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My Favorite Metalink Notes

My Favorite Metalink Notes

I was recently plugged on to one of the podcasts by Steven Chan, in which he described his experiences on running his extremely popular blog on Oracle Applications Technology. An interesting observation pointed out here by Steven was that one of the principle driving object of his blog was that, the metalink which contained a wealth of information was still outside the internet search engine's indexing.

Since metalink does not allow the search engines to index its content due to understandable security concerns, There is a significant percentage of the Oracle Applications Community who Google. Obviously even if the information they are looking out  for is available it gets missed out form there search results.

By creating pointers or references to the metalink notes in his blog. It has enabled this information to have wider exposure  since his blog is obviously indexed by the search engines, so as the information contained within.

The current post is my bit of effort to carry out this task by listing out a few of my favorite Metalink Notes relating to Oracle Applications.

Please do remember you must have a valid metalink account to access these notes. Also the notes are copyrighted by Oracle and a  great amount of time and effort has been put into them, publishing or distributing them is not allowed and more importantly not rite!

Applications FAQ

Cloning

Oracle Applications with Oracle Application Server

  • Note Id:186981.1 Oracle Application Server with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i FAQ
  • Note Id:233436.1 Installing Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i
  • Note Id:295606.1 Oracle Application Server 10g with Oracle E-Business Suite Release 11i Troubleshooting

Autoconfig

Oracle Applications and Database

  • Note Id:362203.1 Oracle Applications Release 11i with Oracle 10g Release 2 (10.2.0)

Oracle Applications And RAC

DMZ with Oracle Applications

SSL and Oracle Applications
  • Note Id:123718.1 11i: A Guide to Understanding and Implementing SSL for Oracle Applications
  • Note Id:340178.1 Enabling SSL with Oracle Application Server 10g and the E-Business Suite
Shared APPL_TOP and Application Tier Filesystem

Patching

Concurrent Managers

System Administration

Troubleshooting

Portal with Oracle Applications

Single Sign-On with Oracle Applications

The above list was only few of my best of the best on metalink.

Posted by Sam on December 5, 2006 08:16 PM |

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"due to understandable security concerns"

Ehm, no. 50 years ago somebody might have understood. Today a little thought will show you that it only hurt customers. The bad guys will get the information anyway.

Posted by: Anonymous | December 6, 2006 12:02 AM

The default Metalink search is not much good but Metalink is now indexed and searchable by Oracle Secure Enterprise Search. This presents the (better) search results in a Google-like screen.

And you can't really complain that Oracle restricts access to detailed support information to customers who have paid-up support contracts.

Posted by: Anonymous | December 6, 2006 02:42 AM

It's still no reason not to let the googlebot index the site. Just use the noarchive feature to disable the "cached"-link and have all other users log in (since it's apparently an economic concern to have it wide open, quite the opposite of an security concern -- I still don't think it's worth it).

Posted by: Anonymous | December 6, 2006 05:45 PM

thanks sam for this post, for me one of my favorite notes is Manually Removing all Oracle Components on Microsoft Windows Platforms Note Id:124353.1

regards
fadi hasweh
*****************************
Oracle is not Magic, it just takes years of experience

Posted by: fadi hasweh | December 6, 2006 08:08 PM

Thanks Fadi,

Due a huge number of junk comments the http links inside the commenst have been dis allowed. Could you please re post with the http protocol.
Sorry for the trouble.
Sam

Posted by: Sam | December 7, 2006 04:38 PM

Hi Sam,
I'm a junior Apps DBA from Nigeria and i find your list very useful. We're currently implementing most of this things here....and i see your post as a one-stop shop for all my needs.....nice piece of work.

Posted by: innocent | February 21, 2007 02:17 PM

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