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As already mentioned in a previous blog, ActiveMQ has been used in the scope of Alfresco since quite some time. Initially, as an optional component but then, it became mandatory. Just like for the Database, if ActiveMQ isn’t installed or not reachable, Alfresco will never completely start. Of course, for the Database, you will see that quickly since there will…
At a customer, the D2-REST (16.5.1) application hosted on WebLogic Server 12c started showing 500 Internal Server Errors, after a customer release including many things. The error was rather simple to replicate since opening the D2-REST Product info page was sufficient (https://<host>/D2-REST/product-info). The URL was returning the following: At the same time, on the logs: 2021-04-26 06:46:20,340 UTC [ERROR] ([ACTIVE]…
Have you ever faced an issue where dmqdocbroker, iapi, idql and the likes aren’t able to communicate at all with any Docbroker (connection broker)? Here, I’m not talking about potentially wrong hostname, port or connect modes, which might prevent you to reach a Docbroker if it’s not configured properly because this will still most likely reply to you with an…
A rare but recurrent issue that customers sometimes encounter is to how to connect to each one of distinct repositories with the same name or same docbase id, or even both if one repository is a clone of the other one. The present connection resolution technique based on the dfc.properties file does not support this and only lets one connect…
When working with containers, the usual trend is to make them as compact as possible by removing any file or executable that is not used by what is deployed in it. Typically, interactive commands are good candidates not to be installed. Sometimes, this trend is so extreme that even simple utilities such as ping or even the less pager are…
Around four years ago, I did a few presentations, here, in Switzerland about “Security & Documentum”. In there, I talked about a lot of different subjects related to both security and Documentum (you guessed it…) like: ciphers, SHA, FIPS & JCE, Documentum & DFC connect mode (characteristics, ciphers, protocols, encryptions, limitations), Documentum & DFC encryptions in transit and at rest…
A few months ago, I had to work on a Windows Server to setup an IDS Target. The installation and configuration of the target wasn’t that different compared to a Linux host, so it wasn’t difficult at all (if you ignore some strange behavior like described here for example). But there was one point for which I was a little…
Several years ago, I wrote a series of blogs regarding the silent installation of Documentum Components, including for a RCS/CFS (HA part of a Repository). In there, I described the process and gave an example of properties file, with all the parameters that are needed and a quick explanation for each of them. As I described in the previous blogs,…
Documentum Interactive Delivery Services or IDS is a Documentum product that can be useful to publish some documents to an external web server or something similar. It usually works rather well, even if there hasn’t been much changes in the product in years, maybe because it does what it is supposed to do… As a big fan of Linux systems,…
2 years ago, I proposed a ctypes-based Documentum extension for python, DctmAPI.py. While it did the job, it was quite basic. For example, its select2dict() function, as inferred from its name, returned the documents from a dql query into a list of dictionaries, one per document, all in memory. While this is OK for testing and demonstration purpose, it can…
A few weeks ago, as the final steps of a cloning procedure, I wanted to check if the cloned repository was OK. One of the tests was to peek and poke around in the repository and try to access its content. This is typically the kind of task for which you’d use a GUI-based program because it is much quicker…
I had a case today where all Documentum components were up and running, including D2 but while accessing its login page, the repositories wouldn’t appear and a message “An unexpected error occurred. Please refresh your browser” would pop-up in the lower-right corner and disappear quickly. Refreshing the browser or opening a private window wouldn’t do anything. In such cases, of…
