ISE and capturing web traffic logs

We have guests that visit our office and connect to the Guest WiFi. We want to implement ISE for the self-sign in portal. That would help us determine the user and accept the legal terms without involving IT.
When a guests logs in and surfs the web, We want to track which websites they go to for legal purposes and hold that information for 18 months. I am not sure how I can achieve this part.
The guests may visit it us 1 or 2 times every 6 months so using WSA with AD auth, for example, would not be ideal and that's why we like the ISE portal.
We are using Cisco 5500 WLC's.
Any help is appreciated.

By the way, i feel the document example is a bit too general. For example, if you implement the document, ISE will do web authentication and redirection even when you are using a 802.1X client and are authenticated (and you have no other rules in your Autorization sequence table)
I managed to prevent this by adding an additional condition to the first rule "MAC not known" that has the CentralWebAuth policy. Only do webautentication if MAC not known AND Wired_MAB is being used.

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ISE and central web authentication

Hello all,
I have followed the steps in this document in detail:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps11640/products_configuration_example09186a0080ba6514.shtml
however, my central authentication does not work. I get to the guest portal, i get authenticated through the guest portal,
but then the "second" MAB authenticatino doesn't happen.
In the last screencapture of the document, you get a green "Dynamic Authorization" line (third line from below). On my system
this is a red line with the error message "11213 No response received from Network Access Device".
(i have a successfull guest authentication in my ise logs, but it seems ise is unable to bounce or initiate the second MAB....)
Any ideas ?
regards,
Geert

By the way, i feel the document example is a bit too general. For example, if you implement the document, ISE will do web authentication and redirection even when you are using a 802.1X client and are authenticated (and you have no other rules in your Autorization sequence table)
I managed to prevent this by adding an additional condition to the first rule "MAC not known" that has the CentralWebAuth policy. Only do webautentication if MAC not known AND Wired_MAB is being used.

WLC 7.5 Sleeping clients with ISE and Central WEB Auth(CWA)

Hi there,
Is it possibe to use sleeping clients when using ISE and CWA?
I was thinking of enabling layer3 auth with web auth on mac auth failure, but will that work with CWA?
Or is the only solution to use LWA?

Controller-> General-> User Idle Timeout (seconds) = 50 000 sec.
And your users will be connected all this time even if they going in sleepmode
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Log and capture, Someone has logged and captured whole tape

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How to Sync clock on WLC ISE and AD

Hi there,
I am stuck in NTP, deployed WLC CWA using ISE that is integrated with AD. I tried using AD as NTP source but no luck(universal fact that Cisco uses NTP where as Microsoft uses SNTP).
The issue is, if time is not synced between WLC, ISE and AD; web redirection stopped working and no authentication takes place.
I tried installting Meinbergglobal NTP software to distribute time to my Cisco devices. It does work with Cisco devices but it acts as master and do not sync its own time with AD.
I am trying to figure out a way to sync Cisco with Microsoft, is there any way in this world to do so???
Please help..
Thanks in advance

You mean I should sync AD and all my cisco devices with global NTP server?
Yes and no. If you know your network well, doing this is a pain in the proverbial backside because you have to open firewall rules to everyone going out to the global NTP server.
The smart thing to do is what George has described. You select a few (between two to four) to go out to the internet to synchronize. Normally I would nominate our core routers do this. Next, all our distribution switches and core switches synchronize to our core routers. All our servers, PCs, printers, WLC, switches sychronize to our distro switches.

