan

    Oracle has come up with some patches and some workaronds for most of the issues we discussed in this comments thread. We will test them and update here.

    Meanwhile yesterday Oracle has released Fusion Apps 11.1.3 and it includes newer release of FMW 11.1.1.6 (compared to 11.1.1.5 till FA 11.1.2) so hope it includes all fixes. We will install this new release soon and upload complete steps (yes nothing will be skipped) to the blog.

    Regards,
    Tushar

  12. Mar 20th, 2012 at 13:59 | #12

    @Ivan
    We are working with Oracle support for getting patches for a list of bugs. Once all bug fix patches are applied we will post the complete provisioning part again.

  13. Ivan
    Mar 19th, 2012 at 01:48 | #13

    When will the last part be published? Thanks!

  14. Henk
    Mar 19th, 2012 at 00:51 | #14

    Hi, excellent walk-through! I was trying this myself and was under the impression that you will need at least 80 GB memory to provision successfully. Any idea when you will publish: 10. Provisioning an Applications Environment?

  15. krishna
    Feb 25th, 2012 at 03:32 | #15

    Thanks

    Dont worry about the performance issue, most of us are doing this setup as a hands on or for practice only. it would be great if you can post it earlier. everyone is waiting for your last thread.

  16. Feb 24th, 2012 at 15:59 | #16

    @krishna
    Dear Krishna,

    We have noticed that some users have faced similar performance issues with the minimal set of resources specified here so we are going to modify the resources to a bit higher and accordingly changing some pages. We will accordingly modify the last post and upload soon.

  17. krishna
    Feb 24th, 2012 at 01:22 | #17

    When are you posting the below topic?
    10. Provisioning an Applications Environment

  18. Feb 9th, 2012 at 10:17 | #18

    @Yury
    We are glad that you found the post useful. Please note that you can go through the links for each step for complete installation guide. Or else you can just follow the “Next” and “Previous” links to view the step by step Oracle Fusion install guide.

    Yes you are right. We have manged to install it on a VM with only 2.5 GB RAM and 300 GB HDD with 5-6 GB swap space. For this we had to select only one product and also reduce the SGA/PGA from 8GB to 2 GB. As well as we have kept single database for hosting both repositories (Identity Management and Fusion Applications).

    Ideally you should have 500 GB hard disk space and at least 8GB on for single node “demo” or “development” installation. For production multi node installation you will need 8 GB RAM for each components which translates to a whooping 128 GB including all nodes.

    Regards,
    ORA Training Admin

  19. Yury
    Feb 9th, 2012 at 06:10 | #19

    Hello Oracle Fusion Applications Guru!

    Very nice work for putting the instructions together.
    Looking forward to the next posts.

    One question:
    – Is it right that you managed to install Fusion Applications on a virtual machine with 2.5GB of RAM? Can you give a bit more details on the HW requirements for a single node installation (RAM, HDD, CPU).

    Thank you in advance for you answer,

    Yury

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