Metrics,monitoring security in xMII and Scan groups

Hi all
How does scan groups work ? (e.g. 5MIN, 15MIN etc.) Can the user choose his own time interval, e.g. he wants to schedule something to be run every 25 minutes, but we don't want to define scan groups for every possible time interval, Can we let the user control and enter the time interval he wants (e.g. every 35 minutes etc.)?
How does security work in xmii with respect to metrics and monitors. If the user is given access to this metrics screen so he can create his own metrics, what kind of security is required and is there any issues if we do it ?
I believe the metrics and monitoring are stored in a database, whatever database we specify when installing xMII ActivePortal. Please let me know into how does it get stored. Can we manually add/change information in those tables to create own metrics instead of going through the xMII metrics screen.
i want to understand whether we should give the users xMII screen to maintain themselves, or we need to build something customized
thanks
Veeresh

Hi Veeresh,
talking about Metrics Alert and Services it is very important to give an information about the xMII version you use.
Reason: Between 11.5 and 12.0 there is a technical change how Scan Groups will be processed. 11.5 uses Windows Schedules of the Operating System. 12.0 uses scheduled Transactions.
The Metrics Alert and Services are given as they are and I do not recommend to do any modifications to the original pages.
Regarding your question about the security:
You openend already a thread to discuss this:
[Monitors and Metrics]
Please ask only one question per thread.
Information regarding Metrics Alert and Services are stored in the Active Portal Database. Of course you can write into this tables creating you own userinterface - at your own risk of course. That's the way it normally works if you make changes to the standard.
Ciao
Martin

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MS Office secretly connects to my Mac and scans my activity. How??? Security hole? Exploitable by hackers?

I have a strange problem. All by itself it's not so serious, but it concerns me that it reveals a security hole which can be exploited by hackers.
I may be over-reacting, so any reassurance or explanation would be appreciated.
Here's the situation:
I have a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.6.5. I also have a new MacBook Air also running 10.6.5. I recently used Migration Assistant to move all my applications from the MacBook Pro to the MacBook Air. The migration worked fine with one very troubling exception.
One of the applications that got migrated was MS Office 2008 (MSWord, Excel, etc.). When I just had my MacBook Pro, MS Office worked fine. Also, now, if my MacBook Pro is turned off and I'm just using my Air, MS Office again works fine.
HOWEVER...if I have my MacBook Pro open and running MS Office on it, and then I simultaneously open my Air and try to launch MS Office, I get an error message that says
"Microsoft Office 2008 for Mac cannot start because Microsoft Office is already in use.
An office program is being used by Apple Mac. Your installation exceeds the number of installations permitted by the license agreement."
However, if I then "Quit" MS Office on the Pro, and then try to launch it on the Air, I don't get the error message, and it works as normal. The same thing happens if I switch computers -- if it's running on the Air first, then I can't launch it on the Pro. Basically, only one of the computers can run MS Office at any one time.
Now, the issue about the MS license agreement is not what concerns me -- I guess the version of MS Office I bought back in 2008 was only supposed to be installed on one single computer, and never migrated to a new computer (I eventually plan to use the Air full time and retire the Pro). I'm probably going to get a newer version of MS Office eventually anyway, and also I almost never use both computers at the same time, so I'm not worried about being unable to use MS Office on both computes simultaneously. No, what worries me is this:
How does MS Office on one computer even know that my other computer is running and has MS Office open?
I'm not an expert on networks and sharing and connectivity and all that, so excuse me if I use inaccurate terminology, but...:
Both computers connect via AirPort to a cable modem and thus share the same wifi hotspot to connect to the internet.
But as far as I can tell, the two computers are not "connected" to each other. In the System Preferences for both computers, in the "Sharing" panel, all File Sharing is off. Also, none of the sharing boxes are checked.
Neither computer shows the hard drive of the other on its Desktop. If I wanted to, I could use Finder's "Go" menu, choose "Connect to server," then "Browse," then find the other computer, double-click on it, type in the admin password, and then connect the two computers. But I haven't done that, and MS Office is able to see what the other comoputer is doing, even when they aren't connected in any way (as far as I can tell).
I find this pretty disturbing. How in the world does the MS Office on one computer even know that the other computer exists? Furthermore, how does it know that the other computer is on and running? And lastly and more importantly, how does it know which programs are running on the other computer?
One extra detail: in order to try to diagnose this odd behavior, I installed a program called "Little Snitch" which monitors all network activity and notifies the user whenever any malware programs or other sneaky behind-the-scens apps try to send data over your connection without your knowledge. Little Snitch seems to work great but when I test the problem after installing it, Little Snitch did not even detect or report that MS Office was doing any surreptitious network snooping. So whatever MS Office is doing, it's doing it pretty sneakily.
Here is my worry: Could a hacker somehow exploit this capability of MS Office to monitor activity on my computer without my being aware of it? Or could someone re-adapt this snooping code from MS Office for more nefarious purposes?
Or am I completely misapprehending the situation somehow?
Any reassurance or explanation would be greatly appreciated! Thanks.

