XTIVIA BLOG
IBM Informix Trusted Client Connections
In the past, using a client-server architecture with IBM Informix database software required adding an entry on the database server with the client details, either in a .rhosts file in a specific user directory or the/etc/hosts.equiv file. If one of these was not present the...
Google Analytics Event Tracking with Liferay
Google Analytics gives you insights into how visitors use your site, how they arrived on your site, and how you can keep them coming back. Liferay includes built-in support for Google Analytics out of the box, allowing administrators to make use of Google’s tool set for...
Overcoming Resource Contention with the SQL Server Resource Governor
At XTIVIA, we often perform health checks and performance tuning for clients that have issues with the CPU utilization or memory usage periodically maxing out in the middle of production by the execution of a job or report that consumes much of the available resources leaving...
Comparing Liferay and social community products
Recently a client asked about the differences between Liferay and social community products. Great question! Here are some points based on our work with customers. Social community products are narrowly focused and track social interactions well, but do not provide the breadth...
Tutorial: Advanced Navigation in Liferay Themes – Part 3
This is part 3 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that explain stuff...
Tutorial: Advanced Navigation in Liferay Themes – Part 2
This is part 2 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that explain stuff...
Tutorial: Advanced Navigation in Liferay Themes
This is part 1 of a series written for UI-dev/FED new to Liferay. This assumes you’re solid with css/html/javascript, and have at least a passing understanding of dynamic languages like PHP or ASP. If you have a Java background, you may want to skip the parts that explain stuff...
Oracle Cloud Control 12c Reporting Targets Down
A couple a days ago we had a client contact us and ask us to take a look as their Oracle Cloud Control 12c. They were having issues with a few targets that were reporting as being down on one screen and up on another. We logged into the server and tried to run ./emctl status...
Rolling DB2 tablespace location change using HADR
One of our Virtual-DBA clients has a small DB2 environment with version 9.7 on Linux and HADR connecting a primary and standby system. When the application team created the database, it was created using Automatic Storage on the /home filesystem. This will always...
Moving datafiles to a different disk/lun linux Oracle 10gR2
We have a Virtual-DBA client that was rapidly running out of space for one of their databases in VMWare. To rectify the problem we decided to move a few tablespaces to a new LUN/disk presented to the VMWare OS. We had a scheduled downtime window so we didn’t need to leave the...