Application integration & Middleware

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(…)

ORDS with TNS

The aim of that blog is to look into Oracle REST Data Services (ORDS) DB connection with TNS. This is following some experience at a customer who wanted to move to latest version of ORDS with APEX(…)

Installing the ODBC drivers for Oracle RDBMS

This article is part of a series that includes SQLite, Postgresql, Firebird, MongoDB, Microsoft SQL Server, HSQLDB, Excel, and MariaDB. The goal is to set up a self-standing environment for testing an ODBC extension for gawk presented here to be(…)

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(…)

JBoss EAP 7 – Cluster in Domain mode

It is time to show you how to build a cluster with Domain mode within JBoss EAP 7. Before you read this blog I suggest you to review the following blogs: JBoss terminologies, the(…)

Elastic (ELK) Stack – Set up Elasticsearch

After we made a global overview on Elastic Stack and we went more in deep in Elasticsearch terminologies. This third blog in the Elastic Stack series will allow you to know how to set(…)

Elastic (ELK) Stack – Elasticsearch Terminologies

In a previous blog, we got an overview on Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, and Beets), in next blogs I will go through all these components to understand them, today we will go more in deep in(…)

Elastic (ELK) Stack – Get Started

ELK Stack or more recently called Elastic Stack, is a combination of three open-source projects: Elasticsearch, Logstash and Kibana. All these projects have been developed by Elastic and used to store, analyze, discover, and visualize data efficiently!(…)

Monitoring – first steps with Prometheus

Monitoring is a crucial element of DevOps automation that has to be proactive, meaning it must find ways to improve applications quality before bugs appear. Therefore, we have to quickly and easily understand what is happening in our infrastructure,(…)