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,…
Read MoreWindows 10 WSL 2, Docker and Oracle – a perfect Partnership
I admit it, I was not a friend of Oracle databases running in Docker containers for a long time. My database systems for testing and demo purposes were all running in VMware, Virtual Box or in the Oracle Cloud. But I have used the Windows Subsystem for Linux since beginning, to work with the Oracle Oracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI, Git Integration etc.. And what I really like is the WSL extension for Visual Studio Code which gives me to chance, to edit Ansible Vault files in Windows without any additional Linux based VM running. With the update of the existing Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) architecture to version 2, the Docker Desktop for Windows is now fully integrated and able…
Read MoreOracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 4 Update 5 (13.4.0.5) – Time to Patch the OMS
Availability and Information Release Update 13.4.0.5 Since some days, the Release Update 13.4.0.5 for the Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 4 is available in My Oracle Support. Time to update my lab environment. Note: This blog post describes how to apply the RU on an Oracle Enterprise Manager 13 Release 4 Oracle Management Server which is running on an Oracle Linux 7.6 machine. Applying the RU for agents is not part of of this blog post. For agent patching please visit readme of Patch 31544641: Oracle Enterprise Manager 13c Release 4 Platform Update 5 (13.4.0.5) for Oracle Management Agent. The RU for the Oracle Management Server is generic and the compressed patch file has the size of 964.6 MB. Useful…
Read MoreOracle Enterprise Manager EM13c – My Oracle Support is back!
Since a few weeks, the online connection in Oracle Enterprise Manager EM13c to My Oracle Support was broken. This resulted in errors like Error occurred when sending request to My Oracle Support, for example when you tried to set the My Oracle Support credentials in a fresh EM13c setup. Existing configurations were not able to get newest patch information anymore. Oracle has documented it in the note Recent Changes to MOS will Disable Enterprise Manager Online Connections (Doc ID 2664002.1). Screenshot when trying to set MOS credentials in a new EM13c RU4 setup: Now there is a fix available for all current EM 13 releases, RU included. For more details see Patch Now Available For Recent Changes to MOS That Disabled…
Read MoreInstall Oracle 19c RDBMS on Oracle Linux 8 – avoid [WARNING] [INS-08101] Unexpected error while executing the action at state: ‘supportedOSCheck’
Oracle RDBMS 19c is now certified on Oracle Linux 8. Unfortunately the Oracle Universal Installer in Silent Mode fails when checking the OS version. My OS release: [oracle@olten dbhome_1]$ cat /etc/oracle-release Oracle Linux Server release 8.2 Oracle Universal Installer in Silent Mode The OUI installer in silent mode stops and shows this error message: [WARNING] [INS-08101] Unexpected error while executing the action at state: ‘supportedOSCheck’. There is no parameter available like -ignoreOS or whatever, but two workarounds. [oracle@olten dbhome_1]$ ./runInstaller -ignorePrereq -waitforcompletion -silent \ -responseFile /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/install/response/db_install.rsp \ oracle.install.option=INSTALL_DB_SWONLY \ > -responseFile /u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1/install/response/db_install.rsp \ > oracle.install.option=INSTALL_DB_SWONLY \ > ORACLE_HOSTNAME=mohnweg.kestenholz.net \ > UNIX_GROUP_NAME=oinstall \ > INVENTORY_LOCATION=/u01/app/oraInventory \ > SELECTED_LANGUAGES=en,en_GB \ > ORACLE_HOME=/u01/app/oracle/product/19.0.0/dbhome_1 \ > ORACLE_BASE=/u01/app/oracle \ > oracle.install.db.InstallEdition=EE \ > oracle.install.db.OSDBA_GROUP=dba \…
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