Network manager issues on Laptop

I'm using gnome shell from the testing and gnome-unstable repositories (the Arch way).
I'm having a lot of issues (wireless) with network manager:
1/ Shows home networks at work and work networks at home
2/ Keeps asking for key even though I'm entering the correct one while the same connection through 'nmcli' works just fine
3/ Doesn't show my saved networks and doesn't connect to them automatically. Again, I have to use 'nmcli'
I don't know if these are bugs with network manager or whether I did something wrong in the configuration files. In any case, I've decided to switch to 'wicd'.
However, I used to use 'wicd' on Ubuntu a few years ago and a problem was that I couldn't connect to VPN (which I need at work). This was the only reason I was hanging on to Network Manager. I looked online and this doesn't seem to have changed.
Are there solutions to connect to VPN (PPTP) without network manager. I remember trying the pptpd and kvpnc without much success. There was a plan on the wicd project page to implement PPTP VPN in 2008..does anyone know if this has been done already?

Well you could use wicd to connect to the access points then use vpnc for vpn. You just need to create a config file for vpnc or from the command line. I just did a quick search looks like the gentoo wiki page has a pretty good explanation for vpnc.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/vpnc-howto.xml

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Gnome shell network manager issues

I'm running nm-applet on Gnome Shell. A recent update solved my problems of clicks not registering in nm-applet.
However, there are still some issues which means I'm still using 'nmcli' to connect to networks:
1/ The list of connections is not scrollable. At home, even though my wireless network has the strongest signal, it's not listed near the top. In fact, it's listed below the bottom of the screen (there are a lot of wireless networks) and there's no way to get to it!
2/ It doesn't accurately show available networks. This maybe a "Suspend" issue, but the list of networks that nm-applet shows is not up to date. It shows my home network when I'm at work and random networks which are currently not in range too.
Is there some open bug report about this or is this something I've done?
Also, 'nmcli con list' seems to list saved networks and not available networks. Is that the intended behavior?
EDIT: The man page for nmcli does say this is the intended behavior and 'nmcli dev wifi list' is what I was looking for...
Last edited by pritamps (2011-03-30 20:34:48)

BUMP..
The above behavior hasn't changed even after a few updates. Is anybody else experiencing these issues?
Will it help if I delete all the network manager config files? I'm thinking it might be some conflict of config files between nmcli and nm-applet...

Network Manager driving me crazy (3 issues)

Hey guys I'm new here, hope you can help me
nm-applet is driving me crazy!
First issue: when I boot nm-applet doesn't appear in my tint2 eventhough I'm connected. This don't appear all the time, it's random. I have to kill it and restart it to be able to see it.
I use openbox and I have this in .config/openbox/autostart
(sleep 3 && /usr/bin/nm-applet --sm-disable) &
Second issue:
I selected the save option for the password of my vpn but it won't save it... Or wait, yes it will.. But not all the time. It asks me for the pass sometimes, and sometimes not
Third issue:
I thicked the "automatically connect to vpn for this connection" but guess what... It won't
Any idea about how to troubleshot this. I'm seriously considering pacman -R network-manager and pacman -S something else
Thank you
Last edited by Truc (2014-03-06 21:17:51)

1st issue: run nm-applet from the command line (take it out of openbox's start file wherever that is) after you log in to see what's going on.
2nd issue: do you have gnome-keyring installed? I believe it should be started with by networkmanager when it's needed, but you may need to figure out how to start it on your own. I don't know how.
3rd issue: I believe the automatic connection to vpn on a specific network is triggered by networkmanager-dispatcher which is just part of the networkmanager package, but is its own separate service. When you enable/start NetworkManager via systemctl, it should enable/start 3 services - the dispatcher is one of them. Do you have that running?
I may be wrong about some of this; it's been a while since i've used NetworkManager.

