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-1024x190.jpg "Notificaciones en Alfresco")
Addons y personalizaciones de las notificaciones en Alfresco En varias ocasiones hemos tratado las notificaciones en Alfresco (tanto inbound como outbound) normalmente involucradas con algún flujo de trabajo, acción o regla de contenido. Hoy vamos a resumir algunas de las opciones de notificación tanto OOTB como a través de módulos conocidos. En primer lugar, para …
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Using docker images for evaluating Elastic Search If you use or evaluate Elastic Search, you may be surprised of the quite fast version lifecycle and the new features found in every minor version (almost a minor version each two months). Recently, Elastic Search 7.6 was released. A simpler possibility than to upgrade your test environment, …
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-1024x190.jpg "Using Elastic APM for Alfresco Performance Monitoring")
Alfresco Observability with Elastic APM Last days I played with Elastic APM for gaining some insights on the performance of our Alfresco production instance. The setup is quite straight-foward, although obviously, you need some infraestructure for it: An Elastic Search cluster (with Kibana). An Elastic APM Server (listening on port 8200, and binded with your Elastic Search cluster). …
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Setting basic security in ES As you probably know from Elastic 6.8 and 7.1 versions, security module is free in Basic License, providing important features such as: Native realm for create and managing local users. Role based control access for indices and cluster APIs in Kibana. From some time ago, I can read news about …
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How to backup data in Elastic Snapshots are a very important task for backup, restoration and upgrade procedures in Elastic Search. A snapshot is just a backup taken from a running ES cluster, what we often know as a hot backup. A big disclaimer is taken from documentation; you cannot back up an Elasticsearch cluster by …
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Un resumen de mi participación en el ElasticON Tour de Barcelona El pasado martes asistí en Barcelona a un evento del Elastic{ON} Tour, donde el equipo de Elastic Iberia comandado por Ignacio Suárez, Matias Cascallares y Regina Sáenz nos presentó el roadmap y novedades del popular motor de búsqueda analítica y su stack de aplicaciones. Tras una introducción histórica …
.jpg "zylk en el ElasticON Tour de Barcelona 2019")
Nos vemos en el ElasticON Tour La semana que viene (3 de diciembre) estaremos en el evento Elastic{ON} Tour en Barcelona, una oportunidad de conocer en primera persona el roadmap y las novedades del popular stack de búsqueda analítica con corazón open source de la mano de sus expertos. En sus últimas versiones se han incorporado …
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Enabling monitoring xpack in Elastic Search 7 When enabling monitoring xpack in Elastic Search and Logstash, you can enjoy the Stack Monitoring section in Kibana. This section provides a complete interface for monitoring your ELK setup including Elastic Search cluster, Logstash and Kibana. For enabling (you need to have security xpack enabled first to define …
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Direct monitoring with Elastic Stack 7 Last days I was exploring several features of Elastic Stack in version 7.2, including some of the available Beats agents. In this case, I played a beat with Heartbeat agent, that it is able to perform direct monitoring via TCP / HTTP / ICMP for a given url / …
.jpg "Kibana dashboard for monitoring Liferay JVM via JMX")
Monitoring JMX metrics with Metricbeat and Elastic Search Some time ago we did a Kibana dashboard for JMX monitoring in Alfresco via Logstash. Today I’ll briefly let some notes for a similar configuration but with other tool of the Elastic Stack, Metricbeat, using a jolokia plugin for HTTP – JMX bridge. The main difference is that in …
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A compilation of Alfresco addons by Zylk With the new Alfresco Community Hub, we missed some of the previous tags for linking of our (quite old) Alfresco Addons. Although, developed for Alfresco 4.x and Alfresco 5.x versions. Many of them are quite usable for Alfresco 6.x recent versions. Here we list some of the migrated links. In …
-1024x190.jpg "Alfresco inboxes for basic document lifecycle status")
Playing with Alfresco Inboxes addon Yesterday I enjoyed and played a little bit with a quite old addon called Alfresco Inboxes for a demo, with some of the zylklab Alfresco addons. Alfresco Inboxes provides an custom Aikau page in Alfresco Share with configurable CMIS queries. I always liked solutions for having some kind of logical customized view of …
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Querying Alfresco CMIS During developing a content centric application in CMIS with your favorite language and library (OpenCMIS, cmislib, DotCMIS, PortCMIS), it is usual to check your CMIS queries against repository. You can do it easily in several ways: Let’s give some examples that may be useful in some situation: SELECT * FROM cmis:document WHERE cmis:createdBy = ‘mjackson’ SELECT * …
