The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares how the Navigator knows your last folder location and a bug with it and Dan discusses the TM_CPAU setting for Tuxedo on Windows. Then Dan and Kyle talk about cloud-init. Show Notes Google wants to kill the URL @ 6:15 TM_CPAU Setting @ 12:45 Navigator "Last Nav Folder" @ 17:20 Sasank's NavBar Auto-expand JS Colton Fischer - Where Am I? Cloud-init @ 28:00

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss Integration Broker Queue Partitioning and why you might want to use it. Dan shares an edge case with Change Assistants new modes, and then Dan and Kyle talk about the wonderful tool Trace Wizard. Show Notes RoyalTS @ 4:30 Change Assistant Modes Edge Case @ 6:30 IB Queue Partitioning @ 12:45 TraceWizard @ 26:45

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 psadmin...

This week on the podcast we discuss Event Mapping for App Engines that was teased in a PeopleSoft Talk. Then Kyle shares what learned about Portal Registries and security, and the new Reload Web Profile feature in 8.57. Show Notes PS Talk with Rebekah Jackson @ 2:30 Allow Unregistered Content @ 6:00 8.57 Reload Web Profile @ 17:30 Reload Web Profile without Restarting the Web Server

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle share some recent bugs they dealt with and possible workarounds. Kyle also laments to de-support of the COBOL DPK for non-cloud customers. Show Notes RoyalTS @ 4:00 Cmder PSSQR Path Bug @ 11:45 PS_APP_PATCH_HOME and COBOL Compile 2330592.1 COBOL Non-unicode Bug @ 19:00 Possible solution for COBOL bug COBOL DPK Support @ 26:00

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss a few personal goals for 2019, and some password limitations with ViewAttachment and FTP servers. Then they share their thoughts on the Tao of HashiCorp and how it relates to PeopleSoft Admins. Show Notes Personal Goals for 2019 @ 1:00 Typing Proficiency Daily Logs FTP Password Errors @ 11:00 PeopleTools 8.57 is Available @ 15:30 Tao of PeopleSoft Adm...

This week on the podcast, Dan shares some changes when applying Change Packages with PeopleTools 8.57. He explains the new Subsequent Pass mode and what changed with the Move to Production mode. Kyle shares some changes with PT_COMMON, and then Dan and Kyle discuss serer naming conventions. Show Notes 8.57 PUM Dashboard/Images @ 2:00 8.57 MTP/Subsequent Pass @ 10:00 PT_COMMON Changed @ 16:00 Adven...

This week on the podcast, Dan goes through a list of troubleshooting steps for Elasticsearch that he has encountered over the last year. Dan and Kyle discuss shard management, replica settings, setting the JVM heap side, and monitoring Elasticsearch with Cerebro and ElasticHQ. Show Notes ERDs for HR @ 1:30 Elasticsearch "slow" @ 5:00 Elasticsearch - Unassigned Shards @ 9:00 curl -u esadmin:passwor...

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares a great MOS document that explains how psadmin issues tuxedo commands and asks if we could hook into that setup. Then Dan and Kyle discuss their ideal refresh process if they were to start from scratch. Show Notes Beyond Passwords - Troy Hunt @ 1:45 Improving Nav Collections @ 5:00 FS Image 30 @ 9:00 Run Control Idea PSADMIN Utility Fails to Shutdown Domain @...

This week on the podcast, Charlie Sinks joins us to talk about the Upper Midwest Regional User Group. We talk about using Agile with PeopleSoft, our experiences with Elasticearch, the Idea Space for PeopleTools, and using Git with PeopleSoft. Show Notes Chatbots Demo @ 3:30 Agile and PeopleSoft @ 11:00 SCRUM Kanban SAFE Elasticsearch Experiences @ 33:45 PeopleTools 8.56 Updates @ 43:30 Testing Eff...

This week on the podcast, Kyle finds the ProcessRestartMemoryLimit does not work as expected, Dan finds that the Purge Cache command has changed in 8.56, and Kyle recaps a successful Go-Live for PeopleTools 8.55 and Fluid Navigation. Show Notes Page and Field CONFIGURATOR Follow-up @ 1:00 October CVE Details @ 6:00 Greg Kelley's CVE Breakdown CVE-2016-10366 Breakdown Understanding ProcessRestartMe...

This week on the podcast we welcome back Wayne Fuller to talk about Elasticsearch. Wayne gives an excellent introduction into using Elasticsearch with PeopleSoft, some lesson’s learned from his testing, and highlights the benefits of switching to the new search tool. One quick note - after recording, Wayne got clarification that you cannot cut over to Elasticsearch by index, only by user. -dan We...

This week Dan talks about using a PS_APP_PATCH_HOME environment variable, Kyle discusses PeopleSoft features that require Windows servers and then we give an introduction to Elasticsearch. 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 to talk about, we want to hear from you! You can email us at po...

