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Changing Fusion Middleware repository database

In my previous blog named “Changing Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports repository database“, I explained how to move a Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports repository from one database to a new database where some other repositories already exist. In(…)

Observability vs Monitoring

Both words, observability and monitoring, are often used interchangeably and without taking care of the difference. Monitoring Monitoring is alerting based on known, predefined metrics and log patterns. Events Examples of events are: Trigger a minor event when CPU is(…)

Oracle WebLogic Docker Images

Oracle WebLogic container images stored on docker hub are deprecated. Oracle moved these on his own container registry: https://container-registry.oracle.com/ This registry contains many Oracle products, but we will focus on WebLogic(…)

Microsoft:Backup and restore your distribution on WSL

Introduction Hi team I hope you are doing well, in a previous post, we have seen how to enable Windows Subsystem to install Linux distribution. Create a folder to store your backups Connect to Powershell Create the directory to store(…)

Ansible Driven Automation and Kafka

I will add another example of what can be done with Ansible Driven Automation by interfacing it with Kafka. For those who wonder what Event-Driven Ansible is have a look at my previous blog about it.

JBoss-EAP and WildFly Official Docker Images

In this blog, I will focus on what is available from vendor for the two application servers I am used to work with: JBoss EAP and WildFly. Along this blog, I will show few tips and concepts on docker commands.

JBoss EAP Patching

jboss-cli tool comes with a command named patch. As the process is obvious, this blog will be short. Nevertheless, it is still interesting to see how it changes files and directories structure of JBoss binaries. It’s worth noting that RedHat(…)

Control-M /EM : Generate a job report in few clicks!

Introduction During a previous post, we have seen how to find the creator of a workload policy using BMC reports tool. Indeed , this tool can be helpful to perform tasks such an audit of Control-M components, checking active(…)

How to keep your Prometheus ecosystem secure

Prometheus is a popular open-source monitoring system that helps track and alert for various applications. However, regarding security, there are some essential things to consider. Prometheus server, for instance, does not provide authentication or TLS encryption out of the box,(…)

Apache Tomcat Monitoring in Prometheus

To monitor Apache Tomcat, the most convenient solution is to use JMX Exporter provided by Prometheus git repository. Enable JMX Remote To enable JMX Remote, I will simply add the following line(…)