But my question is: How does the software do that?
It scans the local network for computers trying to "share" software that is only supposed to be licensed for one computer. I can't give you a technical answer, I can just tell you that's what it's doing.
then what's preventing less ethical coders from deploying similar but more sinister malware with the same capability?
Nothing. Any vendor of any software, from a one person shareware or freeware app to a company the size of Apple, Microsoft or Adobe could sneak in damaging code. Any company that wants to stay in business though would never allow it.
In a typical software company (particularly larger ones), you have not only the people who write the code, but also system analysts who review the code looking for flaws or anything else that shouldn't be there.
Now I have the fear that if I'm using a wifi hotspot in a cafe or wherever, someone else with hacking skills on that same hotspot could basically see what I'm doing on my computer, without my knowledge.
The software to pry (they hope undetected) into other folks' computers on an open network like that has been around for years. That's why you at least need to have your firewall enabled when using a wifi hotspot.

WIFI Security Camera's that can be monitored from my Macbook and iPhone4

I'm looking to purchase wifi security cameras that I can monitor from my Macbook and iPhone4. Can anybody tell me what the best camera is and what App. is the best to monitor from my iPhone4. Also, how would I set up my Macbook for monitoring. I'm new at this so any help would be greatly appreciated.

You usually don't need an app or any software loaded on the phone/computer you are using to view the feed from IP cameras. You go to a web-site set up by the manufacturer, enter your user name and password and you see the picture through the web-browser.
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The icon of microsoft security essentials disappear and i can't scan or update my computer and also some updates for microsoft security essentials they fail to update

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XMII and Barcoding Equipment

I am an xMII novice and we have started to architect a manufacturing solution that will utilize xMII's capabilities integrated with a back end SAP R/3 (v. 4.6C) instance. I have a few questions that I would like to pose to the group to assist us on our way.
1. I would think that xMII should have no issues receiving information from barcode scanning devices (e.g. for shop floor confirmations), but have not heard of anyone using such devices directly interfaced with xMII. Could someone confirm (hopefully from experience)? Are there specific vendors who's devices are more readily interfaced with xMII than others?
2. Provided that it is feasible to interface barcode scanning devices directly with xMII, what is the better mechanism for shop floor confirmation:
Scanner --> xMII --> R/3?
Scanner --> R/3 --> xMII?
Other?
I would think that either mechanism is sound, however I wanted to solicit some opinions to find out if there is a better way.
3. Has anyone interfaced xMII with barcode printing devices, so that activities within xMII could generate barcoded labels? Or is this process better facilitated out of R/3? For example, production confirmation generating a barcoded label for the produced goods.
Thanks.
Dave

Hi David - Great set of questions.
xMII and Barcoding work well together, probably to some extent because there isn't a direct connection between them. xMII runs in a web browser. The scanning device is typically responsible for scanning the barcode and transforming the image into text. It is also, usually, responsible for sending that text back to the computer it is connected to. The computer then simply takes the passed text and inserts it wherever the cursor is. So the if xMII is the active window and the cursor is in a position where you want the translated barcode to show up, it will. If it doesn't the problem is either with the device or the computer. On some models of scanners, you can even program it to simulate a keystroke before or after each scan. So, for instance if you have a web page with one text field for the barcode and a submit button, you can have the scanner enter the text in the field AND hit the submit button in one scan.
For your #2 question, both scenarios would work. If you are using a barcode device with a GUI on it like Windows CE or palm, you'll probably be interfacing between the barcode and R/3 with xMII so in that instance, send the barcode to an xMII page that does something in R/3.
Printing is a little tricky. Because xMII lives in a web browser on the client, you'll have to rely on the browser's printing capabilities. However, this is another method to printing barcodes. There are barcode printing packages available; I'm mostly familiar with Seagull's BarTender software. What you can do with this is use xMII to send a flat file containing the barcode label information (material, qty, etc) along with a printer name and user,etc to a windows directory that BarTender is "listening" to. Once BarTender sees the file, it will parse it and print the label with the information in the file to the printer in the file. It works really well.

