The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast

This week on the podcast, Dan shares some follow-up on the 8.59 Infrastructure DPK and its advantages, and then Kyle and Dan talk about using Control Groups on Linux. Show Notes psadmin.conf Call for Presentations @ 3:00 8.59 Infrastructure DPK Follow-up @ 7:45 Relocatable Puppet in 8.59 @ 17:00 CGroups @ 23:00

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new planned features for PeopleTools 8.60 and share their thoughts on upcoming features. Show Notes Planned Features and Enhancement Document Lifecycle Management @ 3:00 User Interface @ 8:00 Development Tools @ 19:00 Security @ 24:30 Process Monitor @ 26:00

This week on the podcast, we interview Sasank Vemana and talk about updates in PeopleSoft searching and data visualization tools. Show Notes Introducing Sasank Vemana @ 1:00 Search Capabilities in 8.59 @ 4:30 Alphabetical Menus @ 9:30 Quick Access Bar @ 11:45 Search Suggestions @ 14:30 Graham Smith RTI Presentation at EIS Kibana and Data Visualizations @ 21:00 External Data Integration @ 27:00 Usi...

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about the 8.59 Infrastructure DPK and how it works, and also discuss building PeopleSoft Images from the OCI Marketplace. Show Notes .conf 2022 Registration @ 1:00 8.57 support is done @ 4:15 PUM Marketplace Image Builds @ 10:45 Cloud Manager and OCI Vault @ 14:00 OL 8 now available from Microsoft Store @ 20:15 CPU Patching via Infrastructure DPK with 8....

This week on the podcast, Tim Slater joins us to talk about his open source PeopleSoft projects: TraceWizard, DMS-Viewer, ProjectViewer, and Pivet. Show Notes Introducing Tim Slater @ 1:25 Tim's Open Source PeopleSoft Projects DMSViewer @ 5:00 TraceWizard @ 14:30 TraceMagic ProjectViewer @ 29:00 Pivet @ 32:30 Getting Started with Pivet

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about building a "Links" page for supporting environments and why they like or don't like them. Show Notes Sasank on Kibana Visualizations @ 1:30 Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 psprcs.cfg - TraceSql or TraceSQL? @ 6:30 Building app server domains the "old" way The "Links" Page @ 14:30 Life without Rundeck @ 28:30

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about Favorites in PeopleSoft and share some fun ways to improve how you manage Favorites. Show Notes Favorite Queries @ 1:00 Queries in Navigation @ 4:30 Favorite Queries @ 9:30 Removing Personalization Options @ 20:15 How To Restrict Users From Adding Homepages or Tiles in Fluid Homepages Recent Places Tile @ 28:00

This week on the podcast, Dan revisits a tip for debugging Change Assistant issues and a replacement for the ls command, and Kyle talks about the new 8.59 Infra-DPK. Show Notes Exa - new utility to replace ls @ 1:45 CA erroring while importing PUM data @ 8:00 Tim Slater's DMSViewer @ 15:15 PRP Auto Apply Patch @ 19:00 Infra-DPK for 8.59 @ 22:45

Our second podcast this week is a quick follow-up on the log4shell vulnerability and updated steps you can take to remediate or patch your systems. Show Notes 2nd CVE for log4j Logpresso Weblogic Patch

On this early release episode, Kyle and Dan talk about the log4shell vulnerability and how to mitigate the risk for PeopleSoft. Show Notes log4shell - Vulnerability issue with log4j @ 0:30 Affected Products - Oracle Affected Products - non-Oracle Overview of the Vulnerability Vulnerability Tester Remediation @ 18:45 Add "-Dlog4j2.formatMsgNoLookups=true" to your JAVA_OPTS parameter Scanner tool Da...

This week on the podcast, Dan shares some recent bash tips he learned, and Kyle and Dan discuss different ways to execute ACM and their pros and cons. Show Notes psadmin.conf 2022 Registration is Live! @ 4:00 Bash Tracing @ 6:45 Idempotent Bash Script tips @ 11:30 File Manager Utility @ 16:15 GitHub Project How to run ACM @ 19:00

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new Rundeck Cloud product, working with the 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

This week on the podcast, Dan shares some new PeopleTools ideas for Change Assistant and Control-J, and Kyle and Dan talk about the new Cloud Manager 13 features. Show Notes New PeopleTools Ideas @ 5:00 Change Assistant Source Only Mode Idea Control-J Developer Mode Idea Sasank's First Official PeopleSoft Post @ 16:30 Cloud Manager 13 @ 20:15 Cloud Manager Homepage and Feature Checklist

This week Dan and Kyle have no agenda and talk about what's on their minds and enjoy a new patio and fire. They discuss retrofitting strategies, what to look for when hiring a PS Admin, and more.

