Morgan Patou

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(…)

HowTo – Detect and analyze long/stuck threads in Tomcat

Most Application Servers allow for long and/or stuck threads detection, to let you know that something is currently very slow, waiting on something or just simply stuck. On tomcat, this isn’t enabled by default, and you need to manually configure(…)

HowTo – Generate a custom AzureAD SSO Certificate

As you know, Azure Active Directory offers quite a big range of solution for Single Sign-On (SSO) with out-of-the-box capabilities and features that are quite good. But once the initial setup has been done, you will then need to manage(…)

HowTo – Create a quick Documentum rendition report

When working with any ECM solution, you will have to manage a rendition software. This is used to transform the native documents from most formats (docx, pptx, xlsx, txt, jpeg, png, svg, etc.) into another format (pdf, png, etc.). The(…)