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Some thoughts about Alfresco Devcon 2018 Back to Bilbao from Alfresco Devcon 2018. Many years participating in Alfresco events, connecting with old friends, collaborating with Alfresco Community and learning the new dominating technologies surrounding Alfresco for the upcoming years such Docker, Kubernetes, ADF, AWS or microservices. What to say… I enjoyed a lot with many …
Using an Apache stack for indexing your logs and metrics In the previous posts I talked about ELK stack for monitoring Alfresco. But another possibility for loading metrics or logs information, extracted by logstash, is a SOLR index server (instead of Elastic Search), which is part of Alfresco architecture by default, and in principle, it would seem more natural …
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Monitoring Alfresco CE with ELK stack Some weeks ago I wrote a post about how to set up a basic Kibana dashboard representing System Performance and Active Sessions in Alfresco Enterprise via JMX metrics from a logstash JMX input. As you probably know, no such Alfresco JMX objects are available in Alfresco Community, such as active …
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Last week, it was published the Alfresco Devcon 2018 conference program, that will celebrate in Lisbon next January. Many Alfresco experts of the community, customers, partners, and employees will participate on this fantastic event, around Alfresco related technologies.
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Some days ago I wrote a post about how to set up a basic Kibana dashboard in Alfresco Enterprise with JMX metrics, from a logstash JMX input. Today I’m gonna add some simple configuration for creating a dashboard for Alfresco logs. The architecture for ELK is the same of the previous post, with logstash running in your Alfresco instance and a dedicated Elastic Search and Kibana server.
Today I compile several tips about enabling and getting JMX information in Alfresco ECM.
Monitoring Alfresco EE with ELK stack This weekend I read in Elastic blog that Mr. Robot uses Kibana for monitoring the Dark Army, so I decided to write a post about a recent monitoring project for representing some basic (but interesting) Alfresco JMX metrics in a clustered environment, in which I was involved last week. As …
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I publish today a compilation of some useful recipes for Alfresco Javascript Console. Most of them are taken for blog posts, recipes and gists from Alfresco Community people
Dockerfile for Alfresco monitoring Recently, I started to play with Docker and Vagrant. Many docker images are available in Alfresco Community projects, and recently Alfresco published a very interesting Vagrant Sandbox for the complete platform. My first Docker image is now published on github for a basic setup of Nagios/Icinga for Alfresco (Community and Enterprise). The Dockerfile is …
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Using OOTB Support Tools addon for monitoring Alfresco Today I publish a basic Nagios setup for monitoring Alfresco Community with the help of OOTB Support Tools addon, including recent commands about SOLR indices. https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-nagios Other links: https://github.com/toniblyx/alfresco-nagios-and-icinga-plugin https://www.zylk.net/actualidad/monitoring-alfresco-in-nagios-via-ootb-support-tools-addon/ https://www.zylk.net/actualidad/more-on-monitoring-alfresco-in-nagios-via-ootb-support-tools/ https://github.com/OrderOfTheBee/ootbee-support-tools
This week I’m training a group in Alfresco Administration. I write some of the recipes used and commented in the training course
Once you set up your LDAP or LDAP-AD synchronization properties, you may execute an LDAP sync in several ways: 1) Via configuration properties 2) Via OOTB Support Tools 3) Via Javascript Console 4) In Alfresco Administration Console 5) Via JMX Console
Today, I post the links of the lighting talks presented at Beecon 2017, the Alfresco Developer Conference.
In many situations, when developing or migrating Alfresco, you need information and details about a bootstrap content model in your Alfresco installation. How to get this info without having access to the installation or deployed AMP or JAR packages ? Let’s give some possibilities.
SOLR Tracking for OOTB Support Tools Some customers told me that last week I was a little bit eventually consistent, and this post is somehow related. I was at the Beecon 2017 in Zaragoza, the Alfresco Developer Conference, time to re-connect, re-charge, and re-commit with Alfresco Community. The event was really amazing (congrats to the organizers and …
Today I put together some basic tips about Alfresco logs in Alfresco installations. 1) Rotate catalina.out 2) Logs always under $TOMCAT/logs directory 3) Clean logs periodically 4) Disable Tomcat localhost logs 5) Disable manager and host-manager logs
Next week we will participate in Alfresco Developer Conference (Beecon 2017), presenting two lighting talks: 1) Javascript API based developments for improving your Alfresco experience & 2) Sinadura ECM: Protocol-based signatures for Alfresco
Alfresco monitoring for Nagios via NRPE protocol Last day we talked about monitoring Alfresco in Nagios via OOTB support tools addon using curl commands directly to the main webscripts, and parsing the obtained JSON information. Although this direct monitoring may be valid in many situations (if services available from monitoring server, if https..), other possibility is to run curl …
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Digital Signature addon for Alfresco The Alfresco addon for Sinadura is now available in zylklab. Check it at github: https://github.com/zylklab/alfresco-sinadura This Alfresco addon provides a painless «Sign with Sinadura» action in Alfresco Share and it will be presented as a Lighting talk in Alfresco Developer Conference at Beecon 2017. http://beecon.buzz/
Most helpful resources for beginners One of the most frequently asked questions about Alfresco is what resources are the most helpful when starting to learn and developing with Alfresco. Today I’m going to complete an answer given in Featured Member questionary last December, with further details and links: https://community.alfresco.com/community/connect/blog/2016/12/06/featured-member-cesar-capillas Some basic and essential resources are Alfresco documentation, Community Forums, …
JMX information is available from Alfresco Enterprise 3.2, giving many possibilities to external monitoring tools like Nagios/Icinga for checking Alfresco variables. An example is the well-known Nagios/Icinga plugin for monitoring Alfresco…
Today we rescue some parts of a useful code for a multi-purpose search dashlet for Alfresco Share. We developed it some time ago and some parts are still working in Alfresco 5. The dashlet allows to configure custom filters in user and site panel such as document type, custom type, multiple categories and tags, or/and document mimetype.
Modelling custom status for Alfresco documents A basic customization to manage and visualize content lifecycle in Document Library may be done with a simple content model for document status. This basic customization for final users may be used with or without workflow tasks and it is document-centric (not in principle task oriented). The set of metatada …
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In the past, we published some blog posts about public shared content functionality in Alfresco Share, and the implications of having undesired and uncontrolled public content in production enviroments.
Yesterday I installed Order of The Bee support tools module forour Alfresco Community 5.1.e (201602GA), which is a very useful addonthat provides additional administration, monitoring and profilingtools for Alfresco Community, similar to the AlfrescoSupport Tools addon for Alfresco Enterprise. It provides a settools for monitoring active sessions such users connected to therepository or database pool connections, and system …