How To Poke Around OBIEE on Linux with strace (Working with Unsupported ODBC Sources in OBIEE 12c)
OBIEE 12c (and 11g and 10g before it) supports three primary ways of connecting to data sources: Native Gateway, such as OCI for Oracle. This is »
System Metrics Collectors
The need to monitor and control the system performances is not new. What is new is the trend of clever, lightweight, easy to setup, open source »
New OTN Article - OBIEE Performance Analytics: Analysing the Impact of Suboptimal Design
I’m pleased to have recently had my first article published on the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). You can read it in its full splendour and »
Using Linux Control Groups to Constrain Process Memory
Linux Control Groups (cgroups) are a nifty way to limit the amount of resource, such as CPU, memory, or IO throughput, that a process or group »
OBIEE Monitoring and Diagnostics with InfluxDB and Grafana
In this article I’m going to look at collecting time-series metrics into the InfluxDB database and visualising them in snazzy Grafana dashboards. The datasets I’ »
Linux cluster sysadmin -- OS metric monitoring with colmux
In this mini-series of blog posts I'm taking a look at a few very useful tools that can make your life as the sysadmin of a »
Linux cluster sysadmin -- Parallel command execution with PDSH
In this series of blog posts I'm taking a look at a few very useful tools that can make your life as the sysadmin of a »
Linux cluster sysadmin -- SSH keys
In this short series of blog posts I'm going to take a look at a few very useful tools that can make your life as the »
SampleApp v406 - Automatic startup of OBIEE
Last week Oracle released v406 of SampleApp. SampleApp is a one-stop-shop for a demonstration of pretty much any conceivable thing that OBIEE is capable of, and »
Make Use of OBIEE's Command Line Tools with Reduced Exposure of Plain Text Passwords
Introduction We all love a good commandline utility. It gives us that warm feeling of control and puts hairs on our chests. Either that, or it »