What's New in This Guide

The following topics introduce the new and changed features of the Oracle Fusion Applications upgrade process and other significant changes that are described in this guide, and provide pointers to additional information.

New and Changed Features for 11g Release 6 (11.1.6)

Oracle Fusion Applications 11g Release 6 (11.1.6) includes the following new and changed upgrade features for this document:

• Parallel processing of configuration assistants was added. See Section 1.4.7, "Parallel Configuration Assistants".

• The Health Checker utility automates several pre- and post-upgrade steps that were previously performed manually. See:

  • Section 1.5.1, "Pre-Upgrade Tasks Performed by Health Checker Before Down Time"

  • Section 1.5.2, "Pre-Upgrade Tasks Performed by Health Checker During Down Time"

  • Section 1.5.3, "Post-Upgrade Tasks Performed by Health Checker"

• The RUP Lite for RDBMS utility can be run in additional modes and automates several steps that were previously performed manually. See Section 1.6, "RUP Lite for RDBMS Utility".

• The following changes were made to the pre-upgrade steps that you perform before down time:

  • The step, Run Health Checker for Pre-Down Time Checks, replaced the following manual steps:

    • Confirm Installation of the Previous Release of Oracle Fusion Applications

    • Verify Your OPatch Version

    • Confirm Memory Settings

    • Confirm Host Names

    • Confirm the Local Port Range Value

    • Confirm Database Settings

    • Update Oracle Fusion Middleware Schema Credentials

  • The step titled "Verify OHS Instance Is Registered (Oracle VM Servers Only)" was removed.

  • The steps to run Health Checker were modified. See Section 2.1.13.

• Pre-upgrade steps were added to remove conflicting patches before you start the upgrade:

  • Find conflicting patches. See Section 2.1.15.

  • Remove conflicting patches. See Section 2.2.9.

• The following changes were made to the pre-upgrade steps that you perform during down time:

  • The step titled "Apply Mandatory Prerequisite RDBMS Patches" was renamed to "Update the Oracle Fusion Applications Database" and some of the steps changed.

  • The step titled "Run catmetx.sql" was updated to be run only if you do not run RUP Lite for RDBMS.

  • The step, "Run Health Checker for Down Time Checks" replaced the following manual steps:

    • Confirm the Database is Running and in Idle State

    • Confirm All Oracle Fusion Applications Patch Manager Processes Are Complete

    • Confirm All Oracle Fusion Applications AutoPatch Processes Are Complete

    • Confirm All AD Administration Sessions Are Complete

  • The step titled "Run the Inventory Cleanup Script" was removed because RUP Installer runs it.

  • The step titled "Upgrade JDK (Linux and Windows Platforms Only)" was removed.

  • The step, "Register Database Schema Information" was added.

  • Some steps in Section 2.2.12, "Run RUP Lite for OVM - Offline Mode (Oracle VM Hosts Only)" were updated.

• Configuration assistant log files were added. See Section 6.1.1, "Log Files for Configuration Assistants".

The following changes were made to the post-upgrade steps:

• Steps for Windows were removed from Section 4.1, "Upgrade the Web Tier Using RUP Lite for OHS".

• The step titled "Verify the Status of Servers and Deployed Applications" was removed.

• Added a step for Section 4.17, "Run Health Checker for Post-Upgrade Checks".

Oracle Fusion Applications Language Pack Installer includes the following new and changed upgrade features for this document.

• The steps to run Health Checker during pre-down time were modified. See Section 5.2.7, "Run Health Checker for Pre-Down Time Checks".

• The Health Checker utility replaced the following manual steps during pre-down time:

  • Confirm Memory Requirements

  • Confirm Host Names

  • Confirm the Local Port Range Value

  • Two of the steps under "Confirm Database Settings"

• The steps to run Health Checker during down time changed. See Section 5.3.2, "Run Health Checker for Down Time Checks".

• The Health Checker utility replaced the following manual steps during down time:

  • Confirm the Database is Running and in Idle State

  • Confirm All Oracle Fusion Applications Patch Manager Processes Are Complete

  • Confirm All Oracle Fusion Applications AutoPatch Processes Are Complete

  • Confirm All AD Administration Sessions Are Complete

Other Significant Changes in this Document for 11g Release 6 (11.1.6)

The Oracle Fusion Applications Upgrade Guide is new in 11g Release 6 (11.1.6). Following are the sections that were moved from the Oracle Fusion Applications Patching Guide to the Oracle Fusion Applications Upgrade Guide.

• Documentation related to using RUP Installer was previously included in Chapter 5 of the Oracle Fusion Applications Patching Guide. It is now included in several chapters in this guide.

• Documentation related to using Language Pack Installer was previously included in Chapter 6 of the Oracle Fusion Applications Patching Guide. It is now included in Chapter 5 of this guide.