The Objective If you are a pioneer of Ansible, you might have come across or had this question "How to print a custom message with fail or failed_when" or "How to print a custom error message in case of failure" while running the ansible-playbook. What is so fun in displaying the built-in[...]
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The Objective The purpose of this post is to explain with an example of how ansible initiate the reboot and wait for the reboot to complete There are cases where we want our remote nodes to be rebooted or restarted. For example, Take the Patching as an example. As part[...]
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Introduction to Ansible wait_for module Ansible wait_for module can be used to pause your playbook execution and to wait for many different things or conditions before continuing with the execution. The wait_for module of ansible is to make your playbook or task execution halt or pause for various reasons and for[...]
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In this post, we are going to see how to upgrade the JDBC driver in WebLogic 12c and WebLogic 11g versions. We are going to take mysql as our database for this example, but the same process applies to the Oracle as well. The Context If you are here, I can[...]
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This post is to discuss about a particular Issue we often face in weblogic 12c and how to resolve the same The Issue While trying to create mysql Datasource in weblogic, the following exception occurs and unable Test Connection (or) Test Configuration fails. java.lang.ClassCastException: java.math.BigInteger cannot be cast to java.lang.Long<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:1058)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:972)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:958)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.SQLError.createSQLException(SQLError.java:903)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.buildCollationMapping(ConnectionImpl.java:1025)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.initializePropsFromServer(ConnectionImpl.java:3480)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.connectOneTryOnly(ConnectionImpl.java:2444)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.createNewIO(ConnectionImpl.java:2214)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.ConnectionImpl.<init>(ConnectionImpl.java:797)<br/>com.mysql.jdbc.JDBC4Connection.<init>(JDBC4Connection.java:31)<br/>sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native[...]
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The Objective In this post, we are going to see what are the different types of home directories available in weblogic and the various options or methods to find the ORACLE_HOME, MW_HOME and WL_HOME of your weblogic 12c installation. The commands and the methods are mostly given for the LINUX[...]
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Some Background When it comes to handling the web application related vulnerabilities. Most of the vulnerabilities could be fixed by having the proper configuration at the F5 level. By using the right configuration at the F5. like having proper SSL Cipher at the SSL profile of the VIP (or) creating and[...]
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The Objective We are going to create an Ansible role (or) playbook to quickly build a distributed, multi-node, Fully featured Weblogic Domain with two managed servers and a horizontal cluster and machines In a single line, Ansible role to build, Weblogic Infrastructure with Managed Server, Admin Server and a Cluster on[...]
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The Purpose The purpose of this post is to give you a real-time example and explanation of how ansible variable is defined and not defined (undefined) conditionals are working along with "when" conditional statement and how it controls the flow of the task and the play. The following ansible playbook is[...]
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The Introduction to Docker Weblogic In this post, we are going to be exploring the quick and easy option available to get started with weblogic and Docker. In this post, we are going to see how to create a weblogic container in docker in a few easy steps. The post's[...]
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