WebLogic Admin Tricks & Tips

Current IT Trending towards devOps automation in every Software product development. I am also part of  this devOps culture. I had a thought that, How much I can leverage my regular task by making simple shell script for Installation task. As every Oracle WebLogic system administrator would pass through this situation but only few of them who have "AUTOMATION IN MINDS" could attempt to resolve this with a nicely blended Shell script. Here I would like to target two types of installations with two different Shell scripts: Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2.0 WebLogic Server installation Fusion Middleware 12.2.1.2.0 Infrastructure installation Objective of this script is to get single hit would do multiple tasks such as: JAVA installation setting the JAVA_HOME in shell profile using Java run the WebLogic installer in silent mode YOu can use the same logic in WebLogic 14c the latest version as well. Assumptions: Downloaded Software will be stored in c...

First steps as you can look into your Java based environments, where JDK9+ version is in use should be under high alerting zone. You may ask is it Open JDK or Oracle JDK 9?? It is for all JDK9+ versions. So be prepared with the list of boxes which are running the applications on JDK9+. Still now there is no Patch yet released. But if there then we should be ready and patch it as quick as possible. Cloud platforms Microservice level what could be issues and how to resolve. VM Ware AppDynamics Be proactive to understand this critical Vuln and have mitigations ready. Java Spring Framework now in big trouble with Vulnerabilities Recently this week lot of communications about the Spring Framework   CVE-2022-22965: Spring Framework RCE via Data Binding on JDK 9+ | Security | VMware Tanzu The following article give some other resolution for this Vuln. Spring Core on JDK9+ is vulnerable to remote code execution - Praetorian