At a customer, I recently had a case where a mass-import job was executed on an interface that, in the background, uses Alfresco for document and metadata storage. From the point of view of the interface team, there was no problem as documents were properly being created in Alfresco (although performance wasn’t exceptional). However, after some time, our monitoring started…
The emdef is a command line utility used to make various modifications to job definitions in the Control-M/EM database. we saw how emdef can help to manage Calendars and Folders, today it the Jobs turn so let’s deep in 😉 The emdef need some parameters which vary according to the method to be executed, methods related to Jobs management are:…
The application support informed me that their jobs are not running anymore. When I started the analysis, I found that all activated jobs did not start for a few weeks. First of all, I decided to work on a specific job which is not one from application team but where I know that I can start it several times without…
A few weeks ago, I had a task to add a new CS into already HA environments (DEV/TEST/PROD) to better support the load on these environments as well as adding a new repository on all Content Servers. These environments were installed a nearly two years ago already so it was really just adding something new into the picture. When doing…
A correct configuration of Documentum jobs is paramount, that’s why it is the first thing we do after the docbase installation. A few days ago, I configured the jobs on a new docbase using DQL, and I got an error because a job is locked by the user dmadmin. The error message was: DQL> UPDATE dm_job OBJECTS SET target_server=’ ‘…
A few weeks ago at a customer, our team was involved in a security control. We tracked files with 777 permission and we detected that logs generated by Documentum jobs have 777 permissions. Security before anything else, that’s why this topic was my top priority! First of all, I checked the logs on some Content Servers, and I had the…
The Documentum job dm_FTIndexAgentBoot does not start anymore and we have the following job status: The job object indicated the job was in progress. In this blog posting, I will describe how to analyze and solve this issue. Analysis The Index Agent does not start automatically when the repository is started although the option start_index_agents = T in server.ini is…
