Taking a closer look

Posted by Ridwan Ahmed on May 03, 2013 Operational Intelligence search, Splunk

Ever have a well-formed search on Splunk that is running too slowly?  Of course, they can always go faster, but there are times when it really just seems like something is holding back your search speed. That leaves you wondering where in the chain of information transfer is the problem, really? And just when you're about to throw your arms up in despair: don't worry, job inspector is here!

The job inspector is one of those tools that Splunk provides which are often overlooked because of the plethora of other better-known tools. A quick glance at so many details in one...
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How to Add Your Own DAO to the GSF Actions

Posted by David Chesebro on April 30, 2013 Web Experience Management, Best Practices, Development FatWire, GSF, Web Experience Management

GSF's ActionController and Action classes (in GSF version 11.x) can make building a website in WebCenter SItes much easier. If you're not familiar with the GSF and why you should consider using it, then check out Tony's blog post. If you're building a website in WebCenter Sites, then there's a good chance you're not making a small "Hello World" website. Big, complex websites require lots of assets, which in turn can require lots of code to load and manage all these assets. And plus there's usually...

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Creating a Simple Web Service Client in Java

Posted by Mitul Patel on April 22, 2013 Development Java, JAX-WS, SOA

Even though Web Services have been around for a while (a long while at that), I somehow haven't had the opportunity to actually incorporate any into an application that I have worked on. You may be in the same boat, and so for your edification (and mine) I will walk you through creating a simple client which queries a web service using Java. Here goes nothing. The first step would be to identify a web service that you'd like to use in your application. It could be one that was created by another team in your...

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Loading data into Drupal

Posted by Allan Mai on April 12, 2013 Drupal Drupal, feeds, Migration

Migrating content of any kind into a different system is almost always an inevitable headache. A process of auditing the previous system, normalizing who-knows-how-long's amount of data, and bringing all of that together in a harmonious flow from old to new. In the past we have discussed: the procedures you might take to prepare your data, custom PHP coding that could facilitate a specific import case, and also...

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Passing Time

Posted by Rupak Pandya on April 04, 2013 Operational Intelligence, Best Practices Best Practices, Big data, Machine data

System monitoring dashboards are something we are often asked to provide for our clients. Normally, this is a pretty straight forward task, but on a recent client engagement, I was presented with one requirement that was a bit out of the ordinary. This client was looking to monitor a set of ten desktops with a real-time dashboard that would display in their office. They wanted to see all of the standard metrics like cpu, memory, and disk. If there was a spike in a time chart for say % CPU Usage, they wanted to be able to click on the spike and drill down into another view. They wanted the...

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