The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new features in PeopleTools 8.61 and discuss some of the hidden gems in this release. Show Notes psadmin.conf - May 20-22, 2024 @ 1:45 PeopleTools 8.61 is GA @ 4:15 UI Changes @ 5:00 Development Tools @ 11:00 Portal Technology @ 28:00 psadmin.io Stylesheets for 8.60/8.61 Reporting Tools @ 38:00 Integration Tools @ 43:30 Administration Tools @ 50:00 Lifecycle Management Tools @ 60:00

This week on the podcast, Dan shares how he uses Heartbeat to track uptime in PeopleSoft and Kyle discusses the new Password Management features in Cloud Manager 16. Show Notes Uptime Monitoring with PeopleSoft @ 2:00 My Preferences Phone Number @ 16:00 Cloud Manager and Passwords @ 18:00 Graham Smith - Cloud Manager 16 Features psst - PeopleSoft Secrets Tool

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss the PeopleTools 8.61 Planned Features and share what they are excited about in the new release. Dan also shared some updates to the patchBot project and how to use it. Show Notes 8.61 Planned Features @ 1:30 patchBot @ 28:00

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss securing your public user and leaking information, how to speed up change assistant upgrade projects, and new ACM plugins to work with Load Balanced gateways. Show Notes psadmin.conf @ 1:00 Public Web Profile and Security @ 5:00 #140 - robots.txt io_portalwar DPK Module Change Assistant Filters @ 15:00 Slow Performance After Tools Upgrade @ 22:45 IDDA Logging IO ACM Plugins @ 32:00 #313 - ACM Execution #220 - ACM Runs #111 - ACM Plugins

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new psadmin.io Themes for 8.60, and then they discuss how they are currently using the DPK to build new environments and what has changed in the DPK since it was released. Show Notes psadmin.conf psadmin.io Themes for 8.60 @ 3:00 Working with CSS Variables io_weblogic - JVM -XX options @ 14:00 Connection Filtering in WLST How we use the DPK today @ 24:00 io_weblogic io_portalwar io_psigwwar io_eprfirewall io_homes

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the changes to the 8.60 database upgrade and the new PPTLS860 project. Dan also shares some updates to the IO_STYLE_859 project and discusses his new io_homes DPK module. Show Notes psadmin.conf 2023 - May 22-24 @ 1:00 PeopleSoft Now Episode - A school districts journey to modern PeopleSoft in the Cloud @ 5:00 New PeopleTools 8.60 Upgrade Projects - PPLTLS859 and PPLTLS860 @ 9:00 mosbot.app @ 19:00 gem install mosbot Updated IO_STYLE_859 Code @ 21:30 New DPK Module - io_homes @ 26:15 PS_VENDOR_HOME io_erpfirewall DPK Module

This week on the podcast, Dan discusses a new tool he built to simplify CPU patches by using the same tools as the Infrastructure DPK. byop, or Build Your Own Patches, will take a list of patches to download and store them in a format that matches the Infrastructure DPK. Show Notes psadmin.conf @ 1:30 Infra-DPK Overview @ 4:45 Create Patched DPK Archives DPK Redeploy Option byop Overview @ 10:00 Patching Surgically @ 16:30 Apply CPU Patches with Infrastructure DPK @ 27:00 Dan's method to apply CPU patches Custom Fact to trigger Infrastructure-DPK processing /puppet/production/modules/pt_role/lib/facter/cpu.rb # Set the env var APPLY_INFRA_CPU=true and run the DPK to apply the Infra-DPK patches Facter.add(:apply_infra_cpu) do setcode do apply_infra_cpu = ENV["APPLY_INFRA_CPU"] || 'false' end end Bash alias I use to apply CPU patches via Infrastructure-DPK $ alias applycpu='sudo APPLY_INFRA_CPU=true && puppet apply -e "contain ::pt_profile::pt_tools_deployment" --confdir /puppet -d' $ applycpu

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 Administration and network with admins from around the country. Registration is limited to 50 attendees, so register early to ensure your spot!

