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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…
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…
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…
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…
In the 2-part blog article Adding a Documentum Extension to gawk, I showed how to extend the gawk scripting language in order to implement the Documentum dmAPI functions and turning it into an effective Documentum client. Thanks to that new interface, a gawk script could now connect to Documentum repositories, send it API commands and retrieve their responses. The official…
This is part II of the article DctmAPI.awk revisited. See Part I here. The table presentation can be visually quite rich: it supports row colorization with optional color alternation and gridding, i.e. enclosing the table and data into a grid. Row colorization allows to colorize the data with a foreground color and an optional background color without alternation, e.g. with…
At a customer, I recently faced a problem with the JMX settings that couldn’t be reverted. If you already worked with Alfresco, you know that it’s possible to save configurations through the Alfresco Administration Console and that doing so will store these settings into the Database. This has several drawbacks like the fact that it’s then impossible to manage your…
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 Security Headers. In this blog, I will talk about one in particular, which is the Content-Security-Policy (CSP). The recommendations…
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 Clustering, Solr Sharding on multi-nodes, …) used for QA/TEST. It’s an ongoing project to upgrade an Alfresco 6.1 to 7.1…
The Laptop I’m using for the business is a MacBook Pro, model 2019 (2.6 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7). I’m thankful to be able to choose the Hardware and OS of my business laptop at dbi services. We have collegues using Laptops with Windows, some use Laptops with Linux and a considerable amout of people use MacBooks. However, what annoyed…
In a previous blog, I mentioned an issue that I faced when upgrading an Alfresco Content Services 5.2 to 6.1 on a VM with no internet access. The solution was simply to change one of the schema “URL” so that it can fallback to local references, meaning that it will try to check and find the schema definition inside the…
On an Alfresco upgrade project I was working on recently, I faced an interesting issue where post upgrade, one of my custom Share action wasn’t working anymore. This action was used to create folder links for use on an external interface. When applied on a document, it would create a link to the parent folder for example and when applied…
