-
Install a RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.10 VM on VirtualBox with vboxmanage
These steps can be used to setup a RHEL 8.10 VirtualBox guest that can be used as the base OS for the other blog posts. The host system in my case is Windows 10. Table of ContentsPreparationInstall a new RHEL 8.10 VMConfigure the Virtual MachinePerform the OS installationFurther info Preparation Download the RHEL 8.10 iso…
-
Install SAP NetWeaver 7.52 SP04 TestDrive on Linux
The following steps show how to install a test system of SAP NetWeaver 7.52 SP04 on RHEL 8 (running as a VirtualBox guest). SAP Sybase ASE 16.0.2 is used as the database. SAP GUI will be installed on a client machine running Windows 10 and will be used to access the SAP NetWeaver Application Server.…
-
AVX on VirtualBox Linux Guest is missing
During the installation of Splunk on a Linux guest I encountered an error where mongod was not able to start. But first an overview of the environment: After the startup of Splunk I could see the following error messages in the splunk logfile: The important bit is: Also starting mongod as root failed (core dumped).…
-
How to install Splunk Enterprise on Linux
Table of ContentsBasic InstallationInstallation of Splunk Mobile Basic Installation These are the steps to install the 60 days trial version of Splunk Enterprise 9.4.0 on RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.1. I used Oracle VirtualBox as the virtualization software running on Windows 10. First we create an account on splunk.com and download the Linux rpm file via…
-
Administration of a Oracle Standby Database
This post covers some basic tasks regarding Oracle Standby Databases that can pop up from time to time. The tasks are based on a already existing primary/standby database configuration with Oracle Data Guard Broker. The steps used to setup such a configuration are described here. Table of ContentsCheck the health of the Data Guard configurationDisplay…
-
Delete old patches from an ORACLE_HOME
It is considered good practice to delete unneeded patches from an ORACLE_HOME in order to save space and reduce the time to install new patches. I made some tests to see the effects of that. More information about the removal of inactive patches can be found in Oracle Doc ID 2942102.1 . On a Linux…