Dollar Universe Installation

Firewall ports: TCP and UDP?

Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:41:06 +0200

The default TCP-ports for communication between nodes are: 10600 to 10615 (within the same company).
For additional modules other ports need to be open: for example: 13250 to 13262 (SAP manager).

My question is the following: Is there also need to allow the UDP protocol or only the TCP-protocol?

Solved : $U Installation with Solaris RBAC

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:50:35 +0200

We are new to $Universe and our security team have specified the use of RBAC to restrict the $U users and tools. We will create a new group and users for installing and running $U.

I'm assuming the "install and run" user or users need full access to the $U directories and the ability to execute external processes that will be controlled, for example Oracle sqlplus or netbackup. However has anyone done this before and is there any guidance out there on privileges that need to be assigned to avoid us hitting pitfalls that others have already fixed?

Thanks in advance

Solved : Dollar Universe on Windows 2008 64b

Thu, 15 Jul 2010 12:18:20 +0200

Hello,

This topic was raised in the French speaking section and I believe it should be shared by everyone.

By default, Dollar Universe runs in 32b compatibility mode on Windows 64b. This feature is called WoW64 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WoW64).
When a process runs that way, some workarounds are used so that 32b programs find their data where they need it.

For instance, in WoW64 mode (32b compatibility):
- c:\windows\system32 points to directory c:\windows\syswow64\, which contains the 32b compatibility libraries and 32b binaries
- %PROGRAMFILES% points to c:\program files (x86)\

So, if you do { dir c:\windows\system32 } or { dir "%PROGRAMFILES%" } from a 32b command line (running c:\windows\syswow64\cmd.exe) or from a 64b command line (running c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe), the results will differ.

The SERVICE64 is a special qualifier which can be used on some DU updates, only with the agreement of ORSYP Tech Support, to install the submission services (the well-known "Univer$e username" services ) called "64bits". Then, Uproc scripts run in DU inherit the native 64b environment (and not the 32b compatibility environment from WoW64).

An example:
- a Uproc script run by a 32b submission user (default) sees in c:\windows\system32\ what is in c:\windows\syswow64\
- a Uproc script run by a 64b submission user sees in c:\windows\system32\ what is really in c:\windows\system32\

This matters for some binaries which only exist in one of the folders, like "defrag.exe" (c:\windows\system32\defrag.exe exists, but c:\windows\syswow64\defrag.exe does not). Because of this, without the 64b user services, it is impossible to run this binary without copying it to c:\windows\syswow64\.

Today, DU generic supervision meets the same issue, but there is no workaround to have it run in 64b mode. It has to run in 32b compatibility mode, so it cannot access the true content of folder c:\windows\system32\; seeing instead the content of c:\windows\syswow64\. It is possible to use the UXSPV_MSGJOB variable (in uxsetenv.bat in folder mgr and the 2 .DEF files in the exec folder) to specify the script path (see section "Generic supervision in Windows" in the "Administration guide" ).

Solved : How to add new node.

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 15:20:29 +0200

Hi all,

I have $U installed on two servers (windows machines) with same definitions :

-> Same company name on each server
-> Same version : 5.3.3
-> Same port numbers in services files

Let's say my servers names are : server1 & server2. I want to be able to run some uprocs installed on server1 on server2.

I've started defining each node in uxsrsrv.sck file on each server. But I'm not able to see the distant node when I run $U desktop. Is there any more actions required to be able to see the nodes in each server.

Thanks & Regards,

Solved : $universe Installation "Windows 7"

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:36:31 +0200

Hello,

I want to install $universe in Windows 7, has anyone installed it ?, is it supported for windows 7 ? and what for version ?

Thanks

Youssef

Start sequence of services in Windows before starting $U

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 15:18:54 +0100

After changing a server's hardware to a faster one we encountered problems with the start of $U processes.

They seem to be faster than some of the OS's services. DollarUniverse did not work correctly and had to be restarted.

Did anyone already have the same problem?

How did you solve that?

We already have a delay of 5 minutes defined:
REM Service Timeout 5 min.
reg add \\%computername%\HKLM\system\currentcontrolset\control /v ServicesPipeTimeout /t REG_DWORD /d 300000 /f

Regards
Monika

An incident is opened in parallel
DUS533 with FX24750, SAPJCS44

Dollar Universe working with 2 PeopleSoft Process Scheduler

Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:37:33 +0100

Hello,

We will have in our Company a possible architecture review that could affect Dollar Universe architecture. (Due to the upgrade of PeopleTools 8.49 to PeopleTools 8.50).
Today we have one PeopleSoft Process Scheduler on MS Windows 2003 OS, but tomorrow we could choose the option to have 2 PeopleSoft Process Schedulers, one on MS Windows 2003 and the other one on Oracle Enterprise Linux 5.

