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OpenText Documentum as our consultants run it: installation, upgrades, Content Server, D2, xPlore, administration, scripting and troubleshooting.

OpenText World 2022 – Day1

You know: What happens in VEGAS stays in VEGAS 😉 But come on let’s break this rule the time to write this blog, because what happened in the first day in OpenText World 2022 deserve an exception! First of all, I would like to thanks OpenText for this very well organized event, everything exceeded my expectations. A mobile application available… 

OpenText World 2022 – Las Vegas

Here we are, in the fabulous Las Vegas to be part of the great reunion as named by OpenText, it starts today in-person! So, from October 4-6 from The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. Yes, we made a long travel to be here today, because distance doesn’t matter when it is about sharing and learning! Yesterday we made the registration already… 

Documentum – RCS/CFS Upgrade fails due to missing dm_filestore

At a customer having a lot of Documentum environments, I recently faced an interesting issue while upgrading an RCS/CFS to 20.2. The same could potentially reproduce during a standard installation of a RCS/CFS, under certain circumstances (in case there are still some things left in the repository after a removal of the said RCS/CFS and then reinstallation for example, you… 

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 runs out of RAM. I had a case recently, at a customer, where a nginx process going wild caused such… 

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 Repository restarted (for any reasons), then the searches stopped working completely. Basically, there was no problem if the Docbroker and… 

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 is to add improvements to our customers’ installations for stability, security, and ease of management. However, it happens that not… 

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 the MethodServer because of an ActiveMQ error. As you might know, WildFly has been coming with an integrated ActiveMQ for… 

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 do something similar on a very specific feature that the Documentum DFC jar files provide: extract and minimize the jar… 

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 of WildFly. However, it was possible to “deploy” it once WildFly was running… This issue wasn’t too complex to debug… 

db-crawler, a database search utility for Documentum

Working with Documentum is often a frustrating experience, and one of the main causes is the lack of meaningful error messages. Be it an encouragment to the administrator or developer to refer to the official knowledge base or a gap in the user-friendliness department, this results in the dreaded venture of investigating the origin of the error, which can take… 

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 would happen randomly on some of the Content Servers but not all. The different Content Servers are all deployed on…