Build and Capture - waiting to install

I am using SCCM 2012 RTM and have started seeing an issue with our Build and Capture Task Sequence. When performing a build and capture the system will not install anything for a day or so and anything that is advertised to it gets stuck in a "Waiting
to Install..." status in the Software Center UI.
When looking at the execmgr log for the client I see the following items that stick out to me:
<![LOG[On policy activation ignore disabled policy Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Program]LOG]!><time="10:53:36.947+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="2" thread="3956"
file="execreqmgr.cpp:7489">
<![LOG[Mandatory execution requested for program Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Program and advertisement CM120000]LOG]!><time="10:53:36.947+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1"
thread="2512" file="execreqmgr.cpp:3533">
<![LOG[Creating mandatory request for advert CM120000, program Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Program, package CM100003]LOG]!><time="10:53:36.947+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context=""
type="1" thread="2512" file="execreqmgr.cpp:3658">
<![LOG[Program Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Program change to state WAITING_ENABLED]LOG]!><time="10:53:36.979+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="2512"
file="executionrequest.cpp:4618">
<![LOG[Execution Request for advert CM120000 package CM100003 program Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Program state change from NotExist to WaitingDisabled]LOG]!><time="10:53:36.979+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr"
context="" type="1" thread="2512" file="executionrequest.cpp:503">
<![LOG[Raising client SDK event for class CCM_Program, instance CCM_Program.PackageID="CM100003",ProgramID="Configuration Manager Client Upgrade Program", actionType 1l, value , user NULL, session 4294967295l, level 0l, verbosity 30l]LOG]!><time="10:53:36.979+300"
date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="2512" file="event.cpp:410">
<![LOG[Policy arrived for child program insNCR-MPOSUIControls-1.0]LOG]!><time="10:57:50.240+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3996" file="execreqmgr.cpp:6847">
<![LOG[Raising client SDK event for class NULL, instance NULL, actionType 6l, value , user NULL, session 4294967295l, level 0l, verbosity 30l]LOG]!><time="10:57:50.287+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context=""
type="1" thread="3956" file="event.cpp:410">
<![LOG[Mandatory execution requested for program * and advertisement CM120006]LOG]!><time="10:57:50.865+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="execreqmgr.cpp:3533">
<![LOG[Raising client SDK event for class NULL, instance NULL, actionType 6l, value , user NULL, session 4294967295l, level 0l, verbosity 30l]LOG]!><time="10:57:51.037+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context=""
type="1" thread="3996" file="event.cpp:410">
<![LOG[Creating mandatory request for advert CM120006, program *, package CM10001F]LOG]!><time="10:57:51.053+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3956"
file="execreqmgr.cpp:3658">
<![LOG[Policy arrived for child program insRCS-FLIB_2_PlatformRuntime-5.5.5007]LOG]!><time="10:57:51.084+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3996" file="execreqmgr.cpp:6847">
<![LOG[The created request is a Task Sequence request]LOG]!><time="10:57:51.115+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="execreqmgr.cpp:1065">
<![LOG[Execution Request for advert CM120006 package CM10001F program * state change from NotExist to WaitingDependency]LOG]!><time="10:57:51.678+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1"
thread="3956" file="executionrequest.cpp:503">
<![LOG[Raising client SDK event for class CCM_Program, instance CCM_Program.PackageID="CM10001F",ProgramID="*", actionType 1l, value , user NULL, session 4294967295l, level 0l, verbosity 30l]LOG]!><time="10:57:51.678+300"
date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="event.cpp:410">
<![LOG[An existing MTC token was not supplied, using ExecutionRequest's Id as MTC token and this execution request is the owner of resultant MTC task.]LOG]!><time="10:57:52.443+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr"
context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="executionrequest.cpp:8829">
<![LOG[Request a MTC task for execution request of package CM10001F, program * with request id: {7BCB5674-DC91-49D8-9C52-0765E9D86984}]LOG]!><time="10:57:52.443+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context=""
type="1" thread="3956" file="executionrequest.cpp:8848">
<![LOG[Execution Request for advert CM120006 package CM10001F program * state change from WaitingDependency to Ready]LOG]!><time="10:57:52.443+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1"
thread="3956" file="executionrequest.cpp:503">
<![LOG[Raising client SDK event for class CCM_Program, instance CCM_Program.PackageID="CM10001F",ProgramID="*", actionType 1l, value , user NULL, session 4294967295l, level 0l, verbosity 30l]LOG]!><time="10:57:52.443+300"
date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="event.cpp:410">
<![LOG[MTC task with id {7BCB5674-DC91-49D8-9C52-0765E9D86984}, changed state from 0 to 1]LOG]!><time="10:57:52.443+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="2932"
file="execreqmgr.cpp:6268">
<![LOG[Raising client SDK event for class NULL, instance NULL, actionType 6l, value , user NULL, session 4294967295l, level 0l, verbosity 30l]LOG]!><time="10:57:52.959+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context=""
type="1" thread="3996" file="event.cpp:410">
<![LOG[Policy arrived for child program insRCS-Software_Retrieval_Agent_TAB-5.4.1]LOG]!><time="10:57:53.053+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1" thread="3996"
file="execreqmgr.cpp:6847">
<![LOG[MTC queeued a task for SWD execution request with program id: *, package id: CM10001F for execution.]LOG]!><time="10:57:53.068+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context="" type="1"
thread="2932" file="execreqmgr.cpp:6481">
<![LOG[Package CM10001F, program * is ready but can not be started because package , program is currently running.]LOG]!><time="10:57:53.068+300" date="01-23-2013" component="execmgr" context=""
type="1" thread="2932" file="executionrequest.cpp:9083">
When I use the same Task Sequence (or any other deployment) on a system built from our old .WIM created with the same Build and Capture Task Sequence they always install immediately. I am thinking it has something to do with the default SCCM Client
upgrade package available by default, but I had our SCCM owner verify that has been disabled in the hierarchy.
The deployments are set to ignore maintenance windows and things of that nature. It appears to be an issue with the agents state when it comes up out of the build process. It checks in with the Site and processes assignments for Compliance (DCM)
without issues as well. The build and capture new WIM/System builds just seem to not want to install anything.
What makes this issue even more odd is that if I leave the system on for several days sitting at the "Waiting to Install..." state, the agent finally works out whatever issue it is stuck on and begins to work without issues. If I don't use
the WIM for several days after it was created, the WIM will also stop experiencing the issue too.
Has anyone else run into this too? This was working a couple months back and I went to create a new WIM in December and it hasn't work correctly since.
Thanks..Jon
Jon Kaloz

