Changes made in context file not reflecting in the configuration files

You made few changes to context file and ran autoconfig. But the changes are not propagated to the configuration files. Also, the changes you made to the xml file itself got wiped out.

Here is the deal:
In the autoconfig log, you will see the following:

-------------------ADX Database Utility Finished---------------
OAM Context editing support feature: Enabled
OAM Customization support feature : Enabled
File system template : /apps/OECPRD/apps/apps_st/appl/ad/12.0.0/admin/template/adxmlctx.tmp
Checking for customizations to Context template
Customizations found : None
----------------------------------------------------------------
File system Context file :/apps/local/OECPRD/inst/apps/OECPRD_c7-a1-06/appl/admin/OECPRD_c7-a1-06.xml

Checking the Context file for possible updates from the Database
Comparing the Context file stored in database with the Context file in the file system

Result : File system Context is below par with respect to the data base Context
Action to be taken : Copy the Data Base Context onto the file system

Result : Context file successfully copied

As seen, the autoconfig actually copied the context file from the database to the file system. This explains why the changes were not propagated and also explains why the context file changes are wiped out.

So why did this happen?
This happened because autoconfig determined that the version of the xml in the database is greater than the one on the filesystem.

So, what can cause this situation?
One thing that I can think of is that the context file was copied from another node of the same system and only host names were changed and autoconfig was run.

So regardless of what caused this issue, how do you fix it?
FIX:
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1. select name,version,last_synchronized from apps.fnd_oam_context_files where node_name='c7-a1-06' order by serial_number desc

2. Copy back the xml with which you intended to run autoconfig to the $CONTEX_FILE location and edit the xml tag (basically it should be any value bigger than what was returned in step 1). If the value returned in step 1 was 347, update the s_contextserial in the xml to 348. Following is the code block which needs to be updated:

oa_context version="$Revision: 120.217.12000000.48 $"

oa_context_name oa_var="s_contextname" OECPRD_c7-a1-06 oa_context_name
oa_context_serial oa_var="s_contextserial" 348 oa_context_serial

3. Run autoconfig.
4. Validate that the xml is fine and you don’t see entries in the log that xml was copied from the database to filesystem.

- Aravind Kamath Posral