Open Source Elastic Stack finally meets security As you probably know, Elastic Search is a distributed, document-oriented search and analytics engine, which supports structured and unstructured queries with a schemaless model ahead of time. Elastic Search is used as a search engine, and often for web-scale log analytics or real-time application monitoring. In the past, we …
A useful script for listing nodes with Alfresco REST API Many situations in Alfresco support involve some minor modifications of thousands of documents or/and folders. Let’s say we need to clean some metadata property, to add or remove some aspect, or renaming filenames for a given bunch of nodes, where bunch is here defined as several …
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Devops lifecycle of a production service with Docker-based infrastructure The main idea of the following example is to show a devops lifecycle of an infrastructure application in a production environment using Docker containers. As use case example to describe this lifecycle, we select a customized Apereo CAS 6 Server (Central Authentication System). The set of …
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Alfresco Activity Console in Elastic Search In the last post about «Auditing added content in Alfresco repository», we talked about how to create a simple audit console based on an Alfresco behaviour. Let’s give some details for this example. The idea is quite simple, for Alfresco creation events, to write an event log in catalina.out, such the following one: …
Alfresco Activity Console in Elastic Search One of the most important questions for many customers, once they are working with a document management system (now content services), is to know how they are using it. They want to obtain basic usage metrics about their business processes and custom content types to understand quantitatively how critical they are. Sometimes even …
-1024x212.png "Liferay DXP integration with Alfresco via CMIS API")
Updated Alfresco Browser Portlet for Liferay DXP This week we will be in Edinburgh attending Alfresco Devcon 2019. Alfresco DevCon is an international developer conference dedicated to Alfresco related technologies, which provides a good opportunity to meet the experts of the community, and to obtain practical knowledge and use cases for Alfresco based solutions. Mikel Asla (Board Member …
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zylk.net will be in Alfresco Devcon 2019 As you probably know, Alfresco Devcon 2019 will celebrate next January in Edimburg. Alfresco DevCon is an international developer conference entirely dedicated to Alfresco related technologies, including technical sessions, training oportunities and keynotes. A good opportunity to meet experts of the community, and to provide developers a practical knowledge, …
-1024x190.jpg "Updated Docker image for Alfresco monitoring with Alfresco Search Services")
Nagios Icinga setup for Alfresco Content Services updated During last days of summer, I took some time to update the Docker and Vagrant images for Alfresco monitoring setup with Nagios / Icinga, adding support for Alfresco Search Services and also PNP4Nagios for having some visualizations. In the provided configuration, I created a new host for Alfresco Search …
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Moving sinadura SVN to Github During this summer, we took some time for moving the old Sinadura subversion repository to Github. From this moment it will be easier to contribute to Sinadura project, to work with different teams or to accept pull requests on Sinadura code. This effort was initially powered due a contribution of Douglas C.R. …
-1024x190.jpg "Alfresco Bulk Export Scripts")
Extracting data and metadata from an old Alfresco instance In some of my last projects, I needed to create some helper scripts to extract information from an old Alfresco instance. My previous post about jq showed some of the helper scripts for getting users, groups or sites from Alfresco repository. I uploaded to github some examples: …
Parsing JSON from the command line I’m a big fan of command line shell utilities, and nowadays with the proliferation of REST APIs and JSON documents, one of the commands that I use more frequently in conjuction with curl is jq. jq is a lightweight and flexible command-line JSON processor and, we could say it is …
-1024x190.jpg "Using docker images for enterprise databases with Alfresco")
Docker development setups with commercial databases With Alfresco Content Services 6.0, docker-based installations are the standard way for setting up Alfresco (development) environments, while installer-based installations are not available anymore. By the moment, Docker compose resources use Postgresql database as default, but in between Alfresco supported stacks, there are also commercial databases widely used in Alfresco installations, …
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