I have identified the source of the problem, but no solution yet. The blocking program is found under SMS_MaintenanceTaskRequests in the local client WMI Namespace Root\CCM\SMS_MaintenanceTaskRequests. The GUID that is found in there has
a matching TaskID to a TaskID found in the SMSTS from the Build and Capture Task Sequence logs.
This is found in the SMSTSLog from the Build and Capture process showing the same Task GUID referenced (followed by a failure I cannot find good info on). C:\SMSTSLog\SMSTS.log
<![LOG[Set command line: "C:\_SMSTaskSequence\OSD\CM100035\ccmsetup.exe" /useronly /source:C:\_SMSTaskSequence\OSD\CM100035 /config:MobileClient.TCF /status:644]LOG]!><time="14:21:37.225+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook"
context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="commandline.cpp:705">
<![LOG[Executing command line: "C:\_SMSTaskSequence\OSD\CM100035\ccmsetup.exe" /useronly /source:C:\_SMSTaskSequence\OSD\CM100035 /config:MobileClient.TCF /status:644]LOG]!><time="14:21:37.225+300" date="01-24-2013"
component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="2132" file="commandline.cpp:801">
<![LOG[Process completed with exit code 0]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.568+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="2132" file="commandline.cpp:1098">
<![LOG[Install succeeded. Blocking other instances of ccmsetup.]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.568+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:1215">
<![LOG[Installed Client]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.568+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:1273">
<![LOG[Start to cleanup TS policy]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.568+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="utils.cpp:2773">
<![LOG[TS Deleted 0 instances]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.600+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="utils.cpp:2816">
<![LOG[TS Policy cleanup done]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.600+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="utils.cpp:2817">
<![LOG[End TS policy cleanup]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.600+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="utils.cpp:2821">
<![LOG[Setting variable to indicate a client installation was done]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.600+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:1284">
<![LOG[Registering the task sequence with the execution manager in the newly installed operating system.]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.615+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0"
thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:915">
<![LOG[Active request handle is empty, registering with new active request handle. This is expected if the TS was started from a media/PXE.]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.615+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook"
context="" type="2" thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:918">
<![LOG[Saving the new active request handle for the task sequence: {01DE9356-CDBD-4051-B465-F87886A61BF5}]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.615+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1"
thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:931">
<![LOG[Failed to create instance for IMTCTokenHandler interface, hr=0x80070005]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.662+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132"
file="installclient.cpp:949">
<![LOG[Waiting for ccmexec process to start]LOG]!><time="14:23:30.662+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:950">
<![LOG[CoCreateInstance succeeded]LOG]!><time="14:24:00.678+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:961">
<![LOG[Succesfully registered the tasksequence with the execution manager]LOG]!><time="14:24:00.678+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="2132" file="installclient.cpp:994">
<![LOG[Command line for extension .exe is "%1" %*]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.693+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132" file="commandline.cpp:228">
