Weblogic Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana

Since quite some time Oracle is providing in their GitHub Repository the weblogic-monitoring-exporter https://github.com/oracle/weblogic-monitoring-exporter. This weblogic-monitoring-exporter is basically a war file, which uses the WebLogic Server RESTful Management API to collect defined metrics of your WebLogic Server and exports them in a Prometheus compatible format. At first you will need to download the get[Version-Number].sh from the...

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Cleanup Oracle Fusion Middleware 12c Repository manually

Currently I was cleaning up some of my Oracle Fusion Middleware Forms & Reports test and demo environments manually and wanted to setup them freshly. As I was lazy, I didn't used the RCU (Repository Creation Utility) for the cleanup, I just did a manual drop user and drop tablespace and cleaned up my $DOMAIN_HOME. In my case it was a Forms & Reports environment with the Prefix FR12213, so I manually dropped all the Repository Users starting with FR12213 and the corresponding tablespaces. # sqlplus / as sysdba SQL> drop user FR12213_OPSS...

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Oracle 20c Documentation available

Since a few hours the Oracle Database 20c documentation is online. https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/20/books.html There are quite some interesting new features/changes in the new upcoming Oracle 20c release. The complete list of new features you can find under: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/20/newft/new-features.html One of the most interesting new feature/change is, that from Oracle...

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Huge Number of component_event.xlf* and pki_data*.tmp files in /tmp in Oracle Forms & Reports 12c

If you are running an Oracle Forms and Reports 12c (12.2.1.+) environment over quite some time, you might discover that under the /tmp directory are a quite huge number of files named component_event.xlf* and pki_data*.tmp are generated and filling up your /tmp space. The pki_data*.tmp files are usually 0 Bytes, but the component_event.xlf* files are between some Bytes up to some 100 Bytes. Over some time, these files are really fill up your /tmp. These files are generated by the Oracle Platform Security for Java component and they are holding...

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Patching Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 Slim Edition

In my last blog I was showing how to install the new Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 Slim Installer (https://dirknachbar.blogspot.com/2020/02/oracle-weblogic-server-122140-slim.html), now let's see how the minimised Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 Slim Edition will handle a patching. For this I will use the Oracle WLS PATCH SET UPDATE 12.2.1.4.191220 (Patch No. 30689820). Login as oracle User to your server hosting the Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 Slim Installation. Transfer the above mentioned Patch to your server and extract the zip...

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Oracle WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 Slim Installer

Since WebLogic Server 12.2.1.4.0 you have a new edition of the Oracle WebLogic Server, it's the Slim Installer. The corresponding software you can download under: https://www.oracle.com/middleware/technologies/weblogic-server-installers-downloads.html The Slim Installer is much smaller than the Generic or the Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Installers. WebLogic Generic Installer: 826 MB Fusion Middleware Infrastructure Installer: 1.5 GB WebLogic...

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