Tasks for Oracle Applications Server Administrator

Let's look at the tasks that need to be performed by an Oracle Application Server Administrator and how the Enterprise Manager features help in performing that task. At the end of each task we'll provide some pointers to explore the features defined.

We'll start with the first task that is installation.

Provisioning

Whenever a new application has to be deployed on a new Application Server or the capacity of an existing application is augmented, the administrator needs to provision Oracle Application Servers. Most of such provisioning activity is repetitive in nature and can be automated. We learned about provisioning a framework and deployment procedures in Chapter 1,Enterprise Manager Grid Control.

Enterprise Manager provides out-of-the-box deployment procedures to provision Oracle Application Server. These deployment procedures support following three scenarios for provisioning:

• Provisioning from installable software: This scenario...