This week on the podcast Dan and Kyle discuss changes they would make if they started working on the DPK for the first again. They also discuss setting up Elasticsearch clusters, monitoring Tuxedo queues with Elasticsearch and an annoying Bash on Windows bug. Show Notes Bash on Windows VPN Bug… Read More »#83 – DPK – What We’d Do Different Next Time
This week Charlie Sinks joins Kyle and Dan to recap the 2017 Spring UMRUG meeting. We discussion transitioning to Fluid, selective adoption strategies, PTF improvements, Cloud Manager, Interaction Hub and Elasticsearch. The spring meeting was a great User Group meeting and generated excellent conversations. Show Notes Robin Velayedam (PeopleSoft HCM… Read More »#79 – UMRUG 2017 Spring Recap
This week, Dan and Kyle talk about testing different web server configurations, using the ACM for Elasticsearch, and how mobile browsers work with websites. Then, they discuss different ways to promote yourself and your position to a boss or organization. Show Notes VisualStudio Cod @ 1:00 Programmers File Editor PeopleSoft… Read More »#75 – Selling Yourself
This week on the podcast Kyle and Dan start deploying Elasticsearch, monitoring failed logins, and working with YAML files. They also discuss watching log files and recap a PeopleTools 8.56 preview webinar. Show Notes Starting Elasticsearch Deployments @ :30 Color Syntax Follow-up @ 5:45 Security Deployment Reference Grid @ 7:45… Read More »#67 – Failed Logins
This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about using web traffic data to analyze user activity, new information on Jolt Failover, and how we generate and distribute compare reports. Then, they discuss Critical Patch Updates and how they affect PeopleSoft Administrators. Show Notes Building a Billion User Load… Read More »#65 – CPU Patching
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 welcome back Wayne Fuller to talk about Elasticsearch. Wayne gives an excellent introduction into using Elasticsearch with PeopleSoft, some lesson’s learned from his testing, and highlights the benefits of switching to the new search tool. One quick note – after recording, Wayne got clarification… Read More »#54 – Elasticsearch w/ Wayne Fuller
Elasticsearch support is here for PeopleTools 8.55. In PeopleTools 8.55.11, Elasticsearch and SES are supported search engines for PeopleSoft applications. For the next 18 months, PeopleSoft will support both search engines in 8.55. After those 18 months and starting in 8.56, Elasticsearch will be the only search engine supported with… Read More »Deploy and Configure Elasticsearch
This week on the podcast, Charlie Sinks joins us to talk about everything we learned at the Upper Midwest Regional User Group meeting. We talk about PeopleTools 8.56, changes in Lifecycle Management, Fluid adoption, Elasticsearch, Dan’s DPK session, and much more. We want to make this podcast part of the… Read More »#53 – UMRUG 2016 Fall Recap
This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan record from the Elastic{on} Conference in Chicago. We attended the conference to learn more about Elasticsearch and the Elastic platform. The tl;dr, we are excited about the future of the Elasticsearch and the Elastic ecosystem. We also talk about purging log files,… Read More »#51 – Elastic{on}