Applying Bundles

1.       Bundle is nothing but a collection of Application fixes. We can apply bundles only to an Application.

2.       We will apply bundle online with out shutting down the servers

3.       If we want to apply latest bundle we must apply previous bundles

4.       Collection of bundles is known as maintenance pack.

5.       Collection of maintenance pack is known as service pack.

6.       We know bundle version using ‘PS_MAINTENANCE_LOG’

TYPES OF BUNDLES:

1.       CUMULATIVE: It means all the previous maintenance packs are embedded,you can install directly the latest cumulative maintenance pack with out having to apply the previous one’s

2.       Delta: It means the last updates are included into the Maintenance Pack, Consequently we have to apply Previous one infront.

Latest Bundle Applies-790162  FSCM Maintenance Pack-Cumulative

Note: When applying a bundle we can see a msg like

(a)    Manual compile cobol step manually(CBLBCD)

(b)   Compute additional cobol programs

(c)    Additional cobals to compile (or) recreate tables

(d)   Rules Compile

(e)   Update Permission lists

(f)     Update Role

(g)    Audit fixes

               Applying  bundles hrms 9.0 eng MP4 CUMULATIVE

1.       Bundles are applyied using Change Assistant.

2.       Before we start change assistant we have to configure (EMF) Environmental mgmt Framework

3.       CA Uses EMF to apply updates to peoplesoft installation & configuration

EMF has 3 parts

(a)    PSEMAgent: Java executable which brings information

(b)   PSEMHUB: IT is a web application

(c)    PSEMVIEWER: It is a command line tool.

4.       Start PSEMAgent on each server by using recrawl command

$pshome/PSEMAgent/startAgent.sh recrawl(in unix)

$pshome/PSEMAgent/startAgent.cmd recrawl(in windows)

5.       In change Assistant window we will set download, staging & output directories.

In ‘options’ menu . Download for->DownLoading bundle,staging for ->unzipping the bundle & output for storing all information into o/p directory.

In CA select mode as       Apply Application Update.

6.       In ‘Env Management’ Tab we will set ip addresHUB

7.       We can check the connection using ‘ping’.

8.       After that we will Apply bundles  I,e change packages(Tools->change packages)

    Automatically without compare or with compare

9.       We can apply using change impact analyzer or normally

PSChange  Impace Analyser: It is a tool installed separately from peoplesoft PeopleTools that helps to determine the specific changes that we make an application.

Ex: Defination Packages.     Apply without change impact analyzer->next

10.   We will select specific Application like HRMS,FSCM for which we are applying bundles.Building of  db scripts can be done automatically or manually and select target environment      HRDEV

11.   After We will     Validate now    ->  Here we get all successful messages and click close.

We can validate or verify the errors & state of current env before we apply updates:

1.       Creating a summary of your env

2.       Validating ur sql query tools

3.       Pinging env management hub

4.       Connecting to hub

5.       Discovering Hub environment.

ERRORS FACED WHILE APPLYING BUNDLES:

1.       SQR executive error for table   a) we will take help for developers

2.       Manual stop Encountered?     A) we will recompile using F7

3.       Environment Not Found?        A)PSEMAgent is unable to take information

BUNDLES : HRMS 9 Multilingual MP4 Cumulative