Cannot send/receive Fax through Windows Fax and Scan

Having a problem with Windows Fax and Scan on Small Business Server 2011 Standard SP1. When I call the fax number, I can see the line ringing in the Fax Status Monitor, but it errors out with "The incoming call cannot be answered as a fax
call". I've also tried sending and receive an error: "No dial tone was detected" I've connected a regular phone to the line and placed an outside call and received a call from an outside line. No errors are logged in Event
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Troubleshooting so far has consisted of:
Restarting Fax service
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Checked Print Spooler and Fax queue for held documents to clear (none)
Uninstalled/reinstalled the fax modem in Device Manager
Run Windows Update(several security updates pending)
Checked the DeviceToMonitor key in HKCU to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fax\UserInfo matches the DeviceName key in HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Fax (at one point it did not match)
Removing/Readding the Fax Role. In the process, also removing registry keys: HKLM_SOFTWARE_MICROSOFT_FAX, HKCU_Software_Microsoft_Fax, HKLM_SOFTWARE_Microsoft_Windows_CurrentVersion_Telephony_CountryList, HKLM_SOFTWARE_Microsoft_Windows_CurrentVersion_Telephony_Locations.
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http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9dfec81d-8223-47fd-a208-c27521d414a9/sbs2008-cannot-configure-or-start-fax-service?forum=smallbusinessserver
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/winserverprint/thread/73394a76-4dab-4f6b-abaf-b794c57a750c/
http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/in-windows-fax-and-scan-i-cannot-get-the-fax/219a1468-7214-4b7a-9205-c67131f6f08d
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/773a35b3-52b1-4aff-be75-55386fd5d5b2/server-2003-fax-service-unable-to-receive-faxes-the-incoming-call-cannot-be-answered-as-a-fax-call?forum=winserverprint
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windowsserver/en-US/73394a76-4dab-4f6b-abaf-b794c57a750c/cannot-add-a-fax-account-in-windows-server-2008-r2-enterprise?forum=winserverprint
Please let me know if anyone has any other suggestions.

Hi billats,
Regarding to Event ID 32092, 32032 and 32031, please refer to the following articles.
Event ID 32092 — Received Fax Status
Event
ID: 32092 Source: Microsoft Fax
Please Note: Since the web site is not hosted by Microsoft, the link may change without notice. Microsoft
does not guarantee the accuracy of this information.
Event ID 32032 — Sent Fax Status
Event ID 32031 — Sent Fax Status
On current situation, please refer to the following steps to troubleshoot. Then check if can find more clues
and help us to solve this issue.
Please verify if the incoming fax can be received from other fax machines.
For modem, please temporarily reduced the speed to 4800bps for the Fax software.
Please increase the
Rings before answering value for the fax device to 2 rings in Shared Fax Service Manager.
Just for a test. Would you replace the old modem with a new one? Then monitor the result.
Hope this helps.
Best regards,
Justin Gu

V I Engineering, Inc has immediate needs for Systems Engineers (Contract) and Senior Systems Engineers (Contract) (reporting to the Test Software and Integration Group Manager)

