A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
Your Domino server could be victim to brute force attacks to guess user’s passwords and subsequently use your Domino server a spam gateway. Fail2ban is a elegant way to stop these brute force attacks. If you use Domino containers, you might have to do some extra configuration
Continue readingHCL renamed a server task in Domino 11. RepairCleanup is now called RprCleanup. If you’re not aware of this, you might get confused.
Continue readingOpenSSL introduced a new feature in OpenSSL 3.0, which doesn’t work well with older versions of nginx. Older versions, like the default version of nginx that comes with CentOS 9 Stream…
Continue readingWhen installing a new Linux server, there are a lot of operating systems to choose from. For my new installation, I chose CentOS 9 Stream, but that doesn’t seem a very popular choice. I describe why I went with it anyway.
Continue readingMaybe some frequent visitors noticed that this blog had a bit of outage in the past weeks. Alltogether, probably a couple of days. Usually, this blog has a very good uptime despite being hosted on my own server at home. A crash of my SSD lead to a lot of stress though… and to a lot of lessons learned
Continue readingI had an interesting problem with HCL Traveler recently. It should be a very rare problem, but if your Traveler seems ok on the Domino side, but the url just gives an error 500 and the Traveler logs give error CLFAD0211E and/or CLFAD0246E, then this blog might save you a lot of time
Continue readingSince I wrote my original 6-part series on Domino as a container, Daniel Nashed, the main contributor to the project, did some serious refactoring on the scripts, including some new options. This article discusses the changes.
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This year, Engage will be in Bruges, Belgium from 23 to the 25th of May and I’m proud to announce that this year, I will be a speaker at the event!
Continue readingThe new Certificate Manager of Domino 12 has made it extremely easy to deal with TLS Certificates. Also when working with certificate authorities that use a web portal. However, some administrators still use old pre-12 procedures to request certificates. I’ve described in this article the proper way to do this in Domino 12.
Continue readingTivoli/Security Directory Integrator won’t just install on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. You need extra packages and not all of them are in the standard repositories. This article outlines how to install TDI on RHEL 8
Continue readingThis is a collection of things I encountered during my work and were interesting enough to write down. Both for myself and for others. Topics include HCL Connections, HCL Domino, Linux, SQL etc.
