Cisco Access Registrar ODBC connection

I have enabled 8 ODBC connections for my accounting packets in CAR 4.1.2 and they are not utilized falling into a lot of ODBC timed out. I have played around with the timeouts but no result.
What is you ideas?

Cisco AR supports Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), an open specification that provides application developers a vendor-independent API with which to access data sources. Cisco AR provides a new type of RemoteServer object and a new service to support ODBC. You can use Cisco AR to authenticate and authorize access requests by querying user information through ODBC.
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/sw/netmgtsw/ps411/products_user_guide_chapter09186a008043fd38.html

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Cisco Access Registrar (CAR) UserList, dashboard status unavailable

Hello, all,
I need help. I am observing weird problem with Cisco Access Registrar cluster workin on MySQL cluster. I do not see any users or sessions in the GUI dashboard or in the CLI stats.
Environment:
Master/Slave replicated CAR cluster on RHEL 5 32-bit servers
CAR version: 5.0.0.8
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--> count-sessions /radius all
No active sessions found in /Radius/SessionManagers
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Please be so kind and look at my issue. I am aware that there was similar bug that has not been fixed yet, as listed here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/access_registrar/5.1/release/notes/51relnot.html#wp321968
CSCte77779
In GUI, user session graph is not getting plotted with more sessions in database.
Symptoms: In GUI, user session graph is not getting plotted with more sessions in database.
Conditions:
This occurs when you:
1. Install Cisco AR server.
2. Send a valid request.
3. Create a million session.
4. Launch GUI.
Workaround: None.
however, my problem seems a little bit 'expanded', since I cannot see either userlists through GUI or CLI (and I KNOW that there is tens of thousands of users in the MySQL database), nor I can see any users or sessions listed neither in GUI nor in CLI.
I have been sniffing MySQL requests towards the sql (odbc) server, but I have not noticed anything relevant for querying for UserList, nor have I noticed any other queries except when authenticating users. Accounting logs are being collected properly, though.
Thanks for all and any that spared time to read this, and if possible, help me solve my problem. If you need more details on my problem/environment, please ask.
Best regards
Luciano

Hello, all,
I need help. I am observing weird problem with Cisco Access Registrar cluster workin on MySQL cluster. I do not see any users or sessions in the GUI dashboard or in the CLI stats.
Environment:
Master/Slave replicated CAR cluster on RHEL 5 32-bit servers
CAR version: 5.0.0.8
RHEL version: Linux version 2.6.18-164.el5PAE ([email protected]) (gcc version 4.1.2 20080704 (Red Hat 4.1.2-46)) #1 SMP Tue Aug 18 15:59:11 EDT 2009
MySQL version: 7.1.15-1 ndb cluster
ODBC sessions are working properly. Users from BRAS are being provisioned, at the moment I have about 20 users logged onto the network, authenticated and authorized. However, I do not see any users in the Dashboard's userlist, nor do I see any sessions although some surely exist. In the CLI, when I try to count sessions I see:
--> count-sessions /radius all
No active sessions found in /Radius/SessionManagers
In the GUI, there are no sessions nor users shown, there is none listed. I have been checking logs and traces, but to no avail, I do not see any misconfiguration hint or other clue that would indicate problems with configuration.
Please be so kind and look at my issue. I am aware that there was similar bug that has not been fixed yet, as listed here:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/net_mgmt/access_registrar/5.1/release/notes/51relnot.html#wp321968
CSCte77779
In GUI, user session graph is not getting plotted with more sessions in database.
Symptoms: In GUI, user session graph is not getting plotted with more sessions in database.
Conditions:
This occurs when you:
1. Install Cisco AR server.
2. Send a valid request.
3. Create a million session.
4. Launch GUI.
Workaround: None.
however, my problem seems a little bit 'expanded', since I cannot see either userlists through GUI or CLI (and I KNOW that there is tens of thousands of users in the MySQL database), nor I can see any users or sessions listed neither in GUI nor in CLI.
I have been sniffing MySQL requests towards the sql (odbc) server, but I have not noticed anything relevant for querying for UserList, nor have I noticed any other queries except when authenticating users. Accounting logs are being collected properly, though.
Thanks for all and any that spared time to read this, and if possible, help me solve my problem. If you need more details on my problem/environment, please ask.
Best regards
Luciano

Cisco Access Registrar 5 : What design or requirements for active/ active deploiement

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Thank You

user7378475 wrote:
I have configured MSAccess 2007 on my laptop with a ODBC data source to my Oracle Database and I can link to tables in the Oracle database and everything works.
I have placed the Access Database on a 64 bit server running Window 2003 r2 Enterprise x64 edition.
I have both the 32 bit Oracle 10g client and the 64 bit client installed on the machine.
I have configured a 32bit ODBC data source using the 32 bit Oracle ODBC driver.
When I click on the test connection button while setting up the data source it reports "Connection Successful"
I have configured the registry entires (for 32 bit and 64bit) with TNS_ADMIN =the location where we have our sqlnet.ora and tnsnames.ora files.
These files were configured to support the applications which run on this same server and they all function properly.
When I attempt to create a link table in Access, I select the datasource and I enter the password I receive an ORA-12154 error.
Any suggestions ?
Thank YouProbably looking at the wrong tnsnames.ora.
Or your sqlnet.ora doesn't match the other with regard to DEFAULT_DOMAIN
Or your password has an "@" in it.
http://edstevensdba.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/ora-12154tns-03505/

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Odbc-connection with ms-access

hello,
this is my problem
if I migrate an MS Access db to Oracle with the OMW than is the ODBC connection, from MS Access to Oracle, perfect.
Bud I have used the migration script witch is generated by OMW and by made a connection from MS Access to Oracle in some tables the ODBC connection Failed.
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Thanks
Andre

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I am trying to access via linked tables from Access 2007 my ODBC connections.
I am able to setup and test successfully in the ODBC Data Source Administrator my Data source, and Driver(Oracle in OraHome92), and I used this successfully when I had Access 2003 on this PC.
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error - call failed:
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Fatal NI connect error 12560, connecting to:
(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=BEQ)(PROGRAM=oracle)(ARGV0=oracleORCL)(ARGS='(DESCRIPTION=(LOCAL=YES)(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=beq)))'))(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=ORCL)(CID=(PROGRAM=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSACCESS.EXE)(HOST=USRN4WNCNH6DDQG)(USER=fznp29))))
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TNS for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
Oracle Bequeath NT Protocol Adapter for 32-bit Windows: Version 9.2.0.1.0 - Production
Time: 05-DEC-2008 11:38:05
Tracing not turned on.
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nr err code: 0
ns main err code: 12560
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ns secondary err code: 0
nt main err code: 530
TNS-00530: Protocol adapter error
nt secondary err code: 126
nt OS err code: 0
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Hi,
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What did you specify for the TNS Service Name?
What is the content of your TNSNAMES.ORA file?
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OK,
the first reply will be from me :)
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Hi everyone,
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I'm trying to get this issue figured out. Can you
tell me what you mean when you ask me to log in
directly as the same user using ODBC and query
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TechNet Community Support

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