Category Archives: Oracle

Adding Oracle Database Appliance to ULN

Posted on April 26, 2016 by Roy

At some point you may want to register an Oracle Database Appliance with the Oracle Unbreakable Linux Network so you can get a critical security update, without running a complete ODA update bundle. However, if you happen to be running … Continue reading →

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Make Oracle VM 3.2.x console work on OL6

Posted on March 28, 2016 by Roy

How to make Oracle VM 3.2.x RAS proxy work on OL6 1) Install Iced Tea sudo yum install icedtea-web 2) locate java.security sudo vi /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.7.0-openjdk-1.7.0.95.x86_64/jre/lib/security/java.security 3) comment out the line starting with: jdk.tls.disabledAlgorithms= Additional tip: If the browser can’t connect … Continue reading →

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Fast track: Deploy EM 13c agent on Oracle Linux 6

Posted on February 20, 2016 by Roy

Key steps to do an initial deploy of the Enterprise Manager 13c agent on Oracle Linux 6 Please note that my fast track posts are intended for lab use only. Install OL6 or deploy VM template from Oracle disable iptables adduser … Continue reading →

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Workaround for OVMM database restore BUG – OVCA 2.0.2 – OVM3.2.8.x

Posted on May 10, 2015 by Roy

If you ever have to restore the Oracle Virtual Machine Manager database using the provided RestoreDatabase.sh, chances are that you will end up with a bunch of corrupted or missing tables in the back-end MySQL database schema. Specifically, all tables … Continue reading →

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Lesson learned: How to kill an Oracle Virtual Compute Appliance

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Roy

If you’re having a rather dull afternoon at the office, and you happen to have an OVCA as your personal playground, you can always try this little trick to spice up your day: Point your browser to the Oracle VM … Continue reading →

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Installing MediaWiki 1.20.2 with Oracle 11g Express Edition

Posted on December 31, 2012 by Roy

I encountered and worked around a couple of issues when installing MediaWiki 1.20.2 with Oracle 11g Express Edition 11.2.0.2.0 as the database back-end. The solutions below can be also applied to MediaWiki 1.20.0 and 1.20.1. I did the installation on … Continue reading →

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Open source software alternatives for Oracle database

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Roy

Here’s a very short list of open source server software that I have found to run smoothly with an Oracle database back-end. All will work with the free Express Edition. Blog or Photoblog While a bit of an overkill for … Continue reading →

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PHP and Oracle on Ubuntu

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Roy

I always meant to let my php scripts on my Ubuntu server access Oracle databases, thus quite possibly making it into a Linux, Apache, Oracle and PHP server. I do wonder how you would smoothly pronounce the resulting acronym. Anyway, … Continue reading →

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Adding an additional listener to ODA

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Roy

After deploying an Oracle Database Appliance, a standard set of production listeners are configured on bond0. This includes one listener on each of the virtual ip interfaces, and two SCAN listeners. In my environment, I would very much like to … Continue reading →

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Restore database to new or redeployed ODA

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Roy

Doing a restore from an RMAN backup to a freshly deployed Oracle Database Appliance seems like a conceivable scenario, so I figured it would be nice to have tried it at least once. For this test, I have a backupset on … Continue reading →

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