Company: V I Engineering, Inc.
Locations: Various - USA
Salary/Wage: $negotiable
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Relevant Work Experience: 5+ years system integration (LabVIEW/TestStand experience required)
Career Level: Intermediate/Experienced
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
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Ready to make a difference? Bring your experiences and skills to the industry leading test organization. Help us to continue to shape the way the world views test. We are seeking a talented Systems Engineer Contractor to be responsible for technical execution of successful projects in the Medical, Military, Transportation, Consumer Electronics and Aerospace Industries. The position will have very high visibility to customers and vendors. This is a very fast paced team with close customer contact and strong career development opportunities. A large part of the position is to identify, own and drive technical design, development and installation of test systems. You will work alongside other like-minded and equally talented engineers, and be creative in a fast-paced and flexible environment that encourages you to think outside the box. You will be available to spend extended periods at our customer sites to complete system installations.
Required
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Comfortable Working on Various Team Sizes
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Professional software engineering processes and metrics experience
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Experience with Projects for Regulated Industries
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V I Engineering, Inc. offers a dynamic work environment and the flexibility of a small company.
The Test Software and Integration Group values innovation, out-of-the-box thinking, high-tech toys and a fun / amazingly collaborative working environment. We're a National Instruments Select Integrator, and we're the closest you can get to playing with all the pre-released and new NI toys without joining the NI R&D team - and we get to play with them in the real world.
To apply for this position, email a cover letter and resume to [email protected] with the subject "TSIG Systems Engineer (Contract) employment application".
Copyright © 2004-2015 Christopher G. Relf. Some Rights Reserved. This posting is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 License.

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V I Engineering, Inc has immediate needs for Systems Engineers and Senior Systems Engineers (reporting to the Test Software and Integration Group Manager)

Company: V I Engineering, Inc.
Locations: Positions available in our Farmington Hills, MI Office
Salary/Wage: $negotiable
Status: Full Time, Employee
Relevant Work Experience: 5+ years system integration (LabVIEW/TestStand experience preferred, but not required)
Career Level: Intermediate (Non-Manager)
Education Level: Bachelor's Degree
Residency/Citizenship: USA Citizenship or Greencard required
Driving Business Results through Test Engineering
V I Engineering, Inc. has a vision for every client we engage. That vision is to achieve on-time and on-budget program launch more efficiently that the competition. To realize this vision, customers need to achieve predictable test systems development, eliminate waste in test information management, and drive increased leverage of test assets. An underlying requirement for all of these areas is metrics tracking and measurement based decision making.
Job Description
Ready to make a difference? Bring your experiences and skills to the industry leading test organization. Help us to continue to shape the way the world views test. We are seeking a talented Systems Engineer to be responsible for technical execution of successful projects in the Medical, Military, Transportation, Consumer Electronics and Aerospace Industries. The position will have high visibility to customers and vendors. This is a very fast paced team with close customer contact and strong career development opportunities. A large part of the position is to identify, own and drive technical design and development of test systems. You will work alongside other like-minded and equally talented engineers, and be creative in a fast-paced and flexible environment that encourages you to think outside the box.
Required
5+ years of Systems Integration experience
Experience in Design and Implementation of Test Systems, including integration
Experience in ATE usage and development
Experience in reviewing of Mechanical Fixtures
Experience in understanding the design of Circuit Boards as they relate to a total system
Experience in Taking Part in Technical Teams throughout All Phases of Project Lifecycle
Experience in Interfacing with Sub-vendors and Customers
Ability to Multitask
Comfortable Working on Various Team Sizes
Excellent Communication Skills
Desired
Requirements generation and review experience
National Instruments Hardware knowledge
LabVIEW/TestStand experience
Experience with Source Code Control (SCC)
Experience executing verification and validation for projects
Experience generating and/or reviewing cost proposals
RF Technology (DAQ, General RF Theory)
FPGA (with LabVIEW)
Professional software engineering processes and metrics experience (statement coverage, code size, reuse measurement, etc)
TortoiseSVN
V I Package Manager (VIPM)
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Experience with Projects for Regulated Industries
MS Project
Formal Education
Technical degree (BS Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Math)
National Instruments Courses a plus
National Instruments certification a plus
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Expected Travel Time is up to 25%Re
location assistance is possible.
V I Engineering, Inc. offers incredible opportunities to grow and advance your career, a dynamic work environment and the flexibility of a small company.
The Test Software and Integration Group values innovation, out-of-the-box thinking, high-tech toys and a fun / amazingly collaborative working environment. We're a National Instruments Select Integrator, and we're the closest you can get to playing with all the pre-released and new NI toys without joining the NI R&D team - and we get to play with them in the real world.
To apply for this position, email a cover letter and resume to [email protected] with the subject "TSIG Systems Engineer employment application".
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Claims Based Authentication SPSecurityTokenService.Issue() failed: The security token username and password could not be validated.

