Morgan Patou

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(…)

Alfresco – Documents are searchable only after 3min

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(…)

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

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(…)

Alfresco – Custom Share action not working after disabling WebDAV servlet

On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder links for use on an external(…)