Messed up with AutoConfig !!!

Autoconfig messed up what to do?

after you changed your current xml file (context file) of courser without taking backup and then after you had run adautocfg.sh you find out that you messed every thing up, and you need to go back to the previous status but you don’t have backup of your xml file so what can you do?.

-Fist of all before editing the xml file always take backup.
-If you want to do changes on your xml file try to do it using OAM (Oracle applications manger) Site Map->System Configuration ->Autoconfig. OAM backup your xml by default. And it also allows you to see the history of your xml files and what compare between current xml and the one in history.
-Incase you don’t have backup and you messed every thing up you can do the following.

When you run adautocfg.sh it takes backup under the following directory
-$ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/log/$CONTEXT_NAME/out/MMDDhhmm for the database tire.
-$APPL_TOP/admin/$CONTEXT_NAME/out/MMDDhhmm for the applications tire.
* Where MM is the month, DD is the day, hh is the hour, and mm is the minute when adconfig.sh was executed.

All what you have to do is to go to this directories and run a script called restore.sh

Nice thing you can do before you run adautocfg.sh is to run adchkcfg.sh script. This script
generates an HTML file named cfgcheck.html that displays the differences
in the configurations. The file will be located under
-$ORACLE_HOME/appsutil/log/$CONTEXT_NAME/out/MMDDhhmm on the database tire.
-$APPL_TOP/admin/$CONTEXT_NAME/out/MMDDhhmm on the application tire.

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