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LDAP and Documetnum

bbchoudhury — Wed, 04 May 2011 05:06:23 +0000

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP)can be configured with Documentum for authentication purpose. Now, it’s upto your wnvironment where Documentum sits. LDAP can work with Windows Active Directory or Sun’s iPlanet. There are many others Directory servers as well.

When you set up sync of users and groups, you can mark if it is going to be full sync or on an incremental basis. From LDAP configuration side, you need to include User Mapping, Group Mapping and different properties to Map. Properties mapping may include user_name,user_os_name etc.

You can find a Job/Method called dm_LDAPSynchronisaiton when you look for how this set up works. dm_LDAPSynchronisation job can be set in specific interval say daily, with a trace level as per your requirement and it ensures your Users/Groups are synched and is uptodate. As a general practice, you can monitor the job reports in order to ensure that the job runs as per schedule. If you see errors, try to troubleshoot it if you are able to or talk to your server team who looks after LDAP issues if it is on their side.

New to Documentum Administration?

bbchoudhury — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:03:45 +0000

Posting this for a question on what are the things to keep in mind in administering a Documentum Environment?

Understand the Architecture (Federated or Standalone)

Where is Web/App Server hosted?
Where is Database Server?
Host for Content Server?
Is Index Server set up?

Identify the teams who look after

Database Issues?
Storage Issues?
Back up?
Antivirus?
Server Maintainance?

Policy for User and Group Management?

How is ACLs deployed for authorisation?

What are Service Level Agreements?

Find out the timeframes to fix an issue of different severity.
How to decide the severity & criticality of an issue?

Applicaiton Performance Issues?

Is the Application loading up in acceptable time frame?
Is the Docbase up and running?
Is Docbrokers up and running?
What is the status of Database services?
Is the Web Server responding?
Is there an issue with Applicaiton server side?
Is Network responding fine?
What is the concurrent user level for the applicaiton?

Logs Analysis and Troubleshooting

Docbase and Docbroker Logs
Logs for Web/Application Server
Restarting the Docbase/Docbroker services
Finding Root Cause Analysis of an Issue.

Explain the various configurations for a web publish job

bbchoudhury — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:34:35 +0000

The Simplest One….What to Administer

bbchoudhury — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 02:15:48 +0000

I think this is the simplest of all the qustion and yet needs some attention. What to dministr in a Documentum environment.

- Health monitoring of servers?

- Acceptable response time?

- Minimising Outages?

- Ensuring faster rearch results?

- Weekend Maintainence programme?

- Up to date Data Back up ?

- Availability of Data Storage?

- Checking Consistency of the environment?

- Preventive and Corrective measures ?

…………………….. What else ???