Advice On Drobo or DroboPro? LR24 Mac Asset Management
Anyone have problems with Drobo or DroboPro?
I have 2+TB of images, that is growing and will continue to do so.
Thinking of a solution where I use my internal HD (2.7TB Raid 5) for active clients / jobs and then using a Drobo or DroboPro for less active or archived clients / jobs. Also, will get a 2nd one to backup whole thing (Internal HD + active Drobo or DroboPro).
1. concerned about iSCSI - anyone have any experience - speed or connection issues
2. concerned about DroboPro since its new - any experiences out there?
3. concerned about configuration - is this the best way to go or are there better solutions that anyone is using for large image solutions?
I welcome any input great or small.
Thank you,
Stewart
Thanks Ian.
The link was helpful but as always I want more:) would be nice to hear experiences from people who have deployed DroboPro and how its working. Throughput sounds elusive.
I ordered the DAM book, it will be here on Tuesday and I'm hoping it helps out a lot on my other questions asset management - looks like a good one.
Thanks again for taking the time to help me.
Stewart
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Bridge for data asset management?
I've been looking for a while for a 'simple' data asset management application.
What it should be able to do or have is:
1. a simple interface, manageable by anyone.
2. both mac and windows compatible
3. drag and drop facilitated for both images AND their description into inDesign.
Why?: we work for a large mall group, that produces some 20 large folders a year. No need to say we have built up an image database of thousands of items, most of which are reused regularly. Locating them for use in a new folder is not such a problem in itself; but reusing the text is. Each time, our client provides more or less the 'same' texts and prices (they retype them), which means that all texts, whether they have been published 10 times before or not, always have to be reread, reviewed by a copywriter, and on top of that, retranslated (in Belgium, you always need editions in Dutch and French). This is a silly and costly situation.
I love to use Expression Media for comparing pictures, and it's drag and drop capable - for picutres - not for text. Bridge doen't seem to do the job either, and it's not an actual database.
So is there a simple way or application (affordable) to get over this problem, without the need of some complicated Unix-based, nerd-interfaced server?So is there a simple way or application (affordable) to get over this problem, without the need of some complicated Unix-based, nerd-interfaced server?
Did you tried to explore Canto Cumulus ?
They have two editions, the 'single user' (very affordable) and a more complex build to order. When you have many users on different locations or use over a network it might be to complex for the single user version I'm afraid ;-( -
Integrating barcode asset management and LR
I have discovered to my delight that you can integrate Lightroom and barcode based print asset management. This is a way to:
automate the printing of labels for images without any rekeying of information, and
automate the process of finding the image from which a print was made
Why do this? You may sell prints or just make them for your own pleasure. It is good practice to provide some labelling of prints so you (or the buyer) knows what they are looking at. It can be helpful to be able to quickly find the source image of a print. Of course you can just include the filename in the label and type it in to find the source image. But the labels produced look a bit messy with a sometimes arbitrary filename stuck in there. An option is to include a neat barcode on the label. You can then use your webcam to read the label and direclty insert the filename in the LR search field. Presto! Up pops the image from which the print was made.
Caveat: Apologies to Mac users, I have only worked this out on a PC. I'm sure there are substitutes for each of the things I've used.
What you need to do this [on a PC]:
Lightroom (LOL)
LR/Transporter (incredibly useful for many things)
Excel (optional but part of my workflow)
A way to print labels with barcodes. I use a cheap Brother label printer which comes with the P-Touch Editor software.
A webcam
Webcam barcode reader software. I use bcWebCam which is free
How I do it:
I'll sketch how I do it with the specific gear I have and then suggest how you may get by with other gear.
Simplest workflow:
Set up LR/Transporter to export a summary file from image exports that includes all the fields you may want on your label (including filename of course). Format for comma delimited a CSV file with a header line to define the exported fields. This is saved and reused as an export preset. Routlinely I can then select the images I am printing and export them to a dummy folder which I use for the purpose of transferring Image information.
I use my label printer software with a template that merges the CSV file data onto a label, with the filename printed as a QR barcode. I generally put one label directly on the print reverse and, if framed, another on the frame rear. With high quality art prints I only do the latter to avoid any possibility of problems of with the adhesive discolouring the paper obverse. Here's an example.
