Andreas' Adventures

I am busy installing the latest version of the Oracle Enterprise Manager. Obviously I need a database for this. In order to protect my resources in the Oracle VM image that use I switched off all extra Database options. Among others the Partitioning option is offered. Well - during the installation of the OEM I found out the hard way that the Partitioning option is required for the database. I know that the OEM creates a lot of partitions - which will then get emptied during the data consolidation process. I happened to forget this. The funny thing is that the OEM installer checks this and comes back with a warning box, stating: Using the Partitoning option is strongly recommended. Being a wise guy I tried to ignore this. But when Oracle says that they STRONGLY RECOMMEND something they mean it. So I am deinstalling and reinstalling the database software as I write this ;-)

I have just added three submisions for OOW 2010. Automate the creation of extra Coherence machines based on Grid Control data Use Oracle VM to learn Oracle technology Build a Coherence cluster using Oracle VM to speed up Oracle FMW

I have written a short how-to document that demonstrates the usage of Grid Control to monitor the performance of web services. Check it out on: http://www.foxglove-it.nl/documents/MonitorWebServicesinGridControl.pdf

I had two sessions at Oracle Netherlands yesterday in the evening and today the whole day. Yesterday Rob Zoeteweij gave a presentation about the Provisioning within Grid Control. Today was the technical briefing of the Oracle Partners about FMW11g. Both events gave me a pile of new ideas - both business wise as well as technical. So I guess I will spend a part of the upcoming weekend with another deep-dive of the new FMW11g products and also prepare some input for my management on "How to make money with FMW11g". I expect that I will take my laptop with me on my vacation - which is just a week away. I only need to find a way to smuggle this machine into my car without my wife finding this out :-) The funny thing of being in the same place (Oracle office) twice was that I started to look for my car this afternoon where I had put it yesterday in the evening. I guess I need a little bit of vacation anyway.

I encountered another strange thing in the Grid Control. The intention was to secure the communication between the agents on AIX and the OMS. However on one machine this was working, while the other two machines where I installed the agent succeeded in putting the agent in secure mode but did never upload their data. Using emctl status agent -secure I found out that they thought that they were not in secure mode. The solution was pretty simple (and another proof that Oracle has to find some unique way to resolve network addresses).. In my hostfile the hosts that did not work were described as 10.1.2.3 hostname hostname.domain.com I changed this to be 10.1.2.3 hostname.domain.com hostname resecured everything (OMS and agents) and it then it worked.