Please excuse the lousy table...Its late :-)
I have a multi-server SP2010 farm. Patched up to
Configuration database version: 14.0.6106.5002
My goal is to have a claims based web application that authenticated to ADAM for Extranet. I have configured the servers exactly to MSDN and technet specs (following this spec to the
letter (
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee806882.aspx) to allow the forms side of the web app to authenticate to ADAM.
IT WORKS IN DEV!!! , which is a single server farm. However, it does not work in production. I get the following:
Claims Auth log entries:
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w3wp.exe (0x0EDC)
0x1790
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
f2ut
Verbose
Authenticated with login provider. Validating request security token.
1:06:25 AM
w3wp.exe (0x0EDC)
0x1790
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
0
Verbose
Using membership provider 'ADAMProvider'.
1:06:25 AM
w3wp.exe (0x0EDC)
0x1790
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
0
Verbose
Doing password check on '[email protected]'.
1:06:46 AM
w3wp.exe (0x0EDC)
0x1790
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
0
Verbose
Failed password check on '[email protected]'.
1:06:46 AM
w3wp.exe (0x0EDC)
0x1790
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
0
Unexpected
Password check on '[email protected]' generated exception: 'System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException]: The security
token username and password could not be validated. (Fault Detail is equal to Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException: The security token username and password could not be validated.).'.
1:06:46 AM
w3wp.exe (0x0EDC)
0x1790
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
fo1t
Monitorable
SPSecurityTokenService.Issue() failed: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1[Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException]: The security token username and password
could not be validated. (Fault Detail is equal to Microsoft.IdentityModel.Tokens.FailedAuthenticationException: The security token username and password could not be validated.).
1:06:46 AM
w3wp.exe (0x1B34)
0x08A0
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
fsq7
High
Request for security token failed with exception: System.ServiceModel.FaultException: The security token username and password could not be validated.
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.ReadResponse(Message response)
at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst, RequestSecurityTokenResponse& rstr)
  at Microsoft.IdentityModel.Protocols.WSTrust.WSTrustChannel.Issue(RequestSecurityToken rst)
at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPSecurityContext.SecurityTokenForContext(Uri context, Boolean bearerToken, SecurityToken onBehalfOf, SecurityToken actAs, SecurityToken delegateTo)
1:06:46 AM
w3wp.exe (0x1B34)
0x08A0
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
8306
Critical
An exception occurred when trying to issue security token: The security token username and password could not be validated..
1:06:46 AM
w3wp.exe (0x1B34)
0x08A0
SharePoint Foundation
Claims Authentication
f2un
Verbose
Form authentication failed.
I have tried EVERYTHING (well, nt everything, I don’t have the fix I suppose).
I found plenty out there and nothing directly correlates with this issue.
I searched on all parts of the errors I got.
This contains an interesting blurb about setting up access for the apppool id correctly.
That’s not the case for me. It works in dev and the same id are used there.
http://sharepoint-2010-world.blogspot.com/2011/03/adam-forms-based-authentication-in.html
This was good but it doesn’t give specs on what the environment looks like:
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sharepoint2010general/thread/557143a6-4b36-4939-bb7f-d62a9335fd18
The was interesting…but I am patched up beyond the June 2011 CU so it’s a moot point:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/9b8368ef-c5e5-4ead-b348-7b2b5587cfc8
Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!

Hi.
You say its a multiserver farm, do you have more than one web server then?
If thats the case, have you tried accessing the site on each server directly?
Found this for you, maybe that can help?
Troubleshooting Exceptions: System.ServiceModel.FaultException`1
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb907220.aspx
and this:
SharePoint 2010 Claims Authentication - The security token username and password could not be validated reoccurring every morning
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/pl-PL/sharepoint2010setup/thread/383f1f9b-5c4a-4e19-b770-2a54b7ab1ca1
and
This seems to be a good guide:
http://donalconlon.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/configuring-forms-base-authentication-for-sharepoint-2010-using-iis7/
Good luck
Thomas Balkeståhl - Technical Specialist - SharePoint - http://blksthl.wordpress.com

