My fresh EM13cR2 installation showed me that there is a patch for the Weblogic environment available. This patch was released in July 2016: Patch Patch 23094292: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160719. This patchset has included 157 fixes and is a generic one. The patch is marked in My Oracle Support as recommended. OPatch has no to be updated. This patch is not an online patch, you have to shut down your running EM13cR2 server. This blog post describes the apply of the Weblogic patch set update in an Enterprise Manager 13cR2 environment running on a Oracle Linux server. Prepare Patch Set Update on EM13c Server The patch file has to be extracted. I have copied to file to my EM13cR2…
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Enterprise Manager 13c – Let’s use the Hybrid Agent for Amazon EC2 and Azure Instances
I like the concept behind the Oracle Enterprise Manager Hybrid Cloud Architecture to connect my on-premise OMS with targets in the Oracle cloud. The Agent communicates via SSH tunnel to target servers, no other ports than SSH 22 are open against the world wide web. An I was interested to find out, if the installation of such an agent works for other cloud providers than Oracle too. Create a Oracle Linux Instance in Amazon AWS I have created a small Oracle Linux instance in Amazon AWS and inserted the public IP into the /etc/hosts file of the Oracle Management Server. Why I have used an Oracle Linux? According the documentation, at the moment only Oracle Linux x86-64 is supported to…
Read MoreEnterprise Manager 13c – How to apply Patch 22505404: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160419
Since the 19th of April there is a new patch set available for Weblogic servers – Patch 22505404: WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.1.3.0.160419. This patchset has included 116 fixes and is a generic one. The patch is listed in the Enterprise Manager 13c as recommended. OPatch has no to be updated. This patch is not an online patch, you have to shut down your running EM13c server. This blog post describes the apply of the Weblogic patch set update in an Enterprise Manager 13c environment running on a Oracle Linux server. Prepare Patch Set Update on EM13c Server The patch file has to be extracted. I have copied to file to a stage directory /u00/app/oracle/stage on the EM13c server. [oracle@solothurn…
Read MoreFrom the Command Line into the to the Oracle Cloud – the ORACLE-DBCS-CLI Utility
The Oracle ORACLE-DBCS-CLI utility is a command-line interface tool to manage the lifecycle of your Database as as Service instances in cloud.oracle.com. You can create and delete instances, verify and apply patches, scale your instances up and down and many more. The advantage is that you can work with configuration files. And I like to work with such files, if I need 10 instances with the same shape, I have only to search and replace the instance name – fire! The ORACLE-DBCS-CLI utility is available for Unix platforms at the moment. I have installed ORACLE-DBCS-CLI on a Oracle Linux 6.5, JDK version 1.7 or higher is required. Download and Documents The software can be downloaded here: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/database-cloud/public/downloads/index.html The ORACLE-DBCS-CLI documentation starts here: https://docs.oracle.com/cloud/latest/dbcs_dbaas/CSDBI/GUID-E9F2219D-EBDC-44B3-BE22-BEED6C2BAB74.htm#CSDBI-GUID-E9F2219D-EBDC-44B3-BE22-BEED6C2BAB74 Installation After download…
Read MoreDo you need a Mailserver for Testing Purposes? Communigate Pro!
When I am testing Oracle and other software, I want to verify functions like sending alert mails. On Linux systems it’s easy. The most distributions have packages like sendmail already preconfigured and ready to use. But for example on Windows systems, there is no built-in solution. The goal was to have a small virtual machine running as mailserver which can be used for all my test cases. CommuniGate Pro CommuniGate Pro is a groupware which supports a lot of solutions like SMTP, POP3, Webmail and many more. In this post I describe how you can easy install the software and configure the SMTP component in Oracle Enterprise Linux 6. The goal is to use CommuniGate Pro for the Enterprise Manager…
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