Christoph Stoettner

           

I work at Vegard IT GmbH as a senior consultant with a focus on collaboration software, Kubernetes, security and automation. I mainly deal with HCL Connections, WebSphere Application Server, Kubernetes, Ansible, Terraform and Linux.

Sometimes my daily work results in technical talks and blog articles, which you can follow here more or less regularly. You can find the presentations in the main menu under public speaking .

I created a list of tools I use regularly, most of which have been released under an open source license.

In my spare time I read a lot, test all kinds of technical software and gadgets and try to follow about 200 RSS feeds.
Here you can find a collection of them.

This is my private blog, all opinions are my own.

Additionally to the social accounts, you can reach me on matrix with @stoeps:matrix.org or join my matrix channel #stoeps:matrix.org . For the moment contact me for an invitation to the channel, I need to figure out how many spam accounts will join, if I set it to public.

I save links I want to read later or store because they are interesting in Shaarli .

Shaarli delivers a nice overview of links on daily , weekly and monthly basis. Or you check the Tag cloud when you’re interested in special topics.

I try to add some description to each link, so I don’t need to create the linkdump posts.

Why is the domain name stoeps?

This is a very old story and it started in school. Stoeps was just my nickname and I have kept it ever since.

Credits

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Last Articles

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I had some issues with PDF export functionality in HCL Connections the last weeks.

The server became unresponsive multiple times due to high load from PDF exports. To quickly address the issue, the simplest solution is to disable the PDF export feature by configuring the icxt.pdfexport.access.requiredrole property in the Resource Environment Entries.

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This week, I investigated an issue with the advanced profiles search in HCL Connections. I had a system which did not show any results in the advanced search for the department number of Connections profiles.

HCL support tried for three months to reproduce the issue, and the users missed the option to search for their teammates with the advanced profiles search.

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In the last blogpost I showed how I use an instance of changedetection.io on a Raspberry Pi to monitor and track changes in a ServiceNow portal.

Meanwhile, I tweaked this a bit more and found a way how I can monitor the RSS Feed of my blog to post a toot on mastodon when I created a new blog post.

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The HCL Software knowledge base is built with ServiceNow . You can register and subscribe for channels and documents. You receive mails for new documents and changed documents you have subscribed for.

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Last week I checked some HCL Connections 8 CRx downloads in Flexnet and recognized these packages available since 2024-06-13:

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I showed, in several slides and sessions, how you can use the search-admin role in the search application of HCL Connections for troubleshooting and reviewing some key configurations.

In several environments, my user or other administrative users have this role, just to access the link to /search/serverStatus for example.

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