[Issue] Concurrent Managers Not Starting With GSM Enabled

We encountered an error on our Production Instance[12.0.4], though all the services were up and running .. we could see only single process of FNDLIBR running.
When we checked the Concurrent:GSM Enabled profile option value ; it was set to "Y".

Error ::
All requests show a status as 'Inactive No Manager' .

Cause ::
The following is one possible cause for failure of concurrent managers to start:
Inability to ping the concurrent manager node after logging in as the OS user who starts the concurrent managers.
'ping ' returns the following error:
ping: socket Permission denied
The application does a ping in order to check if the node is active.
If the ping fails, it adds the node as inactive. This prevents the concurrent managers from starting successfully.

Solution ::
The command 'ls -l ping' should return the following OS permissions in the directory where the ping command resides:
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin
If the permissions are different, issue the following command as root user:
'chmod 4555 ping'.
This will ensure that the OS user who starts the concurrent managers is able to ping successfully.

Refer :: Metalink note-id :311935.1

[How To] Create FTP account on REDHAT 5(tikanga)?

Step 1) check whether the server has ftp rpm installed..
if no.. then install
MySQL-shared-compat-6.0.9-0.rhel5.i386.rpm and
vsftpd-2.0.5-12.el5.i386.rpm

Step 2) create a user (say test) on the server ..
note : the home of the user shud be other than /home/test (say /u01/test_ftp)

Step 3) Give appropriate permissions to that directory.

Step 4) vi /etc/sysconfig/selinux
change the value of SELINUX=disabled

Step 5) cd /usr/sbinsetsebool -P ftp_home_dir 1 (this will set boolean permissions to the ftp home directory)

Step 6) cd /etc/vsftpdservice vsftpd start (this will start the ftp service on your service)

Step 7) Open command prompt on windows
ftp [IP address / Hostname ]

put username and password
and you are through !!

Note:: Change the settings using vsftpd.conf file..

Hurray !!

[Issue] Web ADI Configuration Error

After enabling the Web ADI responsibility in Oracle applications , user encountered an error while accessing the web-adi page:

Error ::
Web ADI Configuration Error.
BNE_UIX_PHYSICAL_DIRECTORY is not configured.

Cause ::
WebADI is not properly setup.

Solution ::
- Perform the following steps to validate the webADI configuration.

1. Check the values of the following profile option . [with Full Path]
BNE Server Log Level.....................Trace
BNE Server Log Path......................$BNE_TOP/log
BNE Servlet Path.........................../oa_servlets/
BNE UIX Base Path........................./OA_HTML/cabo
BNE UIX Physical Directory................$COMMON_TOP/webapps/oacore/html/cabo/
BNE Upload Import Directory..............$BNE_TOP/upload/import
BNE Upload Staging Directory.............$BNE_TOP/upload
BNE Upload Text Directory.................$BNE_TOP/upload

2. Replace $BNE_TOP and $COMMON_TOP with the actual values.

3. Ensure from back end that the following directories exist with 777 permissions.
$BNE_TOP/log
$COMMON_TOP/webapps/oacore/html/cabo/
$BNE_TOP/upload/import $BNE_TOP/upload

4. If any of the directories do not exist, create them and give 777 permissions.


5. Bounce the instance after the profile option change.

Refer : Metalink Note-Id : 549758.1

[Issue] FRM 92101 Error while launching the forms in R12

Hello All ,
Few days back , we installed RHEL5[tikanga] on one of the servers.
After successfully cloning the R12 [12.0.4] , we encountered an error during launching the forms.

Error ::
FRM -92101 :There was a failure in the Forms Server during startup. This could happen due to invalid configuration. Please look into the web-server log file for details.

Cause ::
Mandatory RPMS were missing on RHEL5 (tikanga).

Solution ::
Install/check the below mentioned rpms on the box;
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openmotif21-2.1.30-11.EL5.i386
xorg-x11-libs-compat-6.8.2-1.EL.33.0.1.i386
binutils-2.17.50.0.6-6.0.1.i386


The following i386 packages must be installed from the OEL 5 or RHEL 5 distribution media:
compat-glibc-2.3.4-2.26
gcc-4.1.2-14.el5
gcc-c++-4.1.2-14.el5
glibc-2.5-12
glibc-common-2.5-12
glibc-devel-2.5-12
libgcc-4.1.2-14.el5
libstdc++-devel-4.1.2-14.el5
libstdc++-4.1.2-14.el5
make-3.81-1.1
gdbm-1.8.0-26.2.1
libXp-1.0.0-8.1.el5
libaio-0.3.106-3.2
libgomp-4.1.2-14.el5
sysstat-7.0.0-3.el5
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
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Refer :: Metalink note-id : 402310.1