Thoughts from a Management Platform Developer
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Creating Https Connection Without javax.net.ssl.trustStore Property
May 9, 2013 2:38 AM, by John Mazz
Question: How can you use the simple <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">Java API call java.net.URL.openConnection() to obtain a secure HTTP connection without having to set or... -
Deleting RHQ Agent Made Easier
Mar 14, 2013 3:11 PM, by John Mazz
In the past, if you wanted to remove an RHQ Agent from your RHQ environment, the simple answer was "just uninventory the platform" which would, under the covers, also remove the agent record completel... -
Nested Transactions and Timeouts
Feb 8, 2013 11:14 PM, by John Mazz
While coding up some EJB3 SLSB methods, the following question came up: If a thread is already associated with a transaction, and that thread calls another EJB3 SLSB method annotated with "REQUIRES_NE... -
"Nested Transactions" and Timeouts
Feb 8, 2013 11:14 PM, by John Mazz
While coding up some EJB3 SLSB methods, the following question came up: If a thread is already associated with a transaction, and that thread calls another EJB3 SLSB method annotated with "REQUIRES_NE... -
PostgreSQL Tool To Analyze DB Performance
Jan 23, 2013 2:48 PM, by John Mazz
I needed to do some fine-grained performance analysis of my PostgreSQL database setup and came across an interesting tool. It's pgBadger and it is used to take a snapshot of your PostgreSQL performanc... -
Monitoring IP Endpoints Via RHQ
Nov 26, 2012 7:40 PM, by John Mazz
RHQ has a little known plugin called the "netservices" plugin. Someone was asking about how RHQ can monitor HTTP endpoints on the #rhq freenode chat room - you use this netservices plugin to do this. ... -
Fedorahosted GIT links have changed (again)
Aug 2, 2012 2:35 PM, by John Mazz
Well, fedorahosted did it again. All of my links to RHQ source code in all of my blog entries (and everywhere else I used them - bugzilla entries, wiki pages, etc) will be invalid now, because fedorah... -
Fedorahosted GIT links have changed (again)
Aug 2, 2012 2:32 PM, by John Mazz
Well, fedorahosted did it again. All of my links to RHQ source code in all of my blog entries (and everywhere else I used them - bugzilla entries, wiki pages, etc) will be invalid now, because fedorah... -
Co-Located Management Client For JBossAS 7
Jul 14, 2012 5:39 AM, by John Mazz
Back in the "olden days" (pre-JBossAS 7 :-), the JBoss Application Server provided management capabilities through MBeans hosted in its MBeanServer. Your own code could remotely manage the app server ... -
RHQ's New Availability Checking
Jul 10, 2012 2:01 AM, by John Mazz
The latest RHQ release has introduced a few new things related to its availability scheduling and checking. (side note: you'll notice that link points to RHQ's new documentation home! The wiki moved t...