PeopleSoft Update Manager complete Guide-Part 2

Configure PUM and Usability of PUM for Change packages

In the previous post I had configured the CA and now I will show the Update manager usability online.

Login into the PeopleSoft Image environment and follow the shown path and select "Define Package"

select the target environment and click 'next'

give the name of the change package to be created, and click 'next'

On this page the Update manager offers wide choice to create the specific change packages,

click on the radio button as suitable.

All updates not yet installed:-- This basically will create a CP with  all the updates from the Image
                                                    for the target environment.

Specific Updates:--                 This option allows to create a CP with particular bugs one want to fix.

Updates by Critera:--             This option further gives options to create a CP based on following
                                                 options   shown. Please go ahead and experiment with the options

Updates by object name:--        This options allows to create CP related to bugs of certain
                                                   PeopleSoft objects.For example lets select  object type Page and
                                                   a page name,it will   list  all the bugs related to that page.
                                                   The highlighted portion details shows the changes made in that
                                                  object specific to bug.

After the specific updates have been selected the change package is create, you can also review the
Change Package.

Coming back to the CA the change package created will be there in the drop down.Select it and click
'Apply Change Package'. The CA will start creating the customized Change.Change Package

After the change package is created, the CA asks for the Initial Upgrade and MTP options.
Click 'next' after selecting one of the option.

The CA will check for prerequisites and will show the summary then click 'Finish'.
After that the CA will up in action applying the CP in hard old fashioned way as it always does.

All your comments and queries are welcome.
Keep experimenting.

PeopleSoft Update Manager complete Guide-Part 1

Hi everyone,

Since the release of 9.2 PeopleSoft applications,Oracle has completely changed the conventional process of patching for PeopleSoft. It has introduced a whole new concept of PeopleSoft Update Manager (PUM) which is indeed terrific. Couple of Pros of PUM:--

• PUM provides very extensive and deep level of control to Administrators to create the Change packages.
• No more search,download for patches from Oracle support site.
• Every PeopleSoft image is coming as a cumulative set of all the bugs.

Lets concentrate on how to configure the PUM and how does it look.

I will be taking the PeopleSoft HCM image release 9.2.05 into consideration,and will divide this writeup into two parts

Download and Install PeopleSoft Image and install Change Assistant
Configure PUM and Usability of PUM for Change packages.

Download and Install PeopleSoft Image and install Change Assistant 

From Oracle support go to the following Document




Download the latest Peoplesoft Image from the support site

Once downloaded you will have files of .ova format,you have to concatenate all the files into one file using the following command

copy /b HCMDB-85309-PI005_OVA_1of5+HCMDB-85309-PI005_OVA_2of5+HCMDB-85309-PI005_OVA_3of5+HCMDB-85309-PI005_OVA_4of5+HCMDB-85309-PI005_OVA_5of5 85309d.ova

The result will be like this and the highlighted file is the concatenate one.

Download the Oracle VirtualBox software from https://www.virtualbox.org/ and install it.
Open VirtualBox, go to File>Import appliance and give the path of the concatenate file.

Click Next and then Import with 'reinitialise MAC settings' ,the PeopleSoft demo instance will be 
created in 15-20 minutes.

Configuring Change Assistant
 For installing Change Assistant, copy the setup folder from the tools client supplied in the Peoplesoft image.

go to run and type in //<ip_address of image> and the shared folders will be accessible.

after the CA is installed click on the icon to open it.

The first screen will be like:--

Click 'next',Check the 'Update Manager' button and click next,

 it will go to the "general" options where you need to fill out the necessary directory details.
The PUM directory is the pi_home directory of the shared folders of the image.
Either you can map it or copy the contents 
to your local desktop and give the location here
as shown below and click 'next'

The CA will ask for the HUB ip and the port information,Here I have already made the
 necessary configurations for PSEMAgent and PSEMHub 
to communicate with each other. Make sure the ping returns OK as shown.
you can also click view to see all the environments registered with your HUB.Click 'next'

Skip the additional options page,click 'next'

The CA will now ask for the target database details as shown.Click the radio button.

Once the environment is selected the CA asks for the target Database details.
After filling in all the details do check for the successful connection as shown.Click 'next'

Click 'Finish' on the confirmation page

Click next after CA has picked up all the target database details.

Now the CA will as for the Source database details (PeopleSoft Image that I installed).
So after filling in the database name the details page prompts and fill in the details
 as shown and check for successful connection

Click on the confirmation page, then fill in the URL of the PeopleSoft Image installed 
as shown and click next.The CA will start uploading the target database details to the Image.

Now click on the 'Open Browser and Connect to PI datbase' which will open the Image PIA.

Please move to Part 2 "Configure PUM and Usability of PUM for Change packages"

UBBGEN encountered an error while configuring!

This error is a pestering one, encountered when you are creating any Application server domain.
In the latest tools versions 8.53 oracle has removed some of its executables from the setup folder.

like you had  vcredist_x64 in earlier tools versions which fixed the missing dlls files required for peoplesoft in Windows.

This error in my case was specifically due to missing dll and because of  unavailability of vcredist_x64  in 8.53 PS_HOME, its difficult to get it resolved.

** don't download any dll and copy it in the system32 folder it will not work, instead go to

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=13523

You can download vcredist_x64 and fix the issue.

Please look into the following SR too (Doc ID 1541589.1)

Keep experimenting!!