GMAIL SMTP server setup in AEM

Use Case : How to setup email configuration in AEM with GMAIL SMTP server

Solution :

1. Go to the Felix Console : http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr
2. Search for Day CQ mail Service and click on edit.
3. Enter the below details:

•     SMTP Server Host   --> smtp.gmail.com
•     SMTP Server Port    -->  465
•     SMTP User              -->  your username (i.e. abc@gmail.com)
•     SMTP Password      -->  your password
•     From Address          --> your email
•     SMTP Use SSL      -->  true

      4. click on save. That's it!.  

Component console in AEM 6.5

Use Case: Developers and Admin can centrally manage all components in a single place i.e component console.

Highlights/Features:

• Component Overview - It will list of all installed components available on the current AEM instance.
• Component Properties - this tab will displays metadata like the title, group ,icon, description of a component, resource type ,resourceSuperType, created date and created by.
• Component Policies - It will display any existing policies for a given component and the template associated.
• Live Usage - It shows the list of pages, content fragments, experience fragments in which the component is included.

URL to access the component console :
It can be accessed from Tools -> General -> Components

http://localhost:4502/libs/wcm/core/content/sites/components.html

How to Improve AEM Workflow Throughput

statement : 

How to Improve AEM Workflow Throughput after change in hardware size upgrade.

step 1 tuning :  http://localhost:4502/system/console/configMgr and search for Apache Sling Job Thread Pool

PID is org.apache.sling.event.impl.EventingThreadPool.  The default value is 35.  

Raise this default value to higher number say 65.

Step 2 tuning :  navigate to  /system/console/slingevent and search for Max Parallel attribute of Job Queue

1. Edit the [Job Queue Configuration] for [Granite Workflow Queue], 
2. Edit the job queue [Granite Transient Workflow Queue], 
3. [Granite Workflow External Process Job Queue] or 
4. Edit the job queue of any other job queue of type ‘Topic Round Robin’ that is relevant to your workload.  
5. Increase the value for ‘Max Parallel’.  The default value is usually 0.5 (half the number of vCPUs of your instance).

to find out the numbe of processor of your instace: http://localhost:4502/system/console/vmstat

based on the no of processor, default value to be changed to the half the number of processor if processor value is 4 then Max parallel value would be 2.