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about certificates with PeopleSoft, the OCI certificate service, and a cool terminal recording program ASCIInema. Show Notes GitHub CoPilot and VIM @ 2:00 Learning and Re-learning VIM @ 8:00 ASCIInema.org @ 10:30 Digital Certificates in PeopleSoft @ 13:00 External Digital Certificates in 8.59 Setup your own CA with OpenSSL Vault from HashiCorp OCI Certif...

This week on the podcast, Dan talks about some changes to the DDDAudit report to generate SQL, and some changes in refresh scripts for 8.58. Kyle discusses ways to test and validate Integration Broker messages after a refresh. Show Notes Facebook Outage @ 5:00 DDDAudit Modification @ 12:00 Refresh SQL Updates @ 17:00 Testing Async IB Messages @ 26:30 Put a bird on it

This week on the podcast, Dan shares some odd behavior with Remote Folders and some UI changes from Jim Marion, and Kyle talks about some improvements in the Page and Field Configurator. Show Notes "It's the Portal!" @ 1:45 Current for 16 Hours @ 3:00 Leveraging Page and Field Configurator @ 7:00 ACM and IB and PRCS Limitations @ 9:00 System Variables for Page and Field Configurator @ 13:45 Encryp...

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. 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

This week on the podcast, Dan discusses an improvement to the Navigator, and emailing BI Publisher report. Then Kyle and Dan discuss why you should have a management platform for your PeopleSoft servers. Show Notes Updated Look and Feel in HR Image 39 @ 3:00 Pin folders in the Navigator @ 8:45 BI Publisher Process Run To Output Type Of Email Is Not Distributed To Email @ 17:45 Management Platforms...

This week on the podcast, Kyle has some Control-R follow-up, Dan shares a strange login issue he resolved, and remembering the importance of the SYSAUDIT Report. Show Notes Ctrl+R Follow-up @ 4:30 VisualStudio Code and OCI @ 11:45 Login Issues @ 16:45 PeopleBooks Entry for SEC-7 Errors Summary/TOC for SYSAudit #158 - Federated User Preferences Run Control page for SYSAUDIT Application Services Fra...

This week on the podcast, Kyle talks about challenges with migrating Portal Registry objects, getting free OCI training and certification, and some tips for making SQL Developer faster. Show Notes FREE OCI Training and Certs @ 3:15 Portal Registry "touches" @ 9:45 VERSION Options ACM IGW Plugin Idea @ 24:30 SQL Developer is really slow @ 29:00 Jeff Smith - SQL Developer Product Manager

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares another bash tip and discusses daily logs, Dan talks about HTML Compare Reports and an idea to set change package defaults in the PUM. Show Notes Cntl-R @ 4:00 zsh Bash Tips - #299 WikiLens @ 14:30 Compare Report Viewer @ 25:00 PUM - Change Package template defaults @ 29:00

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about Red Hat 8, containers, some issues with the latest PUM images, and a crazy fun inverse square function. Show Notes Fast Inverse Square Root from Quake III @ 2:00 JSLinux Guy @ 10:00 8.59 PUM Issues @ 13:30 Samba problem with PUM deployment For the PUM (or any other 8.59) deployment problem on RHEL RHEL 8 Changes @ 21:00 Podman, Containers, and Peop...

This week on the podcast, Dan talk about email authenticity and his experience with the auto-applying PRPs in FS Image 40, and Kyle shares ways to find hidden errors with Kibana. Show Notes Email Authenticity @ 2:45 https://www.alexblackie.com/articles/email-authenticity-dkim-spf-dmarc/ https://simonandrews.ca/articles/how-to-set-up-spf-dkim-dmarc Kibana and researching errors @ 13:00 Auto-Apply P...

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss the new HCM Encryption Framework, share some Bash tips, and then Kyle gives a good overview of Makefiles and how they can be used to simplify common tasks. Show Notes UMRUG Roundtable @ 2:15 HCM Encryption Framework @ 7:30 PeopleBooks Entry Bash Tips @ 12:45 Makefiles @ 23:00 JR Bing's Makefile for his dotfiles repo Make for Windows