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Morgan Patou

Documentum – RED Warning on D2 after enabling Tomcat HTTP Security Headers

31.07.2022 by Morgan Patou

Security is and will always be a very important aspect of IT. Enterprise Content Management (or Document Management Systems or Content Services Platform or whateveryoucallit) is obviously not an exception to that. One of our main goals as a consultant(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – ACS not starting because of ActiveMQ on the MethodServer

29.07.2022 by Morgan Patou

Documentum is an inexhaustible source of issues and that’s great because I can continuously write blogs on it, and I always have materials for that. In this blog, I will talk about the ACS not being able to start on(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – Encrypt BOF passwords with a minimal jar file

17.07.2022 by Morgan Patou

Nowadays, with DevOps and containers approaches, you will often see components or software that try to go on a diet, to reduce the size needed to deploy them and therefore the images/containers associated to it. I was recently asked to(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – xPlore not able to deploy “dsearch.war”

15.07.2022 by Morgan Patou

Recently at a customer, I faced a new issue I didn’t see before on the xPlore Dsearch component. Basically, the processes appeared to be starting and the “dsearchadmin.war” was deployed properly but it always failed for the “dsearch.war” upon startup(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – r_server_version reset to P00 instead of correct patch version

05.03.2022 by Morgan Patou

A few weeks ago, an issue was identified at a customer which would cause the value of “dm_server_config.r_server_version” to be reset to the GA version number (16.4 P00) instead of the currently deployed patch (which is 16.4 P26) and that(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Removing JMX settings via the AttributeService since the Revert doesn’t work

17.02.2022 by Morgan Patou

At a customer, I recently faced a problem with the JMX settings that couldn’t be reverted. If you already worked with Alfresco, you know that it’s possible to save configurations through the Alfresco Administration Console and that doing so will(…)

Application integration & Middleware

WebLogic – No more SSO after a SSL Certificate renewal?

16.02.2022 by Morgan Patou

I had an interesting case at a customer where the Single Sign On (using SAML2) on a WebLogic Server stopped working after the renewal of the WebLogic SSL Certificate. The WebLogic Server itself and its applications were still accessible (by(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Documentum – Applying Content-Security-Policy (CSP) on D2 while using WSCTF plugin

07.01.2022 by Morgan Patou

If you have ever been working on a sensitive Documentum environment (they are all sensitive, are they not?!), you might already have worked on hardening your Web Servers. One of these aspects is to have a specific set of HTTP(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min

05.01.2022 by Morgan Patou

I had a case at a customer recently where newly uploaded documents into Alfresco would always be searchable but only after 2min45s to 3min. The environment in question is an Alfresco Content Services 7.1 with High Availability (Repository and Share(…)

Application integration & Middleware

Alfresco – Share Clustering fail with ‘Ignored XML validation warning’, again

30.11.2021 by Morgan Patou

In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema(…)