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JBoss EAP 7 – Domain Configuration

In a previous blog I talked about the domain creation, we saw at the end that some server groups and servers are created by default which usually are not what we need. Through this blog, I(…)

Cross-cloud PMM: which TCP ports to open

By Franck Pachot . I recently installed Percona Monitoring & Management on AWS (free tier) and here is how to monitor an instance on another cloud (OCI), in order to show which TCP port must be opened. PMM server(…)

The PostgreSQL shared/global catalog

A PostgreSQL instance (or cluster) can contain many databases, three of them (template0, template1 and postgres) are there by default. Over the last years we trained many people on PostgreSQL Essentials and(…)

Documentum – D2 doesn’t load repositories with “Unexpected error occured”

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(…)

Using LDAP resolved connection descriptor in WebLogic JDBC data sources.

I got the question if it is possible to have a the WebLogic JDBC Data Source to be resolved by an LDAP entry. The answer is yes; since WebLogic 12.2.1.3 a JDBC connection pool URL declaration can point to an(…)

How to declare TNS entries in Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)

Using a LDAP server to store the TNS connection strings can be a single point of declarations for all client tools. Note that it can be a single point of failure too, thus, a High Availability LDAP configuration is recommended(…)

Documentum – IndexAgent can’t start in normal mode

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(…)

Documentum – xPlore online rebuild stopped because of “immense term”

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(…)

Documentum – Custom facets not showing up after full reindex?

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(…)

PostgreSQL 14: Allow CLUSTER, VACUUM FULL and REINDEX to change tablespace on the fly

It is a common misunderstanding that VACUUM FULL saves you from running out of disk space if you already have space pressure. Running a VACUUM FULL temporarily requires at least double the space, as the table(…)