Having the latest version 4.1.5 of ICXT for HCL Connections installed on WAS 8.5, I need to change some properties. The installation instructions said that we have a icxt-install.properties for installation, where we can set them. But it seems only possible during installation, not to change values which were already set.
How can I see what values are currently set and how to change them?
Backgrund
It's an ICXT installation without PDF export functionality, because this wasn't needed yet. But this has changed, so I want to enable it and develop some templates for our users. The selftest on https://cnxhost.internal/ic360/ui/selftest.html says
Is wkhtmltopdf installed? no
According to the documentation, I unpacked the binaries to ${CNX_SHARED_DIR}/icxt/pdfexport and restarted the WAS Appserver where ICXT is installed. But it's still not working. I assume that a predecessor admin or dev of mine changed this location, so I'd like to make sure that it points to my desired ${CNX_SHARED_DIR}/icxt/pdfexport path.
The script ${ICXT_INSTALL_DIR}/icxt-prepare.sh creates WebSphere Resource Entries. But just once during the installation. So we couldn't change the properties and re-run the script, as I assumed. To change it, open WebSpheres ISC web console and navigate through Resources > Resource Environment > Resource Environment entries
Now click in ic360
and Custom properties
Now you see a list of all the properties which were set by the installer. If some values were wrong (in my case wkhtmltopdf.command.exec), click on the entry and change the value field.
After conforming with OK and save, we need to restart the Appserver where ICXT is hosted in. If you don't know, look at the WebSphere enterprise applications, open any IC360 app and look in Manage Modules. In my case its CustomApps, which we can restart in Server > WebSphere Applicationserver.
Now reload the self test page and we see the wiki module check working fine:
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I am using SIFLess to install Sitecore 9.1 Update 1 on my local machine in order to get started with development with my team. However, the install is not creating certain databases on my system that are needed to get up and running, most notably the Reporting database. This of course causes problems when I deploy code from my team's repo to my local instance as it references these databases. I see that the SIFLess-generated PowerShell script has calls to a 'RemoveDatabase' function that references these databases in the uninstall method, but no code to create them in the first place during an install. The missing databases are:
MarketingAutomation
Messaging
Processing.Pools
ProcessingEngineStorage
ProcessingEngineTasks
ReferenceData
Reporting
Xdb.Collection.Shard0 and 1
Xdb.Collection.ShardMapManager
These are what I have gleaned from the uninstall logic in the PowerShell script generated by SIFLess. Again, no logic exists to create them in the first place in the install section. My team members all have these databases on their systems. What am I doing wrong? I am a Sitecore novice here.
Please make sure you are using the good package. You have to download the XP package, not XM. (Just to be sure here). Afterwards, the Database installation are done with DacPac found within the Sitecore Web Deploy Package ( *.scwdp).
Please, also make sure that within this scdwp you can see (can double click or extract) the database missing :
MarketingAutomation
Messaging
Processing.Pools
ProcessingEngineStorage
ProcessingEngineTasks
ReferenceData
And do the same with the xConnect SCWDP, and make sure you see the databse missing there :
Xdb.Collection.Shard0
Xdb.Collection.Shard1
Reporting
Sometimes, if you have tried the installation script more than once, you can have some undesired behavior. You are possibly trying to go forward with the wrong certificates. Also, some services were actually created on previous installation attempts.
Here is what I think should help you get through.
Clean your workspace
Remove your databases that are related to the installation if exists.
Remove your certificates (using certlm -> you can type in your windows search bar "cert" and then you should be able to pick "Manage computer Certificate".
On the left sidebar, Click on Personal > Certificates.
Remove your installation-related certificates
nameOfYourInstallation.identityserver
nameOfYourInstallation.sc
nameOfYourInstallation.xconnect
Open your Windows Services Manager (you can type in your windows search bar "services" and select the services app)
You should be able to see those services :
Sitecore Marketing Automation Engine - nameOfYourInstallation(might be one of your previous install)
Sitecore Processing Engine - nameOfYourInstallation
Sitecore XConnect Search Indexer - nameOfYourInstallation.
Write those down. Keep your service app open.
Using NSSM (probably installed already from some of your previous installed, if not, can use chocolatey ( https://chocolatey.org/packages/NSSM ) remove those services.
in a cmd : nssm remove serviceName
Note that you can remove them by right clicking etc. I just prefer the nssm way.
When its done, restart your computer (some services and in a state of removal, that needs a restart to be completely removed)
Try to install again.
Hope it helps, cheers !
I’m currently running window 7, ACF 11, and IIS 7 and would like to install Lucee express to try.
I’m having the hardest time getting Lucee to work on my local desktop. I followed this article http://www.gpickin.com/index.cfm/blog/setting-up-lucee-in-my-dev-environment-changing-ports I can’t get the Lucee welcome page to work.
I download the Lucee Express from here http://lucee.org/downloads.html
I extract the file to C:\lucee
Ran the C:\lucee\bin\startup.bat
Navigated to 127.0.0.1:8888
I get the follow message: Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at 127.0.0.1:8888
Can someone tell me what am I doing wrong? Thank you in advance for your insights.
