Serial database backups using Oracle Enterprise Manager
For several years now, I’ve been a fan of backups controlled by Enterprise Manager (of Grid Control, or Cloud Control, call it what you want). It is relatively easy …
Category: Platform Technology
WebLogic Server: Logging the SOAP action in the access.log
WebLogic Server allows you to customize your access.log. This can be very powerful if you want to monitor for example service response times in a tool like Splunk (see …
Oracle Database Appliance X6-2L and X6-2 HA, comparing the line
January 8, 2017
ODA, Engineered Systems, Platform Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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A while ago I published an article about the ODA X6-2S and X6-2M, the new entry level machines for small business. And since then Oracle introduced the ODA X6-2L …
WebLogic Server: Automate obtaining performance metrics from the DMS
Oracle provides the Dynamic Monitoring Service (DMS) as part of WebLogic Server which is extremely useful if you want to obtain aggregated data of an environment in case of …
Deploying Oracle Management Cloud for Infrastructure monitoring
It’s a bit hard to choose the right heading for this article. How do you call setting up Oracle Management Cloud (OMC) – a trial environment – to explore …
First step with Oracle Management Cloud – Application Performance Monitoring, mandatory for DevOps
A few days back, we at AMIS got our cloud trial for Oracle Management Cloud. I can now report from my first steps with Application Performance Monitoring, one of …
Oracle Compute Cloud – Uploading My Image – Part one
Recently (October 2016) I had the opportunity to attend an Oracle Compute Cloud workshop that was very interesting. As a side effect I got access to the Cloud for …
Just launched: the Oracle Identity Cloud Service – for authentication and authorization across the cloud and on premises
News flash: According to a post on LinkedIn by Oracle’s Chief Identity Architect Vadim Lander, the IDCS is live, as of November 1st. An important missing link until now …
FTP Adapter Configuration for SFTP
Introduction At my current project incoming data files, located at a third party FTP server, have to be read using SFTP. Despite of several blog posts and the FTP …
How to create a private 10 Gb network on an ODA X5-2
In my previous post Network considerations on an ODA X5-2 I described a solution where I created a private network to optimize network performance between the components running on …
Network considerations on an ODA X5-2
June 24, 2016
ODA, Architecture, Engineered Systems, Oracle, Platform Technology, Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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When you buy an Oracle Database Appliance (ODA) X5-2 off the shelve, you will get a machine with four times 10Gb copper Ethernet (bonded into two interfaces) for public …
Connect Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 to Amazon’s Cloudwatch
Oracle Enterprise Manager 13C has been introduced as a ‘single pane of glass’. Managing and monitoring all the assets, in or out of the public cloud. But when creating …
Chargeback in Oracle Enterprise manager 13C
Since Oracle Enterprise Manager 12C it is possible to allocate the costs of IT resources to the people of organizations who consume them. This is done through the use …
Oracle X5-2, from bare metal to VM Server. Without disks, without dvd drive.
April 23, 2016
AMIS, Platform Technology, Provisioning, Technology, Virtualization and Oracle VM
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Oracle offers a fine machine called the X5-2. Not to be confused with the ODA X5-2, which comes with sophisticated database software. The X5-2 is just bare metal. The …
Create and Run Docker Container with Node.js and Node Oracle DB Driver from Windows using Vagrant and VirtualBox
My objective: be able to very quickly run Node.js applications that can connect to an Oracle Database – with minimal disturbance of my laptop environment (Windows 7). The solution …
Migrating Red Hat Linux subscription to Oracle
I never realized in depth the difference between a Linux subscription and a license. Linux is open source, so the software itself is for free. No license to …
Modifying BI Publisher reports in Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c, e.g. ‘Database Usage Tracking Summary’
Recently I bumped into an annoying bug in the code of a report, wrote about it a while ago, notified Oracle. And they has confirmed that a new version …
Linking Application Container Cloud to DBaaS – Expose REST API from node.js application leveraging node-oracle-database driver
In a recent article, I discussed the deployment of a simple Node.js application to the Oracle Application Container Cloud. I take this one step further in this article: I …
Deploying a node.js application to the Oracle Application Container Cloud Service
This article describes my first steps with the fairly new Oracle Application Container Cloud . At this point in time, Oracle Application Container Cloud includes Oracle Java SE Cloud …
Usage Tracking Reports, using Oracle Enterprise Manager 13C as a SAM tool
Still loving the idea to use Oracle Enterprise Manager as a ‘kind of ‘ Software Asset Management Tool, and get regular centralized reports that tells me what Oracle software …
