This week on the podcast, Dan has follow-up on using Hiera with Puppet environments, capturing WebLogic logs in Elasticsearch, and Kyle shares his thoughts on the Solaris “change”. Then Kyle discusses the in depth failover testing and how Unified Navigation behaves when app servers fail. Show Notes Solaris is “not… Read More »#98 – Failover Testing
This week Kyle and Dan discuss UI improvements from Sasank and Dan’s new Fluid Stylesheets, using Git and GitLab to manage DPK files, managing Favorites with Unified Navigation and some “Gotchas” Kyle found during his 8.55 upgrade project. Show Notes Windows 6 month release schedule @ 4:00 Puppet 5 @… Read More »#89 – Gotchas
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
This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about a ransomware attack, load balancer health checks, applying POC patches and complain about minor annoyances in Change Assistant. Kyle shares a story about a misbehaving pagelet and how he investigated the issue. We want to make this podcast part of… Read More »#58 – Pagelets and Complaints
Lately, I have had interest in monitoring WebLogic’s performance. Since Weblogic is built on Java, there are some standard tools we can use to look into the Java Virutal Machine (JVM). We’ll cover two of those tools in this post: JConsole and VisualVM. Both JConsole and VisualVM are included in… Read More »Monitoring WebLogic and Java
One disadvantage of running PeopleSoft behind a load balancer is that it can hide your user’s real IP address. With a load balancer, WebLogic and PeopleSoft log the load balancer’s IP address instead of the client connecting to your system. Load balancers support an HTTP header called X-Forwarded-For, and will… Read More »Load Balancers and Client IP Addresses
Continuing on our DPK series, this week we’ll explore how to do advanced web server domain configuration. The psft_configuration.yaml file gives you many of the configuration options for your web domain. While these settings will help you configure your web domain, there are more changes to WebLogic most administrators make.… Read More »Advanced WebLogic Configuration with the DPK
With the Deployment Packages, you can install an entire PeopleSoft system. But what if you want to install just one component? You can install the PIA role, but you get WebLogic, Tuxedo, Java, and a PIA domian. In this post, we’ll show how to leverage the DPK with custom Puppet… Read More »Using the DPK to install only WebLogic
This week we talk about HR Image 17, the new Security Automation tool, and share some comments from David Kurtz about PeopleSoft on 12c. Then, Kyle dives into WebLogic Servlet Filters and shares how filters can be used with PeopleSoft. We want to make this podcast part of the community… Read More »#26 – WebLogic Filters
In December, we talked quite a bit about patching Java and WebLogic on the blog and podcast. There was a WebLogic CVE, and then a patch, to apply. If you want a recap on the CVE and patching process, here are the posts: WebLogic Patching – Part 1 WebLogic Patching… Read More »Script WebLogic and Java Patches