WebLogic Admin Tricks & Tips

You might be wonder what is fun in this blog looking for X11 forwarding on Solaris 5.10!! You might be excited to see the beauty of colorful Oracle Fusion Middleware WebLogic 11g installation window when you executable binaries (wls1033_solaris32.bin), You might wish to see Oracle WebLogic domain configuration Wizard (config.sh), Oracle WebLogic Domain Template builder (config_builder.sh), BEA Smart Update (bsu.sh) windows or your Oracle Database 11g while you work on a remote UNIX machines. After spending few hours on the Internet found many blogs written on their experiences, few document on websites, which illustrated about SSH, X11 forwarding in UNIX. I understand that what I need to do? To achieve my objective X11 Forwarding using SSH window, I must have a X emulating software installed on my desktop. you guys have this on your desktop?? If not install Hummingbird Connectivity (Xming is alternative) My experimenting environment is Solaris 10, Oracle WebLogic, SSH ...

Today morning one of my buddy pinged me from my team, seeking help on an issue he is faceing in his newly  configured WL domain for his learnings. Understanding the Issue My buddy novice WLA is trying to start the WebLogic instance on a remote machine. He is working on Solaris 10 operating environment, WebLogic 9.2. I asked for Java version, He executed the following command: $ java -version I asked for jps command execution the system is refused and said that ' jps is bad cammand'. I understand that  JAVA_HOME is not set for his environment. asked for echo $PATH. It is showing Java Path. Ohh!! what is missing then?? $which java this resulted that JAVA_HOME is NOT set to weblogic installation JDK, it was pointed to JAVA_HOME come with the Solaris installation.  I understand that could be one of the reason of not starting the server instance. Update the .profile file with  JAVA_HOME as required to set JDK residing in W...