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Customizing Oracle WebLogic wlst

As stated in Oracle’s documentation, the WebLogic Scripting Tool, or wlst for short, can be extended by adding functions in 2 non mutually exclusive places: any file located in $WL_HOME/common/wlst any file located in $WL_HOME/common/wlst/lib/ Files must have the(…)

HtmlAdaptorServer, A JMX Agent with HTML Presentation for WebLogic

In this article, I presented a little utility based on the SimpleHTTPServer jython module to visualize into an HTML page a WebLogic server’s configuration and run-time mbeans. I also mentioned that there are lots other tools out there for(…)

The new WebLogic remote-console

An interesting new project that started a few months ago is the WebLogic Remote Console. Its main advantage is that it allows to edit a domain’s configuration with no need for a running console application as it connects directly(…)

dctmping, A Documentum Repository Checker Utility

When working with containers, the usual trend is to make them as compact as possible by removing any file or executable that is not used by what is deployed in it. Typically, interactive commands are good candidates not to be(…)

SQL Server SCOM: Many perf.perfHourly and State.StateHourly tables in OperationManagerDW

By a customer, the SCOM’s Database OperationManagerDW growth fast and becomes very big. To see what’s happens, in SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio), I right-click on the database open Reports>Standard Report> Disk Usage by Top Tables: You have(…)

SQL Server: How to compare Server and Database Collation

Sometimes during an SQL Server audit, I check the collation of the server and the databases but every time separately. The goal of this blog is to give you a script to have both and compare it. First step(…)

De-Ubuntu Ubuntu

Canonical is consistently promoting Snap Integration in the Ubuntu world with all its market power. However, many do not like this development with Ubuntu. But what options do you still have as an Ubuntu user if you don’t necessarily want(…)

SQL Server: Analysis of SCOM Warning on the Health Check

Sometimes, it’s hard to find how to analyze a Warning in the SCOM Interface and correct the problem. By a customer, we install new instances in SQL Server 2019 and change the version of SCOM. All new servers have a(…)

Rancher installation on RHEL 8 compatible Linux

This Blog is about the installation of Rancher Community on a RHEL 8 compatible Linux, for this Blog i choose AlmaLinux 8.4, but i will also work on Rocky Linux 8.4 Release Candidate. Base is an AlmaLinux / Rocky(…)

SQL Server Tips: Get back permissions lost for mount points!

Recently by a customer, we are facing the case to lose all mount points on a secondary node in a HA SQL Server AlwaysOn infrastructure due to a big problem on the Datacenter. We need to build from scratch(…)