Possible to pan and scan HD video with your home editing software?? (HD - SD size)

Hi, using Premiere Elements 7 on WinXp and also on Win 7.
I wonder if it's possible for us to do a pan and scan type process with our HD video? I ask because someone gave me some footage from the weekend where the composition was way too wide and large and I'd like to save the video, composed better, an SD quality.
Given the pixel resolution it should be possible. I know that's how they convert 35mm film to fit TV, but when it comes to video, can Premiere do it?
I can crop video in premiere but it will save the video at the same resolution, but all pixelized and looking wonky. How would I save 1080i video pan and scanned to 720 (p) or regular SD (640) which will still look decent on Youtube.
Here is an example (note, I also squeezed the footage to 97% horizontally first)
Can anyone give a tutorial?
Thanks

If it's hi-def video, you can import the video into a project set up for standard DV.
Before you use Get Media to get the video, go to Edit/Preferences and uncheck Scale to Frame Size.
When you place your video on the timeline, it will be much larger than the Monitor, and you will only see a portion of it. You should be able to use Crop and Scale to get just what you need and still have many pixels to spare. (And don't forget to press Enter to render the video before you judge its quality.)
Note that, depending on what format of video your original footage is in, you may need to work with the interlacing maybe reverse the field dominance. So I'd do a short test run and output to see how it looks before I committed to a full-length project.

Free license and isolation groups

Hello,
We have just installed CPS in our Solution Manager 7.1. The CPS release is Build: M28.17-35130.
The license keys - free - are:
CPS-Basic ProcessServerService.SAP.ApplicationsAPI true
CPS-Basic ProcessServerService.SAP.SolutionManager true
CPS-Basic ProcessServerService.SAP.XBPExternal true
CPS-Basic ProcessServerService.SAP.limit 0
CPS-Basic System.NamedUsers.limit 10
CPS-Basic System.Production true
CPS-Basic company.contract CPS-Basic
CPS-Basic company.name xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
CPS-Basic product.name SAP Central Process Scheduling by Redwood
CPS-Basic signature 3
CPS-Basic system.id SAP:SOL_00
I have read in the Administratio guide and in other posts that in the free license i cannot define more that one sap system client per isolation group, but I have the doubt of how can I monitor more than one sap system or even more that one client in the same sap system?
Thanks and best regards,
Ana.

Hello Ana,
you can monitor SAP CPS jobs across Isolation Groups from your SAP Solution Manager. That's a special feature of the SAP CPS integration into SAP Solution Manager.
Just import your (Solution Manager) user into all relevant isolation groups (same user name in SolMan and SAP CPS) and then run job filters or custom queries from the Job Management Work Center.
See the second part of my blog /people/martin.lauer/blog/2009/05/28/monitoring-job-chains-with-sap-cps-by-redwood-and-sap-solution-manager for more information how to call CPS filter and customer queries from the Job Management Work Center.
As a prerequisite you will have to setup the connectivity between SAP CPS and SolMan. See the following notes: 1122497, 1054005, 1129030, 1037903.
If you have any issues in setting up this scenario, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Kind regards,
Martin

Freelist and freelist groups

Hi,
I was reading about buffer busy waits (based on oracle 10g), and i came across two terms i was unfamiliar about... freelist and freelist groups . Can somebody explain the meaning of these two terms and how it is related to objects ?? I am more interested in single instance database and not about RAC..
Is this relevant to current version of oracle database(11g) as well???
Thanks in advance.

Freelist is a part of the object and are maintained to define the candidate blocks which are available for the DMLs. The parameters PCTUSED, PCTFREE are going to be making the blocks go in and out of the freelist. Its a linked list whose starting point is the segment header block and that's what is the cause of the issue is what you have mentioned, buffer busy wait. Buffer busy wait is just a cummulative wait event and does have many of the reasons. What is going to be caused by the freelist is going to be the buffer busy wait for the segment header. Since the segment header is going to be pinned each and every time the scan for the free list is requested, its going to come under contention under a very heavy OLTP enviroment. That's why Oracle introduced, in 9i, ASSM which is Automatic Segment Space Management, a more optimized, bitmap based functionality , which removes the use of freelist altogether* . So even in 11g, the concept remains if you want to make the segment space management manual.
I would not suggest you to read that link which you have quoted but would suggest to read this MOS note,
MOS doc id 157250.1, "Freelist Management with Oracle 8i" by Stephan Haisley .
I don't think freelist are explained anywhere better than what is there in the above document. Please note, you need to have valid CSI to login to MOS.
HTH
Aman....
* ASSM is not really a very nice thing actually but that is another topic to discuss so let's leave it for the moment.