Having previously installed bcWebCam, if I need to find an image that needs a bit of a search (only likely if I've not worked on it recently), I load bcWebCam while LR is running, place my mouse cursor in the search field in the library view (having selected the root of my catalogue), and hold the print label in front of the web cam. Presto! bcWebCam inserts the filename in the search field and up pops the image in LR!
In reality, I use excel as an intermediary to read the LR/Transporter data and reformat some items. One reason is the GPS information exported by LR/Transporter has some weird characters in it and they need to be cleaned out. Characters with accents or umlauts also need some special treatment. Excel also lets me define how many of each label I want printed... The label printer software reads the excel file as a database and allows printing of the required number of labels.
If you are interested in this solution you are likely to have tens or hundreds of thousands of images in which case camera generated filenames will not be unique. I add a month and year in import and conversion to DNG into LR to ensure filenames are unique. There are a range of other work-arounds that may suit your workflow better. But remember, you need something that LR will find in a single search. It may be you create a unique identifier in a EXIF or IPTC field - this will work too... Some smart bunny may point out to me there is some foolproof automatic unique identifier for each image built into LR which can be accessed and exported but I am not aware of it. I guess image creation time (to the second) comes pretty close but I cannot see how to search on this from a search field entry...
Where you may need to find some workarounds:
If you are on a PC, the one thing that is not available on the net is the barcode label printer. In the past I used to print labels on multi-label sheets with a laser printer. It's not obvious to me how to translate the unique image identifier into a barcode for this approach but I'm sure there will be one out there. But I came to the conclusion that a dedicated "on demand" label printer would save a huge amount of messing around. I think the Brother model I use is about US$79 which doesn't exactly break any bank. And the continuous paper roll I use means labels end up about 2.5 cents a pop... What makes this or even the more capable models (with auto-cutters) such a great deal is the P-touch sofware which does do all the linking of database to label and info field to barcode. This is worth the price alone I reckon. There are other free and for-fee webcam barcode readers out there too; the one I've noted works for me...
This may sound pretty complex to set up. But the reality is, once export, database and print templates are in place, it's all automatic.Hi,
Great use of LR/Transporter
The strange characters result from the fact that LR/Transporter outputs files with a UTF-8 encoding. You need to be able to read that so see them. Most applications can read UTF-8 nowadays.
Tim -
Hi everyone.
I'm currently outlining and storyboarding a (perhaps overly ambitious) project on modern cosmology. It will consist entirely of found media. I've now gathered about 600 or so images, a very large number of publicly available lectures and interviews (audio from which will be used as the narration), movies and animations and computer simulations, as well as music, of course. All these assets currently live, unprocessed, in different places. The images are in iPhoto, the lectures and movies are in a single folder in an external HD, etc...
After finishing the broad outline of the film and ordering my general concepts into a linear narrative, I expect to hit a bit of a snag. I need a way to manage all of these assets together in the same place, to attach descriptive text to each piece of media, and to organize it all in a way that will let me group different types of media together.
For example, for each lecture (most of which are about an hour long), I'll be taking snippets of audio from different places in the lecture, and editing them into different places in the film. I want to be able to go through each one and extract my chosen snippet and save it somewhere I can annotate it and group it with the relevant images and video.
I have never undertaken a project this big, and the asset management needs are markedly different from my projects in high school where I just dumped everything in FCP's bin and dragged what I needed into the timeline. In order for the narrative to emerge as coherent and well-woven, I'll need a way to assemble and organize and play around with synthesize all these hundreds of disparate pieces of media well before opening Final Cut. Or, perhaps are FCP users who have undertaken a similar project with lots of found media and think that FCP's bin/media manager are robust enough to meet these needs? Unfortunately I can't figure it out for myself just yet because after backing things up with Time Machine for the first time, FCP is now asking me to reenter my serial number which I've (hopefully temporarily) lost and am trying to find.
Anyone have advice? Please let me know if I can clarify anything else about my project and needs.
