- The
site.pp
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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
#9 – Tools and Documentation Part 1
This week on The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast we talk about documentation, how we like to document, what has worked for us and some of our documentation pet peeves. We also share all of our favorite tools that make the PS Admin job easier. This topic was so much fun, we had to make it a 2 part... Continue reading→
#8 – PeopleTools 8.55 Hands-on
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! We have an extra long and fun episode this week but you may want to listen to this it twice 🙂 In Episode 8, we dive into PeopleTools 8.55 and get hands-on! We talk about our first experiences with the PeopleTools DPK’s, changes to Change Assistant in 8.55 and Dan’s experiment... Continue reading→
#7 – Load Balancers
In Episode 7, we talk all about Load Balancers and PeopleSoft. We also clarify PeopleTools updates with Selective Adoption, why you may not need PSAESRV, a funny Chrome extension and more! We want to make this podcast part of the community discussion on PeopleSoft administration. If you have comments, feedback, or topics you’d like us... Continue reading→
#6 – TokenChpoken and Other Security Issues
In Episode 6 of The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about the TokenChpoken (or PS_TOKEN) vulnerability. We explain how the vulnerability works and how to mitigate it, Oracle CPU’s and Java Patching. Kyle shares a handy tip to clear end-user cache from the web profile. We want to make this podcast part of... Continue reading→
#5 – UMRUG 2015 Recap
UPDATE If you downloaded Episode 5 in the before Monday, we had the wrong audio file attached to the feed. The correct audio file is posted. In Episode 5, Dan gives a recap of the Upper Midwest Regional User Group 2015 Fall meeting. We talk about Fluid adoption, PUM strategies from local companies, Selective Adoption... Continue reading→