Oracle Applications UNIX Environment Management

When running one or more Oracle Applications installations on a UNIX machine the various scripts required to setup environment variables and paths can become an administrative nightmare. The Oracle Server tools environment must be setup (e.g. oraenv or its equivalent), the Oracle Applications environment must be set up (e.g. APPLSYS.env) and any custom or extension environment requirements must be set (e.g. APPLEXT.env for AppsDBA created systems). In addition, when maintaining the NCA server on the same machine as the Oracle Applications server, or when maintaining multiple Oracle Applications environments on the same machine, the setup of each environment in order to administer the applications can become confusing. This paper will detail a structured approach to managing these issues that will scale and maintain uniformity.