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Most of the time when the Reports Server is configured with an Single Sign On Server, it uses the same external LDAP server as the Single Sign On Server. In our case, we used an Oracle Access Manager as Single Sign On and an Oracle Internet Directory as LDAP server. Of course the Fusion Middleware needs to be configured with the external LDAP server. This means an Oracle Internet Directory authenticator provider declared in the…
We installed a Fusion Middleware report and Forms 12.2.1.2.0 on a Linux Server. This was a single node Reports and Forms servers. After disabling the Non SSL Listen Port, we get below error in logs while starting the Managed Server with only SSL ports enabled. ####<Oct 27, 2017, 2:38:23,265 PM CEST> <Info> <Deployer> <host01.example.com> <WLS_FORMS> <[ACTIVE] ExecuteThread: ‘1’ for queue: ‘weblogic.kernel.Default (self-tuning)’> <<WLS Kernel>> <> <728708fe-00a1-4078-bb31-f12fb2c6beae-00000030> <1509107903265> <[severity-value: 64] [rid: 0] [partition-id: 0] [partition-name: DOMAIN]…
WebLogic 12.2.1 provides a new RESTful management interface with full accesses to all WebLogic Server resources. This interface offers an alternative to the WLST scripting or JMX developments for the management and the monitoring of WebLogic Domains. The following of this blog provides a few examples demonstrating the simplicity and the efficiency of the REST requests. WebLogic Server State When checking a WebLogic Server state, we are interested in the state and in the “ActivationTime”…
WebLogic 12.2.1 provides a new REST management interface with full accesses to all WebLogic Server resources. This new interface provides an alternative to the WLST scripting or JMX developments for management and monitoring of WebLogic Domains. This blog explains how the RESTful interface can be used to determine a WebLogic Domain configuration and display it’s the principals attributes. For this purpose, a Search RESTful call will be used. The RESTful URL to point to the…
Introduction In Nowadays web technologies a common defensive mechanism against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks is to use a synchronizer token. This token might be unique for each request and thus it blocks us from using the recorded JMeter test session off the shelf. This blog will describe how this CSRF feature can be handled in JMeter. How to implement this feature The solution is to identify and extract the CSRF token from the response…
On a customer site, one of the users complained about being kicked out each time he wanted to create new documents in D2. This issue is happening in a default deployment of D2 and D2Config in a WebLogic Domain.We found out that the user sessions for D2Config and D2 are conflicting together. This issue occurs if D2Config and D2 applications are opened in the same browser using different TABs and if the user is navigating…
The Load Balancers do not provide the client IP address by default. The WebLogic HTTP log file (access_log) does not provide the client IP address but the Load Balancer one. This is sometimes a problem when diagnosing issues and the Single Sign On configuration does not provide the user name in the HTTP log either. In most of the cases, the Load Balancer can provides an additional header named “X-Forwarded-For” but it needs to be…
Introduction In one of my missions, I was requested to run performance and load tests on a ADF application running in a Oracle Fusion Middleware environment protected using Oracle Access Manager. For this task we decided to use Apache JMeter because it provides the control needed on the tests and uses multiple threads to emulate multiple users. It can be used to do distributed testing which uses multiple systems to do stress test. Additionally, the…
One of my last mission was to configure Apache JMeter for performance and load tests on a Web Application. The access to this Web Application requires authentication provided by a Microsoft Advanced Directory Federation Services single Sign On environment. This Single Sign On communication is based on SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language). SAML is an XML-based open standard data format for exchanging authentication and authorization data between parties, in particular, between an identity provider and…
When several repositories are accessed through the same Java Method Server (JMS), it might be needed to have a different dfc.properties parameters for the D2EventSenderMailMethod depending on the repository. This can be issued using an external Java call to the D2EventSenderMailMethod and setting a different class path to point to the desired dfc.properties. sh -c ‘java -cp “<DOCUMENTUM_SHARED>/shared/d2eventsender/Docbase:$CLASSPATH ” com.emc.d2.api.methods.D2EventSenderMailMethod “[email protected] “‘ /bin/sh <DOCUMENTUM_SHARED> is to be replaced with the path to $DOCUMENTUM_SHARED. it is…
