Morgan Patou

Dctm – Invalid/Missing XSRF token on D2

During an upgrade project to Documentum 23.4, I faced yet again another interesting behavior from D2. The Documentum Server upgrade happened properly for all components like the Connection Broker, Repositories, D2, etc… The OTDS was also setup and available/working properly(…)

Documentum – Login through OTDS without oTExternalID3

As you might know, Documentum “deprecated” (in reality disabled completely) the different Authentication Plugins that were bundled with a Documentum Server. That means that with recent versions of Documentum, you cannot login to your LDAP-managed account anymore without having configured(…)

Documentum – Silent Install – OTDS

A bit more than 6 years ago (already), I wrote a series of blogs about the silent install of some standard Documentum component. It included things from the binaries, the Docbroker (Connection(…)

Documentum – 23.4 doesn’t like IPv6 being disabled?

I often see customers with Virtual Machines or Containers that have IPv6 disabled. I assume this is mainly for simplicity, since most services are usually only running internally, and organizations don’t really need more IPs than what IPv4 can provide(…)

Documentum – Impact of Java 17 and JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS

If you are familiar with Java, you probably know that starting with JDK 9, you may need to add some “–add-exports” or “–add-opens” parameters to the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS. This is the Strong Encapsulation, which started with JDK(…)

Documentum – xPlore Dsearch not starting with a stuck rebuild

I recently faced another interesting issue (c.f. this one) with Documentum xPlore where the Dsearch would refuse to start because of a stuck online rebuild. It happened on a Kubernetes environment using custom images we built(…)

Alfresco – Impact of SSL and LB on the import perf.

Have you ever wondered what is the impact of SSL communications or the impact of a specific Load Balancing mechanisms on the performance of your Alfresco environment? Alfresco (the Company at that time, before it became Hyland) ran some benchmark(…)

Using local images with nerdctl build?

Following the issue I talked about in my last blog, I started building local images using “nerdctl” for OpenText Documentum 23.4. That worked properly for the first one, which was using the Red Hat base, to(…)

Push images to a Self-Signed Cert registry with Rancher Desktop

I recently had to work on creating some custom images for OpenText Documentum 23.4 that will run on Kubernetes but I faced some trouble while trying to push images with “dockerd” and “nerdctl”. Before I start talking about that, I(…)

Hogging Threads check in Apache Tomcat

In Apache Tomcat, there is a Stuck Thread Detector Valve which can be enabled pretty easily through the Tomcat “server.xml” file. I talked about that in a previous blog already and provided an AWK parser to(…)