<![LOG[Set command line: "C:\Windows\system32\_SMSOSDSetup\TsProgressUI.exe" /Unregister]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.693+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="0" thread="2132"
file="commandline.cpp:705">
<![LOG[Executing command line: "C:\Windows\system32\_SMSOSDSetup\TsProgressUI.exe" /Unregister]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.693+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1"
thread="2132" file="commandline.cpp:801">
<![LOG[==========[ TsProgressUI started in process 3912 ]==========]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.850+300" date="01-24-2013" component="TsProgressUI" context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="winmain.cpp:329">
<![LOG[Unregistering COM classes]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.850+300" date="01-24-2013" component="TsProgressUI" context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="winmain.cpp:204">
<![LOG[Shutdown complete.]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.850+300" date="01-24-2013" component="TsProgressUI" context="" type="1" thread="3956" file="winmain.cpp:512">
<![LOG[Process completed with exit code 0]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.850+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="2132" file="commandline.cpp:1098">
<![LOG[Successfully unregistered TS Progress UI.]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.850+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="2132" file="utils.cpp:2075">
<![LOG[Moving logs to SMS client directory]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.850+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="2132" file="basesetuphook.cpp:1356">
<![LOG[LOGGING: Resetting log path.]LOG]!><time="14:24:01.850+300" date="01-24-2013" component="OSDSetupHook" context="" type="1" thread="2132" file="tslogging.cpp:1803">
These are the contents of the maintenancecoordinator.log showing the Task with the same GUID starting, but never registering a completion. After 12 hours (43200 second timeout) it will finally continue on and work as it should.
<![LOG[Removing tasks for agent "RebootCoord".]LOG]!><time="14:23:46.662+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context="" type="1" thread="536" file="taskqueue.cpp:727">
<![LOG[Removing tasks for agent "RebootCoord".]LOG]!><time="14:23:55.912+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context="" type="1" thread="4084" file="taskqueue.cpp:727">
<![LOG[Adding task for client "tasksequence": id - "{01DE9356-CDBD-4051-B465-F87886A61BF5}", pri - 0, service window - 0, max time for sw - 43200.]LOG]!><time="14:24:00.678+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator"
context="" type="1" thread="2556" file="taskqueue.cpp:259">
<![LOG[Signaled task '{01DE9356-CDBD-4051-B465-F87886A61BF5}' (agent 'tasksequence').]LOG]!><time="14:24:00.678+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context="" type="1" thread="2556"
file="taskqueue.cpp:1344">
<![LOG[Done scheduling task. Winning task '{01DE9356-CDBD-4051-B465-F87886A61BF5}' (agent 'tasksequence')]LOG]!><time="14:24:00.678+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context="" type="1"
thread="2556" file="taskqueue.cpp:1261">
<![LOG[Task "{01DE9356-CDBD-4051-B465-F87886A61BF5}" (agent 'tasksequence') is reporting back on starting.]LOG]!><time="14:24:00.678+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context=""
type="1" thread="2556" file="taskqueue.cpp:399">
<![LOG[Successfully started task '{01DE9356-CDBD-4051-B465-F87886A61BF5}' (agent 'tasksequence').]LOG]!><time="14:24:00.678+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context="" type="1"
thread="2556" file="taskqueue.cpp:1517">
<![LOG[Removing tasks for agent "RebootCoord".]LOG]!><time="14:27:36.544+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context="" type="1" thread="2464" file="taskqueue.cpp:727">
<![LOG[Removing tasks for agent "RebootCoord".]LOG]!><time="14:53:27.219+300" date="01-24-2013" component="MaintenanceCoordinator" context="" type="1" thread="3820" file="taskqueue.cpp:727">
I am not sure why the task is still hanging around on the system after the build and capture sequence completes. There are no errors during the B&C TS and I have removed everything from it as well to only be an OS install with no changes.
Jon Kaloz

