WebLogic Admin Tricks & Tips

Making mistake is human nature but, overcoming that mistake turning to desired outcome is very wise thing. You want to learn about that wise trick? If yes, follow my post details more about my learnings on alias!! In Unix platform there is a file called .profile (some Linux environments it is . bash_profile ). Which executed automatically when you logon to your user, which intern have the environment variables which are required to run your application on WebLogic. For WLA required to setup a standard. profile for his production environment that is for JAVA_HOME, WL_HOME are major some of the environments requires ORA_HOME in this file.   Defining JAVA_HOME, WL_HOME, etc is common thing for any WLA. But your my Smart WLA then you might applying a intersting UNIX command 'alias'. Most of the time we use 'ls' command for listing the files/folders. By mistake you might mistype as 'sl' instead of 'ls'. sometimes feeling hungry!! or thirsty!! and typing...

Usually when you are working on building the platform for any application, you might be given UNIX (Solaris/Linux/HP-UX/AIX) boxes and new generation with Virtual boxes. which contains nothing you need to do many installations and configurations. To make your administrative task easy and simple we need to setup a fine tuned profile file. This profile file will be holding the multiple environment variables those are reusable when you log-on to UNIX Kernel  Here you can define shell functions or you can define simple single lined aliases that makes lengthy commands set to simple trimmed single letter or meaningful words. What is user SHELL and  its profile association? In your UNIX Kernel when a new user login will check the /etc/passwd file which shell is assigned by the super-user. It will look for the system profile and assign the environment values, then on top of it user profile can be loaded. Hence the variable is defined in system profile can be overridden by u...