Our E-Business Suite Applications Technology Group recently released a new product, the Application Change Management Pack (ACMP), and a new version of their Application Management Pack (AMP).
The Application Change Management Pack is noteworthy because it provides three new tools for automating updates to multiple E-Business Suite instances:
Customization Manager automates the packaging of your customizations into AD-compliant packages that can be deployed across multiple E-Business Suite instances. Before packaging, the Customization Manager validates your customizations against Oracle's software coding best practices.
Patch Manager integrates with Oracle Metalink and automatically downloads and deploys different types of patches across multiple (single or multi-node) E-Business Suite instances.
Setup Manager helps manage functional setups that need to be duplicated across multiple E-Business Suite instances.
We've profiled the Application Management Pack in previous articles. Application Management Pack extends Enterprise Manager Grid Control to monitor and managed E-Business Suite components. Notable new features in Version 3.0 are:
- Advanced Discovery: allows you to monitor and manage E-Business Suite systems running advanced topologies such as Real Application Clusters (RAC)
- EBS Administration: provides a user interface to start or stop E-Business Suite components individually or the E-Business Suite as a whole
- Hot cloning for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Automates cloning of an Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 system in hot mode, without shutting down the database.
- RAC cloning for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12: Enables cloning of Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12 databases running Real Application Clusters to another RAC or single-node (non-RAC) environment.
Prerequisites
- Linux x86 (32-bit)
- Enterprise Manager Grid Control 10g Release 4 (10gR4)
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Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11.5.10.CU2 or
Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.0.4 or higher
Certifications for other operating system platforms, Enterprise Manager Grid Control release 10g Release 5, and other E-Business Suite releases are underway. You're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates for these certifications, which I'll post as soon as soon as they're available.
Licencing
Both Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite are separately licensed products. Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 is a mandatory prerequisite for Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 and should be licenced separately.
Downloads
The Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack are available as a single install using Oracle Universal Installer. They can be downloaded via:
- Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 (Patch 8333939)
References
- Getting Started with Oracle Application Management Pack and Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Version 3.0 (Metalink Note 812315.1)
- Oracle Enterprise Manager Application Change Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (PDF, 260K)
- Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite Data Sheet (PDF, 80K)
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Comments (12)
Steven,
Can the packages created by the Customization Manager be used on a site where AMCP hasn't been licensed? We sell an E-Business Suite add-in and it would be very useful to be able to create AD-compliant packages for end-customers?
Thanks.
Posted by Barry Gooodsell | June 4, 2009 7:30 AM
Posted on June 4, 2009 07:30
Hi, Barry,
Yes, they can. The resulting packages are just plain-vanilla patches that can be applied by adpatch on any target system. The target system doesn't need to be running ACMP.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | June 4, 2009 10:40 AM
Posted on June 4, 2009 10:40
Steven,
There is not support for MWA port monitoring thru grid control, does AMP 3.0 includes?
Regards
-Raj
Posted by Raj Dandu | June 18, 2009 5:58 AM
Posted on June 18, 2009 05:58
Raj,
Yes this is available as of AMP 3.0. However we only support monitoring the availability of MWA.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | June 19, 2009 10:47 AM
Posted on June 19, 2009 10:47
Hi,
Is Hot Cloning available for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i?
Regards,
Manish Patil
Posted by Manish | June 24, 2009 5:42 AM
Posted on June 24, 2009 05:42
Hi Manish,
Hot Cloning for Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i would be available in the next release of the Application Management Pack for Oracle E-Business Suite (AMP).
Today through AMP 3.0, its available for Release 12 alone.
Regards,
Biju Mohaan
Posted by Biju Mohan | June 25, 2009 3:00 AM
Posted on June 25, 2009 03:00
Thanks Biju..
Do you have any idea when next release will be available?
:)
Manish
Posted by Manish | June 25, 2009 12:11 PM
Posted on June 25, 2009 12:11
Hello, Manish,
I'm afraid that we're not permitted to speculate about release dates. I've discussed that in more detail here:
Loose Lips Sink Ships -
http://blogs.oracle.com/stevenChan/2007/03/loose_lips_sink_ships.html
You're welcome to monitor or subscribe to this blog for updates, which we'll post as soon as soon as they're available.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan | June 26, 2009 11:07 AM
Posted on June 26, 2009 11:07
Steven:
Can the Applications Management pack (2.x or 3.0) be used with older Grid Control OMS versions ... like 10.2.0.2 ?
Posted by Ron Grinam | August 26, 2009 4:28 AM
Posted on August 26, 2009 04:28
Hi,
AMP-ACP 3.0 is only for Enterprise Management Grid Control installations, not running under windows? -:(
My EM Grid Control is version 10gR5 but running on Windows. Since databases run on AIX, Agents run on same machines with AIX as OS, so agent plugin containing AMP-ACP (patch 8333939) can be installed. What about EM GC?
Any ideas?
br,
--
Anjum
Posted by Anjum Shehzad | October 10, 2009 4:14 AM
Posted on October 10, 2009 04:14
Hi Steven,
Can you please update the blog once AMP 3.0 is certified on Windows environment.
Regards,
Phani.K
Posted by Phani | October 19, 2009 3:28 PM
Posted on October 19, 2009 15:28
Hi, Phani,
Of course -- stay tuned.
Regards,
Steven
Posted by Steven Chan
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October 21, 2009 11:59 AM
Posted on October 21, 2009 11:59