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G Examples of Administrative Changes

This appendix provides examples of administrative changes that can be performed on an Oracle Application Server environment. It is a companion to Part V, "Backup and Recovery" in this book, and to the Disaster Recovery section in Oracle Application Server High Availability Guide.

It contains the following topics:

G.1 How to Use This Appendix

Some administrative operations cause configuration changes to your Oracle Application Server environment. These are called administrative changes, and include deploying and undeploying applications, changing the topology, changing ports, creating and deleting users, and changing passwords. As an administrator, you should be aware when administrative changes occur, because you may need to back up your environment or perform some synchronization procedures.

This appendix provides examples of administrative changes, listed by component. You can use this as a guide for performing the following procedures:

G.2 Examples of Administrative Changes (by Component)

Table G-1 provides examples of administrative changes, by component. Consult your component documentation to learn more about these operations.

Table G-1 Examples of Administrative Changes

Component Examples of Administrative Changes

Delegated Administration Services

Manual edits to Oracle Delegated Administration Services configuration files, such as das.properties

Directory Integration and Provisioning

Directory Integration and Provisioning administrative and configuration operations, such as running the odisrvreg or remtool utilities (password management)

Distributed Configuration Management (DCM)

DCM administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

Manual edits to DCM configuration files

DCM administrative and configuration operations using dcmctl, such as configrepositoryssl, joincluster, joinfarm, leavecluster, leavefarm, repositoryrelocated, resetDCMcacheport, resethostinformation, restoreinstance, and set operations

DCM administrative and configuration operations performed using the dcmctl utility, such as deploying and undeploying applications and making configuration changes

Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS)

DMS administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

Manual edits to DMS configuration files, such as dms.conf

Log Loader

Log Loader administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

Manual edits to Log Loader configuration files, such as logloader.properties, logloader.xml, and files in ORACLE_HOME/diagnostics/config/registration

Oracle Application Server Containers for J2EE (OC4J)

OC4J administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

Manual edits to OC4J configuration files

OC4J administrative and configuration operations using the dcmctl utility, such as deploying and undeploying applications, and creating OC4J instances

Oracle Application Server Java Authentication and Authorization Service (JAAS) Provider (JAZN)

JAZN administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

JAZN administrative and configuration operations performed using the admintool utility, such as adding and removing users, and changing roles, permissions, privileges, and passwords

Oracle Enterprise Manager 10g Application Server Control Console


Application server-wide or component-specific administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console, such as changing the ias_admin password, changing port numbers, deploying and undeploying applications, and operations that result in configuration file changes

Oracle HTTP Server


Oracle HTTP Server administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console, such as modifying the number of VMs and creating virtual hosts

Manual edits to Oracle HTTP Server configuration files

Oracle HTTP Server administrative and configuration operations using the dcmctl utility

Oracle Internet Directory


Oracle Internet Directory administrative and configuration operations, such as running the oidpasswd or remtool utilities (password management), and installing and removing components

Oracle Process Manager and Notification Server (OPMN)

OPMN administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

Manual edits to OPMN configuration files, such as opmn.xml

OPMN administrative and configuration operations using the dcmctl utility

Oracle Ultra Search


Manual edits to Oracle Ultra Search configuration files, such as crawler.dat, data-sources.xml, truststore.dat, and ultrasearch.properties

OracleAS Certificate Authority (OCA)

OCA administrative and configuration operations using the ocactl utility with the following options: setpasswd, generatewallet, convertwallet, importwallet, revokecert, renewcert, updateconnection, and changesecurity

Using the administrative interface to enroll the OCA Web administrator

OracleAS Forms Services


OracleAS Forms Services administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console, such as operations on the "Forms/Configuration", "Forms/Environment Property", and "Forms/Overview" pages

OracleAS Portal


OracleAS Portal administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

OracleAS Portal administrative and configuration operations using the Administration screen in the Portal User Interface

Manual edits to OracleAS Portal configuration files

Running the ptlconfig script

Running any Portal-specific scripts that modify the database-side configuration for Portal, for example, disabling OracleAS Web Cache or changing some background job frequencies in Portal

Oracle BPEL Process Analytics


Oracle BPEL Process Analytics administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console

OracleAS Reports Services


OracleAS Reports Services administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console, such as operations on the "Reports/Configuration" page

Manual edits to OracleAS Reports Services configuration files

When the Reports server receives a job insert or update, such as when adding a new job or moving a job from one queue to another. Note: Oracle recommends that you perform backup and file synchronization more frequently when running OracleAS Reports Services.

OracleAS Single Sign-On

OracleAS Single Sign-On administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console, such as changing the ORASSO schema password

Configuration changes such as adding or removing an OracleAS Single Sign-On middle-tier instance, changing OracleAS Single Sign-On to use SSL, and performing Windows Native Authentication configuration changes

OracleAS Web Cache


OracleAS Web Cache configuration properties performed using options from the Administration tab (Web Cache Home page -> Administration tab) in the Application Server Control Console.

OracleAS Wireless


OracleAS Wireless administrative and configuration operations performed using the Application Server Control Console, such as deploying and undeploying applications, changing ports, making changes to groups or users, and changing configuration parameters