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Introduction Cordys servers are a very complicated environment including lot of different JVM's (java virtual machines) and lot of connections to databases and other external systems, and in a Cordys cluster, different Cordys instances. Therefore Cordys servers can run in trouble for many reasons, for example:         Maximum he ap memory exceeded     Broken connections     Load too high     Lack of memory     Slow database It is the task of Cordys administrators to maintain and monitor Cordys servers in production environments in order to meet the SLA requirements of customers. For every Cordys Service Container the administrator must do the following: Check if heap memory usage is not exceeding maximum memory Check if it is available and restart it if necessary Check the performance of its webservices Check the performance of the databases used by the service container Another task of the Cordys administrator is to optimize performance by adding mo

Introduction Within your Cordys projects you have functional- and technical roles. These Roles can be used on services and in user interfaces to define ACLs (= Access Control Lists). This small blog describes a best practice of how to set up the Roles. Currently i always use it like this within my projects and it works fine. Roles In my opinion there is a big difference between a functional role and a technical role within Cordys. You can define both. "Is Functional Role" can be checked for a functional role. Functional Roles should be used for Roles that are known by the business. These are the Roles that are used within Business Processes. These are the Roles that are used to assign Tasks to. It is best practice to define functional roles within a separate Cordys project. Within the Functional Roles you can define the UIs that are allowed to be used by that Role. This has the consequence that there is a dependency from the Organisa

This month i started the BPMS Certification of Cordys. I already have my Fundamentals Certification. My final goal is to get the Solution Architect Certification. The certification has three parts: Theoretical exam Handson exam Interview Within the theoretical exam you are supposed to answer 60 questions within 1 hour. The questions can be made online and are quite detailed. You really have to know your stuff. In fact in my first attempt i only got 71% and you have to get 75%. So i took it too lightly. The handson is one big case that you have to work out. It is also bigger (of course) than the exercises you get with the Fundamentals. You have 10 working days for the handson. After the handson you get an interview. In this interview you have to explain your solution and you get answers about the handson. Some tips: Really dive into the learning path. You do not really have to follow a training course, you can do it self paced.  Also install the Cordys VM and