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SES Troubleshooting

The SES, Secure Enterprise Search, is used by PeopleSoft 9.2 as it’s search engine. There are lots of great resources for setting up the SES, but I want to share one troubleshooting tip that has resolved many of our SES issues. Behind the scene, SES relies on the Feed Publishing Framework to get data from... Continue reading→

WebLogic Security Alert

Oracle released a WebLogic security alert (CVE-2015-4852) yesterday that affects the T3 and T3S protocol. The patch will be released soon, but there are some steps you can take to mitigate the vulnerability. If you aren’t familiar with the T3 protocol, it is used to communicate between the JVM and WebLogic. It is proprietary to... Continue reading→

Disabling PS_TOKEN with PSEatCookies Filter

As many of you have probably heard, there has been much discussion this year regarding vulnerabilities in PeopleSoft’s PS_TOKEN. The talk all started after a presentation from ERPScan, which basically said that a PeopleSoft node’s password can be gained by brute force against a PS_TOKEN. This would allow someone to generate their own PS_TOKEN for... Continue reading→

All About COBOL

Time for everyone’s favorite language: COBOL! Well, it’s not my favorite, and probably not your favorite, but it is important to PeopleSoft. Many core programs in HR use COBOL and will most likely stay COBOL for a while. Those COBOL programs are stable, fast, and once you compile you rarely have to touch them. Because... Continue reading→

Enhanced Security with JSSE/JCE on WebLogic

We are setting up some new web servers and need to implement strong security on them. By default, a fresh PIA install on WebLogic 11g (compatible with 8.50-8.53) will have SSL enabled, weak ciphers, and missing the full strength cryptography libraries. For a secure web server, we’ll want to make a few changes WebLogic’s HTTPS... Continue reading→

Rebuilding Tuxedo Domains

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 Best Practices guide for Mid-tier... Continue reading→

Change Download to Excel Functionality

If you on PeopleTools 8.51.19, 8.52.08, or 8.53 and higher, this option can be added to you app server’s config file to change how the Download to Excel feature handles numeric columns. Without this parameter set, the leading zero’s in a column will disappear because Excel will treat those columns as integers. This parameter changes... Continue reading→

Resetting a Lost pskey Password

Recently, I had to install a new certificate on a web server, but was unable to open the keystore where the private key was generated. At some point, the password for the pskey file has been changed (or not documented when set) so I was unable to open the file. I didn’t want to loose... Continue reading→

SMTP Telnet Test

We are standing up a new data center and users received SMTP errors while testing. We were able to ping the server so DNS lookup and network traffic was working. But we only had a generic SMTP error message. So, I fired up telnet and tested our SMTP connection using these commands: telnet o smtp.psadmin.io... Continue reading→

My PeopleSoft Update Manager Setup

With PeopleSoft 9.2, new patches are delivered through PeopleSoft Images every few months. The images are Virtual Machines you download from Oracle Support. With 3 applications (HR, ELM, Finance), we are constantly downloading new images. This is how I setup and manage our PeopleSoft Images for 3 applications. Hardware We run the PeopleSoft Images on... 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: