Disable showjobs in 9iAS R2

How do I disable showenv, showjobs, showmap, showmyjobs, showjobid, killjobid, parsequery, showauth, delauth, getjobid, and getserverinfo in Reports 9i? In version 9iAS R1 (1.0.2.2), you simply set REPORTS60_CGINODIAG in the registry and they are turned off.
BTW, I am not using Portal nor SSO. I have issued the command "dcmctl leaveFarm" as I don't need the Infrastructure for this installation.

I removed the identifier tag and rebooted the server.
I then tried to access this url:
http://fred/reports/rwservlet/getserverinfo?server=rep_fred+auth_id=jon/cool
The rep_fred.ora file gets updated and the identifier tag is set to:
<identifier confidential="yes" encrypted="yes">ZzRlC0ywbw==</identifier>
I opened a new web browser and tried this:
http://fred.humana.com/reports/rwservlet/getserverinfo?server=rep_fred
This returned the xml without any error.
My installation of 9iAS R2 is as follows:
1. Install infrastructure (on separate machine).
2. Patch infrastructure with latest patch.
3. Install 9iAS with Forms and Reports only.
4. Bug with installing Reports so I manually added the reports service (rwserver -install rep_fred).
5. Edit reports service to run as Oracle local admin account and not to interact with desktop.
6. Edited rep_fred.conf file and commented out security section.
7. Edited rwservlet.properties file and changed SINGLESIGNON=NO and set DIAGNOSTIC=NO.
8. Tested reports and all is working correctly.
9. Left the farm (dcmctl leaveFarm).
10. Edited the jazn.xml file.
11. Rebooted and the installed latest patch on app server.
12. Had to kill some sqlplus.exe sessions during patch as it was trying to connect to the infrastructure still. (portal and wireless)
13. Grep for 7777 and 4443 in all files. Replace with 80 and 443.
14. Restart and test reports. Everything working just fine. Forms and Reports run just fine. Added DAD configuration for site (Mod PL/SQL). It too is working.
This is when I started trying to secure the Report Server and I am unable to do so.
See anything in my installation process that might have contributed to this?

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Oracle 9iAS Admin Password Getting disabled

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I think my enquiry is not understood.
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Problem with 9iAS and Day Communiquh 3

Hi,
i have a problem with the deployment of Day Communiquh 3 web application (a tool for content management) on Oracle 9iAS (not on the OC4J stand-alone..).
As explained on Day guide, i've disabled the following services in the delivery.xml of publish/system/conf directory (the file is put in attachment for a better comprehension):
- ServletEngineService;
- ShoutService.
Moreover, i've updated the following tags:
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- loopback, with the port i use (7778).
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Finally i have packed up the WAR file in a EAR file, using the Enterprise Manager of 9iAS: i've put "cq3" as name of the deployed application, and "/cq3" as context root, so that users can access the application typing in a browser "http://<server_address>:<port>/cq3".
Then i've found the following problems:
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Anyone that could help me to resolve this issue is welcome. Please answer to [email protected]

Hi,
i have a problem with the deployment of Day Communiquh 3 web application (a tool for content management) on Oracle 9iAS (not on the OC4J stand-alone..).
As explained on Day guide, i've disabled the following services in the delivery.xml of publish/system/conf directory (the file is put in attachment for a better comprehension):
- ServletEngineService;
- ShoutService.
Moreover, i've updated the following tags:
- fakeurls, with <redirect from="/" to="/cq3/playground/en.html" />;
- loopback, with the port i use (7778).
Then i have packed up the CQ3 webapp in a WAR file (cq3-web.war): i give you in attachment the WEB-INF/web.xml used.
Finally i have packed up the WAR file in a EAR file, using the Enterprise Manager of 9iAS: i've put "cq3" as name of the deployed application, and "/cq3" as context root, so that users can access the application typing in a browser "http://<server_address>:<port>/cq3".
Then i've found the following problems:
- firstly, "http://<server_address>:<port>/cq3" doesn't redirect to "http://<server_address>:<port>/cq3/playground/en.html" as specified in delivery.xml: a "404 not found" error raises; so i have to type "http://<server_address>:<port>/cq3/playground/en.html" manually to view the Communiquh Playground;
- anyway, the Communiquh Playground isn't shown correctly: every link and every image refers to an address like, for example, "http://<server_address>:<port>/playground/en/my_image.gif", i.e. without the "/cq3" context root in front of "/playground..".
Anyone that could help me to resolve this issue is welcome. Please answer to [email protected]