Thanks.maybe, such a simple consumer-level solution is enough for your needs?
http://www.aquafadas.com/en/idive-digital-video/index.php
they offer a free trial .. -
Aperture as a Multi-User Digital Asset Management Tool
Does anyone have any experience using Aperture in a multi-user environment? I'm trying to compare it to Cumulus by Canto which is designed as a multi-user tool.
I realize that each user would have a copy of Aperture on their Mac, but are there other issues that are not such as multi-variable searching capabilities of one versus the other. My gut tells me that Cumulus is more robust and can handle much larger libraries as well as all types of digital data and can search within document such as InDesign for a particular image.
Thanks
--MitchThere is no possible way you can use Cumulus and
actually save money.
I don’t expect to save money. I expect to save time finding info, and avoiding duplication of almost everything we have
Stepping into digital asset management is a far bigger
issue than your boss can imagine. Try not to take this
personally, but your initial question about using
Aperture as an enterprise or workgroup DAM suggests you
have no idea what you're suggesting or possibly getting
into. Canto is all smoke and mirrors unless you can
afford the training and have dedicated, competent and
engaged support personnel.
Nothing taken personally. The question was asked because management is promoting Aperture as the end-all and be-all of imagement, whereas I’m looking for a tool to manage all our documents
Before you go much further, you need to understand
databases and you need to understand that DAM's return
on investment is not about saving money, it's about
preventing the spending of money; a huge difference and
there are few mgrs who can parse that difference from
the sales hype. Buy a copy of "The DAM Book" and try to
get someone to explain databases, cataloging
applications and server-based storage to you.
I understand databases quite well, but I will get a copy of the book you mentioned. I am running an Xserve in my environment, so I do understand servers and OS X Server.
I wish you tremendous luck and hope your experiences
are better than most of the Canto customers I have ever
met, including me. You just have no idea how expensively
wrong your decision to employ Cumulus could turn out to
be. Not that it's a bad product (although we thoroughly
despise it); it's sold as a miracle. Cumulus is a
supremely complex (not necessarily complicated),
over-designed and totally un-Macintosh application.
What version of Cumulus are you using, and why are you so unhappy with it? May I contact you off line to discuss this?
Thanks for the reply
—Mitch -
Hi all
Has anyone setup ARD Server to be a succesful and reliable Asset Management tool, recording changes in software, configuration (e.g. OS X version), allocation (e.g. moving a Mac from one person to another) ?
Is it true you can extend ARD to use MySQL db and PHP? (I thought I had an article on it but can't find it.)
Before I discard ARD 3 and invest in Casper or other such tool, I just want to know it can do what we need.
Welcome any sugegestions and input.
Regards
C.I would not consider ARD to be a true asset management tool in and of itself. It can help gather asset information, but it's tools for manipulating and reporting such data are rudimentary at best. But if you have, or can write, tools that can work with an SQL database, then ARD might be part of a good solution. ARD using PostgreSQL. The schema is detailed in Appendix D of the ARD 3 Administrator's Guide, and outdated but probably still useful information on the general operation can be found here:
http://developer.apple.com/appleapplications/ardsql.html
The Casper suite is definitely more complete as a single solution, though. -
I'm in search of an asset management software for my company, we have about 50 Mac users, 3 Xserve's, 3 RAID's. I want something that I can use to scan the network for Mac Devices (and/or Windows) and provide information about the devices that we can use for asset management, I'm pretty open to whatever you can provide me.
Thanks in advance.
AyokunleAltiris' Client Management Suite has supported OS X as a client for several years now
If that's the case, it would be nice of them to actually tell people on their datasheet.
I always question a company's intent when they can't be bothered to include their Mac client support in their sales propaganda. What do they think they're going to lose by adding it? Are all those Windows users going to suddenly stop using their product just because it supports Macs too? I doubt it. -
Digital Asset Management (DAM)
I'm looking at purchasing software that can act as digital asset management, does Aperture have this ability. Basically I need to store digital images off my of hard drive onto DVD/external drives for archiving and then need to be able to find them again quickly.
