Morgan Patou

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(…)

Self-Signed SSL Certificate is blocked on Chrome or Edge

If you are using Self-Signed SSL Certificates and recently updated your Google Chrome / Edge browser, you might have come across a new kind of error, i.e: “ERR_SSL_KEY_USAGE_INCOMPATIBLE”. In my case, it happened a few months ago on an Alfresco(…)

Alfresco – Mass removal/cleanup of documents

At a customer, I recently had a case where a mass-import job was executed on an interface that, in the background, uses Alfresco for document and metadata storage. From the point of view of the interface team, there was no(…)

Alfresco – A never ending transformation

Beginning of the week, as I was working for our ServiceDesk (SLA support for our customers), I saw a few dozen mails generated by our monitoring over the weekend on a Production Alfresco 7.x Cluster doing the yo-yo in terms(…)

OCI – Recover lost SSH access to an Ubuntu instance

Getting started in the cloud is pretty easy but things can get a little messy pretty quickly. A few weeks ago, I faced a case where I suddenly lost the SSH access to an Ubuntu OCI instance used internally for(…)

HowTo – Work with files in Documentum iAPI

As part of my daily work at our Documentum customers, I often have to work on files like creating some dummy documents, retrieving the content of a specific document on the file system, etc… Documentum does that well internally and(…)

HowTo – Enable & Disable traces on Documentum

If you are here, I assume you are looking for some ways to enable traces on Documentum. There are already a few blog posts here and there showing some information but Documentum being what it is, i.e., a quite complex(…)