I guess each person has their preferred method. I found that Openedge displayed the status of each of the app servers more easily than the PET. I also used to find that the snapin would crash a fair bit. Needless to say that's why I'm using Openedge Explorer. The only thing I have not been able to get working is having mutiiple progress hosts in one Openedge Explorer view. We are pretty much back to one app server so the unc issue is not going to be a problem for us.
Thanks for your feedback.
Thanks for your feedback.
--- In vantage@yahoogroups.com, Ned wrote:
>
> I ran into this very issue, but thought it was a quirk just at the one place
> I ran into it.
>
> This is one reason why I still prefer to use the PET instead to manage
> appservers and do any updates to their settings whenever possible.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vantage@yahoogroups.com [mailto:vantage@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of
> s1mhall
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 6:56 AM
> To: vantage@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Vantage] OpenEdge Explorer AKA Fathom with Network Load Balanced
> Environment
>
> Hi,
> For sake of finding a better place to put the following information I
> thought I would post it here for posterity and perhaps it may help someone.
>
> During the upgrade process in the virtual environment I had difficulty
> updating BPMs as per the instructions when I was testing with the
> training/education database. I found that a new folder was being created on
> the same disk the Epicor905 folder resides with the name of the server.
> Underneath that folder I found a new Epicor905\BPMExec\ folder. It had me
> wondering for quite a while.
>
> The answer presented itself when I was looking at the propath value of the
> agent for the EpicorTrain905 Application server. It was displaying the
> paths with one slash i.e. \servername and not \\servername. We are using
> UNCs as we are using Network Load balancing we are using UNCs to refer to a
> single location to store the BPMs on the main interactive application server
> (as per the virtualization config document).
>
> It turns out that if you edit the agent with OpenEdge Explorer and save it,
> it replaces the double slash with one slash in the ubroker.properties file.
> The next time the app server is started and you attempt to recompile your
> BPMs it creates the folder. Very weird. Needless to say after a bit of
> testing you can edit propath manually and it appears to function correctly
> after a restart. If the app server is running and you save the file it
> causes a warm restart or the such. It adds an alert into the console when
> this occurs. I would suggest it might not be the right way to go about it
> and of course I am happy listen to the opinion of someone with more app
> server management experience.
>
> For what it's worth we have now gone to a single physical machine with app
> server and sql on the same hardware due to performance issues. We have seen
> a dramatic improvement in i/o but not so much in cpu. So I guess I'll never
> see the issue again as we are now using explicit paths in our propath
> config.
>
> I hope someone finds this useful.
>
> Cheers
> Simon Hall
>
>
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