I already use Canto Cumulus 6 for this but I have moved on to Intel Mac Pro and need to upgrade, might be time for a change.Any advise is appreciated.
Thanks for the help.
BillBill-
At this point in time Aperture IMO is the best app on the planet for volume DSLR capture management and DAM for folks with adequate Mac hardware (your basic setup qualifies, but if you do buy Aperture you will want one of the better graphics cards available after Expo). After Mac Expo SF is over on January 18th I will have refined my opinion after spending extensive time at the relevant booths on the show floor.
IMO cursory evaluation of Aperture is a waste of time. Without really good competent guidance one usually either totally does not get it and/or simply develops bad habits.
I recommend that folks with adequate hardware (MacIntel, minimum 2 GB RAM, 4+ GB is better) invest time and $33 in Apple Pro Training Series: Aperture 1.5 (Apple Pro Training) by Orlando Luna and Ben Long (Paperback - Oct 2006). It is a training Tutorial, not just a manual; its value is as a tutorial, not as a manual. As you work through the tutorial the various Aperture workflow choices become evident and then you can choose your preferred configuration.
Even if you ultimately choose another app the workflow choices learned working the tutorial are invaluable. Aperture has a free 30 day trial, but have the tutorial CD in hand and RAM installed before downloading the trial so you do not waste time of the trial.
Aperture is hardware-intense and there are routines to learn to optimize speed. A good forum exists at <http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1092>.
Note that Aperture allows a dual laptop/desktop installation and will run on your G4 Powerbook, but marginally. I recommend that you thoroughly learn Aperture and its workflow alternatives on your Mac Pro before trying to implement any workflow that involves the PB. Making dual-computer setups work is tricky, and scaling volumes of images for laptop access is a challenge.
-Allen Wicks -
Mass Video Asset Management in Lightroom 4 - Watch as I Test (Flail and Fumble)
The Project is to: catalog, keyword, manage, rate, and organize over 3400 video clips (AVCHD clips re-wrapped as MOV files) shot in 30 days in Costa Rica. The shoot was purely run and gun -total guerrilla style. As we were unable to do much transfer and review in the field, I came home with a huge project to complete before editing videos. I've limited the choices of software for asset management & organization down to Lightroom 4 or CatDV. Ethically, I feel obligated to say that I"m pulling for Adobe since I use the entire suite, and there are some nice fringe benefits keeping everything "in house,"
First Step: All video files are AVCHD files which are re-wrapped (by ClipWrap) into MOV files. This step is crucial, since AVCHD does not include/store metadata in the video file itself.
Second Step: Files are stored on the MAC-OS level into folders corresponding to the dates the shots were taken
Third Step: Get the 3400+ files organized, weeded, and prepped for editing
@#$!)~*(*&%^ <-- That's what a record scratch looks like in the digital age
I started examining software solutions and gave each a couple of good tries to narrow the choices down to TWO packages of software:
OnLocation - Couldn't feel it and it looks like it's meant to work for a different flow. No.
Cosmos - Couldn't really do much of anything with metadata. No.
Bridge - Almost there, but pretty limited and not dual screen friendly at all. No.
CatDV - Now there you go...almost. Everything is in a catalog meaning you have to go between this software and Premiere. Definite maybe.
Lightroom 4 - Comes with heaps of background in organizing stills, how will it work for massive amounts of video? Definite maybe.
CatDV and Lightroom 4 both imported everything just fine.
I'll post more as I get into it. Soon, if anyone cares to read more.Lightroom 4 has completed the task of importing 3440 video clips. CatDV (fully functional 30 day trial) crashed again on the large import. I'm going to try importing 10 folders at a time in CatDV.
As I start to play in Lightroom4 with asset mgmt:
PROs
Slick relatively tweakable user interface
Keyword buttons are great (wish we could have more on the surface)
Nice "twirl-down" flow that Adobe uses in the product line -I love this
CONs
Lightroom4 video previews are horrifically sluggish at best, and at this point is unusable for a large collection
The scrub over (video thumbnail) preview is a huge resource hog and would benefit from a disable option
Second Monitor pane has some issues/incongruencies with the main monitor pane:
Grid view will not allow multiple files to be graded/keyworded/etc simultaneously
Loupe view will not play video files and treats the video file preview like a photo
This is all for now. More on CatDV when I get it going. -
ZENworks Asset Management 7.5 - Eval Question
We've been trialing several products and on the ZENworks Asset Managment
evaluation we ran into a few problems.