How to install 9ias on Linux quick guide

I have installed the linux version of application server a couple of times now. I have noted all the steps I took to complete the installation. Everything works except for reports. Anyway here are the steps I took to get it working. Hope it helps. Note: This is for RedHat Advanced Server 2.1, I have created a user called oracle9 to own the software. Please feel free to add comments etc.
1. Install RedHat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 - install all the packages.
2. Edit files in the following directory to allow connectivity, must be as ROOT user.
/etc/xinetd.d
3. Edit the directory permissions for /usr/local and /usr/local/src as ROOT user.
This is we can install files and utilities in these directories. Also create an oracle directory to
store the software. I created /usr/local/oracle/orahome1.
chmod 777 /usr/local
chmod 777 /usr/local/src
chmod 777 /usr/local/oracle
chmod 777 /usr/local/oracle/orahome1
4. Add /usr/sbin to the PATH environment variable so that most commands are accessible.
To do this edit the /etc/profile file.
Add the following line
PATH="/usr/bin:$PATH:/usr/X11R6/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin"
5. Check kernel and glibc versions by running uname. ie
Kernel check is uname -r
OR
use rpm -q kernel
rpm -q glibc
The versions shoule be as follows
kernel = 2.4.9-e.3
glibc = 2.2.4-26
6. System Wide Ulimit and Swap File Settings.
Should be as follows.
time unlimited
file unlimited
data 1048576
stack 131072
memory unlimited
coredump 4194303
nofiles 2048
There are several files to enable these settings.
First we edit the /etc/security/limits.conf file to set the required limits.
File should look like this.
# /etc/security/limits.conf
#Each line describes a limit for a user in the form:
#<domain> <type> <item> <value>
#Where:
#<domain> can be:
# - an user name
# - a group name, with @group syntax
# - the wildcard *, for default entry
#<type> can have the two values:
# - "soft" for enforcing the soft limits
# - "hard" for enforcing hard limits
#<item> can be one of the following:
# - core - limits the core file size (KB)
# - data - max data size (KB)
# - fsize - maximum filesize (KB)
# - memlock - max locked-in-memory address space (KB)
# - nofile - max number of open files
# - rss - max resident set size (KB)
# - stack - max stack size (KB)
# - cpu - max CPU time (MIN)
# - nproc - max number of processes
# - as - address space limit
# - maxlogins - max number of logins for this user
# - priority - the priority to run user process with
# - locks - max number of file locks the user can hold
#<domain> <type> <item> <value>
#* soft core 0
#* hard rss 10000
#@student hard nproc 20
#@faculty soft nproc 20
#@faculty hard nproc 50
#ftp hard nproc 0
#@student - maxlogins 4
oracle9 - nofile 65536
* - nofile 65536
* - nproc 65536
* - cpu unlimited
* - fsize unlimited
* - data 1048576
* - stack 131072
* - memlock unlimited
* - core 4194303
# End of file
We now need to edit the /etc/sysctl.conf file to set the system wide ranges as ROOT user.
File should look like this.
# Disables packet forwarding
net.ipv4.ip_forward = 0
# Enables source route verification
net.ipv4.conf.default.rp_filter = 1
# Disables the magic-sysrq key
kernel.sysrq = 0
net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range = 1024 65000
fs.file-max = 65536
kernel.sem = 100 32000 100 100
kernel.shmmax = 2147483648
kernel.shmmni = 4096
kernel.shmall = 2097152
Now we need to edit the /etc/profile file to enable the settings when a user logs in.
The file contents should be modified as follows.
# No core files by default
ulimit -S -c 1000000 > /dev/null 2>&1
#Set the file handels
#echo 65536 > /proc/sys/fs/file-max
ulimit -n 65536 > /dev/null 2>&1
#Set the socket range
#echo 1024 65000 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range
# Set the number of processes for per user
ulimit -u 16384 > /dev/null 2>&1
Kernel Parameters
Change to following directory /proc/sys/kernel and type following
echo 250 32000 32 128 > sem
echo 2147483648 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmax
echo 4096 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmmni
echo 2097152 > /proc/sys/kernel/shmall
7. Install the ksh package if you have not already installed it on your machine.
Oracle Corporation recommends installing one of the following ksh packages:
pdksh-5.2.14-13 or other compatible packages.
RPM file is available from www.redhat.com
as root user type
rpm -i pdksh-5.2.14-16.i386.rpm
8. On Linux, port number 389 is reserved in the /etc/services file.
If you want Oracle9iAS to install using the default port number for Oracle Internet Directory,
delete the entries in the /etc/services file.
Note:
You must remove all lines containing the port number 389 from
the /etc/services file if you want to use that port number.
Attempting to comment out lines containing 389 does not free the port
9. Install JDK 1.3.1 for Linux.
This is available from java.sun.com. Although it is also included with Linux IAS9I R2
Install the JDK to /usr/local/jdk
Add the following to the /etc/profile file, and also add to path
CLASSPATH="/usr/local/jdk/lib"
LD_LIBRARY_PATH="/usr/local/jdk/jre/lib/i386:/usr/local/jdk/jre/lib/i386/classic:
/usr/local/jdk/jre/lib/i386/native_threads"
EXPORT CLASSPATH
EXPORT LD_LIBRARY_PATH
10. Add the following groups as ROOT user
oinstall, dba
groupadd oinstall
groupadd dba
11. Add oracle user to groups oinstall and dba as ROOT user
usermod -g oinstall -G dba,oracle9 oracle9
12. Apply a patch for binutils rpm:
I had to get this from metalink. Not sure where else it is available.
Run following command to get installed version of binutils rpm.
prompt> rpm -qa | grep binutils
binutils-2.11.90.0.8-12
Please note down the binutils rpm version that is shown as the output of the above command.
If the operating system is installed from the RedHat 2.1 Advanced Server CDs,
you will have binutils-2.11.90.0.8-12 version installed.
You might have newer version of binutils rpm depending on your further configuration
after default OS install. If the binutils rpm version is different from 2.11.90.0.8-12,
please download that rpm.
Upgrade to binutils-2.11.90.0.8-13 version using following command (as root user):
prompt> rpm -Uvh --force binutils-2.11.90.0.8-13.i386.rpm
13. Edit Local Hosts file
Edit so that the host is in the following format
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs
# that require network functionality will fail.
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.3.69 lon-ias01.closepf.local lon-ias01
192.168.3.66 lon-ias02.closepf.local lon-ias02
14. Create Symbolic Link from /sbin/fuser file to /bin/fuser by entering the following command.
cd /bin
ln -s /sbin/fuser
15. Rename Linux Ldap programs
rename the ldapadd, ldapsearch, ldapmodify etc located in /usr/bin
mv ldapadd ldapadd.bak
mv ldapdelete ldapdelete.bak
mv ldapmodify ldapmodify.bak
mv ldapmodrdn ldapmodrdn.bak
mv ldappasswd ldappasswd.bak
mv ldapsearch ldapsearch.bak
16. Unset your oracle home environment variable.
unset ORACLE_HOME
17. Set your TMP, TMPDIR and TEMP environment variables.
These are located in /etc/profile
TMP="/tmp"
TMPDIR="/tmp"
TEMP="/tmp"
export TMP TMPDIR TEMP
18. Make sure you have the following X11 library XFree86-devel-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm,
which can be found of disk2 of the RedHat Advanced Linux CD v2.1. This is needed
by the linking process.
As ROOT user.
mount the cdrom.
cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
rpm -Uvh XFree86-devel-4.1.0-25.i386.rpm
19. Install the application server as per the offficial install instructions. You should only have
to use mount_point/runInstaller and follow the prompts.
21. If it installs then run the interoperability patch.
22. Should be working?!?
19. To Remove an Install
WARNING : Please note that by following the processes defined
below, ALL Oracle products on the system will be cleaned
up and will not be usable. Please do not follow these steps if you do
not want to remove any Oracle Products
1. Deinstall using installer
2. Stop all running processes from the install.
3. Delete the oracle directory under /var/opt as root user
4. Delete the complete oraInventory directory
5. Delete all directories and files from ORACLE_HOME directory
6. Cleanup files under /tmp and /var/tmp as root user
8. Remove emtab in the /etc directory
9. Remove oracle files in /usr/local/bin
Hope it works.

