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The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast

Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson talk about PeopleSoft Administration.
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Dec 28, 2018

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 Effort for Certifications @ 45:30
    • AIX/Solaris: pspuppet.sh is used to prepare the environment. Need to invoke if the bootstrap or puppet failed and you need to re-run
  • Idea Space @ 50:15
  • Advanced PS Admin Talk @ 56:30
  • Orchestration @ 61:00
  • Using Git @ 67:30
Dec 21, 2018

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
  • Understanding ProcessRestartMemoryLimit @ 11:30
  • Purge Cache Change in 8.56 @ 19:45
  • Elasticsearch 04 DPK, POC Patches @ 25:30
  • Unified Nav and My Favorites @ 31:30
  • 8.55 and Fluid Nav Go-Live Success and Issues @ 38:15
Dec 14, 2018

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 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 podcast@psadmin.io or tweet us at @psa_io.

You can listen to the podcast here on psadmin.io or subscribe with your favorite podcast player using the URL below, or subscribe in iTunes.

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Show Notes

  • Testing Elasticsearch @ 1:00
  • Elasticsearch and IB Changes @ 5:00
  • Shards and Replicas @ 8:00
  • Elasticsearch Infrastructure @ 13:00
  • Elasticsearch Speed @ 17:15
  • Search Framework Architecture Changes @ 18:00
  • Integration Broker Impacts @ 25:00
  • Attachment Processing @ 28:00
  • Planning an Elasticsearch Deployment @ 31:30
  • Improving the Search Framework @ 38:30
  • Elasticsearch REST Interface @ 42:45
  • Health Center and Elasticsearch @ 46:00
  • Delete Processing @ 50:00
  • Beta Testing Experience @ 55:30
Dec 7, 2018

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 podcast@psadmin.io or tweet us at @psa_io.

You can listen to the podcast here on psadmin.io or subscribe with your favorite podcast player using the URL below, or subscribe in iTunes.

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Dec 2, 2018

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
  • Remote Desktop Spanning @ 14:00
  • Why You Apply CPU Patches - A Story @ 16:30
  • CPU Patching Wishlist @ 23:30
  • DPK and Middleware-only @ 33:15
  • psft_customizations.yaml strategies @ 39:00
  • Upgrading Interaction Hub @ 50:00
  • Demoing Fluid @ 57:00
Nov 23, 2018

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.

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Nov 16, 2018

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.

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Nov 9, 2018

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.

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Nov 2, 2018

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.

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Oct 26, 2018

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.

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Oct 19, 2018

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.

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Oct 12, 2018

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 and Obscurity
    • LB/RPS/WL Filter Security
    • VPN Access
    • Conditional Navigation
Oct 11, 2018

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!

Oct 5, 2018
Sep 28, 2018

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.

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Sep 21, 2018

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.

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Sep 14, 2018

This week on the podcast, Kyle discusses a workflow message tester, and the thought process behind setting up IB failover. Dan explains what the ampersand at the end of URL means for PIA URLs.

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Sep 7, 2018

This week on the podcast, Kyle gives some suggestions on how to make dynamic links to other PeopleSoft homepages and Dan dives into what happens when you perform a search with Elasticsearch.

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Aug 31, 2018

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about what happens when you add a node to the node network, tracing unified navigation, and how to increase the number of Recent Places stored in the system.

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Aug 24, 2018

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle talk about running PeopleSoft applications in a cluster and with federated approval and push notifications. We discuss some of the configurations needed for federations and our lessons learned.

Show Notes

  • Presence of IT Cloud White Paper @ 1:00
  • Fluid Home Button URL @ 5:30
  • Federated Push Notifications Bug @ 11:00
  • Clustered Application Concerns and Testing @ 17:00
  • Federated Approvals @ 21:45
Aug 17, 2018

This week on the podcast Dan shares a fun tip to view hidden characters, Kyle talks about Vim Tabs and Sessions. Then Kyle and Dan talk about change package behavior, some bad migration advice on Oracle Support and what you should do instead.

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Aug 10, 2018

This week on the podcast, Dan shares a VisualStudio Code plugin that edits files using SSHFS and some lessons learned from a recent PeopleTools 8.56 upgrade. Dan and Kyle also talk about using Terraform to build and create servers on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Classic.

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Aug 3, 2018

This week on the podcast, Kyle has some follow-up on PIA installations and discovers some unpleasant Unified Navigation behavior. Dan shares some tips for Facter and testing out the redeploy option with the DPK.

Show Notes

  • PIA Installation FUP @ 1:30
  • Facter and FACTER_ override @ 4:30
  • Redeploy and WebLogic @ 8:00
  • CPU Patching @ 18:30
  • Unified Nav and SSO @ 23:00
Jul 27, 2018

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan recap the Reconnect 2018 conference, what they learned about the PeopleTools Roadmap, and some highlights from their sessions.

Show Notes

  • PeopleTools Roadmap Session @ 6:00
  • Securing and Hardening PeopleSoft @ 15:30
  • Kyle's CPU Talk @ 20:30
  • Dan's Devops and DPK @ 27:00
  • Advanced PeopleSoft Adminstration @ 29:00
  • PeopleTools Product Panel @ 37:00
Jul 20, 2018

This week on the podcast, Kyle discusses the changes to PIA installations in 8.56 and how to leverage Python and WLST with it. Dan shares how he improved nVision report performance, and the value of starting to automate small tasks.

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