We have talked on the podcast about different ways to apply CPU patches, but with the DPK we have another tool to help us quickly apply CPU patches. This post and video demo’s will show you how to use the DPK to quickly apply CPU patches to your servers. Deployment… Read More »Apply CPU Patches with Deployment Packages
About a year ago, I posted a project to check on the status of all our PeopleSoft environments. Our status page has become an important part of monitoring our environments. I check that page every morning and the email alerts let me be proactive in addressing environment issues. We also… Read More »ps-availability Version 2.0
This week we podcast from the Alliance 2017 Conference in Las Vegas. Jason Gilfoil and Eric Bolinger join us to talk about DevOps and Ansible with PeopleSoft. We talk about application orchestration, mixing Ansible and Puppet, customizing the DPK and more. Show Notes Introducing Jason Gilfoil @ 1:30 Introducing Eric… Read More »#71 – DevOps and Ansible w/ Jason Gilfoil and Eric Bolinger
This week on the podcast, Charlie Sinks joins us to talk about Image “Catch-up Projects”. We talk about different strategies to simplify customization retrofits, reviewing bugs and new features, and application testing strategies. We also talk about making architecture changes to work with the DPK, and Charlie shares an Oh… Read More »#66 – Catch-up Projects w/ Charlie Sinks
A PeopleSoft refresh is one of the more common tasks for a PeopleSoft Administrator or DBA. There are many ways to accomplish this task, but it usually involves a database restore from backup, custom SQL refresh scripts and potentially ACM steps. Depending on the level of effort put into the… Read More »Refreshes with Data Guard and Pluggable Databases
This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about Elasticsearch, using Powershell with SSH libraries, why the DPK doesn’t merge Hiera data, and how they format SQL files. Then Dan explains a new REST-based web service he built with new features in PeopleTools 8.55. We want to make this… Read More »#57 – REST Services
This week on the podcast we celebrate 1 year of podcasting with JR Bing. JR talked with us about his Vagabond project for managing PeopleSoft Images, how he uses RunDeck to simplify daily administration tasks, being a Mac user and using GitHub to manage projects and code. We want to… Read More »#52 – Vagabond and Rundeck w/ JR Bing
In the psft_customizations.yaml file we store configuration information for a server, including passwords. There is a project, hiera-eyaml, that supports encrypting and decrypting sensitive data in Hiera YAML files. Out of the box, the Windows-based DPK doesn’t work with hiera-eyaml. For Linux DPK, check out 2188771.1 – there is better… Read More »Encrypt psft_customizations.yaml Passwords
Since the DPK was released, there has a been a bug (for Windows) that is quite annoying. In the psft_customizations.yaml file, the feature_settings: section is supposed to turn Tuxedo domain features on or off. feature_settings: PUBSUB: “Yes” QUICKSRV: “No” QUERYSRV: “Yes” JOLT: “Yes” On Windows, these settings were ignored and… Read More »Enable Tuxedo Domain Features with the DPK
One advantage of Linux distributions is they include software package managers like yum or apt-get. Package managers make is easy to install software with a single command, like yum install vlc. There is a package manager for Windows that works well and integrates with Puppet: Chocolatey. Let’s explore how to… Read More »Chocolatey Package Manager for Windows