Network-manager & wifi issues

my laptop is Archlinux + XFCE4 .
I want to find a network-manager app to help me use wifi network.
things like that in ubuntu is good for me. both cli & gui is ok
thanks~~

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NetworkManager
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wicd
http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg
Last edited by lucke (2009-10-26 05:10:39)

Network Manager Testing Issue

Hi folks,
I have a bit of an issue regarding Network Manager. It refuses to connect despite the appropriate modules being active for all my interfaces (eth0 wlan0). It goes through the motions of connecting and tries for ages then says "network disconnected".
I am fairly certain that I have not done anything config wize (but I am open to suggestions) and this is only happening on my Gnome system (I am currently writing this on my XFCE Netbook). Has anyone had any issues re: the recent network manager upgrade on Gnome?
Cheers,
Scott
P.S. Once people begin to reply, if this is not an issue with the Testing repo, could the mods move this to the appropriate forum so I am not misleading anyone looking for real testing repo issues.

what version of networkmanager? -1 or -2?

No interfaces shown in network manager [SOLVED]

Hi All,
I have just done a fresh install of Arch on my new Sony Vaio VGN-FW53GF, all goes well, except for Network Manager.
I can use my wired connection ok as eth0 shows up as active when I hover over the kde applet in the task bar. However when I go to "Manage Connections"
I do not see any Wireless networks or even my "working" wired connection in any list.
Wireless seems to be working as iwconfig shows an interface.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
But a scan gives this:
iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down
This machine is using the Intel driver "iwlagn" supplied by the kernel (2.6.31).
My /etc/rc.conf is:
# /etc/rc.conf - Main Configuration for Arch Linux
# LOCALIZATION
# LOCALE: available languages can be listed with the 'locale -a' command
# HARDWARECLOCK: set to "UTC" or "localtime"
# USEDIRECTISA: use direct I/O requests instead of /dev/rtc for hwclock
# TIMEZONE: timezones are found in /usr/share/zoneinfo
# KEYMAP: keymaps are found in /usr/share/kbd/keymaps
# CONSOLEFONT: found in /usr/share/kbd/consolefonts (only needed for non-US)
# CONSOLEMAP: found in /usr/share/kbd/consoletrans
# USECOLOR: use ANSI color sequences in startup messages
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="UTC"
USEDIRECTISA="no"
TIMEZONE="Pacific/Auckland"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# HARDWARE
# MOD_AUTOLOAD: Allow autoloading of modules at boot and when needed
# MOD_BLACKLIST: Prevent udev from loading these modules
# MODULES: Modules to load at boot-up. Prefix with a ! to blacklist.
# NOTE: Use of 'MOD_BLACKLIST' is deprecated. Please use ! in the MODULES array.
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
#MOD_BLACKLIST=() #deprecated
MODULES=()
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
# NETWORKING
# HOSTNAME: Hostname of machine. Should also be put in /etc/hosts
HOSTNAME="Laptop2"
# Use 'ifconfig -a' or 'ls /sys/class/net/' to see all available interfaces.
# Interfaces to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each interface then list in INTERFACES
# - prefix an entry in INTERFACES with a ! to disable it
# - no hyphens in your interface names - Bash doesn't like it
# DHCP: Set your interface to "dhcp" (eth0="dhcp")
# Wireless: See network profiles below
#Static IP example
#eth0="eth0 192.168.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
eth0="dhcp"
wlan0="dhcp"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 !wlan0)
# Routes to start at boot-up (in this order)
# Declare each route then list in ROUTES
# - prefix an entry in ROUTES with a ! to disable it
gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)
# Enable these network profiles at boot-up. These are only useful
# if you happen to need multiple network configurations (ie, laptop users)
# - set to 'menu' to present a menu during boot-up (dialog package required)
# - prefix an entry with a ! to disable it
# Network profiles are found in /etc/network.d
# This now requires the netcfg package
#NETWORKS=(main)
# DAEMONS
# Daemons to start at boot-up (in this order)
# - prefix a daemon with a ! to disable it
# - prefix a daemon with a @ to start it up in the background
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng !network hal networkmanager netfs crond)
Can anyone offer some suggestion on how to get network manager going, I would like to use it. In the past
I have used Wicd, but it has some limitations.
Cheers,
Bernie
Last edited by bmentink (2009-12-24 04:19:49)

bmentink wrote:
Ok, I found the issue. I was missing the firmware for the card. I downloaded firmware from the intel site as per the wiki on wireless and
my interface comes up (shown with ifconfig) and I can see all the networks.
However, I cannot seem to connect to my network with WPA. When I go to connect I get network manager thinking the access point is WEP and asking for pass phrase.
If I select WPA(personal) and fill in a password, nothing happens .... just says unavailable.
Can anyone give some idea's here. I have not used network manager before for WPA.
Cheers,
Bernie
I use WPA2 with network manager without a problem. It should "just work", im not sure why you have issues, can you switch your router to a different security protocol to test?

