Most of the times I need to validate, check or try something in IBM Security Directory Server (SDS) for customers, so I thought it’s time to create my own SDS playground instance in VMware. In this blog post, I’ll show you how to do so: Install Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7.5 in Vmware Configure…
One of the best thing having an own router that you can customize its configuration for your needs. This customization started with OpenWRT and Gargoyle embedded OS back in the past, but the new devices have more improvements and capacity out of box. I decided to configure my own USG to be able to block…
Recently we moved to a new house, and therefore I have set up a new network environment in our new home. I choose Ubiquiti devices including a Unifi Security Gateway for the router role, and a Unifi AC-Pro for the access point. These devices can be setup with the vendor’s own controller component which can…
Introduction Not so long ago, one of my customer asked, can he read a private key from the WebSphere Application Server’s (WAS) own keystore to use the private key for a purpose (let’s say, sign a document). We all know the possibility, that reading a private or public key using Java is quite easy when…
Introduction In one of our projects, we are creating an integration Java application running on either WebSphere Liberty or WebSphere Application Server full profile. This application has two scheduled components, which is completely normal. But, when we came to the part, which runtime will be used, we were stuck (it was unclear at that moment of the…
Imagine the following: you have a WebSphere Application Server infrastructure and one or more JVM instances (server, nodeagent, dmgr. etc.) reporting the following error in their configured log file (default file is the SystemOut.log): If you try to start your investigation based on the message your next command probably would be the following on Linux/Unix:…