Simple Solaris IP Multipathing IP multipathing consists of grouping two identical network cards together and having a live IP address be able to automatically fail over from one card to the other with no loss or degredation of service. The steps to accomplish this are as follows: 1. Ensure that both cards are seen by…
Media Recovery – Oracle Executive Overview: The media failure is the biggest threat for enterprise data management. A media failure is a physical problem that occurs when a computer unsuccessfully attempts to read from or write to a file necessary to operate the database. The technique you use to recover from media failure of a…
Introduction In this paper we will present a method for retrieving data from an Oracle database that cannot be opened normally because one or more datafiles is inconsistent with the others. An example of a scenario where you would find yourself in this situation is as follows: A disk failed on our server and we…
The topics covered in listener security management are straightforward, but there are special sqlnet.ora tricks for blocking access by IP address. Blocking Oracle Access by IP Address Now comes the fun part: keeping people out of your database! While IP-based blocking is not as suitable as a full firewall, you are able to block clients…