We run a mostly Mac shop. There are a handful of Windows machines and
plenty of Linux (Redhat & Debian) servers to go around.
I've gotten it all installed and installed the client on one of the OS X 10.5
machines. I see the zamclient running but I'm not even seeing the client
attempt to connect via the Collection Servers -> View Detailed Status window.
In the About ZENworks Asset Management withing the manager it has
license information listed as below.
Workstations 1
UNIX/Linux Workstations 0
Asset Inventory Evaluation
Asset Management Evaluation
UNIX/Linux Evaluation
Does that mean it will only find one workstation in evaluation mode and
that's why my other workstation with the zamclient installed won't show
up?
Thanks in advance,
-ChrisOriginally Posted by blcald
Chris,
1st see that the machine conducted an inventory locally on the client. Program files/Novell/Asset Management/bin/Inboxcc/longfilename ending with a wif extension. This doesn't address your issue yet but determine if the client even ran an inventory.
Next run a workstation query with no criteria to see if it shows. If it doesn't I would validate if you have the correct port settings on the client and that it is communicaiton to the collection server. The collection server will aslo have a log (something like collsvrcore and you should see the machine name in there as it talks to the client. If you're in there then determine if you have rights between the DB and collection server correct or that the port settings are correct.
I know this better actually doing than writing it here so others might provide you a more logical approach to troubleshoot. I will check in again later to see how you progressed.
Thanks, Bryant
I do appreciate your response, I'm sure all of that information will come in
handy when I do get a good evaluation license from them that allows Linux
and UNIX support.
I finally reached some folks at Novell and got a little bit of pre-sales support.
From the sound of what they're telling me the evaluation license does not
turn on the linux/unix support and so I couldn't complete my evaluation
with it due to that. I've been working with them to get a more functional
evaluation. -
Data Backup 2.1 and Mac Memory Management?
I'm trialing a backup program called Data Backup 2.1. It keeps versions of my programs, which I need, as often I've had corruptions and have not notice this till a few days after the fact. I've been using Retrospect but read a review that praised Data Backup. The thing I've noticed with it is that although it is very fast, like SuperDuper, it seems to affect my free memory dramatically. I've noticed that it will finish and instead of having say 250 megs of Active memory in use I'll have 700 megs of active memory. Inactive will be low whereas normally its high. Free memory during its backup can drop to 20 megs (I have 1.5 gigs). The free memory, once you start to use your computer seems to recover to around 500 - 700 megs. The one thing I have noticed of concern is that while its running I get pageouts, which I never get and my reading about Mac memory management is you want to avoid pageouts and if you get them you need more memory (for what I'm doing 1.5 gigs should be plenty). I've asked the Data Backup people what's going on and they don't think its something to be concerned about but they said it is probably something to do with the way they are caching.
I'm just wondering - do you think this is something to be concerned about. I'd like to switch from Retrospect as although I know it I'm not sure how committed they are to the Mac market any longer and it is way slower in terms of activities but it does manage memory well. However I don't want to get Data Backup if it is affecting RAM inappropriately.
KerrySynchronize! Pro X will maintain versioned archives, perform full, incremental, and bootable backups both to local and to network devices. I have found that SPX is just about as full-featured as Retrospect with certain limitations. It cannot backup across multiple media (CDs, DVDs, tape), no extensive browser windows like Retrospect, no backups without scanning (as SuperDuper does for its "fast" updating backup.
SPX supports schedules, multiple-item backups (can select individual files and/or folders), extensive backup/synchronize customizations, can run as "root", can auto-mount devices (including network drives), and it's a universal binary.
It's also nearly as expensive as Retrospect but in my opinion it's worth it.
If you want a less costly backup solution without all the features of SPX, but with all the features of SuperDuper (and in my opinion better than SD) then try Deja Vu. Also a universal binary, it supports incremental archives, full, incremental, and bootable backups to local or network drives, supports scheduling and runs as a preference pane.
