Oracle Wallet Integration

Hello Krishna,

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Henning Treu - Product Manager Instana Agent

Thanks Krishna, please discuss with your client the following proposal:

Instana agent's configuration.yaml has two options to read configuration values from outside:

1) read configuration values from the agent's environment (this is a new feature being rolled out in the next days)

2) read configuration options from the process' environment

Especially with option 2), customers can provide access credentials in the environment of the process-to-be-monitored. Let's assume the client wants to monitor an Oracle database with Instana agent. If customer can export the username and password credentials in the Oracle databse's process environment, Instana Agent can read it from the environment and pass it on to the Oracle database sensor. This way, no sensitive information is kept in configuration.yaml . This is documented here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/current?topic=cha-configuring-host-agents-by-using-agent-configuration-file#obtaining-configurations-from-process-environment-and-files

The alternative is to expose the credentials in the Instana agent's environment as in option (1). This might be a manual step, but still keeps the configuration file free from sensitive information. Documentation of this feature is about to be release, too.

Let me know if one of the options above helps already.

Thanks & best

Henning Treu - Product Manager Instana Agent

Hi Henning,

I have discussed with customer they explained about oracle wallet as below.

Oracle wallet Libary will be packed and available as any of the following

• Oracle Middleware (as configured in customer environment)

• Oracle database

• Oracle client (being used by multiple sources like .Net / PHP Applications to fetch passwords).

Below are the documentation references provided

https://docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/weblogic-server/14.1.1.0/jdbca/oraclewallet.html#GUID-6004F209-8185-4F52-B888-E12F8DF2622C

https://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1213/wls/JDBCA/oraclewallet.htm

Thank you.