Configuration and Environment files commonly used by the AD Utilities

The following  lists configuration and environment files commonly used by the AD command line utilities, and in some cases, by the OAM Web-based utilities.

Note: <CONTEXT_NAME> defaults to <SID>_<hostname>.
Read as FileName - Location - Description

adconfig.txt  - $APPL_TOP/admin - Contains environment information used by all AD utilities.

Example:

C:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl>echo %APPL_TOP%
C:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl

<CONTEXT_NAME>.env in UNIX OR <CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd in Windows 

- $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.3 - Used to configure the environment when performing maintenance operations on the OracleAS 10.1.3 ORACLE_HOME.  

Example:

C:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl\admin>echo %INST_TOP%
C:\oracle\PROD\inst\apps\PROD_p-hq-sv-or-01

<CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd  - RDBMS ORACLE_HOME - Used to configure the environment when
performing maintenance operations on the database.

APPS<CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd - APPL_TOP- this file calls the environment files needed to set up the APPL_TOP and the Applications ORACLE_HOME.

<CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd - APPL_TOP - Called by APPS<CONTEXT_NAME>.env (UNIX) or
APPS<CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd (Windows) file to set up the APPL_TOP. This file calls either adovars.env (UNIX) or adovars.cmd (Windows).

  <CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd - $INST_TOP/ora/10.1.2 - Called by APPS<CONTEXT_NAME>.env (UNIX) or APPS<CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd (Windows) to set up the OracleAS 10.1.2ORACLE_HOME.

adovars.cmd - APPL_TOP/admin - Called by the <CONTEXT_NAME>.env (UNIX) or <CONTEXT_NAME>.cmd (Windows) file located in the APPL_TOP. Used to set environment variables for Java and HTML.

The following configuration and environment files are also used by most AD utilities, but are not created by AutoConfig. Please don't edit these files manually.
applora.txt - APPL_TOP/admin - Contains information about required init.ora parameters for runtime.

applorau.txt - APPL_TOP/admin - Contains information about required init.ora parameters for install and upgrade.

applprod.tx - APPL_TOP/admin - The AD utilities product description file, used to identify all products and
product dependencies.

applterr.txt - APPL_TOP/admin - The AD utilities territory description file. It contains information on all supported territories and localizations.

fndenv.env - FND_TOP - Sets additional environment variables used by Oracle Application Object Library.
The default values should be applicable for all customers.

C:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl\admin>echo %FND_TOP%
C:\oracle\PROD\apps\apps_st\appl\fnd\12.0.0