I use VirtualBox quite a lot. Rather than going through the rigmarole of installing the software I need every time I want a new environment, I simply clone the VM I’ve already installed everything on.
One drawback with this approach is that, because I’ve already configured the network settings on this baseline VM, I can’t run two clones concurrently as they both have the same hostname and IP address.
What I’ll be covering here is :
- Disabling the Oracle and ORDS services
- Changing the server name
- Changing the Server’s IP Address
- Re-configure the Database Listener to work with the new server details
- Re-configuring ORDS and generating new SSL certificates
The approach I’ve taken is to execute each step on the command line without the need for any interactive input. Therefore, it’s possible to take the steps described here as building blocks for a bash script (or scripts) to accomplish these tasks.
The exception is where I edit the contents of files. If you wanted to automate this, you can use something like…
sed -i s/192.168.56.220/192.168.56.225/g file_to_edit
…for the IP address and…
sed -i s/frea./rincewind./g file_to_edit
…for the hostname where file_to_edit is the file you want to change.
If you’ve found your way here in search of simply changing the hostname and/or the IP address on a CentOS7 server, then you can just skip all the database related stuff and start right here.
By the way, I’ve decided upon a new naming convention for my servers which makes use of Discworld characters. There may be the odd reference to this in what follows…
The Anti-Kyte 