Cloning is the process of copying an existing environment to the same directory on a target system, while keeping its state (for example, topologies, configurations, application deployments, and so on) unchanged. Cloning simplifies the process of building identical environments on different hosts by copying all middleware components and their patches. It also provides an effective way for distributing BAM domain configurations among different environments.
The prerequisites for cloning Oracle BAM are as follows:
Installing the Oracle BAM schema using RCU.
Stopping the administration server and all managed servers running in the domain on the source host.
On Unix/Linux, verifying if the
oraInst.loc
file exists in the/etc
directory. If it is located in another directory, use the-invPtrLoc
option with thepasteBinary
script to specify the location. If the target host does not contain the fileoraInst.loc
, you must create the file that includes theinventory_loc
andinst_group...