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Documentum – Unable to install an IndexAgent due to RSA/FIPS libraries

A couple year ago at a new customer, I was asked to install a new xPlore IndexAgent on an existing Documentum 16.4 environment. Unfortunately, that installation didn’t succeed, and I ended up with the following install logs: [xplore@ds-0 ~]$ cd(…)

Add TDE to Oracle Database and upload keys to OKV

How to configure, from scratch, the TDE on the database, how to upload the wallet keys in the OKV and how to configure the database to use these keys.

Combining Powerful Cilium Features Together In Kubernetes

My colleagues and I have played with Cilium from Isovalent for a while now and we have successfully deployed it as simple CNI (Container Network Interface) along with Hubble on several production Kubernetes cluster of our customers.

APEX/ORDS 23.x – DispatcherNotFoundException

The aim of that blog is to look into Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) 23.x error raised when setting up for APEX 23.1. This is following some experience at a customer who wanted to move to(…)

Rancher autoscaler – Enable RKE2 node autoscaling

In Rancher, if you make use of node drivers to provision your RKE2 nodes, you can also make use of the cluster autoscaler. In this article, I will show you how simply you can configure the autoscaler for your cluster.

OMrun 5.0 is ready – there are many reasons to get excited!

This blog is describing selected key features on OMrun Release 5.0 including plug-in to generate test data objects to compare the whole database content.

Share Gitlab agent to deploy microservices projects

In a microservice application, the code for each service has its own git repository. However, how do deploy without duplicating the Gitlab agents ? In Gitlab, you can share an agent between several projects to deploy the application on a(…)

DBVISIT StandbyMP for PostgreSQL – 2 – Creating a PostgreSQL configuration

In the previous post we’ve installed the DBVISIT StandbyMP agents on the database nodes, and the management console on third node. In this post we’re going to create our first PostgreSQL configuration.

DBVISIT StandbyMP for PostgreSQL – 1 – Setting it up

One of our oldest partners, DBVISIT, recently released their product StandbyMP for PostgreSQL. The goal of this product is to provide a graphical user and management interface over a PostgreSQL streaming replication(…)

Oracle Database Appliance (ODA): Some listeners do not start anymore when booting

A colleague of mine had the issue some time ago and I recently experienced the same behaviour at a customer’s ODA: A couple of Listeners did not start when booting. Starting them as user grid with srvctl start listener -listener(…)