Creating Self Signed Certificates
Often Applications (e.g. Oracle GoldenGate or Oracle GoldenGate Veridata) allow the usage of certificates. For test systems a self signed certificate can be used to quickly create and use them.
Unattended Installation of Windows 10 on VirtualBox
These steps can be used to setup a Windows 10 VirtualBox guest that can be used as the base OS for the other blog posts. The host system in my case is also Windows 10. The unattended installation process is used.
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 RedHat Enterprise Linux 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. The system will give you an overview of the current SAP ABAP Application server and enable you to develop web applications or explore the SAP client/server architecture in general.
tcps/ssl setup using orapki
This post shows the tcps/ssl setup using orapki for the encryption of database connections. Self signed certificates created by orapki and stored in a Oracle Wallet will be used on the database server and on the client machine. The database server is running Oracle 19.25 on RHEL 8.1. The client machine is running Windows 10.