David Diab

Control-M for Kubernetes – Installation

After showing you an overview and the preparation of Control-M for Kubernetes, it is time to deep in with the installation of this solution. In fact, without the installation of Control-M for(…)

JBoss EAP – Credential Store

In the previous blogs, I explained the difference between Credential Store and Password Vault (Credential Store vs Password Vault), and I share how to secure your sensitive strings with Password Vault. Today,(…)

JBoss EAP – Credential Store vs Password Vault

JBoss EAP configuration files are accessible and not encrypted (xml files), moreover, some sensitive strings could/should be store there... For obvious security reasons, JBoss EAP allows the encryption of the sensitive strings outside the configurations files.

Control-M for Kubernetes – Preparation

As promised in the first blog of this series, here we are with the second blog to show you how to prepare the Control-M for Kubernetes solution, this solution allow to create and start Kubernetes pods(…)

Control-M for Kubernetes – Overview

At a customer, I implemented Control-M for Kubernetes/OpenShift, as the customer has a hybrid environment between VM, on-premise/Cloud Kubernetes/OpenShift. This is the first blog of a series, in which I will share with you from A to Z how to(…)

Oracle Forms: FRM-92290 after upgrade to 12.2.1.19

We are frequently involved in Oracle Fusion Middleware Forms and Reports installation or upgrade. For one of our customers, I upgraded Oracle Forms from version 12.2.1.4 to version 12.2.1.19, and this time I got an unusual issue...

Logs from Filebeat to Logstash to Elasticsearch – 3

We sow together how to install and configure Filebeat, Logstash and Elasticsearch. Our log data has been sent from Filebeat to Logstash, then forwarded to Elasticsearch. In this blog, we will see(…)

Logs from Filebeat to Logstash to Elasticsearch – 2

As promised in the previous blog, I will show how to configure Filebeat to push logs to Logstash, then to Elasticsearch. This for sure will not cover all use cases, but will give you an idea(…)

JBoss EAP 7 – Use vault to protect passwords

JBoss EAP simplifies a lot of server configuration by consolidating all subsystem configurations into a single XML file (standalone.xml or domain.xml). This, however, can expose sensitive information to any user that has access to the configuration files. For example, datasource(…)

Logs from Filebeat to Logstash to Elasticsearch -1

In a previous blog, we saw together the difference between Filebeat and Logstash, we said also that both can cooperate together in some cases. In this blog series we will deep into a use case: send(…)