This week on the podcast, PeopleTools Strategy Director Sasank Vemana joins us to talk about the upcoming switch to Opensearch, Configurable Search, Redwood UI, and some of his favorite features in PeopleTools 8.60. Show Notes Redwood UX for PeopleSoft @ 3:15 Redwood UI Introduction Opensearch Migration @ 14:30 The future of search Search Updates @ 28:00 Video Feature Overview for PeopleTools 8.60 New Features Overview Cloud Manager Upgrades to 8.60 @ 39:30 Usage Monitor Improvements @ 41:30

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan discuss PeopleTools 8.60 and the great features that were released. Dan also shares his thoughts on using Cloud Manager to upgrade environments to 8.60. The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes PeopleTools 8.60 is out @ 2:15 Video Feature Overview UI @ 5:45 Configurable Search @ 21:00 Search Framework @ 29:00 Notifications @ 32:15 Lifecycle Management @ 32:30 Security @ 42:00 Passphrases Certificate Management in PeopleSoft

Dan and Kyle are back and this week they discuss SSH tips, playing Minecraft, and Kyle's new PeopleSoft Secrets Tool (psst). The PeopleSoft Administrator Podcast is hosted by Dan Iverson and Kyle Benson. Show Notes Minecraft, scp, and spaces @ 2:30 SSH Tips @ 8:00 psst - PeopleSoft Secrets Tool @ 12:45 psvault Python Click

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about building a nightly refresh environment and the benefits of automating the process, and Dan talks about upgrading to PeopleSoft 9.2. Show Notes 9.2 Go-Live @ 1:45 Oracle MERGE command @ 13:30 Sandbox Refreshes @ 17:30 PDB Cloning

This week on the podcast, we talk about the RTI Maintenance job, fixing the systemd scripts from the DPK, and using the OCI-AutoScale project. Show Notes RTI Maintenance Job @ 3:15 systemd scripts for Linux @ 11:30 OCI-AutoScale @ 18:30 OCI Tagging @ 31:00 OCI Rundeck Node Plugin Uptime Meaningless? @ 37:30

This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle recap the psadmin.conf 2022 conference. Show Notes Getting the Most Out of PeopleTools @ 2:30 Kibana Lab @ 10:15 Monday Open Lab @ 13:00 Automating Maintenance Windows @ 15:00 Journey to the Cloud @ 16:30 OCI Migration @ 18:45 Environment Validation Lab @ 21:30 psft-validation Repository Tuesday Open Lab @ 25:00 Securing PS with Apache Rules @ 27:00 PeopleTools Platform Overview @ 29:45 Lightning Talks @ 33:00 patchBot Repository Real-Time Indexing @ 41:30

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about mapping remote client IPs to PeopleSoft logs and tables, and then discuss the benefits of load balancing with HAProxy and the OCI Load Balancer as a Service. Show Notes PeopleSoft Image Viewer - for those that won't be on 8.60 for a bit @ 4:45 Remote Client Directives in Web Profile @ 6:45 Load Balancers and Client IP Addresses HAProxy vs. OCI Load Balancer as a Service @ 15:30 Recommended OCI LB settings for PeopleSoft OCI LB and Push Notifications

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about what they learned about migrating Portal Registry objects. Show Notes psadmin.io Conference Agenda is Live @ 2:00 Puppet Acquisition @ 5:45 Syntax Highlighting for Notepad++ @ 11:00 Testing Look and Feel HTML Changes @ 12:30 This worked for me - Portal Registry Migration fix @ 15:00 Kyle's Manual Fix CY2 Directory Viewer - Symlinks @ 24:00

This week on the podcast, Kyle and Dan talk about the new psadmin.io Themes for 8.59 (and 8.58), using the OCI Auto Scale project to save money on OCI, and the benefits of blogging. Show Notes psadmin.conf Registration ends April 30th, 2022 PeopleTools Blog has moved @ 4:30 Database-Heartbeat Blog OCI Auto Scaling @ 15:00 OCI Utils Image Cleanup @ 24:30 psadmin.io Themes for 8.58/8.59 @ 28:00 Release on Github

This week, Kyle and Dan talk about Themes and SSO, and how to manage certificates for PeopleSoft with the DPK. Show Notes psadmin.conf Registration @ 1:00 MacroSets and SSO @ 2:45 IO Fluid Themes (8.56+) https://github.com/psadmin-io/io-styles-fluid IO Classic Themes - https://github.com/psadmin-io/styles-855 Cloud Manager FSS Bug @ 20:15 Certificate Management and pskey @ 26:30

This week on the podcast, Dan discusses his experience running a DR test in Oracle Cloud. Dan and Kyle also talk about patchBot, a tool to get notifications about new patches on Oracle Support, and some updates to their Rundeck OCI Node Classifier. Show Notes psadmin.conf @ 1:00 FreeDOS @ 3:00 DR Testing in OCI @ 8:30 Rundeck OCI Node Classifier Update @ 14:45 patchBot @ 25:00

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