Open source monitoring solutions (1) – Zabbix server setup
We are often asked which monitoring solution we recommend for PostgreSQL, by people attending our PostgreSQL workshops. We usually answer: What do you have in place already? If a solution already is in...
View ArticlePostgresBuild2021 – questions feedback (1)
PostgresBuild2021 is currently ongoing and as usual, I had questions after my talk I could not immediately answer. One of the best ways to learn, is to present a topic. There are for sure questions you...
View ArticleAWS re:Invent 2021 – A busy day to start
This week, I consider myself lucky I’m working with AWS at customer and at dbi since few years now and I consider myself lucky to attend the conference in person. At re:Invent, there are different...
View ArticleAlfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’, again
In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema “URL”...
View Articledbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 1
This year, dbi services attends the AWS re:Invent 2021 conference, in Las Vegas. In the current global health situation, this event has a bit of a unexpected flavor as the previous edition was...
View ArticleControl-M EM “export” option of Control-M Web is not working on MS EDGE and...
Hello everybody, I recently faced issues when using some control-m features on EDGE and Chrome.Indeed I was not able to get my folder exported in XML format, something was blocking. Issue description...
View Articledbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 2
For the second day of that conference, I decided first to attend the keynote of Adam Selipsky, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Lots of annoucements as always covering various area and services. For...
View ArticleAWS re:Invent 2021 – 2nd day
The 2nd day in Las Vegas at the AWS re:Invent started by one of the most important keynote. It was the keynote from Adam Selipsky, the new CEO of AWS replacing Andy Jassy who moved to Amazon after...
View ArticleAWS re:Invent 2021 – 3rd day
Time flies, it’s already the 3rd day at AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas. As I like to have dedicated time for hands-on I started again the day with another workshop. It’s a lot of knowledge to process...
View Articledbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 3
For my day 2 recap, please jump here. Third day started and Las Vegas woke up (or maybe more, never sleeps! ! ) Organized every morning by AWS, a breakfast is served in a huge (really huge !) hall of...
View ArticleAWS re:Invent 2021 – 4th day
On Thursday morning, I attended the keynote Dr Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon. I have the feeling it’s one of the most awaited keynote, Werner Vogels is not just launching new services but also provide a...
View ArticleMove a PDB from a server to another one using NFS
Introduction Multitenant brings new possibilities regarding Oracle databases, and one of them is to move a database from a container to another quite easily. When containers are on the same server,...
View ArticleOpen source monitoring solutions (2) – Zabbix agents and PostgreSQL monitoring
By the end of the last post we finished with a running Zabbix server which uses PostgreSQL as it’s back-end database. In addition a Zabbix agent is running on the same host, so the monitoring host...
View ArticleManaging Ansible with AWX – Part I – Installation on Minikube
AWX is a web based GUI tool for managing Ansible playbooks. It is the open source upstream project of Red Hat Automation Controller (formerly Ansible Tower) . As for Fedora and RHEL operating systems,...
View Articledbi services at AWS re:Invent 2021 : day 4
For my day 3 recap, please jump here. The fourth day has started and I decided to attend a couple of session. Both are not in my direct field of expertise but promised to be very interesting. Network...
View ArticleMonitoring – first steps with Prometheus
Monitoring is a crucial element of DevOps automation that has to be proactive, meaning it must find ways to improve applications quality before bugs appear. Therefore, we have to quickly and easily...
View ArticleSQL Server: how to have the number of core-based licenses used on my...
This week, a customer asks me to find out how many SQL Server Standard licenses are used in their environment. The licensing is core based and to not be used for Sserver + Cals licenses. To have an...
View ArticleWhen unreachable NFS share mess up your Dbvisit Standby configuration
If I had to rank my favorite Oracle-related tools and software, Dbvisit Standby would likely be at the top of the list. You are reading this post, so you probably know that Dbvisit Standby is a...
View ArticleOracle Database Appliance 19.13: what’s new and how to patch?
Introduction Patch 19.13 is now available on ODA. It’s time to test it. What’s new? This version brings October’s PSU to database and grid homes with their bug fixes, as usual. It also brings 21.4 for...
View ArticleControl-M EM – Control-M Automation API Overview and Installation
Hi Everybody, Today we will see how to use jobs as code with Control-M.We are aware that Jenkins is able to do that, but now we will try the new BMC product called Control-M Automation API. As...
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