Applications System appears as Production SID after clone

Sandeep Nagpal called today. He told me that after a clone, in OAM Workflow manager screen it showed Applications System name and Workflow System name as Production SID.

I asked him to run these queries and check the values:

select applications_system_name from apps.fnd_product_groups;

select name from apps.wf_systems;

These two had production sid instead of the cloned sid.

I told Sandeep to:

1. Update the two tables with correct values

2. Stop Apache

3. rm $COMMON_TOP/_pages

4. Restart Apache.

Once he did the above 4 steps, OAM started showing the cloned system SID.

ERROR: Invalid java version found

Lalitha reported this issue today :

AutoConfig is configuring the Applications environment...

AutoConfig will consider the custom templates if present.

Using APPL_TOP location : $APPL_TOP

ERROR: Invalid java version found:

Error occurred during initialization of VM

Could not reserve enough space for object heap

ERROR: Invalid java version found:

Error occurred during initialization of VM

Could not reserve enough space for object heap

Classpath :

Version Conflicts among development maintained and customized templates encountered; aborting AutoConfig run.

The logfile for this session is located at: $APPL_TOP/admin/$CONTEXT_NAME/log/12221350/adconfig.log

It looks like a resource constraint on the server. Unix team is working on it. Will update, when I learn more.

How to boot DOS with network support

Recently I got hold of a box which didn't have a CD drive. We wanted to install Windows Server 2003 on that box for some R&D work. The only way to boot was through a floppy disk. It had been ages since I used a floppy. Fortunately I found some blank floppy disks. Googling on the net, I found the Universal TCP/IP network disk on www.netbootdisk.com. It allowed me to create a bootable floppy disk with TCP/IP network support. The bootable floppy asked me for username, password and Domain/Workgroup, which I entered dutifully. I was able to map the CD in my laptop's CD drive thorugh this command:

net use x: \\laptop\cd

The boot floppy did not have format.com, fdisk.exe and smartdrv.exe. fdisk and format were needed to format the hard disk and smartdrv.exe was required by Windows 2003 setup. I downloaded these from www.allbootdisks.com.

I was able to install Windows Server 2003 on this box without a CD drive with this approach.