How to reduce logical count and scan count for a select query

hi,
I have two tables one is master and other is history. i need to combine this two tables into one temporary table.
I am using the below query to create temp table.
Select * into temporders
from
(select * from orders
union
select * from ordershistory) b
where updateon= (select max(updateon)from (select updateon,name,units,subunits from orders
union
select updateon,name,units,subunits from ordershistory) a
where updateon <='11/08/2008 11:18 AM' and a.name=b.name and a.units=b.units and a.subunits=b.subunits group by name,units,subunits)
order by report,subunitsorder
the statistics for this query:
SQL Server parse and compile time:
CPU time = 47 ms, elapsed time = 62 ms.
Table 'Worktable'. Scan count 556, logical reads 1569, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'ORDERSHISTORY'. Scan count 116, logical reads 339, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.
Table 'ORDERS'. Scan count 116, logical reads 285, physical reads 0, read-ahead reads 0, lob logical reads 0, lob physical reads 0, lob read-ahead reads 0.
SQL Server Execution Times:
CPU time = 32 ms, elapsed time = 63 ms.
(115 row(s) affected)
you see logical reads and scan count for worktable(temporary) is quite high.
So anyone can give a solution for reduce the scan count and logical reads.
NOTE: name,units, subunits,updateon columns have primarykey

SQL ServerAm i reading it properly? :(
This is Oracle Forum And not the SQL Server.
Regards.
Satyaki De.

Field Symbols, Field String, and Field Group.

Hi,
Can you differentiate between filed symbols, field strings and field groups,
With regards,
Bharath Mohan B