[SOLVED] Network Manager & Arch Way

Hi All
I am a noob Arch user. I installed Arch with Gnome 3 recently. I used to manually connect to WiFi for the first few days (just for fun) and then I decided to go with the netfcg+newlan way. I found it to be really slow. I then decided to take the information on Arch Wiki (that says network manager is faster) and installed network manager + nm-applet. I had no issues with WiFi configuration. Everything works for me. But I don't know what network manager is doing. I can know that if I want to. But why use a tool that hides things from me. Philosophically speaking, isn't network manager against the true Arch way? What do experienced Arch users think of this?
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Last edited by skmarch (2011-06-23 04:54:47)

I did install it and it has been "bothering" me that I don't know whats behind this GUI. I simply clicked a few buttons and the network connected. Thats awesome. But I left ubuntu for the same reason: I don't know whats going on. I don't want to be dumbed down. On the other hand, I really did not like the netcfg way. It is slow. And since this is my laptop which I sometimes take to school, I want the ability to connect to different networks (with different security types, especially WPA). So netcfg with net-profiles seems like a good option (or network manager). There was no comment on the wiki about the speed of Wicd: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wi … nt_methods
According to https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=117754 Wicd is better. But once again no comment on the speed. I want internet as soon as the laptop boots. Network manager does that. But to me, as a purist, its not in the Arch way. I want something with more control and more configurability.
So once again: Is Wicd faster than network manager?
Last edited by skmarch (2011-06-22 22:44:01)

Need Suggestions For Network Manager/WICD

Hello again everyone. I seem to be full of issues today. Anyway, I'm a KDE guy and I've been using WICD to manage my network connections since around the time that KDE 4.x premiered, because as far as I know KDE does not have a viable network manager.
WICD works great, it connects before I even finish logging in, it connects to my networks without me having to interact at all, until now. Now, it's just acting strange, and I didn't change anything except whatever is changed during the normal updating of packages.
It started off not connecting to wired connections at all and only wireless at home. If I plugged in a network cable, it would try and try and try and then tell me that it couldn't get an IP address. Sometimes after restarting it would work but not every time. After a few more days, it started to connect to wireless connections only 50% of the time. A reboot would usually clear it up.
Now, as of today, it won't connect to anything. I took it to work as I usually do so I can use it in the lunch room (where there are three wireless AP's in range) and it wouldn't connect at all, and I tried rebooting five times. One of my coworkers had no problem connecting to the same wireless AP on her laptop that I could not connect to.
I've never known WICD to be problematic like this. I didn't change anything and I don't think it's been updated recently.
If there is a network manager for KDE that works more reliably, I'm open to suggestions. I prefer WICD because it (used to) worked so well. At the very least, I prefer having some sort of wireless manager. The one that shipped with Kubuntu in 9.04 is completely terrible so whatever that is I don't know if I want that unless it got drastically improved.

mcsaba77 wrote:
Unfortunately wicd has lots of issues with latest kernel. I've been following and posting in these two threads:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 33#p695433
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php? … 11#p694311
As for now, I switched to networkmanager. I use the default nm-applet, it works well, but I agree, it's not nearly as neat as wicd, and the icon is an eyesore Maybe a kernel/wicd update in the future will solve these issues, but as of now, too many people (on various hardware) seem to have issues with wicd + kernel 2.32.x.
EDIT>
Knetworkmanager unfortunately depends on kde3, while the plasmoid is completely broken at the moment. Hopefully they'll get it working (or they might have some sort of solution) in 4.4 release...
I also have this issue, really thank you for your threads.

