Oracle Database 12.1.0.2.0 are officially supported on Docker

Since yesterday, Tuesday 20th December 2016, the Oracle Database 12.1.0.2.0 and later are officially supported on Docker :-) The corresponding My Oracle Support Note 2216342.1 can be found here: https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocContentDisplay?id=2216342.1 In the GitHub Repository of Oracle the related README is also updated to reflect the support for Oracle Database 12.1.0.2.0 and later on Docker. All required files to build such...

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Accessing WebLogic Server Logfiles via RESTFul Management Services

The RESTFul Management Services within Oracle WebLogic 12c is one of the greatest features and my personal favorite. You can achieve a lot of things with the RESTFul Management Services, like creating DataSources, perform deployments, startup and shutdown Managed Servers and so on. But you also can access the different WebLogic Server Logfiles :-) Let's say your developers needs access to the Logfiles of your Oracle WebLogic Server, but you don't...

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Permanent Re-Login for WebLogic Consoles for multiple WebLogic Domains on one Server

In case you have multiple Oracle WebLogic Server Domains on one Server running, you might realise the following problem: Opening 2 or more WebLogic Consoles in one Browser and switching the Browser tabs between the different WebLogic Consoles, you have to re-login all the times for your different WebLogic Consoles. This is really annoying ... The problem behind is really simple, its the WebLogic Admin Console Cookie, as for all Oracle WebLogic...

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WLST Error "General SSLEngine problem" after Nodemanager SSL Configuration

In case you configured your WebLogic Nodemanager with SSL, you might run into the following error while using nmConnect via WLST. cd $ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin ./wlst.sh Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) ... Welcome to WebLogic Server Administration Scripting Shell Type help() for help on available commands wls:/offline> nmConnect('nodemanager', 'welcome1', 'soaserver1', '5556', 'demo_domain' , '/u00/app/oracle/user_projects/domains/demo_domain' , 'ssl') Connecting to Node Manager ... <Dec 15, 2016 2:22:30 PM CET>...

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Install and Configure Oracle SOA Suite 12c with 2 different Linux Users

I am currently involved in a project were one requirement is, that the Oracle Software (WebLogic Server and Oracle SOA Suite) is installed by one Linux User and the on top to be used Oracle SOA Domain should be created and started as another Linux User. In general that's according to the Oracle Documentation for Oracle SOA Suite 12.2.1.2.0 possible But there is a small and important note: Certain domain files do not have the group permissions....

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Controlling Oracle WebLogic Server via RESTFul Management Service

RESTFul Management Services are really powerful in terms of monitoring your Oracle WebLogic Server Domain, but you can also use RESTFul Management Services to control your Oracle WebLogic Server Domain. RESTFul Management Services are enabling you to startup, suspend, resume and shutdown for example your Managed Servers. All what you need is cURL, the Admin User and Password of your Oracle WebLogic Server, Hostname of your Oracle WebLogic Domain and the Port of your AdminServer. # cURL syntax to start up the Managed Server called DemoManagedServer1 # curl...

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Running Oracle HTTP Server 12c with Privileged Port

In some cases you need to configure a privileged port (less than 1024, typically port 80) within your Oracle HTTP Server 12c Instance. At first create your Oracle HTTP Server Instance with the wlst tool: cd $ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin ./wlst.sh Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) ... Welcome to WebLogic Server Administration Scripting Shell Type help() for help on available commands # # Connect to the WebLogic Domain with your weblogic user, # password and correct host and port # wls:/offline>connect('weblogic','welcome01',...

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Modify Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager Inactivity Timeout

Are you tired of the 45 minutes default inactivity timeout setting of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager? You can simply set the inactivity timeout by modifying the emoms.properties file of the Oracle Fusion Middleware Enterprise Manager. Connect to your server with the oracle installation user and navigate to your $DOMAIN_HOME/config/fmwconfig/servers/<AdminServerName>/applications/em/META-INF directory and open the emoms.properties...

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Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.2.0 available

Since a few hours the latest Release of the Oracle Forms & Reports 12.2.1.2.0 is available for download in Oracle Technology Network under http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/forms/downloads/index.html The related documentation can be found under https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/12212/formsandreports/index.html For all the lovers of Oracle Reports, here is the bad news: It's time to prepare for bye-bye ! The...

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Weblogic 12.2.1.2.0 available

Since a few hours the latest Release of the Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.2.0 is available with Oracle Technology Network for download. The Installation sources can be found under: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/middleware/weblogic/downloads/index.html The documentation for the latest Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.2.0 can be found under http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/12212/wls/index.html ...

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Did you forgot your Node Manager Username and Password?

Long time ago I've been publishing a blog post "Did you forgot your WebLogic Admin User Password?", now it's time to have a look on the topic, did you forgot your Node Manager Username and Password? The following steps are working with Oracle WebLogic Server 12.x Login to the server which is hosting your Oracle WebLogic Server environment and start the wlst utility and connect as weblogic user to your WebLogic Domain: $ORACLE_HOME/oracle_common/common/bin/wlst.sh Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) ... Welcome to WebLogic Server Administration...

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Oracle Forms 12c - Setting up Forms Diagnostics Agent

With the Oracle Forms 12c Diagnostics Agent you can populate the DMS (Dynamic Monitoring Service) metrics for Oracle Forms 12c simply into Oracle Database Tables, which allows you to have a historical view on the Oracle Forms related Performance Data out of DMS. The installation comes in 2 major parts, first setup a Oracle Database User and the underlying objects and second part deploy the Forms Diagnostics Agent into your Oracle WebLogic Server. Database...

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OTN Appreciation Day: WebLogic

Based on the suggestion by Tim Hall's Blogpost here is my contribution to the OTN Appreciation Day: I've got 2 features and as usual these features are related to Oracle WebLogic Server: 1st Oracle WebLogic Server & Docker The official support and certification for Oracle WebLogic Server on Docker started nearly one year ago. Since the first support and certification of Oracle WebLogic Server on Docker there were a lot of things happening, support and certification has been continuously extended to the latest release of Oracle WebLogic Server...

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Oracle Forms 12c - Multiple Managed Servers

You might remember the previous method to create multiple Managed Servers for Oracle Forms 11g, which can be found under the My Oracle Support Note 989118.1. This procedure were quite a bit critical, as you had to provide manually several arguments and classpath entries for the cloned Managed Server. With Oracle Forms 12c the procedure to create (not cloning) additional WebLogic Managed Servers hosting your formsapp is really straight forward as...

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