Hi,
Field Symbols
Field symbols are placeholders or symbolic names for other fields. They do not physically reserve space for a field, but point to its contents. A field symbol cam point to any data object. The data object to which a field symbol points is assigned to it after it has been declared in the program.
Whenever you address a field symbol in a program, you are addressing the field that is assigned to the field symbol. After successful assignment, there is no difference in ABAP whether you reference the field symbol or the field itself. You must assign a field to each field symbol before you can address the latter in programs.
Field symbols are similar to dereferenced pointers in C (that is, pointers to which the content operator * is applied). However, the only real equivalent of pointers in ABAP, that is, variables that contain a memory address (reference) and that can be used without the contents operator, are reference variables in ABAP Objects.
All operations programmed with field symbols are applied to the field assigned to it. For example, a MOVE statement between two field symbols moves the contents of the field assigned to the first field symbol to the field assigned to the second field symbol. The field symbols themselves point to the same fields after the MOVE statement as they did before.
You can create field symbols either without or with type specifications. If you do not specify a type, the field symbol inherits all of the technical attributes of the field assigned to it. If you do specify a type, the system checks the compatibility of the field symbol and the field you are assigning to it during the ASSIGN statement.
Field symbols provide greater flexibility when you address data objects:
If you want to process sections of fields, you can specify the offset and length of the field dynamically.
You can assign one field symbol to another, which allows you to address parts of fields.
Assignments to field symbols may extend beyond field boundaries. This allows you to address regular sequences of fields in memory efficiently.
You can also force a field symbol to take different technical attributes from those of the field assigned to it.
The flexibility of field symbols provides elegant solutions to certain problems. On the other hand, it does mean that errors can easily occur. Since fields are not assigned to field symbols until runtime, the effectiveness of syntax and security checks is very limited for operations involving field symbols. This can lead to runtime errors or incorrect data assignments.
While runtime errors indicate an obvious problem, incorrect data assignments are dangerous because they can be very difficult to detect. For this reason, you should only use field symbols if you cannot achieve the same result using other ABAP statements.
For example, you may want to process part of a string where the offset and length depend on the contents of the field. You could use field symbols in this case. However, since the MOVE statement also supports variable offset and length specifications, you should use it instead. The MOVE statement (with your own auxiliary variables if required) is much safer than using field symbols, since it cannot address memory beyond the boundary of a field. However, field symbols may improve performance in some cases.
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http://www.sts.tu-harburg.de/teaching/sap_r3/ABAP4/field_sy.htm
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Syntax Diagram
FIELD-SYMBOLS
Basic form
FIELD-SYMBOLS <fs>.
Extras:
1. ... TYPE type
2. ... TYPE REF TO cif
3. ... TYPE REF TO DATA
4. ... TYPE LINE OF type
5. ... LIKE s
6. ... LIKE LINE OF s
7. ... TYPE tabkind
8. ... STRUCTURE s DEFAULT wa
The syntax check performed in an ABAP Objects context is stricter than in other ABAP areas. See Cannot Use Untyped Field Symbols ad Cannot Use Field Symbols as Components of Classes.
Effect
This statement declares a symbolic field called <fs>. At runtime, you can assign a concrete field to the field symbol using ASSIGN. All operations performed with the field symbol then directly affect the field assigned to it.
You can only use one of the additions.
Example
Output aircraft type from the table SFLIGHT using a field symbol:
FIELD-SYMBOLS <PT> TYPE ANY.
DATA SFLIGHT_WA TYPE SFLIGHT.
ASSIGN SFLIGHT_WA-PLANETYPE TO <PT>.
WRITE <PT>.
Addition 1
... TYPE type
Addition 2
... TYPE REF TO cif
Addition 3
... TYPE REF TO DATA
Addition 4
... TYPE LINE OF type
Addition 5
... LIKE s
Addition 6
... LIKE LINE OF s
Addition 7
... TYPE tabkind
Effect
You can define the type of the field symbol using additions 2 to 7 (just as you can for FORM parameters (compare Defining the Type of Subroutine Parameters). When you use the ASSIGN statement, the system carries out the same type checks as for USING parameters of FORMs.
This addition is not allowed in an ABAP Objects context. See Cannot Use Obsolete Casting for FIELD SYMBOLS.
In some cases, the syntax rules that apply to Unicode programs are different than those for non-Unicode programs. See Defining Types Using STRUCTURE.
Effect
Assigns any (internal) field string or structure to the field symbol from the ABAP Dictionary (s). All fields of the structure can be addressed by name: <fs>-fieldname. The structured field symbol points initially to the work area wa specified after DEFAULT.
The work area wa must be at least as long as the structure s. If s contains fields of the type I or F, wa should have the structure s or at least begin in that way, since otherwise alignment problems may occur.
Example
Address components of the flight bookings table SBOOK using a field symbol:
DATA SBOOK_WA LIKE SBOOK.
FIELD-SYMBOLS <SB> STRUCTURE SBOOK
DEFAULT SBOOK_WA.
WRITE: <SB>-BOOKID, <SB>-FLDATE.
Related
ASSIGN, DATA
Additional help
Declaring Field Symbols
FIELD GROUPS
are used to hold/handle large amount of data when the internal table are not useful
we use EXTRACT statement, HEADER structure in them
see the example
REPORT demo_extract.
NODES: spfli, sflight.
FIELD-GROUPS: header, flight_info, flight_date.
START-OF-SELECTION.
INSERT: spfli-carrid spfli-connid sflight-fldate
            INTO header,
          spfli-cityfrom spfli-cityto
            INTO flight_info.
GET spfli.
EXTRACT flight_info.
GET sflight.
EXTRACT flight_date.
END-OF-SELECTION.
SORT STABLE.
LOOP.
    AT FIRST.
      WRITE / 'Flight list'.
      ULINE.
    ENDAT.
    AT flight_info WITH flight_date.
      WRITE: / spfli-carrid , spfli-connid, sflight-fldate,
               spfli-cityfrom, spfli-cityto.
    ENDAT.
    AT flight_date.
      WRITE: / spfli-carrid , spfli-connid, sflight-fldate.
    ENDAT.
    AT LAST.
      ULINE.
      WRITE: cnt(spfli-carrid), 'Airlines'.
      ULINE.
    ENDAT.
ENDLOOP.
FIELD STRING is nothing but a string with one row of records.
Reward points if useful
regards
Anji

Windows updates removes all tabs and tab groups so I have to regularly do a system restore to get them back.

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