#312 – Stalling at 30%

The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new Rundeck Cloud product, working with the PeopleSoft DDDAudit report, preventing App Designer from stalling at 30%, and updating the ACM with SQL.

Show Notes

  • Rundeck Cloud @ 4:15
    • Rundeck and OCI MySQL Service
  • DDDAudit Table Output @ 15:00
  • App Designer Stalling at 30% @ 18:45
  • Working with ACM via SQL @ 25:30

#306 – Command Line Irrelevant

The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about egress costs with CloudFlare’s new R2 storage, troubleshooting routings, and irrelevant command line parameters in PeopleSoft.

Show Notes

  • CloudFlare R2 @ 1:45
  • HTTP 415 Errors @ 14:45
  • Compare Reports for Routings @ 22:00
  • App Designer Icon Change @ 28:15
  • Debugging Remote Call COBOL @ 30:00

#294 – That is fine

The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson

This week on the podcast, Dan gives an update on his Hyper-V work with Vagabond and shares a funny log line he found, and Kyle shares some thoughts on making Hiera and eYAML more secure for PeopleTools DPK.

Show Notes

#282 – Infra-DPK Gotchas


This week on the podcast, Dan shares his good experience with the Infrastructure DPK and a few things that didn’t work as expected, and Dan and Kyle discuss the 8.58 Login page and the Elasticsearch DPK Silent Install option.

Show Notes

#280 – Personal Development Environments


This week on the podcast, Kyle shares a fun way to learn Git and learn to be a better programmer, Dan shares some advantages of 3-Tier App Designer, and Kyle and Dan discuss personalized development environments.

Show Notes

#249 – App Designer Crash Logs



This week on the podcast, Dan shares a tip to generate App Designer crash logs, Kyle talks about adapting and learning to new technologies and some tips for using the OCI CLI.

Show Notes

#203 – Troubleshooting Slow Process Starts


This week on the podcast, Dan shares a few tips he’s learned on writing better bash scripts, how the OpenDistro Elasticsearch plugins can be used, and how to generate dump files for App Designer. Then Kyle and Dan discuss how the approached an issue with slow process starts and why understanding the technology stack is so important.

Show Notes

Troubleshooting Framework

  1. Work to Replicate the issue/Look at code (if possible)
  2. MOS/Local Knowledge Base (wiki or tickets)
  3. Isolate the cause/Eliminate variables/Research Logs
  4. Attempt to understand the flow/technology/stack
  5. Develop root-cause theory
  6. Test to prove/disprove theory

#172 – PsMPPIAInstall


This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle announce the psadmin.io Wiki! The wiki is available to share tidbits and knowledge about PeopleSoft Administration, and help document some of the good practices for other PeopleSoft Administrators. Kyle also talks about some of the encryption changes in PSCipher in PeopleTools 8.57, and Dan explores some of the changes to the PIA installer.

Show Notes