R12 adpatch sorts out which actions in unified driver?

Question

Hi,
This is regarding Patching in R12.
I have read in the documentation "Oracle Application Patching Procedures" on p 5-14 which says
"Apply the unified driver to all APPL_TOPs, and AutoPatch sorts out which actions in
the unified driver are required for the current APPL_TOP."
Is this means that if nodes are:
I) DB & CM
II) Web & Forms.
- the adpatch should not apply any forms on first node.
- and should not apply any reports on seconde node.
But in my case it is not doing like that.
Question: How can i ask adpatch to skip applying forms(fmx) files on I node and reports on II node?
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi,
According to R12 Documentation, adpatch should handle it (form should be generated on form node and reports on reports node).Correct, but you should end up with the same files placed on each application tier (this is the concept of unified APPL_TOP which make it easier to run the application services from any of the application tier nodes when the other node is down.
I think posting log files will not be efficient because the files are very big. I do not see the attachment option here.I believe you do not have to.
DB & CM:
$ more $CONTEXT_FILE | grep TIER
<TIER_DB oa_var="s_isDB">NO</TIER_DB>This should be YES.
<TIER_ADMIN oa_var="s_isAdmin">YES</TIER_ADMIN>
<TIER_WEB oa_var="s_isWeb">YES</TIER_WEB>
<TIER_FORMS oa_var="s_isForms">YES</TIER_FORMS>
<TIER_NODE oa_var="s_isConc">YES</TIER_NODE>
<TIER_FORMSDEV oa_var="s_isFormsDev">YES</TIER_FORMSDEV>
<TIER_NODEDEV oa_var="s_isConcDev">YES</TIER_NODEDEV>
<TIER_WEBDEV oa_var="s_isWebDev">YES</TIER_WEBDEV>
<TIER_ADADMIN oa_var="s_isAdAdmin">YES</TIER_ADADMIN>
<TIER_ADWEB oa_var="s_isAdWeb">YES</TIER_ADWEB>
<TIER_ADFORMS oa_var="s_isAdForms">YES</TIER_ADFORMS>
<TIER_ADNODE oa_var="s_isAdConc">YES</TIER_ADNODE>
<TIER_ADFORMSDEV oa_var="s_isAdFormsDev">YES</TIER_ADFORMSDEV>
<TIER_ADNODEDEV oa_var="s_isAdConcDev">YES</TIER_ADNODEDEV>
<TIER_ADWEBDEV oa_var="s_isAdWebDev">YES</TIER_ADWEBDEV>
WEB & Forms_
$ more $CONTEXT_FILE | grep TIER
<TIER_DB oa_var="s_isDB">NO</TIER_DB>
<TIER_ADMIN oa_var="s_isAdmin">YES</TIER_ADMIN>
<TIER_WEB oa_var="s_isWeb">YES</TIER_WEB>
<TIER_FORMS oa_var="s_isForms">YES</TIER_FORMS>
<TIER_NODE oa_var="s_isConc">YES</TIER_NODE>
<TIER_FORMSDEV oa_var="s_isFormsDev">YES</TIER_FORMSDEV>
<TIER_NODEDEV oa_var="s_isConcDev">YES</TIER_NODEDEV>
<TIER_WEBDEV oa_var="s_isWebDev">YES</TIER_WEBDEV>
<TIER_ADADMIN oa_var="s_isAdAdmin">YES</TIER_ADADMIN>
<TIER_ADWEB oa_var="s_isAdWeb">YES</TIER_ADWEB>
<TIER_ADFORMS oa_var="s_isAdForms">YES</TIER_ADFORMS>
<TIER_ADNODE oa_var="s_isAdConc">YES</TIER_ADNODE>
<TIER_ADFORMSDEV oa_var="s_isAdFormsDev">YES</TIER_ADFORMSDEV>
<TIER_ADNODEDEV oa_var="s_isAdConcDev">YES</TIER_ADNODEDEV>
<TIER_ADWEBDEV oa_var="s_isAdWebDev">YES</TIER_ADWEBDEV>
I think here is the problem but not sure how it shows YES for all the nodes.
I am sure we selected different services for different node while installing.Is this a shared APPL_TOP or shared application tier file system? If yes, then you need to fix the values in the context file as these context values represent the services that are actually running on the node -- See (Note: 745580.1 - Apply Patches in a Shared Application Tier File System Environment) for details.
Why oracle has removed this feature from R12 where it was a good option in 11i?What feature? The option of generating Oracle forms and libraries is still available and can be run from adadmin.
Maintaining Oracle Applications Documentation Set
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B53825_03/current/html/docset.html
But still the documentation says adpatch will sort out which actions to be performed on which node? what this meansI believe this means that adpatch knows what file has to be run on each node. For example, when running certain scripts adpatch is aware of where those scripts should be run.
Regards,
Hussein