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Oracle Fusion Middleware

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WebLogic: Identity Federation and Certificates

WebLogic: Identity Federation and Certificates

A recent system upgrade turned my whole day into a hide-and-seek playground. After the WebLogic domain migration, everything worked and looked healthy except the primary application. Accessing it results in a 5xx server error without any plain reason. The most reasonable explanation is that something is wrong with the WebLogic

Ansible: A Shell Execution Shortcut

Ansible: A Shell Execution Shortcut

Here is a small trick that could make your playbooks, if not more readable, at least shorter. The trick is useful if you use Shell to execute multiple commands on targets.

Database: Rolling Password Change

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Database: Rolling Password Change

Recently, I've found about great Oralce Database 21c feature: Gradual Password Rollover. Here is the best part it was backported to the Database 19c.

Security Scans: Hide and Seek

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Security Scans: Hide and Seek

Oracle recently made a gift to all middleware engineers who operate in "security-first" environments. Government contractors should love it as much as I do, especially if you are adopting or already have continuous ATO.

Maintaining Oracle HTTP instances

Maintaining Oracle HTTP instances

The Oracle HTTP Server (OHS) is essential to any large Oracle Fusion Middleware environment. And despite the most common description for that product being "Apache HTTP server with custom modules," it's not as simple as it sounds. Let's walk around and take a look at how it's made.

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Not getting the "Sign In" button on the Oracle Fusion Middleware EM Console? Try this

Quite a few times I've opened up the Oracle Enterprise Manager Fusion Middleware Control 12c console and the prompt for the user name and password is right there, but not the Sign In button (see screenshot). Where's the "Sign In" button?!The solution to

Whiteboard design discussion.

Oracle HTTP Server

Standalone Oracle HTTP Server: Deployment Options

In one of my previous posts, I mentioned multiple Oracle HTTP server deployment options. Let me do a small "show & tell" to explain how I pick the configuration.

Ugly (but quick) script to get Oracle Fusion Middleware software versions

I created a quick script that I ran across all our environments to consolidate a list of all software versions. This includes versions of: operating system, WebLogic, Java, RDA, OPatch, and OPatch patches. It's a crude script, but quite quick and efficient. It may have to be tweaked

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.

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.

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.

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.

OEM 13c custom certificate drama

OEM 13c custom certificate drama

For years I have so much of questionable syntax, partial automation support, and non-human design in Oracle products, so I could get anything with the perfect poker face. However, Oracle [https://www.oracle.com] always has a way to give a little bit of fun, for example, with the long-lasting

Oracle SOA Suite

Sample output of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.3 UA readiness logs

Here is a sample output of the Oracle Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.3 upgrade assistant (UA) readiness logs, primarily for reference purposes. The UA can be executed as follows: cd ${MW_HOME}/oracle_common/upgrade/bin ./ua -readiness Sample output: [2019-06-29T17:32:42.603+00:00] [Framework] [NOTIFICATION] [upgrade.