clone12_2

Oracle Rapid Clone for EBS 12.2 installation on AIX 7.2

##Description

Dependency:

• aix 2.3.1
• chef_client: 13.9.1

Note: This cookbook is heavily dependent on: 'Cloning Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.2 with Rapid Clone (Doc ID 1383621.1)' Please read this document to understand the tasks completed by this cookbook.

Note: This cookbook relies on version 13.9.1 of AIX Chef Client. See the bootstrap command for how to specifiy the version of chef client.

clone12_2 COOKBOOK Limitations:

• Does not support Oracle Database RAC option.
• Does not support a multi-tier/lpar installation.
• Has not been tested on any other operating systems other than AIX 7.2
• Assumes both application and database on the same LPAR under user 'oracle'
• Must have a working EBS 12.2 Source environment that you wish to clone.

NOTE: Oracle E-Business Suite requires valid licenses to install. It is expected that the user of this cookbook follows all licensing requirements of Oracle EBS.

##Quickstart (EBS)

• Have either an open Source Chef Server or a Hosted Chef account at the ready.
• Create your Target machine with AIX 7.2 operating system.
• Follow Oracle document ID 1383621.1. (Aug 1 2016)
• It is assumed that all the operations from Section 1 to Section 3.2 have been completed on the SOURCE machine and then a compressed tar image is copied and available on the Target machine
• Cookbook will create your staging directory on the Target AIX 7.2 LPAR

clone12_2.rb (Role file)
name 'cl50'
description 'Role applied to clone of EBS'

run_list 'recipe[clone12_2]'

override_attributes(
 {
   'clone12_2' => {
     # Provides support for versions
     # options are 1226 and 1227. Default is 1227
     'wget_version' => '1227',
     # 
     # Expects 2 disks of 400GB each. 2 Files systems /d01 installs EBS
     # /d02 is the staging directory for installation.
     'machprep' => {
       'newvgs'       =>  [
         #    vgname,     ppsiz(MB),                 hdisks [,,]
         #----------      ----------     -----------------------
           'ebsclone',         '128',      [ 'hdisk1', 'hdisk2']
         ],
       'newfs'        =>  [
           #mountpoint         size        volgroup    logfile   logsize(MB)
           #__________   __________      __________    _______   ___________
                '/d01',      '395G',      'ebsclone',  'd01log', '800',
                '/d02',      '395G',      'ebsclone',  'd02log', '800',
         ],
      },
     # will write the /etc/hosts entries with thes values
     # Modify the values to your environment. These are just for example.
     'ebsprep'            => {
       'etchosts'        => {
           'triplets'    => [
             '127.0.0.1',    'localhost.localdomain',  [ 'localhost', 'loopback',],
             '192.168.1.11', 'hostname.pbm.ihost.com', [ 'hostname',],
             ]
        }
      }
    }
 }
)

• Use the bootstrap command, telling Chef to install itself with the client verson as see below.

  Ex: knife bootstrap <TargetNode> -x root -P <password> --bootstrap-version 13.9.1 \
        -N <TargetNode> -r 'role[cl50]' -y -V
      where <TARGETNODE> is the AIX 7.2 target LPAR.
``'

* This Install will take plenty of time, so find a good book to read.
  (On my fastest machine, it took over 12 hours, on slower machines/disks, can be 20 hours)


#Requirements

## Oracle EBS:

This cookbook has only been tested with versions 12.2.6 and 12.2.7 of Oracle EBusiness Suite (EBS).


## Chef

The clone12_2 cookbook was tested using:
  *  chef_dk:       3.0.36-1
  *  chef_server: 12.17.33-1
  *  chef_client:     13.9.1

## Platforms

* AIX 7.2 

Note: clone12_2 cookbook has not been tested on AIX 7.1, and 6.1.

## Recipes

Follow the file recipes/default.rb for the order of included recipe files


Contributing
============

1. Fork the repository on Github: (https://github.com/jkohlmeier/clone12_2)
2. Create a named feature branch (like `add_component_x`)
3. Write your changes
4. Write tests for your changes (if applicable)
5. Run the tests, ensuring they all pass
6. Submit a Pull Request using Github

License and Authors
===================

* Author:: Jubal Kohlmeier <jubal@us.ibm.com>  

Copyright:: 2018, Jubal Kohlmeier

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you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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