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- 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
New PeopleTools Upgrade Projects
It’s a sad day for poor project PPLTLS84CUR. For PeopleTools upgrades they used to be the star of the show, but no longer. Starting in PeopleTools 8.60, PeopleTools upgrades will move to a “delta project” approach. Details of this change can be found in MOS Doc ID 2910205.1. E-UPG: New PeopleTools 8.60 Upgrade Projects –... Continue reading→
Monitoring PeopleSoft Uptime with Heartbeat
Heartbeat is a lightweight utility from Elasticsearch that can help you monitor the status and uptime of different applications. In our case, we can use Heartbeat to tell us if a PeopleSoft environment is available or not. Using HTTP monitors, Heartbeat can request a specific URL and evaluate the response. While other utilities can do... Continue reading→
Rootless Podman on Oracle Linux
This is one of those blog posts I write for myself because I want it to show up when I Google this the next time. When playing around with new containers there are lots of options, but at work I have access to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and it’s so easy to spin up a new... Continue reading→
OCI – 03 – Build a VCN
If you want to catch up on the project, you can get the last posts’ code here: https://github.com/ocadmin-io/oci.minecraft/tree/02-terraform Virtual Cloud Networks The first resource we will build for our Minecraft project is a Virtual Cloud Network (VCN). A VCN is a software-based network we create in our tenancy. You can create multiple VCN’s in your tenancy... Continue reading→
OCI – 02a – Bash Prompt
After creating a Git repository to track our first Terraform project, I updated my bash prompt to show me the git branch. This information is only shown when we are in Git repository and makes is easy to see which branch your working on. This change is a bigger than just updating the PS1 variable,... Continue reading→
OCI – 02 – Connecting Terraform
In our fresh tenancy, the first thing we’ll do is connect Terraform. We will use Terraform to build resources as a first option, and a CLI as the second option. This will help enforce an Infrastructure-as-Code deployment. Before we write any code we need to create a Git repository to track our code. There will... Continue reading→
OCI – 01 – Setting Up a New Tenancy
Recently, I created a new Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environment and decided to document the steps I went through to go from a brand-new tenancy to a functioning PeopleSoft environment. These blog posts can service as a guide for administrators who are new to OCI, or for experienced administrators who want to look at a different... Continue reading→
Build a PeopleSoft Image – On Your Laptop with Vagabond
You can run PeopleSoft Images on your laptop using three tools that work seamlessly together: VirtualBox, Vagrant, and Vagabond. VirtualBox is virtualization software to run a VM on your laptop (any Intel-based laptop, not Apple Silicon-based Macs) Vagrant is a tool to interact with VirtualBox that can automate VM builds Vagabond is an open source... Continue reading→
Themes for PeopleTools 8.60
We have released new branding themes for PeopleTools 8.60! The new themes use colors that better match the new Redwood UI color palette, and the underlying stylesheets use the new CSS variables in 8.60. There are 10 colors to choose from in this release. But, it’s also very easy to change the colors, or even... Continue reading→
psadmin.conf 2023 Registration is Open!
You can now register for psadmin.conf 2023! Click here to see more information and register. psadmin.conf is a conference specifically for PeopleSoft Administrators. The conference features talks from expert admins on a variety of topics, as well as hands-on training from Oracle ACEs. The goal of the conference is to expand your knowledge of PeopleSoft... Continue reading→
Podcast
#14 – Oracle Database w/ Tim Kroening-Smith (Part 1)
This week we interview Tim Kroening-Smith, an Oracle DBA and PeopleSoft Admin. Tim explains how he prefers to implement Oracle, how Oracle features benefit PeopleSoft users, and gives some great tips on tuning Oracle. We had such a fun time with Tim that we had to break the interview into two parts. Enjoy Part 1... Continue reading→
#13 – PeopleTools Patching
This week, Kyle shares his lessons learned from a recent PeopleTools patching project, we discuss the pro’s and con’s of Unified Navigation, new PeopleSoft Rundeck plug-ins, and changes to the 9.2 upgrade with PeopleTools 8.55. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If you have comments, feedback, or topics... Continue reading→
#12 – Migrations
This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast we dig into migrations. Kyle shares everything he likes about Phire and the benefits of a version control tool. Dan discusses an alternative to Phire and Stat – Change Assistant. We also discuss the new Native Push Notifications update in PeopleTools 8.55. We want to make this podcast... Continue reading→
#11 – Fluid Navigation
This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast, we talk about Fluid Navigation. Dan shares his dislikes (and likes) of the default navigation style in PeopleTools 8.55. We also talk about new PeopleTools 8.55 features like Log Analyzer, CORS support and Log Correlation. We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft... Continue reading→
#10 – Documentation and Tools Part 2
This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast, Part 2 of the Documentation and Tools episode. In Part 2 we talk about our favorite text editors, password safes, frameworks, utilities, graphing scripts, browser extensions, plug-ins, and a whole lot more! There is a wealth of information in this podcast and you’ll find at least one software... Continue reading→