The majority of Enterprise Manager 12c Cloud Control agent installations are pretty straight forward, just do the usual checks, ensuring firewalls are open etc. and then deploy from the EM console. The Windows installations are not as straight forward these days, as the deployment method uses SSH connectivity which requires the installation and configuration of Cygwin as a
In this post, I’m installing the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.4) software on Oracle Linux 6.4, along with optional instructions on how to apply the latest Patch Set Update (PSU) to your new Oracle home. First and foremost, before you start, make sure your Linux server meets the minimum hardware requirements: 1GB of RAM (plus
In this post, I’m installing the Oracle Database 12c Release 1 (12.1.0.1.0) software on Oracle Linux 6.4. Only the software is being installed at this point, in preparation for a single database installation which I’ll create later on using the DBCA tool. First and foremost, before you start, make sure your Linux server meets the minimum
In this post, I’m installing the Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (11.2.0.3) software on Oracle Linux 6.4, along with optional instructions on how to apply the latest Patch Set Update (PSU) to your new Oracle home. First and foremost, before you start, make sure your Linux server meets the minimum hardware requirements: 1GB of RAM (plus
A standard Oracle 11.2.0.3 database installation comes bundled with Application Express (APEX) 3.2.1 by default. I’m going to upgrade to the latest version of APEX (currently 4.2.2) and then configure the Embedded PL/SQL Gateway (EPG), which uses the Oracle XML DB HTTP components within the database itself, so I don’t need to run a separate HTTP server. First
First of all, you need the OS installation media, which can be downloaded from the Oracle Software Delivery Cloud at http://edelivery.oracle.com/linux (login required). For this particular installation, I downloaded ‘Oracle Linux Release 6 Update 4 Media Pack for x86_64 (64 bit)’ which is listed as part V37084-01. In this instance, I then created a Virtual Machine using VirtualBox
EMCLI is a Java based Command Line Interface that can be used to communicate with your OMS (Oracle Management Server) as an alternative to the GUI for some operations. Installation is pretty straight forward, and the toolkit can be installed anywhere as long as you have a Java JDK installed (1.6 or higher at the time of