Oracle Linux 7

Building a network bonding between 2 cards on Oracle Linux

I recently needed to configure bonding between 2 network cards on a customer side and I wanted trough this blog to share my findings and how I built it showing some traces. I will also do a short comparison of(…)

Oracle Linux 7 – How to audit changes to a trusted file such as /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow

Linux auditing is quite powerful and a lot of different use cases might be handled via the auditing framework. However, in this blog I would like to show you, how to audit changes on trusted files, like /etc/passwd or /etc/shadow.

OEL 7 – How to disable IPv6 on Oracle Linux 7 – Follow Up

By William Sescu This is a follow up to the Blog were I explained how to disable IPv6 on Oracle Linux 7. If you have done all the steps which I have explained here http://dbi-services.com/blog/oel-7-how-to-disable-ipv6-on-oracle-linux-7/  then you have already(…)

Stay tuned with kernel parameters

Why does the sysctl.conf value for swappiness on Oracle Linux 7.x not survive a reboot For a project I applied the dbi services best practices for Oracle databases. One of these is to adjust the swappiness parameter. We recommend to use(…)