LiveCycle Form Calling Processes

Hi,
Our application use .Net, LiveCycle form and process management. From form (rendered within .Net application, open by Adobe Pro) calling back end process for validation. Since by default the authentication to process is enabled, I'm trying to find out a way to pass user credential when invoking the process. User logs in from .Net application. Anyone has resolved same issue?
Thanks,
Xiaoying

That can't be true. I created a form using LiveCycle Designer and I can currently see it and fill it in on the reader. I would love to send the form to someone so they can tell me what I did right becuase I can't seem to create any more forms that I am able to view. Is there anyone I can send that file to to have a look at and give me some feedback?

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# Kill form runaway process, using over 95% cpu having no DB session or DB session for > 2hrs
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set verify off
set feedback off
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# Author : Amandeep Singh
# Description : Kills runaway form processes using more than 95% cpu
# and Form Session with no DB session or DB session > 2hrs
# Dated : 11-April-2012
#!/bin/bash
. /home/applmgr/.bash_profile
PWD=`cat ~/.pwd`
export PWD
echo "`date`">/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "----------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
VAR1=`top -b -u applmgr -n 1|grep f60webmx|grep -v sh|grep -v awk|grep -v top|sort -nrk9|head -2|sed 's/^[ \t]*//;s/[ \t]*$//'| awk '{ if ($9 > 95 && $12 = "f60webmx") print $1 " "$9 " "$11 " "$12; }'`
PID1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $1}'`
CPU1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $2}'`
TIME1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $3}'`
PROG1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $4}'`
PID_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $5}'`
CPU_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $6}'`
TIME_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $7}'`
PROG_1=`echo $VAR1|awk '{print $8}'`
echo "PID1="$PID1", CPU%="$CPU1", Running Time="$TIME1", Program="$PROG1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "PID_1="$PID_1", CPU%="$CPU_1", Running Time="$TIME_1", Program="$PROG_1>>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
sleep 120
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CPU2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $2}'`
TIME2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $3}'`
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CPU_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $6}'`
TIME_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $7}'`
PROG_2=`echo $VAR2|awk '{print $8}'`
HRS=`echo $TIME1|cut -d: -f1`
exprHRS=`expr "$HRS"`
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echo " ">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
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if [ -z ${PID1} ] || [ -z ${PID2} ]
then
echo "no top processes found. Either PID is NULL OR CPU% is less than 95%. Exiting...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
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[ ${PID1} -eq ${PID2} ] || [ ${PID1} -eq ${PID_2} ] || [ ${PID_1} -eq ${PID2} ] || [ ${PID_1} -eq ${PID_2} ];
then
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EOF`
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echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
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echo "Process running time is "$exprHRS" minutes.">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
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echo "-------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
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mailx -s "`hostname -a`: Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
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echo "For more details on this PID, run following SQL query;">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "-----------------------------------------------------------------------">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
echo "set pages 9999 lines 150">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
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echo "to_char(s.logon_time,'DD-Mon-YY hh:mi:ss'), s.seconds_in_wait">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
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mailx -s "`hostname -a`: Runaway Form Processes" [email protected] </tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
fi
fi
else
#if PID1 and PID2 are not equal or CPU% is less than 95%.
echo "No unique CPU hogging form processes found. Exiting...">>/tmp/runaway_forms.log
cat /tmp/runaway_forms.log
fi
If you have the same problem with some other unix and DB processes, the script can be easily modified and used.
But use this with thorough testing first (by commenting out <kill -9 $PID1> lines.
Good luck.
Edited by: R12_AppsDBA on 19/04/2012 13:10

Thanks for sharing the script!
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