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...

Can you automate the Java installation required for WebLogic across multiple servers without manually logging in to every machine? If you manage WebLogic environments, you already know that middleware setup can involve many repetitive activities—installing Java, preparing directories, copying installers, configuring users, and preparing servers for WebLogic installation. Instead of performing these activities manually on every server, Ansible can automate the entire process . In this tutorial, we will start with a simple but practical example: automating Java installation on WebLogic application servers using an Ansible playbook . This post is the first part of the Ansible Automation for WebLogic series. What We'll Learn By the end of this tutorial, you will understand how to: Understand the basic Ansible architecture Configure an Ansible inventory Establish SSH connectivity between Ansible and target servers Validate connectivity using the Ansible ping module Create your first ...