Sunday, April 15, 2012

Oracle Applications on Amazon's Elasitc Cloud Computing (EC2)

New Post: Start your own Oracle Vision (Demo) instance R12.2.4 using Amazon AWS services


Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) is a web service that provides resizable compute capacity in the cloud.  The EC2 web service interface allows users to create linux / windows instance with different configurations of CPU and memory, in minutes.  Using the web services interface, users can also scale the capacity of instances both up and down.  For more information on Amazon EC2 service and functionality, please visit http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/#functionality .

Subscribing to EC2 service

Subscribing to EC2 service is easy.  Just go to aws.amazon.com and sign up.  You will have to do the following steps, before you can start an instance.  These are high level steps based on my experience.

  1. Subscribe for EC2 service. 
  2. Log in to "AWS management console".
  3. Click on VPC tab and click on Get started creating a VPC to create VPC.  You are creating a Virtual Private Cloud in this step which will provide you a subnet private to your account.
  4. In left side bar, under "Network & Security", click on Security Groups to create a VPC based security group.
  5. In left side bar, under "Network & Security", click on Key Pairs to create a new key pair.  Key pair will be used to access Linux instance via ssh.

Starting up Oracle E-Business Vision Instance
  1. Click on EC2 tab
  2. In left side bar, under IMAGES, Click on  AMI.
  3. Change the viewing filter to "All Images"  and "All Platforms"
  4. Search for image id ami-57c1013e (Oracle E-Business Suite 12.1.3 Database 64-bit - OVM" .
  5. Right click on the row and select "Launch Instance"
  6. Go through the wizard for creating an instance. 
  7. Once the instance is created, create another instance by selecting image id ami-227a8c4b (Oracle-E-Business-Suite-12.1.3-App-Tier).
  8. Here is the link from Amazon's AWS website on how to connect to linux instance using SSH : http://docs.amazonwebservices.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/AccessingInstancesLinux.html
  9. Once you are able to connect to both linux instances,
  10. Visit the link https://aws.amazon.com/amis/oracle-e-business-suite-12-1-3-app-tier-64-bit on documentation of oracle images which provides "quick start" guide and other information on starting the vision instance.

If you need more information or help on starting up the vision instance using Oracle image, please let me know via email: naresh.awasthi@gmail.com

Thanks
Naresh


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9 comments:

  1. Charles SmilesMay 14, 2012 at 9:55 PM

    Hi Naresh,

    I'm having issues getting the login page to appear for my Ec2 E-Business Suite Environment. This is the first time I've worked with Amazon cloud. I setup the e-business suite environment using the AIM configs. I cloned the pre-existing configuration using the metalink document 1205963. I assume you have used that document before. Processes on both the database tier and application tier were running when I tested front end access. When going to the login page nothing renders. I modified the context file so that login page is pointed to the public dns and not the private dns which was setup. I ran auto config after making the changes. The environment is currently down, but this is what was used to try to access the login page:
    http://ec2-23-22-56-65.compute-1.amazonaws.com/

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    1. Naresh AwasthiMay 20, 2012 at 10:50 PM

      Hi Charles

      You should do the following in an attempt to fix this issue:

      1. In context file, webentry url should be pointed to private ip address or host name. Run autoconfig after this change and startup application after sourcing the environment file.

      2. run the command "wget http://hostname:port/AppsLogin" from the command line and make sure it runs successfully (you should not get any error.

      3. On Amazon aws console, go to network and security and in the security group used with this instance, allow the external ip address of your computer's network to access this instance with whatever port you are using i.e. 8000. I normally your www.whatismyipaddress.com site to find out external public ip address of my network.

      4. Once you allow your external public ip address to access this instance, you should be able to access the E-Business login page.

      Hopefully this should fix your issue. Feel free to provide an update or if you have any questions.

      Thanks
      Naresh

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  2. UnknownJuly 13, 2012 at 11:55 AM

    Naresh thanks for some great details.
    I was able to run the db tier with no problems but I am not able to run the apps instance.It fails Instance status check no matter what I try in the wizard.
    Do you know what could be the reason for this?

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    1. Naresh AwasthiAugust 7, 2012 at 8:38 AM

      Akanksha

      Sorry for the late reply.

      There is some issue with the AMI for app tier. I was noticing the same issue a while back. Recently I heard from another reader of this blog that he was able to start up app instance successfully after waiting for some time. Is it still not working for you?

      Naresh

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  3. OlivierBOctober 24, 2012 at 7:17 AM

    Naresh
    Could you detail options of the wizard (Step 6 of your procedure) ?
    - Instance type for example.

    Many thanks
    Olivier

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    1. Naresh AwasthiOctober 24, 2012 at 10:22 PM

      Olivier

      Acutally, for this AMI you will have to launch the instance in EC2, not VPC.

      Thanks
      Naresh

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  4. UnknownFebruary 16, 2013 at 10:46 PM

    Naresh:
    How do I connect to the database from my personal laptop to this instance. I have SQL developer on my machine.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 19, 2013 at 5:28 AM

    Hi
    I am trying to configure Oracle EBusiness Suite from AMI available at URL: https://aws.amazon.com/amis/oracle-e-business-suite-12-1-3-app-tier-64-bit

    I already have Oracle RDS running in same zone.
    How do I go about configuring the Apps to use the RDS ?

    Can you direct me to step by step guide to be followed once we boot the Apps instance first time.

    Sanjay

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  6. AnonymousMarch 6, 2013 at 8:32 PM

    Can some one forward the "QUICK START GUIDE" .. I couldn't locate one.

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