Oracle Critical Patch Update Januar 2021 – Statistiken und Grafiken
Gestern hat Oracle den ersten Critical Patch Update (CPU) für 2021 veröffentlicht. Der maximale CVSS Score für die Datenbank-Patches liegt – wie bei den zwei letzten CPUs – bei 8,8. Die Anzahl der Datenbank-Patches liegt mit 8 unter der Zahl der beiden letzten Quartale (18…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure – A short Blog Post about a secure and small Development Setup
For an internal project I had the pleasure to setup a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment for an APEX development team. Here is a short overview about the setup. Requirements VPN Access from everywhere – 2 people are working maximal at same time on the…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Data Safe – How to burn down 201.44 Swiss Francs in 30 Seconds…
Is Data Safe really for free? In the last autumn, the new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure feature called Data Safe was released. For sure, new features has to be tested. I have tested the Data Safe feature too and added a cloud database to Data Safe….
Red Hat Ansible Tower Upgrade from 3.5 to 3.8 – when running setup.sh is not enough – or: I have made fire!
I a customer project I had to update an existing Red Hat Ansible Tower setup from version 3.5.1 to the newest available version 3.8. The upgrade scenario as described in 8. Upgrading an Existing Tower Installation — Ansible Tower Installation and Reference Guide v3.8.0 does…
IT-Tage 2020: Privilege Analysis mit der Oracle-Datenbank
Herzlichen Dank allen, die meinem Vortrag auf den IT-Tagen 2020 unter dem Titel „Oracle Security: Von ‚Was hättet ihr denn gerne?‘ zu ‚Was braucht ihr wirklich?’“ über das Feature „Privilege Analysis“ zugehört haben. Den Vortrag gibt es hier zum Download. Nachdem ich 2019 zum ersten…
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic Object Storage – Cleanup Day with FTM CLI
Yesterday I decided to cleanup old Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic objects. There were a lot of files lying around in the Object Storage of a project from 2018. Cleaning up these files in the OCI console was no option, they can only be deleted one…
MV2OCI – One-Click Move of your Data into Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Database
mv2oci is a tool which helps to migrate on-premise data to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure based on Oracle Data Pump and works as a data load tool. The local Data Pump export is transferred and imported to/on the target cloud server automatically. There is no…
Oracle Release Update 19.9 – Lab Update Time (Grid Infrastructure Standalone & RDBMS)
The Oracle Release update 19.9 for Linux is available since a few days. Time to upgrade my lab environment at home which consists of the following components: Oracle Grid Infrastructure Standalone 19.8.0 with ASM Normal Redundancy – +ASM Oracle 19.8.0 RDBMS as Repository for Oracle…
The Grafana Plugins for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring are back!
In September 2019 I wrote a blog post how to monitor an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Autonomous database with Grafana plugin oci-datasource. But some weeks after publication, the plugin was not available on the Grafana page anymore. And only Oracle and Grafana had a clue why….
Let’s IPSec VPN – How to connect your Unifi Security Gateway to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
When I connect from home to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure normally I used a Bastion Host, an Open VPN compute instance or Public IPs. Some of the cool stuff like MV2OCI (which transfers data from on-premises to OCI) or integration of an ADB instance in…
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