Web Services logging

Hi,
There is no log and trace records are available under the Web Services Log Viewer in a CE System
NWA> SOA Management >Logs and traces > Web services logging and tracing
what are to be checked and why it's not showing .
Thanks in ton

Hi,
Check the logs in NWA > Prblem Mgmt > Logs & Traces > Deafult Trace
Regards
Priya

ISE for Guest Auth but need traffic logs

We have guests that visit our office and connect to the Guest WiFi. We want to implement ISE for the self-sign in portal. That would help us determine the user and have them accept the legal terms without involving IT.
When a guests logs in and surfs the web, We want to track which websites they go to for legal purposes and hold that information for 18 months. I am not sure how I can achieve this second part.
The guests may visit it us 1 or 2 times every 6 months so using WSA with AD auth, for example, would not be ideal and that's why we like the ISE portal.
We are using Cisco 5500 WLC's.
Any help is appreciated.

If your guests surf through an ASA firewall, you can send that firewall syslog to ise, and ise will correlate the logs with the guest users that are logged in, so you can track activity in ise. There is a report that is called something like "Guest Activity" where this will get collected.

Is there any way to log web traffic information of the users with RV082 router ?

Dear all,
I just bought a RV082 router. I can't find any way for logging the web traffic of the users.
Can it be done with the router ?
Thanks
Fabio

Hello,
If I am not mistaking the best you can do is to send syslog traffic to a server or locally (to a server being preferred) .
But you are going to see stuff like this:
30>Aug 3 22:12:40 2005 gw RGFW-OUT: ACCEPT (TCP 192.168.1.111:2101->212.5.219.46:80 on ppp0) [0,0]
<30>Aug 3 22:12:40 2005 gw RGFW-OUT: ACCEPT (TCP 192.168.1.111:2102->81.0.235.240:80 on ppp0) [0,0]
<30>Aug 3 22:12:40 2005 gw RGFW-OUT: ACCEPT (TCP 192.168.1.111:2103->81.0.235.251:80 on ppp0) [0,0]
<30>Aug 3 22:12:41 2005 gw RGFW-OUT: ACCEPT (TCP 192.168.1.111:2104->212.5.219.46:80 on ppp0) [0,0]
<30>Aug 3 22:12:41 2005 gw RGFW-OUT: ACCEPT (TCP 192.168.1.111:2105->81.0.235.250:80 on ppp0) [0,0]
<30>Aug 3 22:12:41 2005 gw RGFW-OUT: ACCEPT (TCP 192.168.1.111:2106->212.5.219.46:80 on ppp0) [0,0]
You will need an external device to make this happen, Having a proxy server such as Squid would do it for you and not just that but will optimize the newtork :)
Regards,
Jcarvaja
CCIE 42930

Muting Log and Capture

Hey web, I haven't found anything confirming the ability to mute premiere during the capture of a DV tape. I've lived with this reality forever, but I find it hard to believe I'm not over looking something.. Does anyone have a suggestion on how I might be able to mute premiere as an application all together, or more specifically just the playback of the capture..
iMac 10.10.1
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Log and Capture via firewire from DV Camera

This is very confusing. I don't understand the last sentence.
You list an MBP and a G5 as computer. FCP7 does not run on a G5, so let's just focus on the MBP.
Please give the complete configuration, what drives, how they're formatted, and exactly how everything is connected. What settings are on your media and what settings are you using in FCP?

