Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X5-2 – Reboot before Upgrade
I’m currently in the process of updating an older Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X5-2 combined with a ZFS Storage Appliance ZS7-2 using the latest available patch for X5-2, version 2.4.3.2. As a...
View ArticleCisco IOS XE Privilege Escalation Vulnerability – Is my Oracle Private Cloud...
At 16th of October, Cisco made a vulnerability public which affects Cisco IOS XE components – Cisco IOS XE Software Web UI Privilege Escalation Vulnerability. According the notes: This vulnerability...
View ArticleDOAG Anwenderkonferenz 2023 – Links der No-Slide-Tools-Session vom 22.11.2023
Hier die Links zu den vorgestellten Tools – viel Spass bei Ausprobieren, experimentieren und Know-How erweitern. Excalidrawhttps://excalidraw.com/ Visual Studio Codehttps://code.visualstudio.com/...
View ArticlePCA X9-2 – 3.0.2-b1010555: Changed Availability Domain Identifier
Following the application of the most recent patch set to our Oracle Private Cloud Appliance PCA X9-2, currently on version 3.0.2-b1010555, we encountered an issue with our OCI CLI script, which has...
View ArticlePCA X9-2 – How To: Storage Expansion with High Performance Storage DE3-24P
Situation The Oracle Private Cloud Appliance X9-2 was delivered at the end 2022 with high capacity storage. For the Oracle PCA X9-2, there are two distinct storage types available, differentiated by...
View ArticlePCA X9-2 – Update 3.0.2-M3.7.1 (302-b1010555) kills your Grafana SMTP Settings
Following the recent PCA upgrade from 3.0.2-M3.5 to 3.0.2-M3.7.1, we encountered an issue where Grafana was unable to send alerts as intended. Since Grafana plays a crucial role in monitoring aspects...
View ArticleWindows Podman & Oracle Container Registry & VS Code – What a Match!
Introduction Podman utilizes a daemonless architecture to run Linux containers on Windows through the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2), providing full Linux kernel compatibility and high...
View ArticleOracle Cloud Infrastructure CLI – How to fix sign.py:10:...
WSL2 is a game-changer for developers like me. I prefer Oracle Linux 8 for coding in Ansible, Terraform, and OCI-CLI. Setting up Oracle Linux 8.8 on WSL2 from the Microsoft Store was easy. With OCI CLI...
View ArticlePCA X9-2 – How To: IPMItool Access to Management and Compute Nodes
In a project actually we are looking for several methods how to monitor the Oracle Private Cloud Appliance hardware stack. There are some metrics who are gathered in the Grafana environment like memory...
View ArticleOracle Cloud Infastructure – Enable Multipath for Ultra High Performance UHP...
The Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Block Volume service leverages NVMe-based storage for consistent performance and offers flexible and elastic performance options. You only need to provision the required...
View ArticleOracle Cloud Infratructure – Resource Scheduler First Release
A long waiting functionality is now available in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure: the Resource Scheduler. Now you can control the start and stop of OCI resources like Compute Instances and Autonomous...
View ArticleOracle Cloud Infrastructure – Configuring Network Access with Access Control...
When running Autonomous Databases (ADB) in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), it’s crucial to prioritize security, even for development and test environments. Allowing unrestricted public access...
View ArticleOracle Cloud Infrastructure – Cleanup Vulnerability Scan Reports
Sometimes it’s hard to cleanup old unused compartments. There are a lot of resources still available, and some of them like the CSS scans from Vulnerability Scanning are not visible in Oracle Cloud...
View ArticleUsing Oracle Linux 8.10 in WSL for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Ansible...
In this blog post, we will guide you through the process of setting up Oracle Linux 8.10 in Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) to effectively work with the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Ansible...
View ArticleGetting started with Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure – Pay-As-You-Go | Part...
In early September, an exciting development was announced on azure.microsoft.com: Oracle Autonomous Database is now available on Azure as a Pay-As-You-Go (PAYG) offering. This marks a significant shift...
View ArticleGetting started with Oracle Autonomous Database@Azure – Pay-As-You-Go | Part...
In blog post Part 1, I described how to subscribe to the PAYG service to use the Oracle Autonomous Database in Azure. Now it’s time to provision a new ADB. As prerequisites, a resource group, a virtual...
View ArticleDOAG Konferenz 2024: Ein Rückblick auf vier intensive Tage in Nürnberg
Vom 19. bis zum 22. November 2024 war Nürnberg einmal mehr der Treffpunkt für Oracle-Experten, Anwender und Partner. Aber nicht nur Oracle war Thema, auch PostgreSQL, Soft Skills und vieles mehr stand...
View ArticleUKOUG 2024: A Great Conference in Birmingham
From December 1st to 3rd, 2024, I had the pleasure of attending the UK Oracle User Group Conference (UKOUG) in Birmingham. My workmate Stefan and I traveled from Zürich Airport on Saturday afternoon,...
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