I precise that we will choose if this modification of architecture will happen to install Dollar Universe on Oracle Enterprise Linux OS.

What I would like to know is :
- Is Dollar Universe 5.3.3 certified with OEL5 ? (I think yes because I've already heard that Dollar Universe certification is based on Kernel and not a specific version of Linux)
- How will Dollar Universe recognize the 2 Process Schedulers ? will the fact to just precise the PS_HOME make the possibility to schedule process on the 2 process Scheduler ?
- During installation of $U Manager for PeopleSoft we need to specify process executables files location, but if we have 2 separate process scheduler on 2 different Server/OS how will it be setup ?

Thanks by advance for your help/information.

Solved : Why do we need uxsrsrv.sck?

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:12:04 +0100

Hi gurus,

The installation process always creates a file called uxsrsrv.sck, in which it has one lonely line in the following format:

Q1: Would we ever see multiple lines in that file? I can see if you have multiple nodes running on the same host, you would. But one would install the clustered nodes in a different directory any way, so it has its own uxsrsrv.sck anyway.

Q2: Would we see any other other than the name of the host? What I'm after is that, can we use localhost as ?

Solved : tcp Port

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:58:33 +0100

Hi,

For port configuration,

- I need to know each port detail.
- What is the minimum port requirement?
- I have seen for different installation the same port start with 10 and in other installation is 12.
Example
IO 10600
IO 12600

What is the different between those ports?

Mohammed

Solved : Installing on Windows machine and node name capitalization

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:19:45 +0100

Does it matter when installing $Universe on a windows machine whether the node name is all capital letters? I've run into the problem where it is installed in all upper case letters, but when I try to create a management unit, it only finds it if the node name is in lower case. This tends to lead to other problems, such as provoking tasks from other servers.

Solved : Error while invoking an Unix script.

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:05:28 +0100

Hello ,

I am encountering the following error while calling an Unix script in an internal script of an Uproc:-

aCC runtime: Uncaught exception of type "std::basic_string,std::allocator >". (rethrow)
/bo/bodi/scripts/launchJobDefault_INT.sh[50]: 9522 Abort(coredump)

Could any one please throw some light on the above error . Thanks a lot in advance.

Going in to the further details , I am trying to launch a BODI (Datawarehousing ETL) job from an internal script of a UPROC by using the following command :-

/bo/bodi/scripts/launchJobDefault_INT.sh Job_Staging_BCTLOG

The content of the script "launchJobDefault_INT.sh" is as follows:-
################################################################################
##############################################
# This script will launch a BODI job with any parameters provided #
# #
# Usage: LaunchJobDefault_INT.sh NameOfJob NameOfVariable="ValueOfVariable"; #
# Example: LaunchJobDefault_INT.sh JOB_STG_FDROWVI G_SETDATE="11.05.2009";G_FileNameIn="/bo/bodi/inputfiles/fraude/test.txt"; #
# #
################################################################################
##############################################

#!/usr/bin/ksh

################### Parameter check ##########################
if [ $# -eq 0 ];
then
echo $0 parameter JOBNAME needed.
exit
fi

################### Variable Initialisation ##########################
JOBSERVER=JS_XIR2_Amidala_INT
SERVER=amidala.unix.banksys.be
DATABASE=dwint1.unix.banksys.be
REPOSITORY=bodir2_intrep
LOGIN=BODIR2_INTREP
PASSWORD=XXXXXXX
CONFIG=INT
EXECTIME=`date "+%Y%m%d_%H%M%S"`
JOBNAME=$1
shift
JP_TEMP=$*
JOBPARAM="-GV\""
MONITOR=`echo "/bo/bodi/log/$JOBSERVER/$DATABASE _$REPOSITORY/$JOBNAME $EXECTIME monitor.txt" | tr ' ' '_' `
TRACE=`echo "/bo/bodi/log/$JOBSERVER/$DATABASE _$REPOSITORY/$JOBNAME $EXECTIME trace.txt" | tr ' ' '_' `
ERROR=`echo "/bo/bodi/log/$JOBSERVER/$DATABASE _$REPOSITORY/$JOBNAME $EXECTIME error.txt" | tr ' ' '_' `
COUNT=1
bIFS=$IFS
IFS=";"
export IFS

################### Parameter transformation to BODI standards ##########################
for i in $JP_TEMP
do
JOBPARAM="$JOBPARAM\$$i;"
done
IFS=$bIFS
JOBPARAM="$JOBPARAM\""
#echo $JOBPARAM

