Morgan Patou

Documentum – Connection to docbrokers and Repositories inside K8s from an external DFC Client

How can you connect an external DFC Client to docbrokers and Repositories hosted on Kubernetes Pods? That seems to be a very simple question yet it might prove difficult… Let’s talk about this challenge in this blog and possible solutions/workarounds.

WebLogic Server – Automatic/Silent setup of a SAML2 SSO

In a previous blog, I explained how it is possible to create an LDAP/LDAPs Authentication Provider on WebLogic. My initial goal wasn’t just to setup an LDAP/LDAPs on WebLogic Server. That was only a first step(…)

WebLogic Server – Automatic/Silent creation of an LDAP Authentication Provider

In a previous blog, I explained how it is possible to create an LDAP/LDAPs connection from a Documentum Content Server automatically/silently (without any need for a GUI). So I thought I would do the same thing(…)

Documentum – NoSuchMethodError on setResourceBundle with D2-REST 16.4 on WebLogic

In the scope of an upgrade project, with some colleagues, we have been deploying some D2-REST applications on Kubernetes pods using WebLogic Server. As explained in a previous blog, we first tried to upgrade our D2-REST(…)

Documentum – Cast trouble with D2-REST 16.5.x on WebLogic

In the scope of an upgrade project, with some colleagues, we have been deploying some D2-REST applications on Kubernetes pods using WebLogic Server. At the beginning, we started using D2-REST 16.4 and that was working properly (once the issue described(…)

Documentum – LDAP Config Object “certdb_location” has invalid value

In a previous blog, I talked about the automation of the LDAP/LDAPs creation. However, the first time that I applied these steps, I actually faced an issue and I couldn’t really get my head around it,(…)

Documentum – Automatic/Silent creation of LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Objects

If you have been working with Documentum, then you probably already created/configured an LDAP/LDAPs Server Config Object (or several) so that your users can be globally managed in your organization. There are several compatible LDAP Servers so I will just(…)

Documentum – Automatic/Silent registration & approval of DFC Clients

In the past several months, I have been working extensively with several other colleagues on a migration of Documentum from VMs to K8s pods. We have been doing/using silent installations for several years already but there were still several manual(…)

Documentum – Fixing issues with the D2 Privileged Client utility

In a previous blog, I talked about the D2 utility that can be used to automate the registration, approval and global management of the DFC Client IDs and Privileged Clients. The instructions I gave were the(…)

Documentum – Beware of long hostnames for the Docbroker

Recently, I’ve been facing an issue more and more frequently where a Repository cannot register itself to a local/remote Docbroker. The root cause of the issue is simply that the hostname used for the projection to the Docbroker is too(…)