Welcome to Release 12.1 of the Oracle Configurator Installation Guide.
This installation guide provides explanations and instructions for tasks required to install the CZ schema, Oracle Configurator Developer, and a runtime Oracle Configurator.
If you are responsible for installing Oracle Configurator, be sure you understand Oracle Applications technology, terminology, and architecture before beginning the installation. For details, see Oracle Applications Documentation Resources, on MetaLink, Oracle's technical support Web site.
This manual is intended for anyone installing or supporting the installation of Oracle Configurator.
Ordinarily, the tasks presented in this book are performed by one of the following people:
System Administrator (that is, an Oracle Applications user who is assigned to the System Administrator responsibility)
This person is responsible for administering the Oracle Applications system, including:
Ensuring that hardware is correctly configured
Installing, configuring, and maintaining production and development software
Ensuring that the system is backed up daily
Designing and maintaining system security such as system accounts
The System Administrator provides support for problems with the system. They may perform setup and initial maintenance of the production system or advise their client’s operational staff on these tasks. The System Administrator works with the project team to optimize system performance, install packaged applications environments, and convert data.
Database Administrator
Installs and configures the Oracle Applications database and maintains database access controls. This person also provides consultation on performance and is responsible for monitoring growth and fragmentation of the production database and ensuring database backup and recovery.
See Related Information Sources for more Oracle E-Business Suite product information.
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This chapter describes the conventions used in this guide, provides information about troubleshooting issues with Oracle Configurator and Configurator Developer, and tells you how to contact Oracle Support Services.
2 Installing Oracle Configurator
This chapter contains an overview of the Oracle Configurator installation process and things to consider if you are implementing Multiple Language Support (MLS).
This chapter contains information you should consider when upgrading from a previous release of Oracle Configurator.
This chapter tells you how to verify that the Oracle Configurator Servlet (OC Servlet) is set up correctly and describes all customizable OC Servlet properties.
This chapter provides suggestions for resolving problems that may arise when installing the Oracle Configurator Servlet. This installation is described in Oracle Configurator Servlet Considerations.
This appendix describes the profile options that are used by Oracle Configurator and Oracle Configurator Developer.
Important: There is new functionality available for the Runtime Oracle Configurator when using the Fusion Configurator Engine (FCE). The FCE is an alternative to the configuration engine described in this document. For all information about the FCE, see the Oracle Configurator Fusion Configurator Engine Guide..
For more information, see the documentation for your release of Oracle Applications RDBMS documentation, Oracle Configurator documentation, and the product-specific Release Notes for applications that can host a runtime Oracle Configurator.
For a full list of documentation resources for Oracle Configurator, see the Oracle Configurator Release Notes for this release.
For a full list of documentation resources for Oracle Applications, see Oracle Applications Documentation Resources, on MetaLink, Oracle's technical support Web site.
Additionally, be sure you are familiar with current release or patch information for Oracle Configurator on MetaLink, Oracle's technical support Web site.
The Oracle Integration Repository is a compilation of information about the service endpoints exposed by the Oracle E-Business Suite of applications. It provides a complete catalog of Oracle E-Business Suite's business service interfaces. The tool lets users easily discover and deploy the appropriate business service interface for integration with any system, application, or business partner.
The Oracle Integration Repository is shipped as part of the E-Business Suite. As your instance is patched, the repository is automatically updated with content appropriate for the precise revisions of interfaces in your environment.
Oracle STRONGLY RECOMMENDS that you never use SQL*Plus, Oracle Data Browser, database triggers, or any other tool to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data unless otherwise instructed.
Oracle provides powerful tools you can use to create, store, change, retrieve, and maintain information in an Oracle database. But if you use Oracle tools such as SQL*Plus to modify Oracle E-Business Suite data, you risk destroying the integrity of your data and you lose the ability to audit changes to your data.
Because Oracle E-Business Suite tables are interrelated, any change you make using an Oracle E-Business Suite form can update many tables at once. But when you modify Oracle E-Business Suite data using anything other than Oracle E-Business Suite, you may change a row in one table without making corresponding changes in related tables. If your tables get out of synchronization with each other, you risk retrieving erroneous information and you risk unpredictable results throughout Oracle E-Business Suite.
When you use Oracle E-Business Suite to modify your data, Oracle E-Business Suite automatically checks that your changes are valid. Oracle E-Business Suite also keeps track of who changes information. If you enter information into database tables using database tools, you may store invalid information. You also lose the ability to track who has changed your information because SQL*Plus and other database tools do not keep a record of changes.