chef - [chef] Announcing relaunched oracle cookbook v1.1.1!

New features in version v1.1.1

Configure the EM dbconsole (Enterprise Manager Database Control)
Install Oracle Client and patch it to the latest patch
Choose the database template

Few notes about oracle cookbook v1.1.1:

The EM dbconsole is configured for every database. You can turn it off from attributes/default.rb, if you don't want it configured by default.


# Attributes for the local database dbcontrol for all databases.
default[:oracle][:rdbms][:dbconsole][:emconfig] = true
default[:oracle][:rdbms][:dbconsole][:sysman_pw] = 'sysman_pw_goes_here'
default[:oracle][:rdbms][:dbconsole][:notification_email] = '
 '
default[:oracle][:rdbms][:dbconsole][:outgoing_mail] = 'mailhost'

It does extend the install time, but I also modified the default_template.dbt to have less options on by default. The older template is now named as midrange_template.dbt. For v1.1.1 I will make the template file name it as a node attribute, so that you can override it from a role for example.

For the Oracle client, please modify the templates/default/tnsnames.ora to best match your database layout. Currently it is only has an example.

To choose a different database template during createdb.rb, check the the following default attribute on attributes/default.rb.

default[:oracle][:rdbms][:db_create_template] = 'default_template.dbt'

Please try it out, contribute and read the "Roadmap" chapter on the README.md for planned features.

[chef] Announcing relaunched oracle cookbook v1.1.1!

(Even though it has been out there for over a week now.) The v1.1.1 of the cookbook has been released. I've released it under my own user-id on GitHub. Please check it out at:

New features in version v1.1.1