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Resolving OCI Database Management 'UNKNOWN' Status & 'Monitoring Stopped' Alerts

Introduction If you are managing Oracle databases on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), few sights are as jarring as seeing a critical "Monitoring Stopped - Metric collection..

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Fixing False-Positive OCI IPsec Alarms in Active-Passive Topologies

When deploying an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Site-to-Site VPN in an active-passive (standby) configuration, Tunnel 2 is often intentionally left down on the..

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The 7.68 TB SSD That Wouldn’t Provision: An ODA X9-2-HA vs. 12.1.0.2 Standoff

We recently stood up a new Oracle Database Appliance X9-2-HA to host a legacy application whose databases are still on Oracle 12.1.0.2. What should have been a routine..

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What Is Q-Day, and Is Your Data Ready for It?

What Q-Day is Q-Day is the day a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to break the public-key cryptography we run today. RSA, Diffie-Hellman, elliptic curve. That is the math..

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