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Connecting to a Repository via a Dynamically Edited dfc.properties File (part II)

This is part II of the 2-part article. See for part I of this article. Testing We will test on the host machine named docker that hosts 2 containers, container01 and container011. All 3 machines run a repository. Its name is respectively dmtest on docker (shortly, dmtest@docker:1489), dmtest01@container01:1489 (dmtest01@container01:2489 externally) and dmtest01@container011:1489 (dmtest01@container011:5489 externally). Incidentally, the enhanced syntax is also… 

Connecting to a Repository via a Dynamically Edited dfc.properties File (part I)

Now that we have containerized content servers, it is very easy, maybe too easy, to create new repositories. Their creation is still not any faster (whether they are containerized or not is irrelevant here) but given a configuration file it just takes one command to instantiate an image into a running container with working repositories in it. Thus, during experimentation… 

An exotic feature in the content server: check_client_version

A few months ago, I tripped over a very mysterious problem while attempting to connect to a 7.3 CS docbase from within dqMan. We had 3 docbases and we could connect using this client to all of them but one ! Moreover, we could connect to all three using a remote Documentum Administrator or the local idql/iapi command-line tools. Since… 

What to do in case all active Documentum jobs are no more running ?

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… 

Documentum – DOCUMENTUM_SHARED is dead?

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… 

Documentum – FT – Document not found using search from D2

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… 

Documentum – Delete Remote Docbase – Strange behavior

In the previous blog I showed you how to decommission a remote Content Server by deleting remote Docbase(s) and Docbroker(s). In fact, when I tried to delete remote Docbases I encounter a strange behavior, and it wasn’t easy to find the root cause! In fact, the suppression of the remote Docbase may be silent or not… In case you use… 

Documentum – Remote Content Server Decommission

I already experienced the installation of a remote Content Server but it was my first decommissioning, and as usual the decommission is faster than the installation 😉 by the way, read this blog if you missed how to install a remote Docbase 🙂 First step is to delete all remote Docbases, then delete DocBroker, and at the end uninstall the… 

WebLogic – Update on the WLST monitoring

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… 

Documentum – RCS/CFS installation failure

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… 

How to stop Documentum processes in a docker container, and more (part I)

Ideally, but not mandatorily, the management of Documentum processes is performed at the service level, e.g. by systemd. In my blog here, I showed how to configure init files for Documentum under systemd. But containers don’t have systemd, yet. They just run processes, often only one, sometimes more if they are closely related together (e.g. the docbroker, the method server…