Implementing ORAchk in Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c
Heard about it at Oracle OpenWorld 2015: A new feature in Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c is the possibility to incorporate ORAchk, the healthcheck tool for databases, RAC and Engineered …
Deployment of a Java EE application to Java Cloud Service (Oracle Public Cloud JCS)
In this previous article – Getting started with Java Cloud Service on the Oracle Public Cloud (WebLogic as a Service) – I have taken you on a introductory tour …
Getting started with Java Cloud Service on the Oracle Public Cloud (WebLogic as a Service)
The Java Cloud Service (JCS) in the Oracle Public Cloud allows me to deploy Java EE applications such as JAX-RS and JAX-WS REST and SOAP Web Services, Servlet | …
Monitor Oracle SOA Suite service response times with Splunk
Measuring performance of services can be done in various ways. In this blog article I will describe a method of measuring Oracle SOA service response times with Splunk a …
Reflections after Oracle OpenWorld 2015 – PaaS Foundation (WebLogic, Coherence, JCS and Application Container Cloud Service)
The foundation for most of the Oracle Public Cloud Platform services is the Java Cloud Service (JCS) that itself is powered by WebLogic Server. The same WebLogic that Oracle …
Quick overview of SOA Suite 12.2.1 new features
Oracle has just released SOA Suite 12.2.1 which contains several exciting new features. The below entries have shamelessly copied from the developers guide in order to provide a quick …
Oracle licenses needed while monitoring your (non-)Oracle environment with OEM
October 20, 2015
Architecture, Database, Databases, Enterprise Manager, IT, Licensing, Platform Technology
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With Oracle Enterprise Manager you are able to monitor an Oracle environment as well as a non-Oracle environment, like Microsoft’s SQL Server. You are also able to exchange notifications …
Generate Docker Containerized Run Time and Design Time for Oracle StreamExplorer, Event Processor and JDeveloper using Vagrant, Puppet and VirtualBox
The objective of this article: prepare an environment for experimenting with Oracle StreamExplorer using two Docker containers inside a Linux VM running on my Windows laptop. And with the …
Simple Docker GUI for monitoring and managing containers and images – in combination with Vagrant and VirtualBox
I came across a simple Google Chrome Addon called Simple Docker GUI. It provide a GUI that allows for easy insight in and some management of Docker containers and …
Vagrant, Docker, VirtualBox and the Graphical Desktop for GUI applications in Docker Containers
Although perhaps not a common occurrence, I would still like to be able to sometimes run GUI applications inside a Docker container. This may be required because an installer …
Vagrant and Docker followed by Puppet to provision complex environments
The Docker container build process has some limitations. The Docker file can quickly become unwieldy. Besides, by and large the Docker file has us execution fairly low level instructions …
Vagrant and Docker – Next and Advanced steps with folders, ports, volumes, linking and more
This article is a continuation of the introduction to the combination of Vagrant and Docker that I started here: First steps with provisioning of Docker containers using Vagrant as …
First steps with provisioning of Docker containers using Vagrant as provider
Note: the next set of (more advanced) steps with Vagrant and Docker are discussed in this article: Vagrant and Docker – Next and Advanced steps with folders, ports, volumes, …
Overview of WebLogic 12c RESTful Management Services
Inspired by a presentation given by Shukie Ganguly on the free Oracle Virtual Technology Summit in July (see here); “New APIs and Tools for Application Development in WebLogic 12c”, …
Use DB Vault to protect password strength policy
Suppose your organization wants to enforce a security policy on database password strength. The DBA’s have implemented a password strength verification function in PLSQL such as the oracle supplied …
WebLogic Server and OpenLDAP. Using dynamic groups
Dynamic groups in an LDAP are groups which contain a query to specify its members instead of specifying every member separately. Efficient usage of dynamic groups makes user maintenance …
Interacting with JMS Queue and Topic from Java SE
This article is just a quick post of some code I want to have easy access to. It runs in Java SE – outside any container in a stand …
Weblogic Console and BPM Worklist. Authentication using OpenLDAP
In this blog I will illustrate how you can configure Weblogic Server to use OpenLDAP as authentication provider and to allow OpenLDAP users to login to the Oracle BPM …
Keeping track of your licenses with OEM12C – reports
Wouldn’t be nice to get regularly informed how (in)compliant you are with Oracle licenses in an easy – centralized – way, and therefore not have to worry about visits …
Unleash the power of Java API’s on your WLST scripts!
Oracle SOA Suite and many other Oracle products have extensive Java API’s to expose their functionality. WLST can often be used for relatively course grained actions. WLST (the version …