Sometimes you test your best practice procedures the hard way. A failure that messed up with my grub (yes you can manage to break grub even in a RAID1 setup) followed by a failed Fedora update forced me to do a clean Fedora 25 installation. STEP 1: Cold Backup of all partitions of interest Because… Read More »
Keeping pace with new stuff related to programming and IT world is hard enough that you have to make a list from time to time of stuff you have in the backlog. Here is a list of new things I find to be very interesting: The November/December edition of Java Magazine Online is released Java… Read More »
The following is an example on how to generate a certificate directly on a Linux server using keytool, then sign it by a windows CA. The example assumes we are regenerating a certificate for a glasfish domain. STEP 1: Delete the old certificate In glasfish in each domain where security is activated we have a… Read More »
Big news, MS finally realized that with the cloud migration of a lot of services if you do not embrace Linux you are dead. After anouncing that it joined Linux Fundation as a platinum member we got SQL Server on Linux Install SQL Server on Linux
In an enterprise environment consisting of several HP ProLiant servers it is important to set up for each of the servers the IPs of the associated ILO4 devices. This is an important step as this ILO devices are going to be used for the cluster fencing or access from the service network. To set-up the… Read More »
I am always very annoyed when my Oracle user is automatically expired and locked. This is done automatically at 180 days in some installations. The following are some very easy steps for a question that everybody is asking again and again on forums. STEP 1: Connect to the DB sqlplus / as sysdba STEP 2:… Read More »
I already have several posts related to security of an exposed Internet site. They were all summarized in the post Blog Links: Web site security As we know, the Internet threats are constant and evolving so to maintain the same level of security we constantly have to update the configurations of a secure installation. In… Read More »
In an enterprise environment we usually separate the components in independent containers: – a database container – a business application container – a web-layer application container – a load balancing layer container/containers – etc. When running our environment with docker and if the environment consist of something more than some simple tests, at some point… Read More »
[paypal_donation_button] In the following post I am going to describe how to create a custom docker image that contains the following: – Glassfish Application Server – Java JDK 1.8 – A custom deployed EJB 3.1 Application In connection with this a Postgres docker image from which we start a container with a certain database name… Read More »
Docker is a nice low-cost virtualization solution that is more and more popular. A very nice use case is to use it to create images of enterprise systems, images that can be used for testing without having to bother to delete databases and reinitialize testing environment. You just simply have to fire up another set… Read More »