This week, Kyle and Dan talk about using Vagrant snapshots with Vagabond, strategies for managing psft_customizations.yaml files and demonstrating Fluid to end users. Dan shares a story of how an unpatched WebLogic server can leave your PeopleSoft application vulnerable to hackers. Show Notes Securing the Oracle Listener @ 1:30 Vagabond and Vagrant Snapshots @ 2:00 Vault and Hiera @ 7:45 Cons...

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares his thoughts on apply CPU vs. PSU java patches and Dan explains the different options for preloading application server cache. Show Notes Shard Planning for Petabyte Scale Elasticsearch Clusters @ 3:50 Customizing the Homepage @ 5:30 JDK even v. odd number releases @ 13:00 PeopleTools Security Patching @ 19:30 Preload Cache @ 26:00 Lastrefreshdttm

This week on the podcast, Dan discusses some tuning considerations for Elasticsearch and Kyle gives us an overview of serverless computing and how PeopleSoft could use it. Show Notes Elasticsearch 6 support for 8.56! @ 2:00 Collate Indices Option @ 6:00 How many shards should my cluster have? @ 9:15 Adventures in MOS! @ 20:30 Serverless computing @ 24:00

This week on the podcast, Dan shares some new ideas to improve the DDDAudit and SYSAudit reports, and Kyle discusses how federated User Preferences work in a clustered environment. Show Notes Dan Roque's DPK Patches @ 1:00 Idea Space - Audit Reports @ 3:30 Summary/TOC for Audits Advanced Run Control Pages Logfilter.properties in PSIGW @ 10:00 Remote Gateway @ 12:30 Federated User Preferences @ 20:...

This week on the podcast, Dan shares a Terraform hands-on Lab from OpenWorld and Kyle has some ideas to replace Health Center. Then Dan shares his experience investigating an incident with PeopleSoft and what he learned. Show Notes Terraform Hands-on Lab @ 3:45 Intro Guide Intro Files Advanced Guide Advanced Files Stephen Cross's Terraform and OCI Blog Health Center Rewrite @ 9:00 Replace PPM with...

This week on the podcast, Graham Smith and Jim Marion join us to recap Open World 2018. We discuss the new Drop Zones feature, Graham's view of smart customizations, Jim's tips for working with the Fluid Homepage, and a review of Cloud Manager 7. Show Notes Paco's Keynote @ 1:30 PeopleTools Roadmap @ 8:00 Jim's Session @ 20:30 Grahams Panels @ 30:50 Graham's 5 PeopleSoft Customizations Tips Cloud...

This week on the podcast we introduce mosbot.app, a utility to help you work with Oracle Support URLs, and mosbot for the command line. Show Notes History of mosbot @ 4:30 mosbot.app @ 9:00 mosbot-cli @ 12:00 mosbot Slack app @ 17:30

This week on the podcast, Dan shares some tips on monitoring Tuxedo domains and Kyle discusses how to secure portal registries when accesses externally. Show Notes Data Mover Follow-up @ 3:00 PeopleTools POC Business Case Document @ 5:45 Tuxedo Service Monitoring @ 7:30 PS_HOME/utilities/psautolog.sh Limiting Access to Portal Registries @ 17:45 GreyHeller/Appsian Role Flipping Separate Registry an...

We are excited to announce the dates and location for psadmin.conf 2019! The conference will be held May 6-8, 2019, in Minneapolis MN. Visit the psadmin.conf page to learn more and listen to a special podcast about the 2019 conference. Submit your presentation proposals now and registration opens 12/15/2018!

Speaking at Oracle OpenWorld @ 1:00 PeopleTools 8.57 is in the Cloud @ 2:00 When Will the Next PeopleTools Be Released? @ 5:00 Required Interim Patches for the Oracle Database with PeopleSoft @ 6:30 Monitoring PeopleSoft @ 9:00 OEM @ 14:00 Rundeck @ 20:00 Elastic Stack @ 24:30 PPM @ 27:15 Homegrown Systems @ 30:00 Custom Phire Bolt-on Ps-availability IBMonitorService Capella's Django Monitor

This week on the podcast, Dan shares an open source project to manage your Oracle Database grant permissions from the PIA. Kyle gives Dan some tips on using SSH aliases, and Dan shares how to trace FTP transactions with PeopleSoft. Show Notes Elasticon Recap @ 1:00 GreyHeller is now Appsian @ 9:00 SSH Aliases @ 10:00 Data Mover and Select All @ 14:45 PSDbPrivs project now part of the psadmin-io Gi...

This week on the podcast, Kyle shares a fix for deep links with the PIA and Dan discovers a bug with the Processing Indicator. Then Kyle and Dan talk about the new release of psadmin_plus and the improvements of version 2.0. Show Notes COLLABORATE19 - Call for presentations is Open @ 2:45 Deep links issue with 8.56 @ 4:45 Progress Indicator Not Displaying @ 8:15 APPSRV.log on the Process Scheduler...