Chronicles of Technology (Page 11)

Sending test UMS notification fails due to missing JMS queue

I recently ran into a problem sending test email notifications from the Human Workflow Engine in Oracle SOA Suite 12.2. In the EM Console, if you navigate to SOA > soa-infra (soa_server1) > Service Engines > Human Workflow > Notification Management, you can click on the "Send

Getting HTTP-403 connecting to OHS using CORS

Oracle HTTP Server

Getting HTTP-403 connecting to OHS using CORS

We had a vanilla installation of Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) 12.1.3 and configured it to support CORS. On a new installation of OHS 12.2.1, the same behavior wasn't working. What is CORS? CORS is Cross-Origin Resource Sharing, and you can find an explanation of

Repeated DFW-99998 errors in OBIEE 12c? Some of them you can ignore

On OBIEE 12.2.1.1.0, you may get repeated DFW-99998 errors, such as: <Feb 20, 2020, 3:22:08,281 PM EST> <Emergency> <oracle.dfw.incident> <BEA-000000> <incident 9116 created with problem key "DFW-99998 [java.io.IOException][oracle.

Graceful restart for Oracle HTTP Server 11g

Graceful restart for Oracle HTTP Server 11g

From time to time, you need to update configuration HTTP server configuration. but OHS 11g offers only full start and stops. Read how to do it gracefully.

URLs for Oracle SOA, BPM, OSB, BAM, WSM, ESS, MFT, and API consoles

Oracle SOA Suite

URLs for Oracle SOA, BPM, OSB, BAM, WSM, ESS, MFT, and API consoles

Just a quick reference to most console URLs typically available on the following products: * Oracle WebLogic Server * Oracle SOA Suite * Oracle Business Process Manager (BPM) Suite * Oracle Service Bus (OSB) * Oracle Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) * Oracle Web Services Manager (WSM) * Oracle Enterprise Scheduler (ESS) * Oracle Managed File Transfer (MFT) * Oracle

Quickest way to decrypt passwords in Oracle WebLogic Server 12c

There are lots of scripts online that show you how to decrypt WebLogic passwords. Some work on different versions of the product but not others. Here's the simplest, most straightforward approach to decrypting passwords in Oracle WebLogic Server 12c. This has been tested on Oracle WebLogic Server 12.

Easy Fix For Quarkus 1.2.0 Native Build

Easy Fix For Quarkus 1.2.0 Native Build

The new Quarkus release has just arrived and I decided to refresh my project to see how it works with GraalVM on JDK 11. Well, the native build failed with an indistinct exception.

Keeping a list of OUD backends for exporting

Keeping a list of OUD backends for exporting

When you plan to move data between Oracle Unified Directories (OUD) instances, there are several essential details you should remember. The first thing to consider is ensuring that you export data with operational attributes. Otherwise, after running import-ldif command, you will discover that your user accounts miss the necessary privileges

Unable to create an error notification rule in Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1? Patch 26088894 is not the fix

On Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.0.0, when we tried to create an error notification rule to alert on failed ESS scheduled jobs, we experienced an issue where the dropdown was not showing any schedules. Unfortunately, the solution to apply patch 26088894 does not work. Patch 26088894 Patch

Filtering WebLogic log messages

There is a ton of documentation online on how to create WebLogic log filters. In this blog post, I describe how to easily filter out a repeating error that appears to be harmless. What harm is there keeping these entries in the log file? Why are we filtering them out

Ansible NOVA meetup

Ansible NOVA meetup

If you live in metro DC area and interesting in RedHat Ansible come and join us to learn how you can use this marvelous automation tool to manage Oracle Fusion Middleware environments. All details could be found on the event page at https://www.meetup.com/Ansible-NOVA/events/267997275.

NATCAP OUG Meetup

NATCAP OUG Meetup

If you live in the metro DC area and interesting in cutting end technologies come and join us and learn from the first hands. I'm going to talk about containers and virtualization. At the end of the presentation, I'll show you ho you can have your very own RedHat OpenShift 4 on your laptop.

Using OFMW 12c global variables in automating upgrades with Ansible

Using OFMW 12c global variables in automating upgrades with Ansible

Automating OFMW 12c patches and upgrades with Ansible gives you a chance to find a lot more about the peculiarities of Oracle Fusion Middleware implementation. One of the recent discoveries I have made while automating JDK replacement for 12c R2 (12.2.1.3+) line of products is the central

blowfish-cbc is not supported in FtpAdapter? Not true

We added a new JNDI to the FtpAdapter in Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.0.0, and upon execution of the SOA composite, received the error "blowfish-cbc is not supported". Blowfish is a cipher, and this generally should be configured within the adapter itself. Oracle Doc ID

RedHat OpenShift and private repositories

For a while, I play around with RedHat CodeReady Containers [https://developers.redhat.com/products/codeready-containers]and one thing annoyed me most - access to private repositories. My pet projects are GitLab [https://gitlab.com/mikhailidim]and I'm not ready to expose them as public ones. So, whenever

RedHat CodeReady Containers update

RedHat CodeReady Containers update

Today my during the container start I have got notification that version 1.3.0 is available. During setup I get error that my libvrt bundle is not compatible with the new release. So you can find how I made an error and fix it.

Ansible and Jinja Templates

Ansible and Jinja Templates

Quite recently I have adopted OUD 12c configuration playbook to work with 11g PS3. And here I run into a tricky difference in configuration parameters. I'm pretty sure there are numerous ways to solve this, but my story is all about Ansible and Jinja.

Advanced find/replace commands in Linux

Advanced find/replace commands in Linux

Below are some random find/replace examples that I've used in the past with a brief explanation of each. Example 1 - Recursively find a string Recursively search through all files in $ORACLE_HOME/bpel and list out the filenames that have the hostname string "dev78.net&

My article in #PTK magazine

My article in #PTK magazine

UK Oracle User Group has printed my piece about RedHat Ansible and Oracle Fusion Middleware platform. Take a look and let me know if you can use it for your environments and projects. The tech part of the issue #72 could be found here.

Get Oracle Coherence version

Many Oracle Fusion Middleware products are bundled with Oracle Coherence, either optionally or required by the product you are installing. Often it is necessary to identify the Coherence version. These are the commands to extract the Coherence version from coherence.jar: cp $DOMAIN_HOME/coherence/lib/coherence.jar /tmp cd

XML documents and Ansible

XML documents and Ansible

When you automate J2EE environments you can't avoid XML documents. Let's see what you can do if you should process XML as a structured data set.

Demo certificates in BPM 12c domain

Demo certificates in BPM 12c domain

We have found anotehr SSL hiccup in the BPM domain environment settings.

Secure Oracle HTTP Server 12c scripts

Secure Oracle HTTP Server 12c scripts

I always use custom certificates for the WebLogic servers and all the components. However, you may face connection issues with the custom NodEManager security configuration.

Start OHS 12c no questions asked

Start OHS 12c no questions asked

By default, when you start domain component, such as Oracle HTTP Server instance, script prompts you for the NodeManager password. It is good security-wise, not so great for the automation.