Application integration & Middleware

Apache JMeter and Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) token management

Introduction In Nowadays web technologies a common defensive mechanism against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks is to use a synchronizer token. This token might be unique for each request and thus it blocks us from using the recorded JMeter test(…)

Documentum D2 4.5 and IE compatibility and F5

We had a problem with a customer where D2 was not loading properly in IE when going through F5 (load balancer). When trying to access D2 through the F5, let’s say: https://d2prod/D2 only a few menus and some part of(…)

Documentum – Cannot delete document due to VD/assembly references

I went into an error that you might already have once, so here is a quick guide on how to fix it. When deleting a document from D2 I had a popup with an error like: Cannot delete file because(…)

Documentum xPlore – ftintegrity tool not working

I’ve been patching around some xPlore servers for a while and recently I went into an issue regarding the ftintegrity tool. Maybe you figured it out as well, for xPlore 1.5 Patch 15 the ftintegrity tool available in $DSEARCH_HOME/setup/indexagent/tools was(…)

Documentum story – How to display correct client IP address in the log file when a WebLogic Domain is fronted by a load Balancer

The Load Balancers do not provide the client IP address by default. The WebLogic HTTP log file (access_log) does not provide the client IP address but the Load Balancer one. This is sometimes a problem when diagnosing issues and(…)

Manage GitHub behind a proxy

I’m quite used to GitHub since I’m using it pretty often but I actually never tried to use it behind a proxy. In the last months, I was working on a project and I had to use GitHub to version(…)

Using JMeter to run load test on a ADF application protected by Oracle Access Manager Single Sign On

Introduction In one of my missions, I was requested to  run performance and load tests on a ADF application running in a Oracle Fusion Middleware environment protected using Oracle Access Manager. For this task we decided to use Apache JMeter(…)

Using Apache JMeter to run load test on a Web applications protected by Microsoft Advanced Directory Federation Services

One of my last mission was to configure Apache JMeter for performance and load tests on a Web Application. The access to this Web Application requires authentication provided by a Microsoft Advanced Directory Federation Services single Sign On environment.

Letting GoldenGate automatically maintain the insert and update timestamps on the target

Today at one of our GoldenGate customers we were faced with the following requirement: For one of the tables on the target we needed two additional columns which shall hold the insert and update timestamps for when the row was(…)

Documentum Administrator UCF Troubleshooting

Maybe you had some issues with UCF in DA as me. I had this for no reason since few days at a customer. The problem was that we use SSL with DA and the Unified Content Facilities (UCF) wasn’t happy(…)