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Apply Weblogic Patch Offline mode

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Fusion Middleware

  1. Shutdown all the services for weblogic.
  2. unzip the patch under $MW_HOME/utils/bsu/cache_dir
  3. run the following command :-

./bsu.sh -prod_dir=$weblogic_home  -patch_download_dir=Patch_location -patchlist=patch_id -verbose -install

The final Result 

Or you can apply the weblogic patch using smart update

Thanks
Osama Mustafa

OTN TOUR : LATIN AMERICA 2016

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
Thank you for Oracle ACE Program  & OTN To join this Tour 2016 it’s was my pleasure  to be a part of it


This is was my first time visiting this side of the world & presenting in Latin America, the tour covered south and north Latin America with different countries starting from Brazil and ending with Colombia, my part was to visit the following country : Brazil , Uruguay , Argentina and finally Mexico city.

Well it was very hard to find flights from Jordan – Amman to Brazil and most of the flight fully booked so i put my name on waiting list like any other else i was expecting that i will cancel any time but Qatar Airlines called me at 9 pm before the flights with 5 hours informing me that there is seat if i want to take it, so my answer was YES.
Went home finish packing and heading to the airport,  3 hours to QATAR and after that 13 hours to Brazil and it’s was my first stop for OTN TOUR , the event started with amazing attendee, the keynote was in Portuguese  which i can’t understand 🙂 , i had two session about fusion middleware on in the morning and the other one afternoon, it’s was amazing meeting new people and the old friends during the event, after the conference we had Speaker dinner.

Next day i had to move to the airport next stop was Uruguay i reach the hotel at midnight tired because of this i slept immediately i woke up at 7 am for the conference, met Deiby and Carlos in the Lobby and we walk together to the university, i had two session as well after the conference we had perfect dinner with all our friends.

I spent one day in Uruguay and did some city tour i have to say it was cold and rainy but nice city, the last stop was Mexico which is very amazing city i love it the conference was amazing, the people everything.

It’s very short description about the tour but better than not mentioning anything.

Thank
Osama

Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in News
If you want to learn about security as  beginners or professional it’s very nice to add this book to your Library.

I was one of the technical reviewer for this book and the topics and table of contents covered everything you will need as DBA or as someone who wants to learn something.

The Book is available online via publisher website, or via amazon 
Special Thanks for my friend Gokhan Atil.
Thanks 
Osama

adstpall.sh: Database connection could not be established. Either the database is down or the APPS credentials supplied are wrong.

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Application
trying to startup EBS R12.2. with the following error :-

adstpall.sh: Database connection could not be established. Either the database is down or the APPS credentials supplied are wrong.

to solve this do the following :-

[oracle@tiperp tsterp]$ cd $APPL_TOP
[oracle@tiperp appl]$ pwd
/u01/app/product/tsterp/fs1/EBSapps/appl

after souring the environment try to startup the EBS again. 
Thank you 
Osama

Latest Video Upload Part #1

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Others
Recently i was working on some installation and configuration for Fusion and as you see the video uploaded to my channel :-

1- ODI 11.1.1.9 Installation here
2- Oracle Enterprise manager 13c installation here
3- Oracle BI 11.1.1.9 Installation On Linux here
4- Install Oracle BI Apps 11.1.1.10.1 On Linux here

Thank
Osama

EBS R12.2. not able to clone due adlonk.sh

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Application
The EBS R12.2 failed due to the below error :-

Ouicli.pl INSTE8_APPLY 255
AutoConfig is exiting with status 1
RC-50013: Fatal: Instantiate driver did not complete successfully.

The Solution :-

The error happened to perl version while trying to execute this, if you check the following :-

which perl
/usr/bin/perl 

to solve this issue :-

export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin:$PATH

Now, run adcfgclone.pl again

Thanks
Osama mustafa

Difference between OIM , OAM And OID ?

Posted on by Osama Mustafa in Fusion Middleware
OAM :- Oracle Access manager 

Regarding to Oracle Documentation

Oracle Access Management is a Java, Enterprise Edition (Java EE)-based enterprise-level security application that provides a full range of Web-perimeter security functions and Web single sign-on services including identity context, authentication and authorization; policy administration; testing; logging; auditing; and more. It leverages shared platform services including session management, Identity Context, risk analytic, and auditing, and provides restricted access to confidential information.

From the above picture as you see OAM provides single point to control all resource grants in an enterprise where multiple applications exist on different platform.

You can refer to oracle Doc here.

OAM provides:

  • Single Sign On (SSO)
  • Authentication
  • Authorization
  • Access Auditing
  • Policy Administration
There is more but you can refer to the above documentation.
OIM : Oracle Identity manager 
enables enterprises to manage the entire user life cycle across all enterprise resources both within and beyond a firewall. An Oracle identity management solution provides a mechanism for implementing the user management aspects of a corporate policy. It can also be a means to audit users and their access privileges.
The best best example to understand OIM is employee.
if the new employee joining the company the HR handle everything for him emails, permission … etc, with OIM it’s different and all of this can be done automatically
Refer to Oracle Documentation here 
Finally OID : Oracle Internet Directory.
Simply it’s LDAP, 
An online directory is a specialized database that stores and retrieves collections of information about objects. The information can represent any resources that require management, for example:

Employee names, titles, and security credentials
Information about partners
Information about shared resources such as conference rooms and printers.
The information in the directory is available to different clients, such as single sign-on solutions, email clients, and database applications. Clients communicate with a directory server by means of the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). Oracle Internet Directory is an LDAP directory that uses an Oracle Database for storage.
OID Oracle Documentation here
Thanks
Osama