R12.x Oracle Applications System Administrator Fundamentals

This course will teach you concepts and functions that are critical to the System Administrator role. It covers implementing and managing the Oracle E-Business Suite.

Learn To:

• Manage security.
• Monitor E-Business Suite activities using OAM.
• Understand fundamental Oracle Workflow concepts.
• Configure flexfields.
• Understand the fundamentals of Oracle Workflow, including its setup.

Key Course Topics

Topics covered include: configuring security and user management, configuring flexfields, managing concurrent processing and setting up other essential features like profile options and printing. In addition, configuration and maintenance of an Oracle E-Business Suite through Oracle Applications Manager is discussed.

Build a Foundation

The System Administrator Fundamentals course gives you the foundation to effectively control security and ensure smooth operations for an E-Business Suite installation. Demonstrations and hands-on practice reinforce the fundamental concepts of configuring an Oracle E-Business Suite, as well as handling day-to-day system administrator tasks.

This course is applicable for customers who have implemented R12 or 12.1.

Benefits to You

Better understand how to effectively control security, monitor your system, and handle day-to-day system administrator tasks for Oracle E-Business Suite applications, so that your organization can more rapidly realize the full value of Oracle E-Business Suite.

Audience

• Application Developers
• Functional Implementer
• Support Engineer
• Technical Administrator

Course Topics Function Security

• Users
• Custom Applications
• Menus
• Responsibilities
• Functions

Data Security

• Objects
• Grants
• Permissions and Permission Sets
• Data Security Policies

Oracle User Management

• Access Control Model
• Role Based Access Control
• Delegated Administration
• Self-Service and Approval features

Profile Options

• Personal Profile Values
• System Profile Values
• Profile Hierarchy Levels
• Profile Categories

Auditing System Resources

• Auditing User Activity
• Signon Audit

Printers

• Printer Components
• Printing with the Pasta printing feature
• Using Pasta with Oracle XML Publisher

Oracle Applications Manager (OAM)

• Benefits of Oracle Applications Manager
• OAM Dashboard
• OAM Site Map
• System Monitoring
• Diagnostic Tools in OAM
• Support Cart

Concurrent Programs and Requests

• Lifecycle of a Concurrent Request
• Managing Concurrent Requests
• Request Sets
• Viewing Request Output
• Defining a Custom Concurrent Program

Administering Concurrent Managers

• Generic Service Management (GSM)
• Concurrent Managers
• Concurrent Manager Workshifts
• Conflict Domains
• Internal Concurrent Managers
• Internal Monitors
• Transaction Managers
• Parallel Concurrent Processing

Oracle Workflow

• Business Processes
• System Integration with Oracle Workflow
• Workflow Architecture
• Workflow Engine
• Workflow Builder
• Notification System
• Workflow Manager
• Directory Services

Flexfields

• Key Flexfields
• Descriptive Flexfields
• Value Sets
• Validation of Flexfield Segment Values

Folders

• Folder Definitions
• Assigning Folders to Users and/or Responsibilities

Online Help System

• Customizing Help Files
• Help System Utility
• Help Builder

Course Objectives

• Set up printing
• Manage folders
• Implement function security
• Implement Oracle User Management
• Implement flexfields
• Manage the Oracle E-Business Suite with Oracle Applications Manager
• Describe Oracle Workflow
• Understand concurrent processing
• Describe diagnostics and troubleshooting tools for Oracle E-Business Suite
• Define profile option values
• Set up auditing