University of Wisconsin Hospital & Clinics

Database / environment refresh steps

PS Environment

• PeopleSoft Financials 9

• PeopleSoft Human Resources 8.9

• Upgrade in progress from HR 8.9 to 9.1

Oracle Environment

• Oracle 10.2.0.4 running on AIX 5.3

• Oracle RMAN repository and console

PS Technical

• Process schedulers on both Windows and AIX

• Application servers on Windows

• WebLogic web server on Windows

• PeopleTools 8.46

• PeopleTools 8.50

Standards

• Server naming standards

• Database naming standards

Cloning Overview

• Initiated by developers

• On demand, not on a schedule

• Takes about 2 hours

Cloning Steps

Source -> Target

• Shut down target Application Servers and Process Schedulers

• Run a job in the OEM console

• Delete caches

• Start up target Application Servers and Process Schedulers

• Test and notify

Cloning Step – AS & PS

Shut down target Application Servers and Process Schedulers

This is a manual step. Log in to the target machines and stop the services. It is possible it could be automated, but we have not automated it

Cloning Step – OEM Console

Run a job in the OEM Console

If the source database does not have a current RMAN backup, you will need to perform a backup now. Most of our clones have the source databases as our production database, which means we can clone at any time without performing a backup first.

Cloning Step – OEM Console

Make sure the database backup files are present.

Cloning Step – OEM Console

Submit the clone job to the console

Cloning Script Overview

1. Validate parameters (target not production)

2. Blackout the target database using emctl

3. Bounce the target database

4. Attempt to perform an archivelog change

5. Create the command line

6. Run the script

7. Check the log for errors and email results

8. End the blackout

Cloning Script

Post Clone Script

This “post clone script” is where all of the customized SQL code gets runThere is a separate “post clone script” for each target

Post Clone Script

Post Clone Script

Manual Steps

• Up to this point, everything has been run as part of a script. Now we start the manual steps.

Manual Steps

• Change the SYSADM password in the target database.

• Log on to datamover in bootstrap mode

• Log in as sysadm and the source database’s sysadm password. Run the script: CHANGE_ACCESS_PASSWORD SYSADM <new_sysadm_password>

Manual Steps

• Start the Application Server and Process Schedulers on the target database

• Test the new infrastructure– Log in– Submit jobs to the process schedulers– Interfaces

Manual Steps

• Notify the developers

Web Site

• Scripts and these PowerPoint slides are available on our OAUG PeopleSoft Technology SIG web site

• http://psofttechsig.oaug.org/