Verifying the Patch Application

Your host should have initialized successfully and started participating in your PeopleSoft environment. Many of the steps that you should take to verify this or diagnose problems will be the same for Microsoft Windows and Linux hosts.

  1. Verify that you can sign in to PeopleSoft:

    Start a browser and sign on to the PeopleSoft Application with the URL http://<hostname>:<pia_http_port>/ps/signon.html.

  2. If you do not see the log in page, verify that the environment can be reached from your machine using a utility such as ping.

  3. If your host can be pinged, verify that the PIA domain is running in the following step.

  4. Verify that Application Server, Process Scheduler and PIA domains have started:

    1. On Linux, using an SSH client, log in as the psadm2 user.

      On Microsoft Windows, open a command prompt with Run as Administrator.

    2. Start the psadmin utility by typing psadmin at the command prompt.

      When logged in as the psadm2 user the environment variables for PeopleSoft administration are set as part of the psadm2 user's log-in profile.

    3. Use the PSADMIN menus for the Application Server, Process Scheduler, and Web server (PIA) to verify the status of each of the installed components.

    4. If one or more of the components has not started, examine the log files for the required PeopleSoft component to establish what has caused the component to not start.

      The log files are in the default locations for each of the PeopleSoft components.

  5. To verify the PS_APP_HOME location, check the value of the PS_APP_HOME environment variable.

    On Linux the environment variable is found in the .profile file for the psadm2 user. Use the following command on Linux to check the environment variable:

    export PS_APP_HOME=/home/fscm_app_home

    On Microsoft Windows, open the System Properties dialog box and click Environment Variables.

  6. You can review the psprcs.cfg file to verify that the SQR section includes a path for PS_APP_HOME.

    [SQR]
;=========================================================================
; Settings for SQR Software
;=========================================================================
SQRBIN=%PS_HOME%/bin/sqr/ORA/bin
PSSQRFLAGS=-ZIF%PS_HOME%/sqr/pssqr%LANGUAGECD%.unx
Print Log=N
Enhanced HTML=N
PSSQR=%PS_APP_HOME%/sqr:%PS_HOME%/sqr

    See PeopleTools: Process Scheduler, "Using the PSADMIN for the Process Scheduler Configuration File."