Oracle Webcache Manager password resets
As far as I know the only documented way to reset either the Webcache Manager web Console administrator or invalidator passwords in Oracle 10g AS is to use either the Manager web Console itself or the IAS Console. Both require you know the old password.
Right.
Anyway, here’s how you do it if you’re a real sysadmin.
1. [...]
Oracle WebCache Maintenance Mode
Really bad title, but you get the idea. Here’s the scenario. You’ve got an Oracle 10g AS Portal fronted by Oracle 10g AS WebCache and the database is coming down for patching. If this were your standard Apache HTTP Server in front of JBoss or Weblogic, you’d probably just insert an .htacess file with a [...]
Labeling your OSSO login page
Just a simple little trick that may make you look like a genius to the uninitiated: sticking an environment name on your Oracle 10g AS SSO banner page.
All you have to do is edit the following file on your SSO server:
$ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/OC4J_SECURITY/applications/sso/web/pages/header.jsp
Right about here (starting at line 67 in an unmodified header.jsp file, new stuff in [...]
500 error on logging in to oiddas
Had this happen yesterday in an Oracle 10g Application Server environment. Got to the DAS Console front page (http://sso.example.com/oiddas:7777/oiddas) and hit with a “500 Internal Server Error: Contact your System Administrator”.
Being said system administrator, I did what anyone in my place would. I restarted the SSO server. NG. Then I did what I should have [...]
Tripwire updates
Tripwire is an IDS (Intrusion Detection System) that used to come standard with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other server operating systems. There is, and was, an open source version and a closed source “enterprise” version. In recent Red Hat releases the open source AIDE IDS is included with in the distribution.
AIDE (Advanced Intrusion Detection [...]
Disabling https redirect for VMware Server
By default VMware Server 2 redirects any connection from a remote host to the admin service to the latter’s https port (usually 8333). This is a problem for two reasons: (1) VMware’s shipping SSL cert is bogus (or at least expired); and (2) The login prompt usually fails to display when connecting over https (which [...]
Sourcing an .env file from within perl
There’s lots of suggested solutions for this one all over the Internet. But that, as usual, is the problem. If you haven’t already guessed, the need to do this is an Oracle-driven thing. System administration of Oracle stuff invariably requires the “sourcing” of an environment file to set the system environment for some executable or [...]