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The Oracle Support site (Metalink) contains many useful technical documents, though these are often difficult to find. The lists below provides a direct link to some of the documents that have been found useful. To access them you may need to be registered with Metalink and the Oracle Technology Network. These are free, if you have an Oracle Support contract.

Section	Description
1. Oracle Support	Working with Oracle Support and the Oracle Product Lifecycle
2. Technical Architecture	System Design papers for the E-Business Suite
3. RAC and 11i	Real Application Clusters with the E-Business Suite
4. Security and Audit	Information to support Security and Audit strategies
5. Performance Issues	Documents and articles on performance tuning (and avoiding problems)
6. Fault Tracing	Oracle Support diagnostic tools and recommendations on problem solving
7. DBA Support	Regular maintenance tasks for DBA's and System Administrators
8. Desktop Support	Details on how to support the desktop rollout for Oracle E-Business Suite
9. General Documentation	Product Manuals, Data Models and Release Content Documents

"Top 5 Technical Documents"

1.	E-Business Release 12 Technical Preview
2.	Release 11i Recommend Technology Patches
3.	Statement of Direction: OracleAS Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite
4.	Oracle 11i with Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (Start Planning Now!)
5.	Using Discoverer 10.1.2 with Oracle 11i - (4i is desupported Oct 2006)

Working With Oracle Support

1.	Working Effectively With Oracle Support Services
2.	Patch Management in Oracle Applications Release 11i
3.	Oracle Product Certification: FAQ
4.	Obsolescence's Desupport Advisories & Notices FAQ
5.	Escalating TARs with Oracle Support Services
6.	Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Product Alerts
7.	Entitlement for MetaLink access FAQ
8.	Oracle Support Contact Numbers

Try search words:- FAQ, Certify, DeSupport, OSS

Technical Architecture Documents

1.	E-Business Suite Technical Development Blog - includes Release 12 preview
2.	Architecture options for large Deployments of E-Business Suite 11i
3.	E-Business Technical Architecture homepage
4.	Oracle E-Business Suite 11i - Database related FAQ
5.	Oracle E-Business Suite 11i - Application Server related FAQ
6.	Statement of Direction: OracleAS Integration with Oracle E-Business Suite
7.	Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery for Oracle E-Business 11i
8.	Optimal Storage Configurations (the SAME architecture) - Disc layout for SANS
9.	EMC Papers on Oracle Technology
10.	Character Set Consolidation for Oracle Databases beyond 10g
11.	Oracle Applications Multi Language FAQ
12.	Using Discoverer 10.1.2 with Oracle 11i

Try search words:- Topologies, Business Continuity, Taxonomy, Best Practice

RAC, ASM, DataGuard with 11i

1.	Using RAC and Physical Standby Database with E-Business Suite
2.	Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i with 9i RAC
3.	Concurrent Manager Setup and Configuration Requirements in an 11i RAC Environment
4.	Configuring Oracle Applications Release 11i with 10g R2 RAC and ASM
5.	E-Business Suite 11i on RAC : Configuring Database Load balancing & Failover
5.	Automatic Storage Management Best Practices

Try search words:- Business Continuity, Cluster, Standby, Best Practices

Security and Audit Documents

1.	Best Practices for Securing the E-Business Suite
2.	Oracle E-Business Suite 11i Configuration in a DMZ
3.	Oracle Security Alerts
4.	How to Change E-Business Database Passwords
5.	Enabling Oracle Label Security in Oracle E-Business Suite
6.	Oracle User Management FAQ
7.	System Admin Guide - Security, User Audit, Sarbanes Oxley compliance

Try search words:- Securing, Troubleshooting, Howto, Best Practice

Performance Issues

1.	Troubleshooting Oracle Applications Performance Issues
2.	A Holistic Approach to Performance Tuning Oracle Applications Systems
3.	Oracle Applications and StatsPack
4.	Database Initialization Parameters and Configuration for Oracle Applications 11i
5.	Oracle E-Business Suite Recommended Performance Patches
6.	www.oraperf.com: provides statspack analysis service

Try search words:- Statspack, Troubleshooting, Holistic

Fault Tracing and Problem Solving

1.	Knowledge Browser: Link to the published information that Support Analysts use.
2.	Oracle Support Services Diagnostic Tools
3.	Remote Diagnostic Agent (RDA)
5.	Oracle Applications Framework Troubleshooting Release 11i
6.	How To Get Version of Programs, Files, Objects Necessary for Oracle Applications
7.	How To Find Oracle Application File Versions
8.	How to Tell if the Oracle Software is 32-Bit or 64-Bit

Try search words:- Troubleshooting, Diagnostic, FAQ, Howto, Applications, 11i

Support and Maintenance

1.	Release 11i Recommend Technology Patches
2.	Oracle Applications Patching FAQ
3.	Release 11i Adpatch Basics
4.	How To Run A Patch Impact Analysis In OAM
5.	Cloning Oracle Applications Release 11i
6.	Patching Best Practices and Reducing Downtime
7.	Configuring a Shared APPL_TOP in 11i
8.	Oracle Applications Release 11i with UTF8 FAQ
9.	Road Map to mod_jserv Configuration Files and Commonly Used Directives
10.	Autoconfig FAQ
11.	Enhancing Oracle Applications Concurrent Processing
12.	Cleaning An 11i Apps Instance Of Redundant Files
13.	Export/Import Process for Oracle Applications 9i database
14.	Export/Import Process for Oracle Applications 10g Database

Try search words:- Patching, FAQ, Howto, Applications, 11i, OAM

Desktop Support Documents

1.	Using JInitiator 1.1 and 1.3 with Oracle Applications 11i
2.	Complete Guide to JInitiator 1.1.8.x Setup & Troubleshooting for Oracle Applications 11i
3.	How to use,create and /or update Digital Certificates for 11i Applications
4.	E-Business Suite Recommended Set Up for Client/Server Products: Citrix Support
5.	Oracle (Un)Install Issues in Windows Platforms: Index of Relevant Papers
6.	The Oracle Installer commandline options: Installing ADI in silent mode
7.	ADI Installation Conflicts With other Oracle Software
8.	Instructions for running Oracle Universal Installer in silent mode: See also Note: 139754.1
9.	Oracle Tutor Documents

Try search words:- ORCA, OUI, Client, Troubleshooting, FAQ, Installer

General Documentation and Manuals

1.	Latest E-Business Suite Documentation CD
2.	E-Business Suite 11i documentation CD's - all versions
3.	E-Business Data Models (11.5.4 onwards)
4.	Release Content Documents: What's in the latest releases
5.	E-Business Application Technology Product Centre
6.	E-Business Suite Release Information Centre
7.	Oracle Product Manuals: Database, E-Business, Application Server: All recent versions
8.	Search and download Oracle Server Product Manuals
9.	Firefox Browser Users - Oracle Search Plugins

Try search words:- Documentation, 11i, 11.5, Release, Consolidated

email us to ask for more information. Last Updated on 08/05/2006

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