Managing the lifecycle of software and services is a time-consuming and error-prone task. Administrators can spend several days and weeks planning and implementing provisioning and patching tasks. Grid Control greatly simplifies these complex tasks so that administrators can focus on more strategic areas, and the enterprise can be more agile in managing the lifecycle of software and services.
In this chapter, we discussed the steps to clone Oracle Application Server and SOA Suite. Specifically, we discussed adding an Oracle Application Server cluster to Grid Control, stopping application server processes, making a copy of the application server and storing it in the Grid Control Software Library, cloning the application server and SOA Suite, and finally validating the newly created cluster. It’s important to note that Grid Control copies the data and the configurations from the source to the target cluster. The provisioning and cloning solutions are complemented by patching solutions...