Finally, for the the truly cheap there are PsyncX and RsyncX - both freeware. They are GUI wrappers around the basic backup and synchronizing tools that are part of Unix (ditto, rsync, and psync.)
Download mentioned software from www.versiontracker.com or www.macupdate.com.
Why reward points?(Quoted from Discussions Terms of Use.)
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Members may reward you with 5 points if they deem that your reply is helpful and 10 points if you post a solution to their issue. Likewise, when you mark a reply as Helpful or Solved in your own created topic, you will be awarding the respondent with the same point values. -
Asset management upgrade to 7.5 from 7.1
During the upgrade, I kept being told that some services are still
running, which is not. Therefore, I could not go further but cancel the
upgrade halfway. And then when I tried to restart the upgrade, the error
I am getting is "database login is currently blocked. Please contact
novell technical support". So I could not go further either. I tried the
tip in this link
(http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/se...i?10098954.htm)
but it does not fix the problem. Here is the log file:
15:05:11 *************************************
15:05:11 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
15:05:11 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP1.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
08:29:43 *************************************
08:29:43 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
08:29:43 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP2.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
09:00:10 *************************************
09:00:11 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
09:00:11 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP3.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
14:31:10 *************************************
14:31:10 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
14:31:10 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP4.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
14:41:32 Performing an Upgrade Installation ...
14:41:32 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
14:43:38 Main Installation Wrapper complete peforming Cleanup ...
14:43:38 *************************************
14:15:21 *************************************
14:15:21 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
14:15:21 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP5.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
14:16:56 Performing an Upgrade Installation ...
14:16:58 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
09:00:51 *************************************
09:00:51 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
09:00:51 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP6.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
09:01:30 Performing an Upgrade Installation ...
09:01:30 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
09:01:31 Logins are currently blocked ...
09:02:03 Logins are currently blocked ...
09:02:18 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:08:16 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:08:18 Main Installation Wrapper complete peforming Cleanup ...
10:08:18 *************************************
10:11:43 *************************************
10:11:43 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
10:11:43 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP7.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
10:13:57 Performing an Upgrade Installation ...
10:13:58 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
10:13:59 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:14:06 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:14:07 Main Installation Wrapper complete peforming Cleanup ...
10:14:07 *************************************
10:22:07 *************************************
10:22:07 Starting Main Installation Wrapper...
10:22:07 Current Main Wrapper temp directory is
C:\DOCUME~1\tmadmin\LOCALS~1\Temp\_ISTMP8.DIR\_IST MP0.DIR\.
10:23:52 Performing an Upgrade Installation ...
10:23:53 Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.760 (Intel X86)
Dec 17 2002 14:22:05
Copyright (c) 1988-2003 Microsoft Corporation
Desktop Engine on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
10:23:54 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:24:05 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:24:06 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:24:07 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:24:11 Logins are currently blocked ...
10:24:29 Main Installation Wrapper complete peforming Cleanup ...
10:24:29 *************************************
Can someone advise what I shall do to fix this problem?
Thank you very very much!dustytrails wrote:
> Can you confirm the version you were upgrading from, the version of MS
> SQL that you using and if you have a backup of the database and
> filestore to recover with please ? You might want to ensure that no
> dependencies were restarting those services without your intervention
> and knowledge.
>
> If you are using any utillities or applications that were talking to
> the database at the time of the upgrade, that might have locked up the
> database and prevented the upgrade from completing. examples are backup
> utilities that backup the database while it's live or data transfer
> utilities that extract data from the database.
>
> That tid usually works for me when things go awry.
>
>
I try to upgrade from version 7.1 to 7.5. The version of MS SQL is
version 8.00.760. What other dependencies could be? I stopped tomcat 5
and all the zenworks asset management services and created the
BypassDBUpgrade registry key following the tid
(http://support.novell.com/cgi-bin/se...098954.htm)and
reboot the machine. But I still get the same error saying database login
blocked after a prior upgrade failure. I looked at the tip of
http://www.novell.com/support/viewCo...0887&sliceId=1
but still do not know what to do. It is very confusing!
