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Everybody familiar with Documentum knows that just starting the JBoss/WildFly hosting an IndexAgent isn’t really enough to have the indexing working: the IndexAgent must be started from the UI (or via DA or via the job or via iapi or automatically via the Repository startup or …). Starting the IA in “normal mode” is usually something that takes a few…
In relation to my previous blog about custom facets not showing up after full reindex, a customer was doing a migration that just completed. After the full reindex, there were no facets because of what I explained in the blog. Knowing that the online rebuild is normally faster than a full reindex, I helped to start this operation but after…
Beginning of the year, while performing a migration from a Documentum 7.3 environment on VM to Documentum 16.4 on Kubernetes, a customer had an issue where their custom facets weren’t showing up on D2 after a full reindex. At the end of the migration, since xPlore has been upgraded as well (from xPlore 1.5 to 16.4, from VM to K8s),…
When working with an Ansible dynamic inventory, you may want to update it from your playbook on the fly. For instance, you may want to create a server and then install an application on it without calling a second playbook or developing specific code to create a runtime group (e.g. “add_host” module). Or you may want to update the inventory…
You may have noticed when upgrading your documentum infra that after 7.3 the DQMan utility from FME is no more usable (you get a red cross without any warnings on the screen). In this blog I’ll show you how to get it working again. I tested it on 16.7 but it should work on the latest ones. Install Java 32bit…
I wrote this blog in conjunction with the one about the Solr Sharding – Concepts & Methods a year ago and it was 95% completed but then I had other stuff to do and just forgot I didn’t publish it. It might be a little bit late but well, better late than never… It will complete the overview I wanted…
This is Part II of a tour of rlwrap for idql/iapi. For Part I, please follow the link here. Enhanced output visualization This is one rlwrap’s most fantastic enhancement. It is not that different from what I suggested here only much smoother. idql does not provide any flexible formatting and lines longer than the screen width get wrapped around, which…
The rant I have a confession to make: I’m obsessed with idql/iapi. These tools so central to Documentum administrative tasks are so lame for interactive work that they have probably disgusted more than their share of administrators. The problem is that I have to use them almost daily, and everyday I grumble: there must be a better way. Sure, there…
Over the years I have been working with Documentum, I participated in many migrations and/or upgrades. Just like everything else, this obviously builds up some experience but what if you are pretty new to Documentum and it is your first time working on one? Sure, there is the Documentation from OpenText, which is several dozens of pages (~140, depending on…
As you probably heard if you weren’t in an underground bunker for the past 2 years, Oracle changed the licensing of the Oracle JDK. If you want to read more about it, there is a good FAQ here. This obviously had some important repercussions everywhere and Documentum wasn’t exempted. I would have a lot to say about the way OpenText…
One of the best practices while doing upgrade of Documentum is to unlock the various repository objects before starting. This will make sure that if the upgrade process requires an update of some objects, then it will succeed and not cause you issues because you are missing some pieces. This also brings a second benefit: it means that if you…
Using an LDAP Server with Documentum (or any ECM for that matter) is pretty common to avoid managing users locally. In this blog, I wanted to talk about something that isn’t very common and that is the change of an LDAP Server. I’m not talking about just changing the server where your LDAP is hosted but rather changing the full…
