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We are fond of the Let's Encrypt DNS challenge process instead of alternative processes. The Let's Encrypt DNS challenge using the certbot allows businesses to scale their replacements of certs...

While preparing to enable a feature within the Identity Suite Virtual Appliance for TLS encryption for the Provisioning Tier to send notification events, we noticed some challenges that we wish to...

RedHat OpenShift is one of the container orchestration platforms that provides an enterprise-grade solution for deploying, running, and managing applications on public, on-premise, or hybrid cloud...

Typically, we may use various tools to view JMS queue(s) related metrics for trends and stale/stuck activity. During issues with J2EE JMS Queue, though, it would be helpful to be able to view and...

Kubernetes was designed for the deployment of applications to cloud architecture with containers. Another way of thinking about Kubernetes; it gets us "out-of-the-install-binaries" business and...

Most Mobile Authenticator Apps will allow you to backup the Authenticator registration to an account. Alternatively, if you have a spare phone (with or without a SIM chip), you may wish to deploy...

The recent DNS challenges for a large organization that impacted their worldwide customers bring to mind a project we completed this year, a global password reset redundancy solution. We worked with...

The virtual appliance and standalone deployment of Symantec (CA) Identity Suite allow for redirecting authentication for the J2EE tier application through Symantec SSO or directly to an Active...

On Linux OS, there are two (2) device drivers that provide entropy "noise" for components that require encryption, e.g. the /dev/random and the /dev/urandom device drivers. The /dev/random is a...

One business risk to manage when new business logic is being promoted to production environments is how to plan for a rollback process, where prior state data is restored, especially for an...

Monitoring use-cases within solutions that use various logs can be onerous when there is "noise" or low-value events in the logs. For provisioning use-cases, we prefer to focus on the "CrUD"...

In this blog example, we will explore expanding the ability of Virtual Appliances to use X11 programs where possible instead of requiring a 2nd server to host the solutions' client tools. We will...