I would appreciate it very much if someone can give me some advice on this!
Thank you, -
New GL Environment - Asset Management - Depreciation Areas
Hi Folks
My client currently is on 4.6C R/3 platform. The asset management configuration for Depreciation Areas is such that the area 01 has been assigned to Local GAAP postings and has Real Time Posting flag set to yes. Area 20 has been assigned to IAS, but without Real Time Posting flag.
Going for New GL, the question is does SAP allow Leading Ledger (0L) to have a depreciation area (20 in our case) which is not configured for real time postings while allowing Non Leading Ledger (say X1) to have a depreciation area (01 in our case) which is configured for real time postings.
If SAP allows this, it is OK, we just migrate as it is.
If not, we need to swap configurations between the two depreciation areas and do a de-facto re implementation of AA module as a precursor to New GL migration.
Also, keeping this issue in mind, would it be better/ advisible to go in for New GL migration sometime middle of a year?
Any thoughts/ experiences/ advice on this situation?
Regards
MandarYou can use derived depreciation area concept and can post to different ledgers.
One limitation is that the formula which you give is always 60=01-20 and not 20-01. Here 01, 20, 60 are depreciation areas. 60 is the derived depreciation area which is a standrd delivery.
You are not clear whether are you posting to 20 periodically or not? Or it is for only reporting?.
Assuming you are posting in 4.6C and want to continue the same, you can do so by the derived depreciation area.
You may be needing to configure your system for periodical posting (ASKBN) and you need to use FB50L for postings to specific Ledger or ledger groups. If you want to post all the ledgers same value but for the depreciation, you can use the old transactions.
you run your scenario in sand box and test your self before come to a conclusion.
The scenario what you are referring is a standard functionality. -
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I am looking for ideas/help. I currently have a BB Z10 (10.1.0.2039) with Verizon Wireless. The company has a BB Enterprise Server for older devices (I previously was on that). I bought a Z10 several months ago and have been connecting to the corporate network through Lotus Traveler. They do not have and will not implement a BB 10 Enterprise Server. Some in IT informed that if the company used the BB software they could manage all devices..... not accepted.
All my contacts, calendar, and company email is funneled to the BB Hub.....
So my company is implementing a Mobile Asset Management Service that I have to sign up for (Airwatch?). They only support Android and IPhone.
Will future versions of the BB OS support Android Apps.... Soon (I have less than 2 weeks)
I have read where it is possible to put the device in development mode to run Android Apps. I don't know if that will work with this and have no idea how stable the phone is in that mode. I travel internationally so I don't know how a development mode would work overseas. Any thoughts?
I like my Z10 but will need to switch to keep functionality if I can't find a work around
Any assistance ????
Thanks for any help.Hi and Welcome to the Community!
BB10 devices have the ability to run .apk apps via special methods. Development Mode is used only for installing the app...not for normal operation. So you install (side-load) the app in Development Mode, then go back to normal mode for normal operations.
If a .bar file for the .apk app already exists somewhere, you can side load it to the BB10 device and see if it works or not. If there is not yet any .bar file, there is an app called SideSwype that can convert many .apk apps to .bar and install it to your device.
Good luck!
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Load swf into RAM via an asset manager
Hi.
I have an AS3 virtual world and we are continually loading external resources such as swfs and sounds.
A few of my menu screens that take a damn long time to load. Read a tut that said we should load them into RAM using an asset manager.
I'm assuning the asset manager is simply a Class used specifically for loading and unloading graphics, swfs and sounds. So the important part to ask is:
What do they mean by loading into RAM.
I thought all swfs were automatically loaded into RAM ie: cached or in the flash player cache or the browser cache. Or do I have to do it specifically myself with some code. We are importing external files so we thought that was a great idea as they are shared by many games.
btw: RSLs I have read about but I don't understand. I thought my externally loaded files were RSLs (runtime shared libraries) or would I have to do some physical coding do convert them into RSLs.
This is so important because I am not very experienced but I am getting a lot better due to help receied in this forum and my current programmer is leaving me. I have been studying up on As3 and design patterns and I understand basic coding a lot better now.
