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We’ve warned you before about ACL propagation when you’re changing the security in ALI.  Heck, we even created a product to ease the pain of this important task.  Today’s bug is about another issue with security propagation.
Well, it’s actually 2 bugs (maybe 3).  Let me explain:
When you answer “yes” to that question about security propagation, [...]

This is a little old-school, but still a very relevant tip.  This problem has been around for all of the ALI 6.x days (including 6.5), and if I remember correctly, even the Plumtree 5.x days.  Basically, the automation server logs its activity to the PTJOBLOGS table, and if you’ve got jobs that are logging in verbose [...]

Here’s a little feature that some of you may find useful:  Collaboration Server 4.5 can send you an email if it can’t connect to the new Notification Service.  For those of you that have countless problems with the old Notification Server that shipped with Collab 4.2 and earlier, this is a must-have feature.
Just go to [...]

STILL working on Collab 4.5 RSS feeds…  Today’s tip will either be completely useless to you, or save you a ton of time.  If you ever see the following error:

collab.server.administrator CNS.SECURITY com.bea.notification.security.SecurityManagerUnable to authenticate user with token ‘1|1288135304|xarwmCj1FbIzv/Mo/yyd0tEjkgI=’

Don’t bother looking at the Security And Directory Service (really, what’s that thing for anyway?). The following screen [...]

When I first introduced the Configuration Manager, I wondered aloud how it would work in a multi-system environment.
Well, it turned out the the Configuration Manager isn’t that complicated after all:  it’s pretty much an interface for editing a configuration file on disk, so it does only apply to the system you’re running it on.
The file [...]

In my (seemingly) never-ending quest to get Collaboration Notification working with 6.5, I ran into yet another error resulting in a ridiculous amount of diagnostic work.  The good news is that the error I was running into was a simple self-inflicted problem.  The bad news is there is an amazing lack of documentation about how [...]

Ruh, roh.  This one’s a doozy.  Yeah, I’m pretty high on Publisher 6.5, especially the feature where Publisher no longer issues a redirect for published content, greatly improving performance because it allows the portal to cache all this content.
Unfortunately, I just ran into a major problem with this feature in a dev upgrade: the servlet [...]

Granted, the vast majority of the Cool Tools we’ve listed here aren’t exclusive to the AquaLogic line, and frankly, while I’ve used this one before to diagnose problems with the AD and LDAP Identity Services, I probably wouldn’t have even included it until recently, when the new ALI Directory Service made its debut.
The tool is [...]

In my last post, I mentioned “6.5 provides an LDAP server that uses the industry-standard LDAP protocol to expose users that have been synched to the portal.  So any other system can use LDAP to get user information.”
All well and good, sure, but how do you authenticate against this fancy new LDAP service in the [...]

I mentioned the ALI Interoperability Matrix (login required) in the Publisher 6.5 post, and realized that I don’t always go to the official site to check compatible versions of the Aqualogic stack; instead I just use a locally saved copy because it’s quicker to pull up. 
Obviously, the locally saved snapshot can get out of [...]