Network Manager fails to detect unsecured network.

My current laptop uses a clean install of Arch Linux with the latest gnome-shell release. NetworkManager has no problem connecting to the wireless networks at home, but the problem I have is at college.
My college has an open wireless network; sometimes it fails to show in network-manager-applet. That's the first problem. The second problem, If it does show, it'll fail to connect. In order for me to connect, I had to install the iw package and type sudo iw eth1 connect <network-name> after it fails. Only then will it connect.
How do I fix this so that NetworkManager will stop acting up?
Here's the wireless adapter installed and the driver it's using. (I use AUR's broadcom-wl package because it can detect more networks and doesn't act up for me.)
[dbdii407@laptop ~]$ lspci | grep Broadcom
07:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller (rev 01)
[dbdii407@laptop ~]$ lsmod | grep wl
wl 2558087 0
lib80211 3949 2 wl,lib80211_crypt_tkip
cfg80211 177058 1 wl
After connecting through iw
Thank you very much!
Last edited by dbdii407 (2012-10-31 18:55:47)

Maybe it is a "mixed interface issue", if that's the case, then you should read this: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ud … ork_device
Hope it helps.
Last edited by RozenTensai (2012-12-09 18:40:33)

Where is the Virtual Network Manager in my Hyper-V under Action in my Hyper-V Manager

Hi there - I would not say I am a novice at creating environment within Hyper-V. I have built or should I say created, and then deleted several virtual environments. I am familiar with the process of creating virtual hard disks, virtual machines and then
selecting the appropriate switch etc.
To make a long story short I was having issues connecting my servers this time around. Worked fine the last time I built this same environment. I was researching various blogs and TechNet articles and they mention a "Virtual Network Manager."
I do not see it on my first laptop. I have other selections under the "Action" menu in my Hyper-Manager window but not a Virtual Network Manager. Went to my second laptop and that feature was missing on my second laptop too.
Where or how do I see it?
Thanks
Peter

Hi Peter,
"Virtual Network Manager" is used in 2008/R2 hyper-v .
In 2012/R2 it is named "virtual switch manager" .
They are a wizard to create/manager virtual switch .
Best Regards,
Elton Ji
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Satellite U300 - Network Connection Issues

I am having problems with my laptop's network adaptors. The laptop is not able to connect to the internet with either wired or wireless connections. I tried updating the adapter drivers but this does not resolve the issue.
In the Device Manager section under network adapters, all adapters have a yellow exclamation mark next to them and 'Device status' for all the adapters is '*This device is not working properly because Windows cannot load the drivers required for this device. (Code 31). Click 'Check for solutions' to send data about this device to Microsoft and to see if there is a solution available.*'.
Also, on restarting the computer, Windows prompts me to install driver software for *Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller* and *Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN*. Every time I try to install the drivers, it fails and the error message '*Unable to open the driver specific registry key for this device*' appears. I even tried to install the Realtek Vista diagnosis tool and the program fails to initiate but produces the error message '*Please install protocol driver*'.
I tried to restore the system back to a date that I recall not having the problems but the restore fails to complete. I get an message that tells me that the restore failed.
_Drivers:_ Realtek PCIe FE Family Controller - Version on laptop: 6.227.902.2009 (I think this is the most up-to-date version)
Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN - Version on laptop: 12.4.3.9 (Current version 13.0.0.107 not installing)
Can anyone advise me on how I can resolve this issue?

Installed SANDRA and re-installed the drivers based on the information obtained from the program. Still does not resolve the issue.
The LAN drivers (according to device manager) are correctly installed and the up-to-date.
The WLAN drivers are not up-to-date. On trying to update these drivers, I get the error message '*Windows found driver software for your device but encountered an error while attempting to install it: The system cannot finf the file specified.*'
The laptop is a Satellite U300-11V.

Ghost wireless network in network manager

Hello everyone, I've been having a weird issue on my laptop recently; it may have coincided with the recent network manager upgrade, but I'm not sure, I haven't been in classes this month, so I haven't used wireless much. Anyways, now, when ever wireless is enabled, I see a hidden network all the time. At first I thought it might be a new network on the block, but no, there's no actual signal tied to it. I've tried searching here and on google, but sifting through the results proved to be very difficult because it brought up people having problems trying to connect to a hidden network.
Any thoughts on the issue would be most appropriated.

