<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi,<div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 26 Aug 2015, at 10:23 pm, Souvignier, Daniel <<a href="mailto:Souvignier@itc.rwth-aachen.de" class="">Souvignier@itc.rwth-aachen.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">is there a possibility to connect Spacewalk to an Oracle 12.1 database? </span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div>Yes, from Spacewalk 2.3 and higher, or Spacewalk 2.2 provided by Oracle.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: HelveticaNeue; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">I read in</span> <a href="http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E64575/E64575.pdf" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E37670_01/E64575/E64575.pdf</a> <span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">that it is supported, but in </span> <a href="http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/2.2/RHEL/6/x86_64/" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);">http://spacewalk.redhat.com/yum/2.2/RHEL/6/x86_64/</a> <span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">the packages for 12.1 are missing (like oracle-lib-compat and others). Our dbas want to upgrade all our databases to 12.1, so it would be great if we could upgrade the Spacewalk DB as well. Thanks!</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>We haven't (yet) upgraded the Instant Client requirements, but the 11.2.0.4 Instant Client is 100% certified with 12c database. You continue to use the existing oracle-instantclient-11.2.0.4 RPMs on the Spacewalk server but you can switch to a 12c database on the backend.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Avi</div><div><br class=""></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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