CHEERS
EDIT: Just read that I am using a http call. - I use urlloader - well that's what you use isn't it or how would you load an external swf. Just read that you can hold the swf as a variable which loads it in RAM and therefore will be available immediately. Know I don't understand anything as I have never read that anywhere.Hi Andrei, nice to see you around here.
Well, somebody helping me says that normally we make a http request with urlLoader to the server and that is what was happening each time. We weren't getting the cached swf. (that bit I don't understand and doesn't sound right - anyway...)
So he says if we create a dictionary class to hold that swf then the next time we make a request we will get the movie from there and not from the server.
I have highlighted the main parts of code below.
What I don't understand about all this is that I have never seen anything like this in my life. I have read extensively and read all about loading external files and using this type of asset manager with the dictionary class does not ring a bell and goole comes up with nothing.
I hunch is that as you say, we are doing something wrong somewhere because the only way to get an external file is via urlLoader to the server the first time and then the second time it should look for it cached on our computer is that right? Or when we make the urlLoader request how does it know to look on our computer first before going to the server or are these innner workings of the flash player I know nothing about. This is so important as when I get 10 kids on the computers they wait for as long as 5 minutes for movies that have already been downloaded many times before.
Cheers in advance.
package com.Gerry.managers.assetManager
import flash.display.Loader;
public class AssetLoader extends Loader
private var _assetName:String;
public function AssetLoader()
super();
public function get assetName():String
return _assetName;
public function set assetName(value:String):void
_assetName = value;
The asset manager loading class
package com.Gerry.managers.assetManager
import flash.display.Loader;
import flash.display.LoaderInfo;
import flash.display.MovieClip;
import flash.display.Sprite;
import flash.events.Event;
import flash.net.URLRequest;
import flash.utils.Dictionary;
public class AssetManager extends Sprite
public static const ASSET_LOADED:String = "assetLoaded";
private static var _instance:AssetManager;
private var _assetsLoaded:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
private var _assetsBeingLoaded:Dictionary = new Dictionary();
public function AssetManager(pvt:SingletonEnforcer)
* loads and asset and keeps a reference to the loaded content
* @param name
* @return null if the asset is not loaded yet
public function loadAsset(name:String):MovieClip
var asset:MovieClip;
if (_assetsLoaded[name])
asset = _assetsLoaded[name];
else if (_assetsBeingLoaded[name] == null)
var skinloader:AssetLoader = new AssetLoader();
skinloader.assetName = name;
skinloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadCompleteF);
skinloader.load(new URLRequest(name));
_assetsBeingLoaded[name] = true;
return asset;
protected function loadCompleteF(e:Event):void
var skin:MovieClip = e.target.content as MovieClip;
var name:String = ((e.target as LoaderInfo).loader as AssetLoader).assetName;
_assetsLoaded[name] = skin;
delete _assetsBeingLoaded[name];
dispatchEvent(new Event(ASSET_LOADED));
* gets an instance of the class
* @return
public static function get instance():AssetManager
if (_instance == null)
_instance = new AssetManager(new SingletonEnforcer());
return _instance;
internal class SingletonEnforcer
The function inside a class called Screen which is used by menus classes to load their swf menus.
protected function loadSkin(path:String = null):void
trace("skin to load: " + path);
Home.instance.addPreloaderF();
_path = path + Home.instance.cacheString;
if (_usingAssetManager)
loadSkinFromAssetManager();
else
if (_skinloader.content)
_skinloader.unloadAndStop(true);
_skinloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loadCompleteF);
_skinloader.load(new URLRequest(_path));
protected function loadSkinFromAssetManager(e:Event = null):void
_skin = AssetManager.instance.loadAsset(_path);
//if no skin we have to wait to be loaded it
if (_skin == null)
AssetManager.instance.addEventListener(AssetManager.ASSET_LOADED, loadSkinFromAssetManager);
else
AssetManager.instance.removeEventListener(AssetManager.ASSET_LOADED, loadSkinFromAssetManager);
loadCompleteF(null);
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