Category Archives: WebLogic

Oracle native connection encryption (in WebLogic Connection Pools)

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Wallets for encrypting database connections? No, not any more…!

When you want to encrypt your client connections to the database, one used to create Oracle Wallets. With an Oracle wallet you run ‘SQL*Net over an SSL connection’. Your tcp connection will be transformed to tcps.

This is not necessary if you easily want to encrypt all your connections to the database. You do not use tcps, you still use tcp, but you encrypt SQL*Net traffic, which is a different approach.

If you use “Native Oracle Net Services encryption and integrity”, you can encrypt all SQL*Net traffic from a client, for all connections to a database and it’s even also configurable per WebLogic Connection Pool. Continue reading →

Theoretical problem when WebLogic’s NodeManager is using a start script

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Many people will use the WebLogic’s NodeManager to use the start script for starting Managed Servers:

StartScriptEnabled=true

The NodeManager will start the Managed Server using the script and monitor the Managed Server when it fails.

One of the mistakes people can make is creating their own start script and start the Managed Server using ‘nohup &’ within this script: Metalink [ID 984122.1] and [ID 861098.1]. The script will finish and the server keeps running, but the NodeManager thinks the Managed Server has failed… Continue reading →