Unable to Log and Capture AND make FCP a boot disk

I am unable to go into Log and Capture mode in FCP 4. I can capture from firewire using I movie just fine so I know the sytem works. The minute I open Log and Capture from within FCP (with the JVC Mini-DV camera hooked up thru Firewire), it crashes. Help. I upgraded from FCP 3 to FCP 4 a couple years ago and it hasn't worked right since. Would re-installing the FCP 4 upgrade work? Also, my system works very sluggish. Please explain to me how I would make the veersion of FCP 4 my boot disk. I realize that I can't have the FCP 4 application and the media on the same drive but is there a way to partition one of my drives and make FCP one of the startup disks? Hope this isn't too confusing. Thanks.

First off, FCP 4 was darn unstable. FCP 4.5 is a free upgrade and is STILL the most stable version out there. FCP 5 is getting there.
Secondly, try:
Shane's Stock Tip Mantra: If the program was working fine, and now isn't, or just isn't working the way it should, the first things to do are:
1) Trash your FCP preferences. Download the appropriate version of FCP Rescue at http://fcprescue.andersholck.com/ and run it.
2) Open the Disk Utility and Repair Permissions.
As for partitioning the hard drive, that isn't necessary. Hasn't been since FCP 3.
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Capture Web Cam image in APEX and Upload into the Database

