Oracle Apps DBA: Keeping E-Business Suite Alive · Module 2 · The stack you are responsible for
What is running right now
Lesson 14 of 184 · 3 min
Listing every EBS process on a host and knowing WHICH ARE SUPPOSED TO BE THERE. The skill every later module assumes. This is the most basic skill in the course and it is the one that decides how fast every diagnosis goes. A process list you can read tells you what is running, what is not, and what is running that should not be — and that is the first question in most incidents. THE DATABASE TIER IS SHORT AND EASY TO LEARN. The instance background processes and the listener. Their names are predictable, so a missing one is visible by absence and an extra one is visible immediately. THE APPLICATION TIER IS LONG, AND THAT LENGTH IS THE PROBLEM. Web server processes, forms processes, several concurrent manager processes plus one per running request, and a scattering of supporting components. A healthy list is dozens of lines and nobody memorises…
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In this module: Module 2 · The stack you are responsible for
- 1The two tiers, and why the split matters
- 2What is running right now
- 3The file system layout
- 4Environment files, and sourcing the right one
- 5The context file
- 6AutoConfig, and what it overwrites
- 7Ports, and the ones you will be asked about
- 8Logs: where they are and which one to open first
- 9What breaks: three architecture surprises
- 10Lab briefing · Map a running instance