Morgan Patou

Documentum – xPlore CPS temporary folder not being cleaned properly

At a customer using Documentum inside Kubernetes, unusually frequent restarts of xPlore containers were noted a couple weeks after the introduction of CPS Only pods on the different Production environments. The customer had a very simple Standalone xPlore setup, with(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Play the game

In previous blogs (here & here), I talked about the Repository skeleton necessary and then about how to use REST-API to add questions and answers into Alfresco for the Trivia Game. In(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Add questions

In a previous blog, I talked about using Alfresco to setup a simple Trivia Game and more specifically the Repository part of it, i.e., the meta-model and the structure I will use. In this second part,(…)

Alfresco – Use Alfresco for a Trivia Game – Repository skeleton

Have you ever wondered how you could use Alfresco to run a Trivia Game? No? Strange, I believe that should be a very important question to ask yourself when you are looking for an ECM for your company! If you(…)

Documentum – xPlore CPS unreachable and not starting

During an upgrade project of xPlore from 16.4 to 20.2 at a customer, I faced a quite interesting issue with the xPlore CPS (Content Processing Services) that couldn’t start properly and were, therefore, shown as “UNREACHABLE“. The funny thing is(…)

Documentum – Unable to install an IndexAgent due to RSA/FIPS libraries

A couple year ago at a new customer, I was asked to install a new xPlore IndexAgent on an existing Documentum 16.4 environment. Unfortunately, that installation didn’t succeed, and I ended up with the following install logs: [xplore@ds-0 ~]$ cd(…)

Documentum – xPlore PrimaryDsearch not responding to curl/wget/browser requests anymore

A few weeks ago, I faced an issue at a customer where xPlore PrimaryDsearch would stop responding to curl/wget/browser requests from time to time. The impacted environments were containers (pods) hosted on Kubernetes. At this customer, we were in progress(…)

Documentum – How to easily remove duplicated xPlore queue items

Documentum is usually working pretty well with xPlore when it’s about managing its queue on well configured environments and/or with “simple” repositories. Basically, as long as you do not only have very big/complex documents (e.g.: 500Mb excel files with hundreds(…)

Documentum – RCS/CFS Upgrade fails due to missing dm_filestore

At a customer having a lot of Documentum environments, I recently faced an interesting issue while upgrading an RCS/CFS to 20.2. The same could potentially reproduce during a standard installation of a RCS/CFS, under certain circumstances (in case there are(…)

Documentum – Detect a Repository parent process being killed

There could be several reasons why a Linux process gets killed. Of course, it could be someone using the kill command but, in this blog, I will talk about the Kernel Panic triggered by the Operating System in case it(…)