As you might know, since Documentum 24.4, there is a new requirement to have a valid license assigned to a user in order to log in to Documentum. This is a pretty important change, most likely designed with the X-Plan license model in mind, and one of the reasons why OpenText changed the license approach in the first place. This…
Introduction If you use Enterprise Edition on your Oracle Database Appliance environment, and if you don’t have unlimited licences, you probably lowered the CPU cores available on each server to dispatch your licences accross your environment. This operation is normally done after deploying your ODAs, and this number of cores could eventually be increased if you need more and if…
This week, a customer asks me to find out how many SQL Server Standard licenses are used in their environment. The licensing is core based and to not be used for Sserver + Cals licenses. To have an idea, I create a script following the Microsoft document about the licensing here. This script is valid for the SQL Server 2016,…
Introduction Computing environments became more and more agile over these last years. Companies need to provide solutions helping people to quickly set up new resources, starting and stopping them, scaling them according to the need and finally, removing them. In such environments, it could be tricky to follow license compliance when resources are changing on hourly basis. Having a look…
Introduction It has been 5 years I’m working on ODA and I now have a quite good overview of the pros and the cons of such a solution. On one hand, ODA can greatly streamline your Oracle Database environment if you understand the purpose of this appliance. On the other hand, ODA can be your nightmare if you’re not using…
The Trusted Content Services is a pack of features that you can enable/purchase to gain more security for your Content Server. The main key features are listed in this documentation: https://www.emc.com/collateral/software/data-sheet/h3138-security-ds.pdf In our case, we wanted to benefit from the Repository Encryption feature: Repository Encryption: Documentum TCS prevents intruders from accessing information even if they obtain unauthorized access to repository…
By Franck Pachot . Customers reluctant to go to 12c before 12.2, in addition to Standard Edition contract changes when going to 12c, has lead to lot of upgrades to 11.2.0.4 but what about support? Don’t worry. It’s supported for no additional cost until May 2017 Support levels Do you know why you pay support (per year about 20% of…
As you know it is possible to install the ODA in a virtualized mode and to take avantages from all cores not licensed with Enterprise Edition for additional VMs. The question is what could we do with it and which performances could we expect… The answer to the first question is indeed pretty simple….almost everything. If you have and ODA…
During some client testing operations I installed some months ago a version of System Center Operation Manager 2012 on a Virtual Machine. Today I try to open this version of SCOM to perform some new tests and I had the surprise to receive a beautiful error message: In fact, I never thought to verify that my version was licensed or…
