Tag: Oracle

Quick one liner to get a full OPatch inventory of your Oracle Middleware Server

After trying to use OEM to grab all the patches from every installed Oracle product, I gave up and decided to write my own one liner. Customize to match your weblogic install directory. This script will first find all Middleware Homes specifically using Weblogic, then run the lsinventory or lspatches to display a full listing. …

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Oracle Database 11gR2 install on OEL 6.5

73 yum install libaio 75 yum install libaio.i686 77 yum install glibc.i686 79 yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 81 yum install elfutils-libelf-devel 83 yum install libaio-devel.i686 85 yum install libgcc.i686 87 yum install compat-libstdc++-33.i686 89 yum install unixODBC.i686 unixODBC.x86_64 91 yum install unixODBC-devel.i686 unixODBC-devel.x86_64 93 yum install mksh.x86_64  

Oracle Database 11g install on Centos 7

Problem encountered when installing Oracle 11g on Centos 7 Google suggested this was a fairly common problem with machines with a newer GLIBC. Most of the suggested solutions didn’t work for me (writing a glib memcpy shim etc). Instead I was able to statically link this executable against the glibc archive which didn’t have the …

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Weblogic startup scripts using “UpStart”

I previously wrote on how to create weblogic startup scripts using standard init.d scripting. There is an even easier way to do things now. Why not use upstart, which is an event based replacement for the /sbin/init daemon. Simply create a file “wlnode.conf” and put it in the /etc/init directory. This will start the Weblogic …

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Oracle Virtual Server 3.0 VM Migration from OVM 2.2

I know that this software is a new and fairly different version from OVM 2.2 but Oracle has been working on this over over 3 years! At least there should have been some documentation on how to migrate / move existing OVM 2.2 running VMs over to the new version. Gafff Anyway, you can probably …

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