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APPX 5 connectivity to Oracle on Window

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APPX 5 on Windows connectivity to Oracle

 
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Overview

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  This document assumes you already have Oracle installed on your network and configured to accept connections. For performance reasons, it is recommended that your RDBMS and APPX be on the same server. APPX should also already be installed with the AppxLoginMgr configured to accept logins.
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ImpersonateGroup            = NamedGroup(appxgrp)               #[LogonUser, NamedGroup(groupname), ServiceOwner] 
ImpersonateUser             = NamedUser(appx)          #[LogonUser, NamedUser(username), ServiceOwner]

Connections via the APPX Login Manager will then be able to make use of the Oracle Instant Client connection. From the command line, you can connect to the APPX Login Manager via the -c argument to appx like so: 

appx -c
 

Oracle Instant Client

Downloading

If you are running an APPX release prior to 6.0, you will need the 32 bit Oracle interface. Even if your OS is 64 bit, even if your Oracle is 64 bit, APPX requires you to connect to Oracle via the 32 bit version of the Oracle Instant Client. You can download the 32 bit version of Oracle Instant Client here. If you are running APPX 6.0 or greater, you need to know if you are running 32 or 64 bit APPX engine and download the appropriate Instant Client.

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Installing

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[root@appx502 10.2.0.4-32bit]# rpm -ivh oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4-1.i386.rpm oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.4-1.i386.rpm 
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:oracle-instantclient-ba########################################### [ 50%]
   2:oracle-instantclient-sq########################################### [100%]
[root@appx502 10.2.0.4-32bit]#
[root@appx502 10.2.0.4-32bit]# rpm -qlp oracle-instantclient-basic-10.2.0.4-1.i386.rpm oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-10.2.0.4-1.i386.rpm 
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/bin/genezi
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/libclntsh.so.10.1
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/libnnz10.so
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/libocci.so.10.1
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/libociei.so
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/libocijdbc10.so
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/ojdbc14.jar
/usr/bin/sqlplus
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/bin/sqlplus
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/glogin.sql
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/libsqlplus.so
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/libsqlplusic.so
[root@appx502 10.2.0.4-32bit]#
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Testing

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  • Oracle SID (customer)
  • TCP port number that Oracle is configured to listen (TCP 1521)
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  • Oracle user ID (larry)
  • Oracle password (yacht)
I'll use the Oracle Easy Connect syntax to log in.
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Failure without LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

[root@appx502 ~]#
[root@appx502 ~]# /usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/bin/sqlplus larry/yacht@10.50.0.6:1521/customer
/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/bin/sqlplus: error while loading shared libraries: libsqlplus.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[root@appx502 ~]#

Notice the failure to find libsqlplus.so in the text above. You can resolve this on Linux with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. An example is below.

Success with LD_LIBRARY_PATH 

[root@appx502 ~]# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib
[root@appx502 ~]#
[root@appx502 ~]# /usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/bin/sqlplus larry/yacht@10.50.0.6:1521/customer

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Thu Jul 8 13:06:38 2010

Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.
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PS C:\Oracle_instant_10.2> .\sqlplus.exe larry/yacht@10.50.0.6:1521/customer
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production on Thu Apr 7 12:22:01 2016
Copyright (c) 1982, 2010, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
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SQL> quit Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

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APPX

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Configuration

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Environment variables

I'm going to set two environment variables, the first is for the OS (LD_LIBRARY_PATH) and the second is for APPX (APPX_OCI_LIB). These will be placed inside my APPX Login Manager environment variable file /usr/local/appx/services/appx-8060.env).

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APPX_OCI_LIB=c:\Oracle_instant_10.2\oci.dll
 
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[appx@appx502 services]$ pwd
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[appx@ocportal services]$
[appx@ocportal services]$ cat appx-8060.env
# Appx connection manager environment variables
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#   The entries in this file will become
#   environment variables in the engines
#   spawned by this service
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#   blank lines are ignored
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#   anything following a '#' is treated as a comment
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#   letter case IS important in this file
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APPX_KEYMAP = Windows
APPXPATH = /usr/local/appx/data
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/
# APPX_SQL_CMD=/usr/local/appx/appx_sql_cmd.txt
# APPX_DBG_CODE=0xFFFFFFF
# APPX_OCI_DIR=/usr/lib/oracle/10.2.0.4/client/lib/
APPX_OCI_LIB=libclntsh.so.10.1
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FMS settings

We need to create an FMS group of type 5 (Oracle) that will point to the Oracle server. To do this we will need the same five pieces of Oracle configuration data that we used when we performed a test connection to Oracle using the Instant Client version of SQL*Plus. The values that I'm using in this example are listed below in parenthesis.

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Troubleshooting APPX to Oracle connection

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