Wednesday, April 9, 2014

VirtualBox, NAT, and Port Forwarding

At Bobby’s (@dbasolved) insistence, I decided to write this post because it might prove useful for some folks. He mentioned following a note by Jeff Smith (@thatjeffsmith) that he is unable to locate at this time. If you are a VirtualBox user, you obviously have a need to maintain multiple Virtual Machines. You would also need to setup a type for...
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Metric Extensions in EM12c #1: Monitor a Useful Target such as a GoldenGate Instance

Back in August of 2013, I wrote a post on “Alternative Method to monitor GoldenGate from EM12c outside the GoldenGate 12.1.0.1.0 Plugin” and then back in December of 2013 I wrote another one a Metric Extension to Monitor Unsupported Database Versions. As it turns out, the first post has been quite useful in many customer sites but what it lacks is...
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Sunday, March 30, 2014

ggsci: error while loading shared libraries: libnnz11.so: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS32

I know what some of you might be thinking, is this an Elf Class from Word of Warcraft? Not quite. Coincidentally, when you google imagines for “elf world of warcraft”, you get mostly female ones :) Over the last couple of weeks, I spent a few hours across several sessions explaining and demonstrating...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Create a Standby Database using EM12c

I wanted to make this a quick post, because a friend was mentioning a slight problem during a manual set up of Data Guard. I told him you could do it through EM, and then recalled that I had documented it a while back. After the tube light finally went on in my head, it occurred to me that this would a good post. When leveraging EM to set up, monitor,...
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Monday, March 17, 2014

#em12c Metrics - Part 1: An Introduction

From the middle of 2013, I’d been busy in preparation for one of my presentations for IOUG’s Collaborate 14 Conference in Las Vegas. It is on Capacity Planning Enterprise Manager 12c’s Metrics (available on slideshare), one which I had the honor of presenting earlier at a Georgia Oracle User Group meeting in Atlanta, GA this past week. Metrics in...
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014

opatch apply online on 11.2.0.4

The credit for the patch apply in the post goes to a new friend that wishes to remain anonymous, except that her initials start with KA, and who happens to work at a company in Memphis, TN. Coincidentally, that is where I had been liv. During a recent EM12c project at her company, we were going through...
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Wednesday, February 26, 2014

Set oraInventory for EM12c Agents during GUI Installation

So, this is a peculiar problem that I had to dig to find a solution for; each time I deployed an agent to Add Targets to EM12c where no other Oracle Software was located, it would always created the oraInventory located under the $HOME directory. In my case, /home/oracle/oraInventory. This is quite annoying because for subsequent Oracle Software installs,...
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Monday, February 17, 2014

Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable to receive; errno = Connection refused

While trying to setup NFS on an OVM 3.2 configuration on OEL 5.9, I followed the documentation to the letter but when time came to start the NFS daemon I kept getting the error above. [root@ovm /]# service nfs start Starting NFS services: [ OK ] Starting NFS quotas: Cannot register service: RPC: Unable...
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Saturday, February 15, 2014

Oracle VM 3.2 - OVMAPI_4004E Server Failed Command: HTTP server returned unexpected status: Unauthorized access attempt

You might receive the error message below while discovering an Oracle Virtual Server:  (02/15/2014 05:57:26:942 PM) OVMAPI_4010E Attempt to send command: get_api_version to server: 192.168.78.157 failed. OVMAPI_4004E Server Failed Command: get_api_version , Status: org.apache.xmlrpc.client.XmlRpcHttpTransportException:...
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Wednesday, February 12, 2014

GoldenGate 12.1.2.0 MBeansContainerImpl - Runtime exception starting jAgent Server

During the EM 12.1.0.3.0 configuration to monitor GoldenGate, I stepped through the documentation (as I have numerous times in the past) but this time I kept getting the error message in the jagent.log. 2014-02-12 00:58:54 [main] INFO JAgentWSMain - About to call initialize on the WebService 2014-02-12...
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