Documentum

HowTo – Enable & Disable traces on Documentum

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(…)

HowTo – Detect and analyze long/stuck threads in Tomcat

Most Application Servers allow for long and/or stuck threads detection, to let you know that something is currently very slow, waiting on something or just simply stuck. On tomcat, this isn’t enabled by default, and you need to manually(…)

HowTo – Create a quick Documentum rendition report

When working with any ECM solution, you will have to manage a rendition software. This is used to transform the native documents from most formats (docx, pptx, xlsx, txt, jpeg, png, svg, etc.) into another format (pdf, png, etc.).

Documentum – xPlore CPS unreachable and not starting

During an upgrade project of xPlore from 16.4 to 20.2 at a customer, I faced a quite interesting issue with the xPlore CPS (Content Processing Services) that couldn’t start properly and were, therefore, shown as “UNREACHABLE“. The funny thing(…)

Documentum – Unable to install an IndexAgent due to RSA/FIPS libraries

A couple year ago at a new customer, I was asked to install a new xPlore IndexAgent on an existing Documentum 16.4 environment. Unfortunately, that installation didn’t succeed, and I ended up with the following install logs: [xplore@ds-0 ~]$(…)

Documentum – xPlore PrimaryDsearch not responding to curl/wget/browser requests anymore

A few weeks ago, I faced an issue at a customer where xPlore PrimaryDsearch would stop responding to curl/wget/browser requests from time to time. The impacted environments were containers (pods) hosted on Kubernetes. At this customer, we were in(…)

Documentum – How to easily remove duplicated xPlore queue items

Documentum is usually working pretty well with xPlore when it’s about managing its queue on well configured environments and/or with “simple” repositories. Basically, as long as you do not only have very big/complex documents (e.g.: 500Mb excel files with(…)

OpenText World 2022 – Day3

The Great Reunion as named by OpenText was really GREAT and today was the last day :( As there was less sessions for me I took more time today to discuss and exchange with different participants from OpenText, Customers, and(…)

OpenText World 2022 – Day2

Here we are at the end of the second day at OpenText World 2022 in Las Vegas, this day was as intense as the first, with a lot of news. Let's share with you an overview of my day there.

OpenText World 2022 – Day1

You know: What happens in VEGAS stays in VEGAS ;) But come on let's break this rule the time to write this blog, because what happened in the first day in OpenText World 2022 deserve an exception!(…)