Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide

Introduction to This Manual

A system administrator is involved in setting up an Oracle E-Business Suite installation, controlling access, and ensuring smooth ongoing operation. The tasks involved in these functions are described in the Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Documentation Set, in these three volumes.

Configuration
Security
Maintenance

This Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Configuration volume describes the tasks involved in setting up and configuring Oracle E-Business Suite. These tasks may be done once upon installation, or may also be done as needed, such as setting up a printer or customizing online help files.

Basic Configuration Tasks

This chapter describes some of the recommended manual setup steps for Oracle Application Object Library. This chapter can also be used as reference for maintaining an Oracle E-Business Suite installation. For complete instructions on setting up a new installation, see Oracle E-Business Suite Installation Guide: Using Rapid Install.

Oracle E-Business Suite Tablespace Model and the Tablespace Migration Utility

The Oracle E-Business Suite Tablespace Model (also called the Oracle Applications Tablespace Model, or OATM) has fewer, consolidated tablespaces (twelve, including three system tablespaces: temporary, system and undo segments). Locally managed tablespaces are also supported.

The Tablespace Migration Utility is a menu-based Perl program that enables you to estimate future space requirements for the tablespaces and to migrate to the Oracle E-Business Suite database to OATM.

System Administrator Setup Tasks

This chapter describes some common system administrator setup tasks, typically done through the Oracle E-Business Suite user interface.

Introduction to Oracle Applications Manager

This chapter introduces the Oracle Applications Manager framework. Oracle Applications Manager provides a powerful set of features for managing all aspects of an Oracle E-Business Suite system. It provides a comprehensive summary of the system including configuration changes, infrastructure usage, performance, required maintenance activities, potential security issues, and diagnostic test results. It also includes utilities to help you manage Oracle Workflow, patching, configuration utilities, and concurrent processing.

Defining Concurrent Programs and Reports

This chapter explains how to define concurrent programs and organize those programs into groups and sets. This chapter also explains how to modify concurrent program definitions, modify the behavior of parameters the programs refer to, and define incompatibility rules among different programs.

Setting Up Concurrent Processing and Concurrent Managers

Concurrent managers run processes in the background (concurrent processes) on a server machine. You must set up and start concurrent managers for each product group before you can use the Oracle E-Business Suite products.

Setting Up Printers

This chapter describes how to set up printers and printing in Oracle E-Business Suite.

Oracle E-Business Suite Online Help

The Oracle E-Business Suite online help files can be customized, as explained in this chapter.

Oracle E-Business Suite DBA Duties

This chapter explains Oracle E-Business Suite tasks that require a database administrator to perform explicitly, or assist in by performing prerequisite tasks.

Query Optimization in Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle E-Business Suite uses the cost–based optimizer (CBO) in order to choose the most efficient execution plan for SQL statements. Using this approach, the optimizer determines the most optimal execution plan by costing available access paths and factoring information based on statistics for the schema objects accessed by the SQL statement.

Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Real Application Clusters

This chapter describes the steps required to install Oracle E-Business Suite in an environment that uses Oracle Real Application Clusters (Oracle RAC).

Document Sequences

This chapter explains how to assign unique numbers to documents created in Oracle E-Business Suite.

Logging

The Oracle E-Business Suite Logging Framework provides to ability to store and retrieve log messages for debugging, error reporting, and alerting purposes. This chapter describes administrative tasks related to logging. Additional information on logging is in the Oracle E-Business Suite Developer's Guide.

Developer Tools

This chapter provides information on the Form Personalization, Work Directory, Portlet Generator, and other features that can help system administrators and developers create and debug customizations.

Administering Process Navigation

The Process Navigator provides users with diagrams of business processes as a whole as well as the individual steps in each process. The Process Navigator also provides direct access to the form associated with each step in a process.

Administering Globalization

This chapter describes some of the features of internationalization support in Oracle E-Business Suite, including language values for user sessions and multilingual external documents.

Integration of Oracle E-Business Suite with Other Oracle Products

This chapter introduces some of the integration points between Oracle E-Business Suite and other Oracle products.

Oracle Application Server with Oracle E-Business Suite

Oracle Application Server offers the industry's fastest, most complete, and integrated J2EE-certified application server. Refer to this section to learn about configuring Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle Application Server.

Loaders

Oracle E-Business Suite provides loader programs to help you move Oracle E-Business Suite data between database and text file representations.

Functional Administrator and Functional Developer Tasks

Specific system administrator and application developer tasks using HTML-based pages are grouped under the Functional Administrator and Functional Developer responsibilities.

Oracle Self-Service Web Applications

Some features of Oracle Self-Service Web Applications (OSSWA) are supported for backward compatibility and described in an appendix.

Time Zone Support

This appendix introduces the User-Preferred Time Zone Support feature in Oracle E-Business Suite.

Controlling Access to the Oracle Forms-based Applications Diagnostics Menu

The Diagnostics menu for Forms-based applications in Oracle E-Business Suite provides access to numerous functions, including those used in diagnostics and customization. This appendix describes how to control access to this menu and its entries using profile options and Oracle User Management.

Other Volumes for System Administrators

Listed below are other volumes in the Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Documentation Set. Please refer to the Preface for additional related guides.

Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Security describes security concepts, setup tasks, and maintenance tasks done in the following areas:

Oracle User Management
Function Security in Oracle Application Object Library
Data Security in Oracle Application Object Library
User and Data Auditing
Oracle Single Sign-On Integration (optional)

Oracle E-Business Suite System Administrator's Guide - Maintenance describes tasks you might perform on frequent basis, such as monitoring your system, reviewing concurrent requests, and setting profile options. The following areas are covered in this manual:

Managing Concurrent Processing and Concurrent Programs
Oracle Workflow Manager
Monitoring Oracle E-Business Suite
Administering Oracle E-Business Suite Secure Enterprise Search
Technology Inventory Utility
Diagnostics and Repair
License Manager
Patching and Maintenance
User Profiles and Profile Options in Oracle Application Object Library
Using Predefined Alerts