Multi-node deployments of enterprise applications like E-Business Suite (aka Oracle Applications) have a dependency on hardware load balancers like Sun Secure Application Switch*. Just like any piece of hardware, Sun Secure Application Switches are also vulnerable to hardware failures. Naturally we want to make a backup copy of the switch configuration once everything is configured and tested properly. So, here are the steps to save the existing configuration: Connect to Application Switch on the CLI. On the CLI, type, for example: % telnet...
Friday, 12 January 2007
Sunday, 7 January 2007
Energy Policy Act of 2005 - Daylight Saving Time changes 2007
Posted on 00:37 by Unknown
As you know, due to the Energy Policy Act of 2005, there will be some changes to the daylight saving time starting in 2007. As a hardware/software vendor, Sun Microsystems is ready with a solution (set of patches) to accommodate those changes; and the required information is well documented in the form of alerts.Documentation Required patches for Solaris, Java and Sun Fire firmware:BigAdmin tech note: 2007 Daylight Saving Time Changes in the U.S The above tech note is referring to a Sun alert, 102178, which you can find on sunsolve web site at:Daylight...
Thursday, 4 January 2007
Oracle: Lost Redo Log
Posted on 01:44 by Unknown
Scenario:The disk that is holding the most up-to-date redo log files experienced a fatal failure, and the database wouldn't come up any more. It complains about missing redo logs. So, you copy the redo log files from a recent backup; but still the database won't come up with error messages like ORA-00314: log 1 of thread 1, expected sequence# doesn't match.SQL> startupORACLE instance started.Total System Global Area 4294967296 bytesFixed Size 1306568 bytesVariable Size 2534150200 bytesDatabase Buffers 1728053248...
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