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Let’s Encrypt with PeopleSoft

Let’s Encrypt is a service provided by the Internet Security Research Group to provide free SSL certificates to anyone. The goal of the project is get the entire web encrypted. I mentioned the project in Episode 7 of The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast and thought it would be a great exercise to try it with PeopleSoft.... Continue reading→

How to Apply WebLogic Patches – Part 2

In Part 1, I showed how to use Smart Update to patch WebLogic. Starting with WebLogic 12.1.2, OPatch handles all the pacthing. Let’s walk though using OPatch to update WebLogic to fix the latest vulnerability. OPatch is included in the WebLogic install, so everything you need to apply patches is ready to go. Windows Path... Continue reading→

8.55 – Default Navigation

Before PeopleTools 8.55 was released, Oracle announced that Fluid would be the default navigation. After setting up an 8.55 demo system, I wanted to play around and “kick the tires”. Well, Oracle is quite serious. There is no other navigation option for 8.55. In the past, you could choose between navigation options on the “PeopleTools... Continue reading→

How to Patch Java in WebLogic

With the recent attacks on SSL, WebLogic and Java, I wanted to give an overview on how you patch Java for your WebLogic instances. When you install WebLogic, it asks you for the location of your Java Home. Then, every web server instance you create uses that Java Home. Unless you have patched Java in... Continue reading→

How to Apply WebLogic Patches

Oracle has released a patch for the latest CVE against WebLogic, so I wanted to walk though the steps to apply the patch to WebLogic and show how to use Smart Update. Smart Update is the utility used by WebLogic to apply patches to your installation. UPDATE 12/8/2015 Thanks to Matt Tremblay for pointing out,... Continue reading→

Smart v. Dumb Load Balancing

Setting up Load Balancing is common for production systems. Lately, I have seen a few organizations set up their load balancing so they end undoing all their good intentions. At the top of the infrastructure is a smart device, the load balancer, that can look at traffic and the servers underneath it to see where... Continue reading→

Disabling the App Engine Server

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 this off. Depending on what... Continue reading→

UMRUG 2015 Fall Meeting Recap

The 2015 fall meeting of the Upper Midwest Regional User Group (UMRUG) was last week. There was lots of great information from Oracle and other users. Here are the highlights: Opening Keynote: Oracle Jim Ellis, from Oracle, gave the opening keynote. Much of the presentation was also in the OpenWorld slides. Fluid Jim asked the... Continue reading→

Maintenance Page with Backdoor Login

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 page, adding a message and... Continue reading→

Elasticsearch

At OpenWorld, Oracle announced that PeopleTools 8.55 will support Elasticsearch with the Search Framework. Elasticsearch will most likely be the long-term replacement for SES. The only timeframe announced is 2016 for Elasticsearch support, so it won’t be available when PeopleTools 8.55 is released. So, don’t shut down that SES server yet! Elasticsearch is an open... Continue reading→

Podcast

#342 – .ociclirc

This week on the podcast, Kyle talks about the oci-cli tool and how has customized its behavior using the .ociclirc file. Dan shares two of his DPK modules that work with OCI to support tags and building failover strings for the web server. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson.... Continue reading→

#341 – PeopleTools Pathway

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan about the future pathways to take to make sure you are taking advantage of the PeopleTools platform. The PeopleSoft Administrator Po dcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes PeopleTools Pathway  References Links: