For those of you using the NativeOS Linux install for Update Images, you have probably come across this scenario. You start the DPK install and once you get to the Puppet installation section, the script comes to an abrupt end. What the heck! Looking in the log file, you quickly… Read More »Linux DPK: Dealing with Missing Required OS Packages
I have created a helper menu script to extend the delivered psadmin program. The script is called psadmin-plus and I have created a repository for it on psadmin.io’s GitHub account. This was built as a self-study side project while I was on paternity leave this summer. I wanted to learn… Read More »Extending psadmin with psadmin-plus
As a reader of this blog or a listener of the podcast, you know I am a user of both Linux and decoupled homes. Traditionally with a Linux PeopleSoft installation you need to source the delivered psconfig.sh to set your environment variables. When an entire environment was contained under its… Read More »Managing Environment Variables When Using Decoupled Homes
In previous posts I have talked about the File Attachment storage options in PeopleSoft. The three basic options are Database, FTP or HTTP. My organization initially went with HTTP, but now we are looking to move to Database storage. The requirement is to move not only future file attachments, but… Read More »Switching File Attachment Storage
I was having a discussion with another admin recently, and he questioned why we were running our process schedulers with Application Engine Server(PSAESRV) enabled. He pointed out that there is very little gained by running PSAESRV, so why have it turned on? Now, you aren’t completely without loss in turning… Read More »Disabling the App Engine Server
A standard requirement when doing PeopleSoft maintenance is to change the normal sign in page. When the system is offline, we often like to display a maintenance page that informs users that the system will be down and prevents them from logging in. This is done easily enough by changing the signin.html… Read More »Maintenance Page with Backdoor Login
I’m really happy to announce a new project we are launching today: The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast Kyle Benson and I sit down and talk about all things PeopleSoft Admin. Kyle and I would meet for lunch every few weeks to talk about our latest issues at work and the latest… Read More »#1 – Decoupled Homes
When using the command line to rebuild a Tuxedo domain, there is a new flag to keep your settings: The –keepfeatures switch in the following command was introduced in PeopleTools 8.54. For example: psadmin –c import [PS_CFG_HOME] –d [old domain name] –n [new domain name] -keepfeatures This came from the… Read More »Rebuilding Tuxedo Domains