Weekend Learning: Configuring the Workflow Mailer for a Proxy Server

On Oracle EBS R12.1.3 you can follow the MOS document "How To Configure the Mailer to Connect To a Proxy Server" via article ID 2139133.1 and even if you do not plan on changing your configuration you may want to see what is required.  This article even has reference to the additional step required if you have moved on to R12.2 and want to do this!

R12: How to configure Workflow Notification Mailer to use Cloud servers

If you are on EBS R12 you probably need to look at the "Configuring an Oracle Workflow Notification Mailer with Cloud E-Mail Servers" document 2077434.1 on MOS to find out how you take your application to the next level!

Weekend Learning: How to use logical hostnames to configure Oracle EBS R12

Want to add a lot to your toolbox this weekend?  Look no further than document "Configuring Oracle E-Business Suite Release 12.x Using Logical Host Names" on My Oracle Support from note ID 1968231.1 for a lot of installation and configuration details which you may have never had an opportunity to see before!

Clusterware OC4J resource marked as OFFLINE

It seems like everybody knows that the localhost address is 127.0.0.1 if you are in IT, but what happens when Oracle does not remember that fact?  Well, you get what we had here in MOS article "ORA.OC4J Resource in Clusterware keeps going OFFLINE" via note ID 2025042.1 where you have to change configuration to hardcode the localhost address because it was not being resolved correctly and failing what looks like a heartbeat check.

Hyperion Planning: EPMA Dimension Server does not start using RAC

If you have Hyperion in your environment, how much do you know about Planning?  The EPMA Dimension server?  How about where some of the configuration files are you can run?  Learn about all of them by reading My Oracle Support note "EPMA Dimension Server Not Starting When Oracle RAC is Used for Database" via article ID 1672160.1 to add to your toolbox!