Morgan Patou

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(…)

Documentum – xPlore 20.2 search not working after repository restart

A little bit more than two years ago, one of our customers started to use Documentum 20.2 (and therefore xPlore 20.2) in custom containers, with all components in SSL/Secure. At first sight, everything seemed to work. However, in case the(…)

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

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(…)

Documentum – ACS not starting because of ActiveMQ on the MethodServer

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(…)

Documentum – Encrypt BOF passwords with a minimal jar file

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(…)

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

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(…)

Documentum – r_server_version reset to P00 instead of correct patch version

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(…)

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

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(…)

WebLogic – No more SSO after a SSL Certificate renewal?

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(…)

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

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(…)