Hi folks
A quick blog about Enterprise Manager. I am putting a blog together about Data Masking, and one of the things I need for that is the Cloud Control
So I have an existing Cloud Control 12.1.0.5 but in order to use it to data mask an EBS 12.2 system, the Cloud Control needs to be at R13.1, so I need to upgrade it ( Yes, I know, a pain )
So I downloaded R13 of the cloud control and it tells me I cannot upgrade until I have the R13 plugin for E-Business Suite.
However, I cannot download it - as the OEM downloads page on OTN no longer has the plugins on it. The recommended way in the documentation is to use the Self-Update feature.
But this got me wondering - is there another way to do it ? Can we get the plugin without resorting to any of that, i.e. having to do a long and complex start, stop, connect to the Internet
Let's see.
The Catalog which OEM downloads for Self-Update, is a well-publicised patch and can be manually downloaded. So let's go and get it, and see what there is to see.
We see from Note 1388143.1 how to get it :
When we get the zip file and open it
We are looking for 13.1 plugins so click in there
Now let's get the plugin XML, so view it :
We can see from this large XML file that every plugin is detailed. What we want is the E-Business Plugin, and the patch number details
\If we search then we find
<![CDATA[Enterprise Manager for Oracle E-Business Suite consists of System Management and Change Management Feature Sets]]>
13.1.1.1.0
0
2000
<![CDATA[
Oracle E-Business Suite Plug-In Release 13.1.1.1.0 Read Me
------------------------------------------------------------------------
And at the very end of that XML EntityInstance we find
The important thing here is the Files= tag, so if we search Metalink for that 23643778
There is one file, so download it and examine :
Inside that zip file is a readme :
Oracle E-Business Suite Plug-In Release 13.1.1.1.0 Read Me
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Description:
--------------
So that is how it is done !