Does Your WebCenter Sites Deployment Need a Health Check?

Just as you and I (should) go to the doctor regularly for checkups, major IT systems like WebCenter Sites should also get an occasional health check to ensure that they are operating at peak efficiency. As a complicated enterprise product, there are many potential issues that can impact WebCenter Sites’ performance, uptime, and ease of use. Some issues result from misconfigured settings, or problems that develop over time, including: performance issues due to memory usage, disk space, and database size.

If your environments are experiencing unexpected downtimes and users (or...


WebCenter Sites 12c Performance with Asset Reader API and Groovy

WebCenter Sites 12c introduces a number of new APIs to use when building out your sites. The developer documentation puts an emphasis on using an MVC approach that is aided by the new groovy controllers and reader APIs including the new asset reader API. Using an MVC approach to build out a site allows for a nice and clean separation of your business logic from the display logic. You can see the official documenation on all the APIs at http://docs.oracle.com/middleware/1221/wcs/wcs-develop.htm and also at...

Off the beaten path - Splunk search head pooling without search head pooling?? Its possible...

Recently I was working with a client that was Splunk savvy and they wanted to try to implement something that was, what I would consider, off the beaten path.

Here is the challenge:  

This client was looking for a way to be able to take advantage of having multiple search heads for high resource availability and resiliency, without taking a hit on performance. One approach to go about providing high availability and resiliency of search heads is to use a Splunk feature called...


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