Let’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…

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Oracle 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…

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Windows 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,…

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Oracle 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…

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Oracle 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…

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