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 »
The following are some interesting SQL Server related links: A lot of times you have to relocate the data and log files of a SQL Server. It can be that the default installation was not OK or you change the storage. The following tutorial is very useful Move System Databases Using SQL Server with R… Read More »
Glassfish Application server is a powerful application server that can support medium to big enterprise environments. It is one of the easiest to configure and maintain application servers. No jumping through loops is required to adapt the code of your enterprise application to be deployable on it. I am an adept of command line. Because… Read More »
There are lots of expensive backup tools that can be used to back-up an enterprise environment. HP and IBM are leaders of this market but the costs can go very high quickly. As an alternative one can choose some open-source backup suites that are on par with the commercial ones. Bacula Bacula is a very… Read More »
Everybody knows that a database query is extremely costly in enterprise application and usually has the biggest impact in process time of a transaction. There are plenty of best practice rules a developer has to follow: 1. Retrieve as much data as possible in a single query, avoid to make a data retrieve from the… Read More »