Ranko Mosic

Oracle Forms and Reports are Fusion Middleware components needed for OFA installation. Forms is a GUI tool used to develop, generate and run database front end applications. Reports is a GUI tool used to develop, generate and run database reports. For the purposes of Oracle Fusion Applications installation we will secure Forms and Reports with Identity Management. Once you download and unzip  Oracle Forms and Reports software and run installer you will be presented with the welcome screen: Forms installer will recognize WebLogic software we deployed in one of the previous steps and will create Forms subdirectory in Middleware directory: We will create a new WebLogic domain for Forms and reports components: You can pick and choose Forms and Reports components to be installed: You will be asked to provide OID credentials: Once post install scripts and patches are app... (more)

Oracle Fusion Applications - Installation and First Impressions (Part 4)

Oracle Identity Management is a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware and part of the Oracle Fusion Applications infrastructure. Its purpose is to manage user identities across the enterprise. We are going to install Oracle Internet Directory 11g (OID), Oracle Virtual Directory 11g (OVD), Oracle Identity Manager 11g (OIM), Oracle Access Manager 11g (OAM) as well as two instances of Oracle Database (11.2.0.2) - one for the Identity Store and the other for the Policy Store. SOA Suite is first component to be installed since Identity Manager requires it. Some SOA Suite components (... (more)

Move Your Oracle Databases to Amazon EC2 Cloud

Amazon Web Services EC2 Cloud is full scale public data center offering services that are in many aspects far ahead of ancient practices present in regular IT environments. Fast provisioning and virtually unlimited scale make old fashioned server procurement and installations look like what they are - past century's practices. This article will not deal with usual objections to cloud computing revolving around change management difficulties ( how to incorporate new environment into the existing IT infrastructure ), security, reliability, performance etc. since we think that all t... (more)

Oracle Fusion Applications - Installation and First Impressions (Part 7)

Oracle Fusion Applications Provisioning is the überinstaller for OFA. Based on your input and its knowledge about OFA dependencies it will prepare and deploy OFA components to appropriate target locations. Provisioning Plan is driving the installation process. It is created when you select this option from Provisioning Wizard:   Here you pick components Provisioning Plan is created for - we chose Oracle Financials module: Wizard will show you topology summary and details about the chosen configuration: Here we provide Access Manager details: Here we supply Oracle Identity ... (more)

Deploying Oracle Databases to Amazon AWS (EC2, RDS)

Amazon recently added Oracle database hosting capabilities to its RDS service offering. You can rent an Oracle database related infrastructure in a pay-as-you-go fashion now. We are going to explore if corporations should be utilizing Amazon AWS Oracle Database related services (EC2, RDS ), how it should be used, where possible savings and potential trouble points are. With services like Amazon AWS it doesn't matter where your hardware and software physically is - it could be in a room next to you or in some other country. It is much easier and cheaper to procure and get new serv... (more)