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 is that the Java/WildFly processes of the PrimaryDsearch and CPS were properly running, and it was possible to login to the…
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: As you probably know, xPlore 16.4 is now quite old and it was still a version that came out-of-the-box with the Oracle JDK…
Kubernetes is the de facto standard when you think about container orchestration and scheduling, automation in software deployment, and maybe even more a whole ecosystem of tools and components orbiting around it. Since its origin in 2015, Kubernetes has been designed to manage hundreds of thousands of containers. Organized as a cluster, Kubernetes is also able to handle thousands of…
Upgrade Elasticsearch is an easy task, I always heard this sentence. Which is correct if you take care about indices and compatibility. At a customer, I had the chance to upgrade an old version of Elasticsearch, today I will share with you the Index compatibility story 😉 Index compatibility Elastic confirm that any index you restore from a snapshot must…
Upgrade the Control Plane After installing a Kubernetes cluster, I suggest we continue upgrading the cluster using kubeadm installation and configuration tools. So that you know, upgrading a cluster is done from version to version +1. In the context of this blog, we assume that we have a minimal version Kubernetes cluster, with one Master and two Worker nodes, at…
Introduction On Oracle Database, Multitenant feature will be turning 9 in July, but it’s not yet widely deployed as most of the databases are still running on non-CDB architecture. With 19c, Multitenant is now mature and free if you stick to a maximum of 3 PDBs per CDB. If the benefits of Multitenant are not obvious at first glance, it’s…
At a customer, we are preparing an upgrade to Control-M 21. As you know the first step is to have a look on what’s new, what’s changed, corrected/known issues and of course the compatibility for the new version 9.0.21. This new version seems very interesting, let me introduce it to you. Whats New? Below some of interesting news in Control-M…
At a customer having a lot of Documentum environments, I recently faced an interesting issue while upgrading an RCS/CFS to 20.2. The same could potentially reproduce during a standard installation of a RCS/CFS, under certain circumstances (in case there are still some things left in the repository after a removal of the said RCS/CFS and then reinstallation for example, you…
Introduction One of my customer recently asked me to upgrade its PostgreSQL instance from version 9.6 to version 14.3. The infrastructure is composed of 4 servers : – DB02-04 – Ubuntu 20.04 – supporting PostgreSQL, Patroni, HAProxy and etcd– DB02-05 – Ubuntu 20.04 – supporting PostgreSQL, Patroni, HAProxy and etcd– DB02-06 – Ubuntu 20.04 – supporting PostgreSQL, Patroni, HAProxy and…
Sometimes giving a workshop is a good opportunities to test new things…this what happened to me today… 🙂 While giving an ODA workshop, I thought it was a good opportunity to test patching to the new 19.12 release. However during the update-server process we got a failure on the our ODA update to 19.12 failing on GI patch using RHP.…
Last week I did some upgrade tests from 19c to 21c. The plan was to copy a 19c PDB to a CDB 21c using Online Clone and then upgrade it to 21c. I have done this many times for 19c as well and just wanted to verify that it still worked with 21c. Clone PDB to 21c CDB Since it…
Several years ago, I wrote a series of blogs regarding the silent installation of Documentum Components, including for a RCS/CFS (HA part of a Repository). In there, I described the process and gave an example of properties file, with all the parameters that are needed and a quick explanation for each of them. As I described in the previous blogs,…
