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Oracle Database Appliance – let’s backup to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage

This blog post describes the setup for an Oracle Database Appliance ODA database backup by RMAN to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. Basically there are three destinations for backup and recovery possible: • Oracle Fast Recovery Area (FRA) disk – the Internal FRA • Network File System (NFS) location – external FRA • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage – Oracle Object Storage When using backup to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Object Storage, the Oracle Database Backup Cloud Service module (opc_installer.jar) is configured in the background. A configuration can be created by the ODA browser interface or by command line tool odacli – what I prefer. When you have already worked with the Oracle Database Backup Service and the OPC module, the…

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Monitor your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Autonomous Database with your On-Prem Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c

This blog post describes how to use an on-prem Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c to monitor Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Autonomous Databases without internet traffic. In this case, a VPN connection from the data center Mohnweg/Jurasüdfuss/Switzerland to the OCI data center in Zurich is up and running. This method works with a Fast Connect too. From the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 Administrator Guide: Oracle Enterprise Manager supports the following Autonomous Databases and the term “Autonomous Databases” in this guide collectively refers to them: Autonomous Data Warehouse – Dedicated Autonomous Transaction Processing – Dedicated Autonomous Data Warehouse – Shared Autonomous Transaction Processing – Shared Architecture On-Prem: Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 RU2 – OL 7 Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: Autonomous Transaction Processing – Shared Requirements…

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Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 5 – Time for Release Update 2

Since a few days the 13.5.0.2 Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Base Platform Monthly Release Update (RU) 2 is available to apply. Time to update my 13.5 lab environment at home to get a first experience about a lot of new features like Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resource Discovery, Oracle Enterprise Manager Dashboards, Database Scheduler Jobs Metrics and many more. Notes and Links My Oracle Support Notes 13.5.0 Enterprise Manager Cloud Control Base Platform Monthly Release Update (RU) 2 (Doc ID 2822316.1) Enterprise Manager 13.5 Main Release Update List (Includes Plug-ins) (Doc ID 2760230.2) Other Links https://blogs.oracle.com/observability/post/oracle-enterprise-manager-13c-release-5-update-2-13502-is-now-available https://docs.oracle.com/en/enterprise-manager/cloud-control/enterprise-manager-cloud-control/13.5/emcon/new-features-release-update.html Patch Number 33456001 The Environment Oracle Enterprise Manager 13.5 running on Oracle Linux 7.9 Oracle Enterprise Edition Repository 19.13 Single Tenant Oracle Restart /…

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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Resource Naming Conventions – A short Friday Blog Post

Cleaning up the OCI Resource Chaos This week I have removed all my Oracle Cloud Infrastructure lab resources and cleaned up my compartment to start from scratch building environments with the Automation Manager. There were a lot of resources with names like webserver01, vcn-lab-01, block-volume-web-clone-47 and so on. When I have realized this naming chaos, I have decided to spend some minutes today Friday to think about a small naming convention for my future Oracle Cloud Infrastructure projects. Why having a naming convention? Wikipedia says about Naming Convention: In computer programming, a naming convention is a set of rules for choosing the character sequence to be used for identifiers which denote variables, types, functions, and other entities in source code and documentation. Sounds good, this is what I need. There are…

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Oracle 21c runInstaller on Oracle Linux 8 – Don’t forget to run orainstRoot.sh – [FATAL] [INS-32035]

In one of my lab environments where an Oracle 19c database is up and running, it was time to upgrade it to 21c by AutoUpgrade. The new ORACLE_HOME was ready, the software extracted. But when running the OUI installer in silent mode, it stops working: [FATAL] [INS-32035]. runInstaller – 1st run $ cd /u01/app/oracle/product/21.0.0/dbhome_1 $ ./runInstaller -ignorePrereq -waitforcompletion -silent \ -responseFile /u01/app/oracle/product/21.0.0/dbhome_1/install/response/db_install.rsp \ oracle.install.option=INSTALL_DB_SWONLY \ ORACLE_HOSTNAME=heckenweg.kestenholz.net \ UNIX_GROUP_NAME=oinstall \ INVENTORY_LOCATION=/u01/app/oraInventory \ SELECTED_LANGUAGES=en,en_GB \ ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/21.0.0/dbhome_1 \ ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle \ oracle.install.db.InstallEdition=EE \ oracle.install.db.OSDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSBACKUPDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSDGDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSKMDBA_GROUP=dba \ oracle.install.db.OSRACDBA_GROUP=dba \ SECURITY_UPDATES_VIA_MYORACLESUPPORT=false \ DECLINE_SECURITY_UPDATES=true The error from the OUI logfile: SEVERE: [Aug 24, 2021 5:11:55 PM] [FATAL] [INS-32035] The location (/u01/app/oraInventory) specified for the central inventory is not empty. CAUSE: The specified…

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