Oracle WebLogic Server 11g: Interactive Quick Reference

Oracle has published a really nice and useful Oracle WebLogic Server 11g Interactive Quick Reference under the following link http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/fmw/wls/Poster/poster.html The Quick Reference shows you an architecural overview of the Oracle WebLogic Server processes, tools, configuration files, log files and so on including a short description of each section and the corresponding link to the Oracle WebLogic...

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Startup or Shutdown of multiple WebLogic Managed Servers via WLST script

Normally you will have multiple Managed Servers within one WebLogic Server Domain. The classical approach to startup or shutdown these multiple Managed Servers are: using the WebLogic Server provided scripts startManagedWebLogic.[sh|cmd] and stopManagedWebLogic.[sh|cmd] in your Domain Directory using a WLST script with the command shutdown() The first option by using the startManagedWebLogic.[sh|cmd] and stopManagedWebLogic.[sh|cmd] requires that you provide the name of the Managed Server and the AdminURL, which is not quite flexible.  ...

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DOAG Conference 2012 - Call for Papers

As every year the DOAG (German Oracle User Group) Conference will take place Nürnberg/Germany from the 20th November until 22nd November 2012. The Call for Papers is already open and ends on 30th June 2012: German Link: http://www.doag.org/de/events/konferenzen/doag-2012/fuer-referenten.html English Link: http://www.doag.org/en/events/konferenzen/doag-2012/fuer-referenten.html Once again, I will be in the election board for the streams (MySQL & Fusion Middleware) to rate/choose the presentation which will be shown on the conferen...

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Oracle Traffic Director available for download

During the official announcement of Oracle WebLogic Server 12c on 1st December 2011, Oracle also announced the new Oracle Traffic Director. Oracle Traffic Director 11g is a high-performance caching HTTP proxy server. It is designed to take advantage of the unique engineered systems features of Oracle's Exalogic computing platform, providing a highly-available, on-board load-balancing reverse proxy for Oracle Fusion Middleware and Applications Today...

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asmcmd non-interactive commands in MS-DOS Batches

In the last days I was fighting with a nice behaviour of the asmcmd non-interactive mode in MS-DOS batches. I wanted to delete several files located in ASM within a MS-DOS batch: REM Script: asm_cleanup_DB112.cmd set ORACLE_BASE=E:\oracle set ORACLE_HOME=E:\oracle\product\grid-11.2.0 set ORACLE_SID=+ASM set PATH=%ORACLE_HOME%\bin;%PATH% asmcmd rm -f +TEMP/db112/temp_01.dbf asmcmd rm -f +TEMP/db112/temp_02.dbf asmcmd rm -f +REDO1/db112/redog1m1.dbf asmcmd rm -f +REDO1/db112/redog2m1.dbf asmcmd rm -f +REDO1/db112/redog3m1.dbf asmcmd rm -f +REDO1/db112/redog1m2.dbf asmcmd...

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Long live Oracle Forms - New Statement of Direction

Oracle (Grant Ronald) published today (15th March 2012) an updated Statement of Direction for Oracle Forms and Reports. The major statement within this Statement of Direction is: Oracle has no plan to discontinue support of Oracle Forms. Furthermore, a new version of Forms, Oracle Forms 12c, is planned for delivery as a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c. Thats really a clear and positive statement from Oracle :-)   The complete Statement of Direction can be found under following link: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/issue-archive/2010/toolssod-3-129969.pdf Lets...

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ASM-00203 and Windows 2008 R2

I was fighting right now with my favorite Operating System and ASM :-) I just installed Oracle Grid Infrastructure on a standalone Windows 2008 R2 server (successfully) and wanted to stamp some disks with the tool asmtoolg.exe. After I started the asmtoolg from a command prompt, I receive immediately an error message: ASM-00203: No valid devices found Cool :-) Oracle Metalink brings back following result: After a little bit playing, I found...

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