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Oracle Database Appliance – Installing Patch Bundle 2.1.0.3.0

Posted on March 22, 2012 by marcel

We just finished installing ODA Patch Bundle 2.1.0.3.0 on one of our ODA’s….. There goes one of the key features for the ODA – Simple one-button patch installation. As a DBA (and I think all administrators) are very reserved when … Continue reading →

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Solaris SMF Oracle Grid agent service killing Oracle instance

Posted on August 22, 2011 by marcel

In the last couple of months we had some strange problems with all processes of Oracle database and ASM instances just disappearing. The shared memory segment was still there and you could connect internally to the instance, even execute some … Continue reading →

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Unregistering (removing) agent from OEM Grid Control

Posted on May 15, 2011 by marcel

When you want to permanently remove an agent from you OEM GC environment, you will have the GUI method and the manual method. The reason for writing this post is that I was able to remove all targets from within … Continue reading →

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Simulating ORA-errors

Posted on May 12, 2011 by marcel

Sometimes it can be useful to simulate a problem in your database by simulating an ORA-error. After we had a nasty bug with Grid Control (GC suddenly wasn’t able to monitor the alertlog of 10.2.0.5 databases anymore, see my post … Continue reading →

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Unable to monitor ORA-errors in alertlog for 10.2.0.5 databases

Posted on February 8, 2011 by marcel

There is a problem monitoring Oracle 10.2.0.5 databases in OEM. Alerts for ORA- errors that appear in the alertlog of 10.2.0.5 databases won’t get generated and you will not be able to view the alertlog (time range) for databases of … Continue reading →

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