Oracle Fusion Applications 11g: Startup and shutdown

During the time I was busy building up an Oracle Fusion Applications Environment, I discovered that shutting down the entire stack can be a time-consuming task.

There are several ways to do this

You can shut it down by:

• Login into each Administration Console per Application Domain (in my case 7!) and manually shutdown about 23 managed server instances plus AdminServer, and not forgetting the OPMN controlled instances (like WebTier and others).
• Create your own scripts, valuable, but they have to be maintained, well documented and simple. If you unfortunately happen to leave your company, or the project, your replacement should work with these scripts too…
• Or use the provisoning tool delivered in the Oracle Fusion Application Framework bits. Unfortunately the database will not be included into this task.

I used this to do a complete shutdown, except for the fusion apps database.

Here’s a much easier way to do it:

- Navigate to you Fusion applications provisioning framework, in my case:

/u01/app/oracle/fa/repository/provisioning/bin

In here you will find some binaries and shellscripts, we use the runProvisioningwizard.sh. During the complete provisioning we worked wit a Provisioning Plan. Keep this plan on a safe place, as we use it to stop start our environment.

To shutdown the total of 7 domains and OPMN controlled instances you issue this command:

./runProvisioning.sh -plan /u01/app/oracle/fa/repository/provisioning/bin/FAProvPlanMS.plan -target shutdown-all

Note that you use the option -plan and specify the full path of you provisioning plan (the one you used during provisioning).

To startup the complete environment, as simple as it seems, you execute:

./runProvisioning.sh -plan /u01/app/oracle/fa/repository/provisioning/bin/FAProvPlanMS.plan -target startup

In my case several domains were spread amongst 2 computenodes (Exalogic) so I had to run these commands on both nodes.

Node 1 with: CommonDomain, BIDomain, FinancialDomain and ProcurementDomain
2012-07-24 08:34:21.004 NOTIFICATION      [echo] Starting up Fusion Applications

2012-07-24 09:07:43.212 TRACE
BUILD SUCCESSFUL
Total time: 33 minutes 29 seconds
Successfully finished startup.

And on the second node:

Still quite some time, but you don't have to login, click on start, etc...

And when you login with the weblogic_fa admin user ( LDAP based ) into Enterprise Manager or called Fusion Applications Control you can see all the green lights