As identified in the comments on the question: you are missing the environment variable pointing to your Java runtime (you need one of JAVA_HOME or JRE_HOME.
This can be achieved in one of a coupla ways.
Set it globally:
Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Environment Variables > System Variables > New...
Or set it for just that environment by editing the startup.bat file you've already been using:
SET JAVA_HOME=[path]
In both situations you need a path to either a JRE or a JDK. You say you have CF11 already installed, so you can simply point to its one, which will be a subdirectory of your CF install, as Leigh points out above. So something like:
SET JRE_HOME=D:\apps\Adobe\ColdFusion\11\express\jre
If you have a Java JDK installed instead and want to use that, use JAVA_HOME instead of JRE_HOME, eg:
SET JAVA_HOME=D:\apps\Oracle\Java\jdk\1.8.0_60
As these things can be installed anywhere, you'll just need to locate 'em and use the path accordingly. You want to point it to the top level directory of your JRE or JDK, which contains the bin subdirectory.
We have an application which shows up as an Excel ribbon.
We have installed the application in our test environment through administrator login. We are trying to make a per machine installation.(Please note that in production environment, the installation will be through system account).
When we login as user to the same PC, we don't see the excel addin in the Excel ribbons. We don't see the addins anywhere in the list of addins as well.
We have tried using Active setup,Userstat,setting the values of properties as ALLUSERS=1, RegisterForAllUsers= True, InstallScope= perMachine, InstallAllUsers = Everyone, RunActionsAsInvoker = True . Also the privileges has been changed from user to admin in all the cutom actions and in manifest file as well. All these changes where made as we understood that the application used to package is Addin express and so the msi creation with privileges as admin is possible.
Unfortunately none of these changes seems to help us.
What we would need is an msi which we can install on per machine basis.
From the situation mentioned in the question, we had tried a lot of options and finally following approach works for us:-
Create a package which would place a powershell shortcut in the startup folder.
The shortcut would in turn call or execute a powershell script.
The powershell script would
1. check if the registry key for that particular add-in is available in HKCU.
We had our registry key as "HKCU\Software\Manufacturer Name\Product Name" which in turn had a string value "Installed".
If the registry key is not available for the user, then install the package with tranform.
3.If the registry is already available, then script doesn't make any change.
The package is installed as an Admin and once the user logs in, then automatically the cmd file is executed and the add-in is installed.
Since this was the first version of the product, we didn't have to handle version compatibility.
I am currently automating the deployment of my applications database via command line using SqlPackage.exe, but unable to find a way to update the version of my Data-Tier Application
(Development, of course...)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh550080%28v=vs.103%29.aspx
I am using the /Action:Publish to push my newly built *.dacpac, but version always remains at v1.0.0.0, if this is not possible? How about how to change an ExtendedProperty?
I just want to have a reference to what version is installed by looking at the database.
Any Ideas?
Including
/p:RegisterDataTierApplication=true
as part of the command line is what worked for me to have SqlPackage.exe update the version stored in data-tier metadata with the version of the DACPAC being published.
In my testing, I've found that setting RegisterDataTierApplication to true is performing an upgrade if the target database is already registered. Essentially, this property tells SqlPackage.exe that the DACPAC should be published as a data-tier package, as opposed to just publishing any changed objects (and therefore causing drift).
So, the full command that I use is
SqlPackage.exe /a:publish /tcs:<target connection string> /sf:<DACPAC file path> /p:RegisterDataTierApplication=true /p:BlockWhenDriftDetected=false
(I found that I had to include /p:BlockWhenDriftDetected=false because SqlPackage.exe was returning an error that it detected drift, even though /a:deployreport did not report any drift.)
On your database project go to project settings, there is a section Output types, click on the properties button below "Data-tier Application (.dacpac) file):
In this dialog you can set the version number that then gets deployed, you can then query this information from:
SELECT TOP 1000 [instance_id]
,[instance_name]
,[type_name]
,[type_version]
,[description]
,[type_stream]
,[date_created]
,[created_by]
,[database_name]
FROM [msdb].[dbo].[sysdac_instances]
I have access to a remote Solaris terminal which crashes occasionally, and I have to ask someone with physical access to boot the machine up, which it does successfully. I would like to know which tools/files should I look at to find out the cause of the crash so that I can make the necessary configuration changes and avoid it in the future.
What tools you can use will depend on what version of solaris you have running and what the actual problem
is. The first thing to do is check the system console (which it sounds like you don't have access to) and the /var/adm/messages file. This file is updated with system messages and the newest will appear at the end.
Next, you can look for a system core file. If a core file is created, it would be in /var/crash/hostname where "hostname" is the name of the machine.
If you have an actual core file in the /var/crash/hostname directory, this set of commands will give you a good
string to search google with:
# cd /var/crash/hostname
Replace "hostname" with the hostname of your machine.
# mdb -k unix.0 vmcore.0
If you have multiple core files, select the most recent version.
> ::status
This should give you a panic message, cut and paste that into google and see what you can find.
For more core file analysis read this:
http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=965