Andreas' Adventures

Cloud Control Agent shows SCA as down after redeployment In a lot of environments the development process calls for a daily rebuild of the system. This is typically followed by a (re)deployment of the SCA’s to the Fusion Middleware environment. In one of my customers environments I had to deal with the issue that each morning the SOA SCA’s were depicted in the Cloud Control as down. A quick check on the server showed them up and running. The same happened in the Enterprise Manager of the server. So the redeployment worked as it should. So why were the SCA’s noted as down in the Cloud Control when the EM showed them as up? This has to do with the way the agent of the Cloud Control works. The interactive way is described in the following manual: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24628_01/install.121/e24215/fmw_discovery.htm Now when an agent has found an SCA it does not automatically update the lifecycle status of this deployment. So a redeployment does add a new label to a SCA in a ...

For a customer I am busy to develop a SOA Suite purging strategy. As we expect the system to have a high number of instances we will have to keep the dehydration store and the MDS clean. The last is also essential as the end customer is under some budget constraints, which leads to the fact that the database (and especially the size of the disks) is nothing that will be allowed to grow limitless. Now - one of the important features of the database when it comes to space management is partitioning. Partitioning a table gives you more management capabilities and tools to keep your DB size manageble. There are a number of pointers in the documentation that describe how the database partinioning can be used for the SOA Suite - with one essential part missing: how to set it up. There is a remark that the creation of partitions is a task for a skilled DBA (true) and a second remark that states that the admin guide will not describe it. So when you want to use partitioning for your SOA...

OK - I exaggerated a little bit in the title - but as you may have noticed - it is VERY cold in central Europe. Now this guy here loves the sun. I admit I love the SUN products as well, but normally I refer to the big yellow thing in the sky. Leaving the Netherlands for a long weekend with my wife to travel to Malaga is nice. But to feel the Spanish winter sun with 16 C (+ that is) instead of the Dutch version of it (-10) gave me the feeling that coming to Malaga for the SOA Community Forum is a kind of a life saver. So yes - I combined business with pleasure, but sometimes you just have to. In addition to that - staying abreast of things that go on in the community, in the SOA Suite arena in general and meeting a couple of old friends (and hopefully making some new ones along the line) is a thing that can be compared to a life saver. Although in a project an error does not automatically mean that blood flows through the streets, having a good knowledge of the products you work wit...

Within my current project I ended up in an interesting discussion. As part of the governance or more specifically some government regulations for the systems security we needed a description of the system components. Obviously there are several layers for this topic, but in order to have a complete view of the system a list of installed system components and also of the systems configuration was desired. Well, as you can guess, there was no tangible description of the current configuration, and there was also only a sketchy overview of the Oracle components which were used to build the system. So, the first idea was to ask the various departments which were involved in the setup and configuration of the system to use a variety of tools and approaches to deliver the information. I offered the idea to use "the one ring to rule them all" approach. Oracle offers two tools that provide an overview of the used components, their configuration and even of platform settings. One tool ...