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Stopping the unreachable repositories Suppose that the docbroker has been stopped prematurely and that we want to shut down the repositories but the out-of-the-box dm_shutdown_repository is not effective. Why is it so by the way ? If we look closely inside the shutdown script, we quickly notice the reason: #!/bin/sh ################## DOCUMENTUM SERVER SHUTDOWN FILE ###################### # # 1994-2018 OpenText Corporation. All rights reserved # Version 16.4 of the Documentum Server. # # A generated…

You have finally completed that migration and need to restart all the Documentum processes. So, you shut down the docbroker and move on to the repositories but then you receive an error message about them not being reachable any more. Or conversely, you want to start all the Documentum processes and you start first the repositories and later the docbrokers. Next, you want to connect to one repository and you receive the same error message….

This is part II of the 2-part article. See for part I of this article. Testing We will test on the host machine named docker that hosts 2 containers, container01 and container011. All 3 machines run a repository. Its name is respectively dmtest on docker (shortly, [email protected]:1489), [email protected]:1489 ([email protected]:2489 externally) and [email protected]:1489 ([email protected]:5489 externally). Incidentally, the enhanced syntax is also a good way to uniquely identify the repositories. The current dfc.properties file on the host…

Now that we have containerized content servers, it is very easy, maybe too easy, to create new repositories. Their creation is still not any faster (whether they are containerized or not is irrelevant here) but given a configuration file it just takes one command to instantiate an image into a running container with working repositories in it. Thus, during experimentation and testing, out of laziness or in a hurry, one can quickly finish up having…

A few months ago, I tripped over a very mysterious problem while attempting to connect to a 7.3 CS docbase from within dqMan. We had 3 docbases and we could connect using this client to all of them but one ! Moreover, we could connect to all three using a remote Documentum Administrator or the local idql/iapi command-line tools. Since we could connect to at least one of them with dqMan, this utility was not…

Beside the obsolete dmbasic, the autistic dmawk, the verbose java with the DfCs, the limited iapi (for API) and idql (for DQL) command-line tools, Documentum does not offer any scripting language for the administrator and the out-of-the-box experience is quite frustrating in this respect. It has been so even before the java trend so it is not a maneuver to force the use of the DfCs or to rely on it for administrative tasks. It…