Important behaviour change between bash version 4.3 and 4.4
Please be aware about important behaviour change between bash version 4.3 and 4.4. You can observe it for example while migrating from Oracle Linux 7 to 8/CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 8/etc. as version 7 of RHEL compatible system comes with bash 4.2, whereas version…
A simple Container based Guacamole Setup
Another food blog post? No, of course not. Guacamole in this case does not refer to the avocado-based dip, but to the Apache client less remote desktop gateway. We use this as an alternative access to the OCI based Trivadis LAB environment. We use an…
Side effect of ExaWatcher workaround for LSOF check
While analysing the problem with ExaWatcher not being able to start, I found quite nasty side effect of a workaround implemented in recent versions of this useful tool. In fact, you will hit it only on Exadata X7 where you had previously implemented another workaround…
Useful Oracle tools – purgeLogs
Recently I’ve came across a nice tool provided by Oracle named purgeLogs, so I would like to shortly blog about it for reference (also for me). As the name suggests it is meant to be used for cleaning up log and trace files. Unfortunately, it…
Small fix for SQLcl Java problem with Oracle 12.1
Let’s say you want to quickly use some cool features of SQLcl inside the script running on the database server, but only Oracle below version 12.2 is available there (which is the first one being shipped with SQLcl). This means that you have to download…
Migrating from Windows to Linux with Active Duplicate for standby – problem with 11.2.0.4
Recently I was working on migrating Oracle 11.2.0.4 database running on Windows, to new hardware infrastructure on Linux. This Oracle version is with us for quite a long time, plus migration from Windows to Linux is quite common (fortunately in that direction…;)), so when I…
Oracle Unified Directory systemd unit file
About a year ago I explained in the blog post Start OUD Servers on Boot using systemd how to start Oracle Unified Directory automatically on system startup. In the meantime a lot has changed, so has my unit file. The simple unit file actually worked…
Basic Vagrantfile for multiple groups of VMs
In case you want to prepare multiple sets of machines quickly using Vagrant, ready for different setups, this might be something for you: ## -*- mode: ruby -*- ## vi: set ft=ruby : require ‘ipaddr’ ############################### # CUSTOM CONFIGURATION START ############################### # lab_name is the…
New version of set_exadata_passwords.sh
A new version of set_exadata_passwords.sh is available on GitHub. With new options and a bugfix for infiniband switches.The new version is now able to change the password only on one kind of component i.e. db nodes. I wrote about a problem with chpasswd on infiniband…
chpasswd not working after upgrade
After the upgrade of a infiniband switch from version 2.1.5-1 to 2.2.6-2 my script set_exadata_passwords.sh was not working anymore. It can’t change the password of the infiniband switches because the command chpasswd threw the following error: In the blog I’ll explain why it’s not working,…