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...

Ansible is a task execution engine. Ansible is designed to work on multiple machines to execute the batch of simple task to scale. Ansible is written in Python language, it uses Python 2.6 above is supported platform as requirement. No Agents required! Ansible is simple language that is started as opensource and later it is acquired by Red Hat. The core communication happens with SSH. SSH widely available trusted in all UNIX and Linux systems. Ansible can be run any system as it doesn't relay on central machine. Ansible automation for Java and WebLogic 12c  Here my experiment goes with two Ubuntu 14 Trusty Tahr machine. In one machine Ansible will be installed and other machine is used as target node, in real-time scenario the target list can be many hundreds and this has been proven by NASA and other Ansible implements. Using Ansible lots of organizations get into structured and role based automation implementations successful. For Redhat flavors The actions that n...