Author: Randy

  • PeopleSoft and POODLE

    POODLE has been a fairly common topic with security teams recently since Google announced the vulnerability. There is plenty of reading available on the POODLE attack so I’m not going to go into too much detail but I’ll give a short description.  POODLE is a man-in-the-middle attack which uses an attackers ability to force the…

  • Remastered 9.2 Application media

    Some of you may have noticed this already but I recently saw that some of the PeopleSoft 9.2 Application media had been remastered. HCM 9.2 was updated on E-delivery at the end of October.  It includes patches from Update Image 9.  Image 9 was also released as a certified Upgrade Demo Image. FSCM 9.2 was…

  • New DataViewer Tool released

    I’ve finally made a new version of the DataViewer tool available for download.  This new version includes new stand alone features as well.  I’ve added Real Time Weblogic monitoring and an Access Log Parser.  It also includes all the old charts for the Weblogic and Tuxedo monitor data files and some new ones.  This version requires…

  • PeopleSoft PUM Images on Linux KVM

    As we know, with the new PeopleSoft 9.2 applications came a new method of delivering updates via PeopleSoft Update Manager.  We now need to download fully functional VirtualBox images to get our patches.  We can also use these images for Demo environments and specific versions are useable for New Release Demos during application upgrades.  SES…

  • 8.54 PUM Images Released

    Oracle released the HCM 9.2.008 PUM Image today, Aug 19th.  The ELM 9.2.005 PUM Image came out last week on Aug 12th.  Finance should be out next week.  These images are supposed to be delivered on the new 8.54.01 PeopleTools release.  These should be an easy way for Admins like ourselves or Oracle customers in…

  • 8.54 PreRelease Notes Available

    The PeopleSoft Technology Blog has announced the availability of the PreRelease notes for 8.54: Some observations as I skimmed the document are: Oracle Linux 6, Win 2012, and Win 2012 R2 support added, Win 2008 (R1 not R2) dropped Client OS Windows 8.1 added, Windows 7 (32 bit) dropped WebLogic 12.1.2 added, 10.3.6 dropped Oracle…

  • Monitoring Tool updates

    I have finally uploaded some updated versions of my monitoring tools. I’ve made only minor updates to the Weblogic monitoring tool. I created versions that work with Weblogic 9.2 and Weblogic 8.1, but they will be available by request only.  The viewer has had a few items added and can now be used to open…

  • Setup AWStats on IIS

    AWStats is a great tool for parsing web server access logs of any kind.  If you are not familiar with it, I recommend checking out the Live Demo to see what kind of data it can provide. I’ve been using it for a long time to provide stats on all sorts of different websites and…

  • What makes a good PeopleSoft Admin?

    I’ve been asked this question many times.  What makes a good PeopleSoft Admin?  What should we be looking for when interviewing? Being an Admin myself, I thought I would write about some of my general thoughts on the topic.  Of course these are only my opinions and do not fit every environment or employment scenario.

  • nVision going to Error

    I ran into this problem with nVision a little while ago.  nVision processes were going to error status on the process scheduler.  A quick glance at the logs made it look like either the process was crashing or not starting at all.  I logged into the Windows Process Scheduler server to take a look at…