Convert local listeners to Oracle Grid managed listeners

Intro One of the advantages of Oracle grid Infrastructure is to restart all managed resources (databases, asm, listeners,โ€ฆetc)  automatically whenever you (re)start the cluster service (crs) or reboot the whole server. I recently had to patch an oda where the client still had few listeners (with non default ports) managed locally and not through grid. …

Add SCAN VIPs to Oracle RAC with zero โ€œlistenerโ€ downtime

Intro Infrastructure teams are usually more keen to maintain a network stability rather than altering their existing configuration every other day.This means that once the application and database hosts are provisioned and running, the DBA won’t witness a topology change unless a migration of the servers/applications are in the pipes. But for highly available environment …

Deploy a webserver vm using Azure CLI and bash scripts (Linux/windows)

                                         Intro Azure cli was another tool I had to try right after passing Az-900 azure certification, because what are certifications for if itโ€™s not to give a little itching to get your hands a little dirty. Thus, az-cli became my third victim after oci-cli and aws-cli. As in my previous cli tutorials, the aim …