How to integrate OAM with Windows Active Directory (Part 1)
Last week one of my co-workers asked me if it was possible to integrate Active Directory with Oracle Access Manager. So here is my two part mini-series on working …
Category: Architecture
Oracle datapump, advanced compression and licensing
As you may well know, Advanced Compression is an option you have to pay for when using it. But as a DBA you can’t always control the use of …
Oracle licenses and the cloud
Suppose the number of Oracle licenses you acquired in the past, is in line with the use. That is, you’re compliant with all the licensing rules Oracle come up …
Connecting two laptops (and a Virtual Box VM) for the purpose of a live demo using Personal Hotspot on Smart Phone
During the Oracle Fusion Middleware Partner Community Forum in Budapest (March 2015), Luc Bors and myself are presenting a live demo with Luc developing a mobile application (using MAF) …
Oracle has changed the Exchange rate of the Euro to 0.8682
For years the number of 0.7893 meant something to those who are working on regular basis with licenses in Europe. This number is the ‘Current local Pricing Exchange rate’. …
Security Features of Standard Edition (One) – Part 1
or A closer look on database hosts The last couple of years quite a few organizations had a difficult time and internal costs where a main focal point was …
Concurrentievoordeel door Identity- en Access Management
Elke organisatie maakt gebruik van Identity- en Acces Management (IAM/IDM). Dit is een van de basis elementen van goede informatiebeveiliging. Het afschermen van de bedrijfsgegevens is hierbij de eerste stap. …
Changed licensing rules for Exadata X5-2 with OracleVM
On 21 January 2015, Oracle announced Exadata X5, the sixth revision of Oracle’s database management system (DBMS) engineered system. The entire Exadata configuration no longer needs to be licensed …
Cyber security is goed, cyber-weerbaarheid (Cyber Resilience) is beter
Accepteer dat je wordt gehackt Cyber security is een serieuze zaak. De bedreigingen die op ons afkomen beperken zich niet tot het missen van een aantal bestanden, het uitlekken …
Bulk authorizing Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) users by adding them to OUD groups from the Linux/Unix Command Line
When using Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) as an identity store, it is in some occasions needed to add OUD users to OUD groups by hand. When you have to …
SQL*Plus / SQL*Net Dead Connection Detection
November 28, 2014
Architecture, Database, Databases, DBA Oracle, Oracle, Oracle WebLogic Server, Platform Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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Recently I came across the situation where I knew for a fact that my sessions to the database were dead because I pulled the power plug out of my application …
SOA Suite 12c: Querying LDAP directories using the LDAP Adapter
SOA Suite 12c introduced a number of new adapters. One of them is the LDAP Adapter. In several earlier articles on this blog (for example https://technology.amis.nl/2014/08/08/oracle-soa-suite-12c-ldapadapter-tutorial/ by Maarten Smeets), …
SOA Suite 12c: Creating user accounts in ApacheDS using the LDAP adapter (inspired by Maarten Smeets)
My colleague Maarten Smeets recently published a very good article on the first steps with the SOA Suite 12c LDAP adapter (https://technology.amis.nl/2014/08/08/oracle-soa-suite-12c-ldapadapter-tutorial). He inspired me to take my own …
Getting started with ApacheDS – LDAP Server and Directory Studio
Inspired by the work and some excellent blog articles by my colleague Maarten Smeets – and while writing about the LDAP Adapter in SOA Suite 12c for the Oracle …
SOA Suite 12c: Human Task and Escalation through the LDAP hierarchy
A Human Task in SOA Suite can be configured to automatically escalate when the task is not taken care of for a certain period of time. This escalation implies …
Oracle Cloud demystified: Open World 2014 Overview of Cloud offerings
The central theme of Oracle Open World 2014 has certainly been the Cloud. Downtown San Francisco was laced with banners about Oracle and Cloud. The difference compared to last …
Major take-aways from Oracle OpenWorld 2014 – some relevant conclusions
Oracle OpenWorld 2014 is over. Just under a week, full to the brim with information, events, people, energy, plans, hopes and expectations. I have learned many, many things. Small …
Web- and Mobile-Oriented Architectures with Oracle Fusion Middleware – Oracle OpenWorld 2014
Mobile applications as well as a large class of modern HTML5 web applications are built on top of an architecture with special provisions, such as RESTful services; the personal …
When to use the Oracle Database In-Memory option?
