When working with resources on the Oracle public cloud, whatever it is IaaS or PaaS, the principle access method is based on SSH keys exchange. Once our instance is created this is going to be the first and only way accessing it. Of course afterward additional ports/services can be opened. However the question is how to manage these keys and…
The cool thing with Amazon AWS is that you can use command line tools on your workstation to bring up and manage your services. In this post I’ll look into how you can launch a Linux VM from the command line and how you can attach a storage volume to it. Before you can use the command line tools you’ll…
The new Oracle OEM Cloud Control 12.1.0.4 release migration makes it necessary for the DBA to migrate the old agent version to 12.1.0.4. If your infrastructure has a huge number of agents and if you want to apply the agent patches to the upgraded agents, this might be a very time-consuming job. However, there is a way to realize the…
This document describes the main new features of Cloud Control 12.1.0.4. A lot of new features are coming with the 12.1.0.4 version I will describe the most important ones, but you can also refer to this Oracle documen: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/doc.121/e25353/whats_new.htm#CEGFFGBI New management services repository page There is a new management services repository page providing details about the management repository: In the…
On 11 July 2013, Oracle launched the so-called Cloud Application Foundation. An online launch event was organized on 31 July 2013 to introduce this new term in the Oracle Stack. This event had two parts: Keynote and Customer & Industry Leader Panel Webcast (60 minutes) Technical Breakout Session featuring Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Coherence, Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Developer tools…
To be honest, I am not a specialist of Windows Azure. In order to learn a little bit more about this subject, I decided to follow a TechEd Europe 2013 session about High Availability and Desaster Recovery on Windows Azure Virtual Machines. Overview of Windows Azure Windows Azure is Microsoft’s application platform for the public cloud. You have the possibility…
In my consultant’s activity at dbi services, I had the opportunity to test the new databasion version Oracle 12c. As an Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c fan, when the 12.1.0.3.0 Oracle database plugin was made available, I decided to test the Cloud 12c behavior with the Oracle 12c database and also CDB and PDB (Container Database and Pluggable Database). Before…
I recently upgraded from Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12.1.0.1.0 to the most recent version 12.1.0.2.0. This document describes the migration procedure and the different problems encountered. The first point to know when you are about to upgrade an existing Enterprise Manager Cloud Control 12c is that Oracle Installer will create a new Middleware home. Thus, you will need to have…
This document describes the implementation of the
administration groups and template collections with Oracle Enterprise
Manager Cloud Control 12c.
Administration Groups (improvement of Grid 11g Target Groups) and Template Collections improve the management of targets and ease the monitoring strategy.
Administration Groups allow to organize targets according to several criteria. For instance the Lifecycle status of the target
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For a few day we had a quick request at a customer which was to replace a voting disk in an ASM disk group. The current ASM disk group (redundancy normal) had 3 disks : two located in one data center and one disk in another data center. The goal was to replace one voting disk (from the most used
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A few days ago I downloaded the Cloud Control 12c binaries for Linux x86_64 from the Oracle Technet.
My friend, Hervé Schweitzer, configured an OEL 5.7 VM for test purpose and I was quite eager to install this new software. I checked the O.S settings, the required parameters, aso …, everything was fine. My OMS repository database (11.2.0.3) was ready.
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