Yesterday I decided to cleanup old Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic objects. There were a lot of files lying around in the Object Storage of a project from 2018. Cleaning up these files in the OCI console was no option, they can only be deleted one by one. And with over 1500 files, a bad idea. During the search for an option for Object Storage mass deletion, I found this tool: ftmcli – Object Storage Classic File Transfer Manager. The MOS note contains the script and a short manual how to use. It’s a Java based script, a perfect match for my Windows Subsytem for Linux (Ubuntu), which I often use for OCI actions. OAC-Classic : How To Delete A Storage…
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MV2OCI – One-Click Move of your Data into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database
mv2oci is a tool which helps to migrate on-premise data to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure based on Oracle Data Pump and works as a data load tool. The local Data Pump export is transferred and imported to/on the target cloud server automatically. There is no use of Oracle Cloud Object Storage, the dump files are transferred with rsync or scp to the target database node. This is the different behavior to mv2adb – see my blogpost here – which uses the Object Storage. As an option, the data can be transferred via Database Link (mv2oci Parameter –netlink). All you need to know about mv2oci is written in the My Oracle Support Note (OCI) MV2OCI: move data to Oracle Cloud Database…
Read MoreThe Grafana Plugins for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring are back!
In September 2019 I wrote a blog post how to monitor an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Autonomous database with Grafana plugin oci-datasource. But some weeks after publication, the plugin was not available on the Grafana page anymore. And only Oracle and Grafana had a clue why. Now everything will be fine now. Since the 6th of October, there are two new Grafana plugins available for download. They both don’t require a Grafana enterprise account. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Metrics Data Source Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Logging Data Source The first one is a successor of the former oci-datasource plugin, the second allows to get logs from OCI resources like Compute or Storage. As an infrastructure guy, let’s install the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Metrics…
Read MoreLet’s IPSec VPN – How to connect your Unifi Security Gateway to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
When I connect from home to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure normally I used a Bastion Host, an Open VPN compute instance or Public IPs. Some of the cool stuff like MV2OCI (which transfers data from on-premises to OCI) or integration of an ADB instance in my local running Oracle Enterprise Manager are referred to direct cloud connections. A SSH reverse tunnel works fine, but this cannot be a permanent solution for my lab environment. At home I have an Unifi Security Gateway (USG) up an running at home. This gateway has the capability, to create site-to-site VPN connections. Good: The Oracle Cloud Infrastruicture VPN service is for free, and I don’t expect over 10 TB outbound traffic. Time to create…
Read MoreOracle Cloud Infrastructure – Security first: Cloud Guard and Security Zones – a first View
Two new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Security Services Good news: Oracle has provided two new services for cloud security. Cloud Guard to get an overview of existing possible security breaches and Security Zones, which allows to create a full restricted compartment. In this blog, I will give you a short overview about this brand new services. Cloud Guard The Cloud Guard service helps you to identify security issues in your tenancy. Before the first use, it has to be enabled and a base region and for a minimum one compartment has to be selected. It needs a new policy which Cloud Guard allows to gather information in your tenancy. Oracle Cloud Guard discovers available object in compartments like Compute Instances,…
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