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.
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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 [...]
An alternative to custom objectclasses: the extensibleobject
I’ve spent a decade designing and implementing LDAP directories, but only recently had the opportunity to reflect on the big picture. For example, the basic structure of the environment originally put in place at the company I work for by the consultants who started things is still there, but as time marched on things [...]
Cleanup of referrals from old replication agreements in Sun Directory
A brief note on curing an issue I’ve run into on Sun Directory Server. We recently retired a couple of master directories in the environment. After the replication agreements were removed it was noticed that the LDAP referral entries for the old servers were still in place, even though they’d been manually deleted a couple [...]
The Website is Down: Sales Demolition
I cannot emphasize this strongly enough:
USE HEADPHONES!
Recall where it all began, the classic:
The Website is Down
More can be found at thewebsiteisdown.com.
OTN downloads using wget
Already posted on how to download patches from Oracle support.
This is a variation on that theme for those of us who have been in this business longer than 3 minutes and are looking for more efficient ways to do things.
OTN (Oracle Technology Network) has a pretty, if not always easy to navigate, browser interface for [...]
Use wget to download Oracle patches directly to the server
My colleague Mike Zeece found an article on Michael Brown’s blog that describes how to do this.
Since Oracle went to their horrendous Flash-centric support app getting the bits onto your servers usually involves downloading to a desktop first (because real servers don’t run Flash enabled web browsers) and then wasting additional time sftp-ing them over [...]