- The
site.pp
File - Multiple PS_CFG_HOME’s
- Enable Tuxedo Domain Features
- Advanced WebLogic Configuration
- Building a PIA Domain
- Linux DPK: Dealing with Missing OS Packages
- Custom webApp DPK Role
- Using Puppet Environments with the DPK
- Convert the DPK to use Hiera Hash Merging
- Using Automated Configuration Management with the DPK
- Using the DPK Redeploy Option for CPU Patching
- Improving Windows Services from the DPK
- Improve the Management of DPK Archives
- #313 – ACM Execution
- #336 – 8.60 Themes and How we use the DPK
- #83 – DPK: What We’d Do Different Next Time
- #92 – Advanced Puppet with the DPK
- #333 – Opensearch and PeopleTools 8.60 w/ Sasank Vemana
- #318 – Open Source w/ Tim Slater
- #304 – Don’t Forget About SYSAUDIT
- #261 – Improving with Marginal Gains
- #21 – Temp Tables w/ David Kurtz
- #62 – PeopleTools Patch Testing
- #81 – Database Statistics w/ David Kurtz
- #38 – Automation and more w/ Nate Werner
Blog
PeopleTools Mobile Book
Jim Marion is releasing a new book on writing mobile applications with PeopleTools. Fluid and MAP have been out for about a year. If you guessed that a new PeopleTools mobile book would cover these mobile technologies, you guessed correctly. But I saw no reason to stop there. After describing how to use Fluid and... Continue reading→
File Upload Listening Connector
Javier Delgado has a nice overview of building a custom File Upload Listening Connector for the Integration Broker: One of my customers recently had the need of allowing a third party web application to attach files into PeopleSoft. After trying a number of different approaches (the integration had to be done at the web application... Continue reading→
PeopleSoft Instrumented Development Diagnostic Aid (IDDA)
I stumbled across this page about the PeopleSoft IDDA logger in PeopleBooks today. I haven’t seen this tool before, so I wanted to give it a quick test to see how it works. I wanted to know what type of data the IDDA logged and if the data would be useful for troubleshooting issues. After... Continue reading→
PSEatCookies
From Kyle Benson: a servlet filter to remove PS_TOKEN from the response cookie: One option is to simply disable the PS_TOKEN, and therefore prevent this vulnerability altogether! The problem is, PeopleSoft does not give us the option to disable it. I decided to come up with a proof of concept for a custom solution to... Continue reading→
Download PeopleSoft Images on Windows using WGET
Downloading new PeopleSoft Images (PI) from Oracle Support every few months can get old. Oracle Support has a WGET script that will download the images for you, but it is written for Unix. After seeing this post from Duncan Davis, I copied his script and made few changes. First, I wanted the main script to... Continue reading→
TraceMagic
TraceMagic is a utility that gives PeopleSoft system administrators, programmers and support engineers the ability to quickly isolate performance bottlenecks in SQL Statements and/or PeopleCode functions. It accomplishes this by turning the text-based, time-ordered tracesql file into a sortable-grid display, allowing the user to quickly locate system performance issues. TraceMagic is a great tool for... Continue reading→
Limit PeopleSoft Vulnerabilities
Last week a presentation at Hack in the Box, “Oracle PeopleSoft Applications are Under Attack”, focused on vulnerabilities in PeopleSoft applications. The presentation showed a number of ways that hackers could get access to a system. While some of the issues need to be fixed by Oracle (like poor encryption), there are a number of... Continue reading→
Podcast
#335 – io_homes DPK Module
This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the changes to the 8.60 database upgrade and the new PPTLS860 project. Dan also shares some updates to the IO_STYLE_859 project and discusses his new io_homes DPK module. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes psadmin.conf 2023 – May... Continue reading→
#334 – byop – Bring Your Own Patches – an Infra-DPK Builder
This week on the podcast, Dan discusses a new tool he built to simplify CPU patches by using the same tools as the Infrastructure DPK. byop, or Build Your Own Patches, will take a list of patches to download and store them in a format that matches the Infrastructure DPK. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast hosted... Continue reading→
#333 – Opensearch and PeopleTools 8.60 w/ Sasank Vemana
This week on the podcast, PeopleTools Strategy Director Sasank Vemana joins us to talk about the upcoming switch to Opensearch, Configurable Search, Redwood UI, and some of his favorite features in PeopleTools 8.60. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson Show Notes Redwood UX for PeopleSoft @ 3:15 Redwood UI Introduction... Continue reading→
#332 – PeopleTools 8.60
This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss PeopleTools 8.60 and the great features that were released. Dan also shares his thoughts on using Cloud Manager to upgrade environments to 8.60. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes PeopleTools 8.60 is out @ 2:15 Video Feature Overview... Continue reading→
#331 – psst
Dan and Kyle are back and this week they discuss SSH tips, playing Minecraft, and Kyle’s new PeopleSoft Secrets Tool (psst). The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes Minecraft, scp, and spaces @ 2:30 SSH Tips @ 8:00 psst – PeopleSoft Secrets Tool @ 12:45 psvault Python Click Continue reading→