If you've been following my installing and configuring antics over the last few weeks, get ready for some fun as we go through our first upgrade....
That's right people, Beehive 1.4.1 has just been released, so get your skates on, class starts as soon as I've downloaded 1.4.1...
In the meantime, we should update the bookmarks as well..
Beehive 1.4.1 Doco Home is where to go for all the latest.
But specifically for our install / config purposes... is the Linux Install Guide.
While I'm here and have your attention, lets look at What's New in Beehive 1.4.1
- Oracle Beehive Central
- OpenLDAP Support
- Support for Microsoft Windows Terminal Services
- Profile Migration Tool for Oracle Beehive Integration for Outlook
- Oracle Universal Records Management (Oracle URM) Configuration Using Oracle Beekeeper
- Task Coexistence with Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 Deployments
- SMPP Certification for Clickatell
- Actionable Notifications
- Automatic Groups for Managers, Peers, and Direct Reports
Bit of a list. I won't be going through all of them, (as I don't have a spare Microsoft SBS 2003 server to test Windows Terminal Services OBIO and Task coexistence, etc etc) but pretty cool stuff.
I know the Profile Migration Tool and Oracle Beehive Central will be quite important when it comes to migrating users into Beehive, so I'll probably cover them when the first migration rolls along...
The Automatic Groups for Managers, Peers and Direct Reports is nice. It's something in effect within Oracle ( we run Beehive internally @ Oracle). It means that to get hold of your boss, you don't have to feel bad about trying to get them to authorize you as a buddy, just so you can get hold of them, they're just there.
The Oracle URM configuration would be cool to do. Maybe one day...
BTW, there was also a new Release of Beekeeper 1.4.1 the other day I forgot to mention... I'll install that as part of the upgrade. Now that I know how to use beectl in anger I don't feel so bad becoming a point & click DBA :-)
I don't know about you, but I always try and get to know a product on the command line fully before migrating to the GUI version. I like to know that if things really go bad, and you can only get to the environment via SSH. You're not left there thinking "How do I extend that tablespace? I need a browser to get to DBControl...". Which is why I haven't covered Beekeeper yet...
So, exciting times ahead.
BTW, if you didn't take the plunge with me when I installed Beehive against 11.1.0.6. It's time to upgrade as :
Oracle Beehive requires an existing database with the following characteristics: Uses one of the follwing databases installed on any supported operating system:
- Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.1) Enterprise Edition with one of the following patch sets:
- Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.3) Patch Set 2
- Oracle Database 10g Release 2 (10.2.0.4) Patch Set 3
- Oracle Database 11g Release 1 (11.1.0.6) Enterprise Edition
Until next time.
Comments (2)
Hi Gavin,
I've been having problems installing beekeeper 1.4.1. with 1.3.1 everything went smoothly but with the current version I get all sorts of wierd errors. First off, I got an error about connection. Checked all my DB connect parameters everything was in order but BK will not go past that. I exited the install and tried configWizard to complete the installation, no joy. It immediately gives me an error about connection to the database. As a test I use a wrong database schema password and it promptly notifies me that the password is wrong which goes to show that it's able to connect to to the Db. The problem persistently occurs when BK is deploying the Beekeeper Framework. I uninstall the whole thing and start over. This time I get an error about too many open files while Beekeeper framework is deploying and stuff about different versions of oc4j. Looks to me there may be a bug in the beekeeper framework. Would like to see if you successfully install BK
Posted by Osay U | October 15, 2008 2:38 PM
Posted on October 15, 2008 14:38
Hi Osay,
According to the doco. Beekeeper 1.4.1 isn't supported with Beehive 1.3.1
You could either use Beekeeper 1.3.1. Or upgrade to Beehive 1.4.1.
Stay tuned for my "Upgrade to Beehive 1.4.1" post coming soon.
Posted by Gavin | October 16, 2008 11:01 AM
Posted on October 16, 2008 11:01