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On large project teams, multiple members may often use the same hosts simultaneously. Alternatively, you might prefer to maintain multiple SSH sessions open on the same host—one for monitoring logs...

Our goal is to move away from using self-signed certificates, often supplied by various software vendors and Kubernetes deployments, in favor of a unified approach with a single wildcard certificate...

These are exciting times, marked by a transformative change in the way modern applications are rolled out. The transition to Cloud and related technologies is adding considerable value to the...

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...

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...

"DSA is attempting to start after a long outage, perform a recovery procedure before starting" Challenge:   The IMPD (Identity Manager Provisioning Directory) Data DSAs have been offline...

A very common challenge we see is the modification of the CA/Symantec Connector Server Service(s) startup order for the embedded C++ (CCS) Connector. This CCS connector service on MS Windows OS...

Restore processes may be done with snapshots-in-time for both databases and directories. We wished to provide clarity of the restoration steps after a snapshot-in-time is utilized for a directory....

The CA Directory solution provides a mechanism to automate daily on-line backups, via one simple parameter: dump dxgrid-db period 0 86400; Where the first number is the offset from GMT/UTC...

While assisting a site with their upgrade process from CA API Gateway 9.2 (docker) to the latest CA API Gateway 9.4 image, we needed to clarify the steps. In this blog entry, we have capture our...

The follow methodology was used to isolate performance challenges with the increase number of cluster nodes for a common database, the Jgroup/JTS/JMS communication, database pools values for each...

If you plan on starting your J2EE services manually, and wish to keep them running after you log out, a common method is to use nohup ./command.sh &. The challenge with the above process, is...