Overview
By using a flash object, you should be able to interface with a usb web cam connected to the client machine. Their are a couple of open source ones that I know about, but the one I chose to go with is by Taboca Labs and is called CamCanvas. This is released under the MIT license, and it is at version 0.2, so not very mature - but in saying that it seems to do the trick. The next part is to upload a snapshot into the database - in this particular implementation, it is achieved by taking a snapshot, and putting that data into the canvas object. This is a new HTML5 element, so I am not certain what the IE support would be like. Once you have the image into the canvas, you can then use the provided function convertToDataURL() to convert the image into a Base64 encoded string, which you can then use to convert into to a BLOB. There is however one problem with the Base64 string - APEX has a limitation of 32k for and item value, so can't be submitted by normal means, and a workaround (AJAX) has to be implemented.
Part 1. Capturing the Image from the Flash Object into the Canvas element
Set up the Page
Required Files
Download the tarball of the webcam library from: https://github.com/taboca/CamCanvas-API-/tarball/master
Upload the necessary components to your application. (The flash swf file can be got from one of the samples in the Samples folder. In the root of the tarball, there is actually a swf file, but this seems to be a different file than of what is in the samples - so I just stick with the one from the samples)
Page Body
Create a HTML region, and add the following:
    <div class="container">
     <object id="iembedflash" classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0" width="320" height="240">
          <param name="movie" value="#APP_IMAGES#camcanvas.swf" />
          <param name="quality" value="high" />
          <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" />
          <embed allowScriptAccess="always" id="embedflash" src="#APP_IMAGES#camcanvas.swf" quality="high" width="320" height="240"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" mayscript="true" />
    </object>
    </div>
<p><a href="javascript:captureToCanvas()">Capture</a></p>
<canvas style="border:1px solid yellow" id="canvas" width="320" height="240"></canvas>That will create the webcam container, and an empty canvas element for the captured image to go into.
Also, have a hidden unprotected page item to store the Base64 code into - I called mine P2_IMAGE_BASE64
HTML Header and Body Attribute
Add the Page HTML Body Attribute as:
onload="init(320,240)"
JavaScript
Add the following in the Function and Global Variable Declarations for the page (mostly taken out of the samples provided)
//Camera relations functions
var gCtx = null;
var gCanvas = null;
var imageData = null;
var ii=0;
var jj=0;
var c=0;
function init(ww,hh){
     gCanvas = document.getElementById("canvas");
     var w = ww;
     var h = hh;
     gCanvas.style.width = w + "px";
     gCanvas.style.height = h + "px";
     gCanvas.width = w;
     gCanvas.height = h;
     gCtx = gCanvas.getContext("2d");
     gCtx.clearRect(0, 0, w, h);
     imageData = gCtx.getImageData( 0,0,320,240);
function passLine(stringPixels) {
     //a = (intVal >> 24) & 0xff;
     var coll = stringPixels.split("-");
     for(var i=0;i<320;i++) {
          var intVal = parseInt(coll);
          r = (intVal >> 16) & 0xff;
          g = (intVal >> 8) & 0xff;
          b = (intVal ) & 0xff;
          imageData.data[c+0]=r;
          imageData.data[c+1]=g;
          imageData.data[c+2]=b;
          imageData.data[c+3]=255;
          c+=4;
     if(c>=320*240*4) {
          c=0;
          gCtx.putImageData(imageData, 0,0);
function captureToCanvas() {
     flash = document.getElementById("embedflash");
     flash.ccCapture();
     var canvEle = document.getElementById('canvas');
     $s('P2_IMAGE_BASE64', canvEle.toDataURL());//Assumes hidden item name is P2_IMAGE_BASE64
     clob_Submit();//this is a part of part (AJAX submit value to a collection) two
}In the footer region of the page (which is just a loading image to show whilst the data is being submitted to the collection [hidden by default]) :<img src="#IMAGE_PREFIX#processing3.gif" id="AjaxLoading"
style="display:none;position:absolute;left:45%;top:45%;padding:10px;border:2px solid black;background:#FFF;" />If you give it a quick test, you should be able to see the webcam feed and capture it into the canvas element by clicking the capture link, in between the two elements - it might through a JS error since the clob_Submit() function does not exist yet.
*Part 2. Upload the image into the Database*
As mentioned in the overview, the main limitation is that APEX can't submit values larger than 32k, which I hope the APEX development team will be fixing this limitation in a future release, the workaround isn't really good from a maintainability perspective.
In the sample applications, there is one that demonstrates saving values to the database that are over 32k, which uses an AJAX technique: see http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/developer-tools/apex/application-express/packaged-apps-090453.html#LARGE.
*Required Files*
From the sample application, there is a script you need to upload, and reference in your page. So you can either install the sample application I linked to, or grab the script from the demonstration I have provided - its called apex_save_large.js.
