I often see customers with Virtual Machines or Containers that have IPv6 disabled. I assume this is mainly for simplicity, since most services are usually only running internally, and organizations don’t really need more IPs than what IPv4 can provide to begin with. In this blog, I will talk about an upgrade project from Documentum 20.2 to 23.4, using containers…
If you are familiar with Java, you probably know that starting with JDK 9, you may need to add some “–add-exports” or “–add-opens” parameters to the JAVA_TOOL_OPTIONS. This is the Strong Encapsulation, which started with JDK 9 and was only displaying warnings until JDK 16. With Java 17, however, it is now fully in effect so you may start seeing…
If you are here, I assume you are looking for some ways to enable traces on Documentum. There are already a few blog posts here and there showing some information but Documentum being what it is, i.e., a quite complex machinery, there are just way too many places/configurations that you can have traces/debug information on. Therefore, I also wanted to…
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…
How can you connect an external DFC Client to docbrokers and Repositories hosted on Kubernetes Pods? That seems to be a very simple question yet it might prove difficult… Let’s talk about this challenge in this blog and possible solutions/workarounds. As you all know, Kubernetes is using containers so just like for a basic Docker container, you won’t be able…
Recently, I’ve been facing an issue more and more frequently where a Repository cannot register itself to a local/remote Docbroker. The root cause of the issue is simply that the hostname used for the projection to the Docbroker is too long which prevents the Repository to properly register to it. I’ve seen it recently because when working with Kubernetes, you…
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…
A couple of weeks ago, at a customer I received an incident from the application team regarding an error occurred when installing Process Builder. The error message was: “The Process Engine license has not been enabled or is invalid in the ‘RADEV’ repository. The Process Engine license must be enabled to use the Process Builder. Please see your system administrator.”…
In a previous blog, I quickly went through the different things to know about the silent installations as well as how to install the CS binaries. Once the CS binaries are installed, you can install/configure a few more components. On this second blog, I will continue with: Documentum docbroker/connection broker installation Configuration of a Documentum licence 1. Documentum docbroker/connection…
In the last two blogs I posted, I mentioned that I was working on silent installations with CS 7.3 (in HA). The “issue” (it’s more like a common mistake) I will describe in this blog is linked to the HA installation. You can face that using the silent or GUI installation, it doesn’t matter. To replicate this behavior, it’s pretty simple:…
Beginning of this month, I was building a new environment in 7.3 P05 (using silent installation but this isn’t relevant here) and I found a strange behaviour from the dmqdocbroker so I wanted to share that. You will see below an error message “Input has special characters …”. This is specific to the CS 7.3 for which we opened a…
