OpenText Documentum as our consultants run it: installation, upgrades, Content Server, D2, xPlore, administration, scripting and troubleshooting.
In a previous blog, I talked about the possible usage of K8s Services in place of the default headless/pod name and the issues that it brings. This one can be seen as a continuation since it is also related to the usage of K8s Services to install Documentum but this time with another issue that is specific to a RCS/CFS.…
In the past several months, we have been extensively working on setting up a CI/CD pipeline for Documentum at one of our customer. As part of this project, we are using Kubernetes pods for Documentum components. In this blog, I will talk about an issue caused by what seemed like a good idea but finally, not so much… The goal…
Documentum is using xPlore for the Full Text indexing/search processes. If you aren’t very familiar with how xPlore is working, you might want to know how it is possible to index large documents or you might be confused about some documents not being indexed (and therefore not searchable). In this blog, I will try to explain how xPlore can be…
Recently, we had a project to modernize a little bit a pretty old Documentum installation. As part of this project, there were a refresh of the Application Server hosting a WebTop 6.8. In this blog, I will be talking about an issue that we faced in encryption & decryption of passwords in the refresh environment. This new environment was using…
In a previous blog, I explained how D2 can be installed in silent. In this blog, I will talk about a possible issue that might happen when doing so with the D2+Pack Plugins that aren’t being installed, even if you ask D2 to install them and while there is no message or no errors related to this issue. The first…
The application support informed me that their jobs are not running anymore. When I started the analysis, I found that all activated jobs did not start for a few weeks. First of all, I decided to work on a specific job which is not one from application team but where I know that I can start it several times without…
In June last year, I did my first manual installation (so without docker) of Documentum 16.4 and I was testing it with PostgreSQL. I quickly realized that there were some changes in Documentum and, unfortunately, I don’t believe that it’s for the best! In this blog, I will talk about the DOCUMENTUM_SHARED environment variable. I tested that almost a year…
At a customer, I received an incident saying that on D2 a document is found by browsing and not found using normal search. The root cause seems to be easy: The Document isn’t indexed?! Not really, you will see it wasn’t easy to find 😉 1. Analysis When we have an issue to find a document, usually the problem is…
A few years ago, I wrote this blog about a WLST script to monitor a WebLogic Server. At that time, we were managing a Documentum Platform with 115 servers and now, it’s more than 700 servers so I wanted to come back in this blog with an update on the WLST script. 1. Update of the WLST script needed Over…
A few weeks ago, I had a task to add a new CS into already HA environments (DEV/TEST/PROD) to better support the load on these environments as well as adding a new repository on all Content Servers. These environments were installed a nearly two years ago already so it was really just adding something new into the picture. When doing…
In this blog I will change the Host Name, it comes after three blogs to change the Docbase ID, Docbase Name, and Server Config Name, hope that you already read them, if not don’t delay 😉 So, let’s change the Host Name! 1. Migration preparation Update the configuration file of the Migration Utility: Be careful, the hostname may be FQDN…
A correct configuration of Documentum jobs is paramount, that’s why it is the first thing we do after the docbase installation. A few days ago, I configured the jobs on a new docbase using DQL, and I got an error because a job is locked by the user dmadmin. The error message was: DQL> UPDATE dm_job OBJECTS SET target_server=’ ‘…