*Create a New Page*
Create a page to Post the large value to (I created mine as 1000), and create the following process, with the condition that Request = SAVE. (All this is in the sample application for saving large values).declare
     l_code clob := empty_clob;
begin
     dbms_lob.createtemporary( l_code, false, dbms_lob.SESSION );
     for i in 1..wwv_flow.g_f01.count loop
          dbms_lob.writeappend(l_code,length(wwv_flow.g_f01(i)),wwv_flow.g_f01(i));
     end loop;
     apex_collection.create_or_truncate_collection(p_collection_name => wc_pkg_globals.g_base64_collection);
     apex_collection.add_member(p_collection_name => wc_pkg_globals.g_base64_collection,p_clob001 => l_code);
     htmldb_application.g_unrecoverable_error := TRUE;
end;I also created a package for storing the collection name, which is referred to in the process, for the collection name:create or replace
package
wc_pkg_globals
as
g_base64_collection constant varchar2(40) := 'BASE64_IMAGE';
end wc_pkg_globals;That is all that needs to be done for page 1000. You don't use this for anything else, *so go back to edit the camera page*.
*Modify the Function and Global Variable Declarations* (to be able to submit large values.)
The below again assumes the item that you want to submit has an item name of 'P2_IMAGE_BASE64', the condition of the process on the POST page is request = SAVE, and the post page is page 1000. This has been taken srtaight from the sample application for saving large values.//32K Limit workaround functions
function clob_Submit(){
          $x_Show('AjaxLoading')
          $a_PostClob('P2_IMAGE_BASE64','SAVE','1000',clob_SubmitReturn);
function clob_SubmitReturn(){
          if(p.readyState == 4){
                         $x_Hide('AjaxLoading');
                         $x('P2_IMAGE_BASE64').value = '';
          }else{return false;}
function doSubmit(r){
$x('P2_IMAGE_BASE64').value = ''
     flowSelectAll();
     document.wwv_flow.p_request.value = r;
     document.wwv_flow.submit();
}Also, reference the script that the above code makes use of, in the page header<script type="text/javascript" src="#WORKSPACE_IMAGES#apex_save_large.js"></script>Assuming the script is located in workspace images, and not associated to a specific app. Other wise reference #APP_IMAGES#
*Set up the table to store the images*CREATE TABLE "WC_SNAPSHOT"
"WC_SNAPSHOT_ID" NUMBER NOT NULL ENABLE,
"BINARY" BLOB,
CONSTRAINT "WC_SNAPSHOT_PK" PRIMARY KEY ("WC_SNAPSHOT_ID")
create sequence seq_wc_snapshot start with 1 increment by 1;
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER "BI_WC_SNAPSHOT" BEFORE
INSERT ON WC_SNAPSHOT FOR EACH ROW BEGIN
SELECT seq_wc_snapshot.nextval INTO :NEW.wc_snapshot_id FROM dual;
END;
Then finally, create a page process to save the image:declare
v_image_input CLOB;
v_image_output BLOB;
v_buffer NUMBER := 64;
v_start_index NUMBER := 1;
v_raw_temp raw(64);
begin
--discard the bit of the string we dont need
select substr(clob001, instr(clob001, ',')+1, length(clob001)) into v_image_input
from apex_collections
where collection_name = wc_pkg_globals.g_base64_collection;
dbms_lob.createtemporary(v_image_output, true);
for i in 1..ceil(dbms_lob.getlength(v_image_input)/v_buffer) loop
v_raw_temp := utl_encode.base64_decode(utl_raw.cast_to_raw(dbms_lob.substr(v_image_input, v_buffer, v_start_index)));
dbms_lob.writeappend(v_image_output, utl_raw.length(v_raw_temp),v_raw_temp);
v_start_index := v_start_index + v_buffer;
end loop;
insert into WC_SNAPSHOT (binary) values (v_image_output); commit;
end;Create a save button - add some sort of validation to make sure the hidden item has a value (i.e. image has been captured). Make the above conditional for request = button name so it only runs when you click Save (you probably want to disable this button until the data has been completely submitted to the collection - I haven't done this in the demonstration).
Voila, you should have now be able to capture the image from a webcam. Take a look at the samples from the CamCanvas API for extra effects if you wanted to do something special.
And of course, all the above assumed you want a resolution of 320 x 240 for the image.
Disclaimer: At time of writing, this worked with a logitech something or rather webcam, and is completely untested on IE.
Check out a demo: http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=trents_demos:webcam_i (my image is a bit blocky, but i think its just my webcam. I've seen others that are much more crisp using this) Also, just be sure to wait for the progress bar to dissappear before clicking Save.
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Hmm, maybe for some reason you aren't getting the base64 version of the saved image? Is the collection getting the full base64 string? Seems like its not getting any if its no data found.
The javascript console is your friend.
Also, in the example i used an extra page, from what one of the examples on apex packages apps had. But since then, I found this post by Carl: http://carlback.blogspot.com/2008/04/new-stuff-4-over-head-with-clob.html - I would use this technique for submitting the clob, over what I have done - as its less hacky. Just sayin.

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