Remote PSAdmin

Category: Web

  • Forcing end user browsers to clear cache

    I recently had an opportunity to pull an old trick out of my bag of goodies during a recent PeopleTools 8.54 upgrade I was assisting on.  The Question: How can we force all the users of PeopleSoft to clear their browser cache without needing to ask the users to do it manually?  The scenario was…

  • How PeopleSoft uses SSL when acting as the Client

    Previously, I wrote about SSL and how Weblogic utilizes it from a server perspective.  This article provides a followup analysis from a client perspective, the client being the PeopleSoft system.  We will look at a few examples of different client uses in PeopleSoft and how we can control the protocol used.

  • Bypassing a Load Balancer

    Load balancers are fantastic devices but sometimes we need to get around them.  I can’t count the times I have needed or wanted to test/diagnosis the functionality of each PIA instance individually, especially when fighting what might appear at first as an intermittent or random issue.  When we have multiple PeopleSoft PIA instances behind a…

  • SSL and Weblogic

    As previously mentioned, I was doing an analysis of how PeopleSoft and Weblogic utilize SSL which was spawned by the announcement of POODLE.  I’m going to review my findings for Weblogic 10.3.6.x and then duplicate the analysis to see if anything is changed with Weblogic 12.1.2.  Weblogic 10.3.6.x is supported for any PeopleTools 8.50 –…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Webserver detected with incorrect Version of JDK

    Now that PeopleTools 8.53 is out, I’ve seen people that are doing PIA installs posting about this problem a few places. Webserver detected with the incorrect version or JDK or no JDK found. Please try again, The required JDK is version 1.7 The only  reason I’ve seen so far for this error is the value…

  • Reload Web Profile

    Today I’m writing about a simple trick I use when I need to reload web profiles.  This is documented several places, but I’ve referenced reloading the web profile this way in previous posts so I’m adding it here. PeopleSoft has the ability to reload the web profile on the fly through a command to the…