September 22, 2014
Architecture, Data Warehousing & BI, Databases, Digtial Innovation, Oracle 12
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The application and usage of the Oracle Database In-Memory has been described by Pom Bleeksma in this post. Oracle Database In-Memory can result in huge improvement in application query …
How to hide login data of sql-scripts on Windows
One of the often given advices on hardening a database is to run scripts without broadcasting your login data at the same time. According to Arup Nanda in his …
SOA Suite 12c: Invoke Enterprise Scheduler Service from a BPEL process to submit a job request
The Fusion Middleware 12.1.3 platform contains the ESS or Enterprise Scheduler Service. This service can be used as an asynchronous, schedule based job orchestrator. It can execute jobs that …
AMIS Whitepaper User Experience Frameworks “Future of optimal UI development”
“ There’s A Lot More Behind This Pretty Face “ The whitepaper “User Experience Frameworks – Future of optimal UI development -” starts with an overview of user experience guidelines. …
Cloud Control authorization with Active Directory
About 2 months ago I wrote an article about setting up user authentication in Cloud control, based on their account in the Active Directory. As promised, here is the …
Oracle SOA Suite 12c: The LDAPAdapter, a quick and easy tutorial
In enterprises, LDAP servers are often used to store user credentials and groups and share them among applications. Oracle SOA Suite 12c introduces a new technology adapter; the LDAPAdapter …
LDAP and Weblogic; Using ApacheDS as authentication provider for Weblogic
A Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server is often used to centralize management of users/groups/credentials within enterprises. An LDAP server stores user information such as group memberships and often …
Spatial: license-incompliancy while using Oracle Locator ?
As you may know, the use of Oracle Locator is free of charge, while Spatial is an option in Oracle Enterprise Edition which have to be paid for. Spatial …
Live Blog – AMIS Oracle Enterprise Mobility conference (21-23 May 2014) – Last Updated May 23rd – 16:30 CET
This article will provide a live account of the three day Enterprise Mobility conference, hosted by AMIS in Nieuwegein, The Netherlands. Oracle ADF Product Managers Frank Nimphius and Chris …
Questions when considering an ULA (Unlimited License Agreement)
Oracle is eager to offer companies a ULA, an Unlimited License Agreement, especially at the end of the financial year. If these companies are considering an ULA, this company …
What is REST?
REST (Representational State Transfer) is a term often used in software engineering when talking about services or other API’s. A lot of these so-called RESTful services or interfaces are not RESTful …
ADF Performance Monitor: Detecting and Analyzing a High ADF BC Memory Consumption
Like other web applications, Oracle ADF applications potentially use a lot of JVM memory. Many times, the root cause of a high memory usage is that application data retrieved …
Configuring a private DNS server on Openfiler for use with Oracle RAC 12C on Virtual Boxes
December 30, 2013
AMIS, Architecture, Database, DBA Oracle, Oracle, Oracle 12, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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To build an Oracle 12C RAC database – on Virtual Boxes – there’s at least shared storage needed for ASM, and a DNS-server for the SCAN-addresses. Several methods can …
Licensing development and test environments
Once in a while a company wants to know if her Oracle development- and test- environments needs to be licensed. And in a lot of cases this question simply …
new Puppet 3 Weblogic provisioning module
November 24, 2013
Architecture, Cloud, Platform Technology, Provisioning, SOA, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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The last few weeks I was busy re-writing pf my puppet WLS module so it fully supports the power of Puppet 3 (thanks for more than 4000 downloads on puppet …
The AMIS Summary of Oracle OpenWorld 2013 is available for download – 60-page white paper
Oracle OpenWorld is a monster event – 10Ks of attendees, thousands of sessions and 100Ks of private conversations that all help convey and define the message about Oracle’s strategy …
WebLogic -> FMW Provisioning update
October 26, 2013
Architecture, Cloud, Continuous Delivery, Development Tools, Oracle WebLogic Server, SOA, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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Already a year has passed since I wrote about WebLogic and Fusion Middleware provisioning with Puppet. In this year provisioning got a great boost with the popularity of DevOps …
OOW13: Looking forward at this year’s Oracle Open World
As every year, Open World is again packed with sessions, meetings, announcements, Demo grounds, Hands-on labs, events, music. My calendar is rapidly filling up but I keep on discovering …
Case Study: A Case of Fusion Middleware
The story of NOPERU – the National Organization for Permits for Emissions and Resource Usage – is an interesting one. Because it reveals the business drivers for embarking on …
14 augustus – gratis seminar Oracle ADF 12c, JDeveloper 12c en WebLogic 12c revealed
Dit is de zomer van de 12c-lanceringen. Na de database zijn sinds vorige week Oracle ADF 12c, Oracle JDeveloper 12c, en Oracle WebLogic 12c beschikbaar. Met zoveel nieuwe mogelijkheden …
Architecture to ‘probe’ components of an end-to-end application
By: Robert van Mölken and Tim Askamp An end-to-end application usually consists of multiple components that are one-way or another decoupled. A component can be an ADF frontend, OSB …
15 juli – Oracle Database 12c revealed
Afgelopen dinsdag is Oracle Database 12c beschikbaar gekomen, de nieuwste generatie van de Oracle database. AMIS biedt Oracle professionals de eerste mogelijkheid om de vernieuwingen in Oracle Database 12c …