################### Job Execution ##########################
. /bo/bodi/bin/al_env.sh
/bo/bodi/bin/al_engine -s$JOBNAME -S$DATABASE -NOracle -PLocaleUTF8 -U$LOGIN -P$PASSWORD -CtBatch -Cm$SERVER -CaAdministrator -Cj$SERVER -Cp3503 -T14 -Ksp$CONFIG -LocaleGV -w"$MONITOR" -l"$TRACE" -z"$ERROR" -r10000 $JOBPARAM

Solved : Dollar Universe and DMZ

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:51:30 +0100

Hi,
Which ports do we have to open on a firewall, if we want that two nodes $U (same company and same port 10600) connected in two different DMZ communicate?
Should we open all the range between 10600-->10615?
Thanks

Solved : $U servers communication when of different release

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 12:03:33 +0200

Hi,
Can two servers with different dollar universe version (5.1.3 and 5.3.3) communicate of it is recommended that these two servers have the same version?
Thanks.

Solved : Dollar Universe nodes communication / $U Company / TCP/IP ports

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 11:53:57 +0200

Hi,

Can two nodes with different SOCIETE names and different ports communicate?
Should I absolutely use the same SOCIETE name and port for these two nodes to communicate?

Thanks in advance.

Solved : Windows environment variables in universe.def

Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:55:58 +0200

At Total, we have aproximately 100 windows servers with $U installed.
The problem is that they aren't installed the same way. Most of them use the F:\apps-drive to host the software, but
a few newer systems don't have the F-drive.

Can a system environment variable (eg DU_ROOT point to c:\apps) be used by the script universe.def (in %uxexe%) and
SCHD1O.def (also %uxexe%, and SCHD1O being our environment) ?

Don't lose sleep over it during the WE

Installation 5.3.3

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 14:55:22 +0100

Hi ,
Does anyone already installed version 5.3.3 on a server running version 5.1.3 on a windows 2003 server.
Special things to look at ?
Problems ?

thx

Solved : Silent installation how to?

Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:45:46 +0100

Hi ,

I need to do a fresh installation , any body can help me with a sample / template for install.dft file.

Mohammed

Solved : Moving DollarUniverse Development installation to another server

Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:52:16 +0200

Hi ,
I would like to move the $Universe Development installation to another server.
How do i go about this ?

Solved : Unknwon file "dollaru_evt.log"

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:28:50 +0200

hello,
the $U Server is an AIX host.
In the "/tmp" - directory I found a file "dollaru_evt.log".
That file prints "jobheader" informations, like: start-/end-time and the status
Does anyone know something about this file: creation process etc.???

Thank you all
Michael

Solved : Libraries for File Transfer Manager

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:33:50 +0200

Hi !

I want to install the file transfer manager v2 on DUSv53.
According to readme.txt file, the following dynamic libraries must be present on unix systems :

libcrypto, version 0.9.8, installed on /usr/local/ssl/lib (except for tru64)
libssl, version 0.9.8, installed on /usr/local/ssl/lib (except for tru64)
libssh2, version 0.18, installed on /usr/local/lib
libz, version 1.2.3, installed on /usr/local/lib

Where can I find those libraries?

Thank you

Solved : $U and SAPAgent with AIX 6.1 (job submission issue)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 11:07:37 +0200

Hello,

on a AIX V6.1 mashine i installed

$U V523 with FX24515, FX24543
SAPAgent V4.0

when i launched a job against the defined SAP system an error returned in the "universe.log":

<< 2008-05-28 10:40:18 0286758/uxstr /u_getserv_c_43 /000000000 - ERROR: cannot find the port number for Company : [testcompany] node : [testnode], server [129] area [X]
<< 2008-05-28 10:40:18 0286762/uxjobend /u_getserv_c_43 /000000000 - ERROR: cannot find the port number for Company : [testcompany] node : [testnode], server [129] area [X]

i think the $U Server cannot connect to SAPAgent; but i don't know why?
i edited the uxsapagt.host, exsrsrv.alias, /etc/services

has anyone any idea?
thank you for your help

Michael

Solved : Linux - Start $U under a different shell such as "sh"

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:42:16 +0200

Hi,

I am experiencing an issue on Linux that after testing shows it is a ksh issue. I would like to start $U under a different shell such as sh and see if my problem goes away.

Have anyone done that and know the steps?
I am guessing that uxsetenv_sh must be renamed as uxsetenv.
But what about the batch envelop script ($UXEXE/u_batch), shall it be changed as well?

Thanks
MU

Solved : Silent installation on Unix & Windows

Thu, 24 Apr 2008 11:54:51 +0200

Hello,

in our company we will have to deploy $Universe on Unix and Windows boxes.

Is it possible to run silent installations to make the process easier?

And then any help on how to do it would be greatly appreciated