OCM 12c Preparation – Download the Exam Environment

The exam environment keep changing over the time and I believe that Oracle will soon update the Linux and Database release to the latest. As Mar/2017, the exam environment in official OCM website is the following: Exam Environment Oracle Linux Release 6.5 64 bit Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0  64 bit Oracle Grid Infrastructure 12c Release …

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OCM 12c Preparation – Recommended Hardware

As we will need to create RAC (with Hub and Leaf Nodes), Dataguard (with Far Sync instance), Single Instance and Oracle EM machines scenarios, let’s consider a scenario where we will need to simulate 4 VMs running at the same time. So, you will need at least: 16 GB RAM Quad core fast CPU (Something similar or better …

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Where are 11.2.0.4.170117 DB PSU and DBBP ?

On this January 17th Oracle released its quarterly PSU as we expected. The 12.1.0.2 version was OK regarding DB PSU, GI PSU, DBBP and OJVM PSU. However, for the 11.2.0.4 version, only the OJVM PSU of Jan 2017 was provided. All the combos came with Oct 2016 version of DB/GI fixes + Jan 2017 OJVM …

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OAV-46511: missing plugin for trail at agent on host

Those days, after deploying a new AV agent and trying to setup a new audit trail, I started to receive a weird “OAV-46511: missing plugin for trail at agent on host” error as below: Agent was just deployed so no reason for the agent to not include the plugins. After researching a little, I’ve found …

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Audit Vault installation fails with “Unable to run Clusterware root script”

Today I was installing Audit Vault 12.2.0.4.0 and I started receiving an error saying “Unable to run Clusterware root script” in the final step. First, after researching a little, I found out that I wasn’t meeting the requisites for 12.2 installation, only 12.1: For 12.1 (https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37100_01/doc.121/e27778/preinstall.htm#SIGIG292): Memory Requirements – Each x86 64-bit server must have at …

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