ummm...
chmod 777 /usr/local
chmod 777 /usr/local/src
chmod 777 /usr/local/oracle
chmod 777 /usr/local/oracle/orahome1
Why on earth would you do that??? There is NO need for >that, not to mention it being a HUGE security issue. I >have an offical doc on installing and configuring 9iAS >on Linux (includes information on as 2.1 install). I >will post this evening.Your quite correct, this section could probably be trimmed from the guide. At the time it was written it was used on a development box, on a production box this would not be done. Also to get this install working when Oracle first released it we were trying anything and everything to get it working, it took around 3-4 weeks of installing, reinstalling, serveral thounsand tar's and wasted weekends. I am pretty confident the instructions will work on rhas 2.1, it probably needs to be looked at again to trim away steps that aren't needed now.
Looking forward to seeing your guide :-)

Share core 9iAS (Linux) with other local users?

Finally set up core 9iAS on Red Hat. Now I'd like to know how to configure it to either start as a system service, be runnable by users other than 'oracle', or be persistent even after 'oracle' logs off. Bottom line: disassociate the 9iAS processes from the 'oracle' user session.
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Creating new users for SMB access is way too complicated, because Apple has not really implemented the "sharing user" fully for SMB users. Thus, when you create a new user, and go to System Prefs -> Sharing -> File Sharing -> Options, the sharing user is NOT listed under the users to enable for access via SMB.
However, there is a workaround that can get your "sharing user" up and going via SMB.
1. Go to System Prefs -> Accounts. Click on the padlock to authenticate as admin.
2. Then right click on your "sharing only" user (not Guest) and select "advanced...".
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6. Tick the box for SMB sharing on the sharing only user and enter the password for that user.
7. Go back to Accounts. Right click on your "sharing only" user and select "advanced..."
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If you ever want to remove SMB access through that user, you will need to repeat the steps again, (although this time you will have to untick the box in step 6.
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Mark,
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in the init.ora file:
set o7_dictionary_accessibility=true(this is an o, not 0)
comment out the 'dispatchers' line.
rename the spfile in the <oracleHome>\database directory(i changed mine to xspfile.txt). Make sure you restart the db after any changes to the init.ora file. Set all oracle services to manual and disable the http server. Stop all services.
Start your install. Mine hung at 100% complete with a command window open. Before I closed the command window I started the database service but not the listener. The install proceeded to fail during the db cache and portal install. I exited out of the install, started the dbTNSlistener, and any iSuitesagent services(not sure if this helped but I'm happy now!)Then, I restarted the machine. Then start/programs/iSuites/portalConfigAssistant and it worked.
If none of this makes sense I can email you the documentation I kept while installing.

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If you wanted more information or help, you can contact BEA Customer Support and tell them it is regarding the CR I mentioned.

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9iAS DAD reuse problem

Hi,
We are having a problem when we set reuse to yes in the wdbsvr.app file. Our app server and database are seperated by a firewall. The firewall is set to drop inactive connections after 30 seconds (we have NO control over the settings of the firewall). When DAD resue is turned on, a bunch of connections are made to the database and are pooled to service incoming requests. When this feature is turned on our web apps were behaving funny. Sometimes they would work and sometimes they wouldn't. We finally discovered that it was the firewall that was terminating all the pooled DB connections after 30 seconds. The firewall drops the connections but 9iAS does not know they are dropped so that when a request is made to run a web app, 9iAS tries to use a DB connection from the pool which doesn't exist anymore. To make things work we have disabled the reuse feature. Has anyone encountered this problem? Found a solution?
Thanks
Chad Paquette

Creating and destroying database connections is a very expensive
operation and should be avoided as much as possible. The reason
to add the connection pooling/reuse feature in mod_plsql was to
get performance benefits from the reuse of an established session.
As of today, mod_plsql does not detect the silent termination of
a database connection, and the subsequent request which uses this
connection from the pool will fail. This connection will then
be discarded. But, if the firewall is going to drop a connection
within 30 seconds, you will not be able to make much use of the
connection pooling feature
What is the reason for having such a firewall configuration where
database connections from your middle-tier need to pass through
a firewall while talking to the database? Can't this be bumped up?
There are plans to add dead-connection detection in iAS v9.0.4.
Until then, you should investigate the following options
1. Disable reuse at the cost of performance
2. If you do have 3.0.9.8.4 or above, and have the ability to
configure the firewall timeout, you should be able to play
around with the new configuration parameter added in 30984
(plsql_idle_session_cleanup_interval). Note that this
parameter will only work if it is set less than the firewall
timeout.
3. Another option is to run a separate OHS instance on the
database machine, and proxy requests from the front-end
listener. Details of this approch are available on
http://otn.oracle.com/docs/products/ias/doc_library/1022doc_otn/apps.102/a90099/apptroub.htm#634197
In this scenario, the firewall will only terminate socket
connections from the primary listener to the secondary one.
The actual database connections will remain intact.

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