My NAS Appliance Just Turned Ten Years Old
I’ve been waiting a couple of years to write this post. In November, 2015, I bought a Synology RS815 NAS appliance to replace the DIY solution that I had been using for years before that. A month ago, that NAS appliance turned ten years old. It’s been in daily use for the past decade. At the six…
Azure Active Directory Setup for API Actors
This post outlines how to setup an Azure Active Directory tenant with a Pay-As-You-Go or Free subscription (which only lasts for 30 days). This post is an ancillary post that gives the AAD configuration details needed for the Apigee and Azure Active Directory Integration — A JWT Story post to…
Datapower SOMA Calls
The primary administration automation mechanism on IBM WebSphere DataPower appliances is the XML Management Interface. The XMI interface allows one to make SOMA (SOAP Configuration Management, assuming SOMA = SOap MAnagement) calls to perform various administration tasks. How to perform these…
RBM–Administrative Access & Security for DataPower
I generally recommend to clients that DataPower RBM (Role-Based Management) be configured to perform authentication and authorization of DataPower administrators and developers with LDAP. In particular, whatever respository serves as the central repository of user information should be used (of…
Who Owns DataPower Within An Organization?
The definition of the word ownership has varying meanings across organizations, but there is always a group that retains control of the technology. It’s typically the group that sponsored the adoption of the technology and owns day-to-day support of it. But, sometimes, the technology initiative…
DataPower and Terminal Servers…
DataPower has a serial port console that is used during initial bootstrap of the appliance, recovering from problems, and certain configuration changes. Having access to the serial console is the only feasible approach to resolving certain issues that arise with any appliance (or piece of network…
WebSphere DataPower Roles and Responsibilities…
DataPower is a weird (but, wonderful) beast. It has a tendency to break some of the traditional IT silos that develop within infrastructure groups. That can lead to a lot of friction and amusing arguments in which everyone is simply talking past one another. In this post, I want to describe the…
Adding Groups To OpenLdap
This article describes how to setup an OpenLdap server and add inetperson user objects. However, the article didn’t describe how to add groups to OpenLdap and add users to the groups.
JBoss 4.3.X Setup
This article explains how to install and start the JBoss “default” server.
Computer Measurement Prefixes and Number Naming Conventions
I always forget the quantity prefixes above “tera”. Even more interestingly, one rarely thinks about the numbers’ names. For example, consider the number
Configure Your JVM For Use With a Remote Debugger
As I’ve pointed out in several previous articles, I like the jdb command line debugger that is available with the Sun JDK. This debugger can actually be used with any spec-compliant JVM. The JPDA specification defines the interfaces and services that are used by remote debuggers and profiles. The…
Achieving highly available HTTP database session persistence spanning multiple cells with Websphere v6.1
Websphere can provide HTTP Session data replication across multiple clusters and cells by using database session persistence.