Hi Stephen,
Of course without doing a Site Survey these recommendations are purely speculative :) The choice of Antenna type would likely be to go with a Directional for this type of coverage.
With the directional antennas, you can divert the RF energy in a particular direction to farther distances. Therefore, you can cover long ranges, but the effective beamwidth decreases. This type of antenna is helpful in near LOS coverage, such as covering hallways, long corridors, isle structures with spaces in between, etc. However, as the angular coverage is less, you cannot cover large areas. This is a disadvantage for general indoor coverage because you would like to cover a wider angular area around the AP.
Antenna arrays should face in the direction where the coverage is desired, which can sometimes make mounting a challenge.
From this excellent doc;
Omni Antenna vs. Directional Antenna
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_tech_note09186a00807f34d3.shtml
Hope this helps!
Rob

EA4500 – Smart Wi-Fi interface and Windows Network Map issues

I purchased this Router about 2 weeks ago as a phased upgrade of our Home Network, primarily to enhance media streaming. It has the latest firmware preinstalled from the factory. Prior to the purchase and installation of the EA4500 Router I replaced my old Motorola SurfBoard SB6120 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem with a Motorola SurfBoard SB6141 DOCSIS 3.0 Cable Modem. My old Linksys E2000 Router worked perfectly with the SB6141, with the exception that the E2000 wasn’t IPv6 enabled, but does have 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet (RJ-45) and Internet ports.
The EA4500 has been installed for about 10 days and seems to have improved local network speeds and I don’t seem to be having any Internet connectivity issues. However, there are some disturbing issues with the EA4500 and the AE3000 I purchased. There are 11 devices connected through the Router; a Dell Desktop (wireless with the AE3000), a Dell Desktop (Ethernet), a Dell Laptop (wireless), 2 Canon Printers (1 Ethernet and 1 Wireless), 2 Western Digital 1TB MyBookLive Network Drives (both Ethernet), a WD TV Live Streaming Media Player (wireless), an Apple TV media player (wireless), an iPad (wireless), and an Android Smartphone (wireless).
Issue 1 – The Linksys Smart Wi-Fi interface appears to be unreliable at times!!! I’ve read about this problem here on the Community involving the EA6500, so I don’t know if this is a Linksys Server issue, as suggested in a few responses, or a bug in the Router firmware, or defective hardware. However, when the interface locks up, it can’t be accessed from a wireless or wired connection. Usually, powering down the Router and then powering it back up and restart will allow it to function again. However, at times before the interface completely locks up it shows either just a white screen or the security screen will show no firewall features enabled. This is a little scary, so I’ll do a complete reset and setup; this is becoming a pain in the rear!!!!! Is there any hope for this being fixed, in this Router, not the next generation??????????
Issue 2 - All of my network devices show up in the Router’s Device List. Except for the Apple devices they also show up, when they are online, in Windows 7 Explorer under Network and when you click on Network they are correctly displayed as Computers, Media Devices, Network Infrastructure, or Storage. However, when you click on “Open Network and Sharing Center” and then click on “See Full Map”; it fails with the response “Windows cannot create the network map. Responses from other devices on the network are delayed or there is an incompatible router on the network”; no device map is shown. When I follow the link for more information, the only thing that stands out is “A device on the network, such as a hub or switch, is not working properly or is not compatible with the Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) protocol, which Windows uses to create the map. To fix this problem, disable the device, turn it off, or remove it from your network”. All of my network devices showed up on the Network Map with the old E2000. This issue is the same on all of my computers, either wired or wireless. Any known solutions for this, or is it as Windows suggests; an incompatible Router????
Thanks in advance for any insight or solutions. With the issues I’m having with the EA4500 and the AE3000; they are both probably going back to Amazon.

thebluemamba_24; Thank you for your suggestion; I finally found time yesterday to perform an extensive evaluation before I return the Router. However, rather than trying to add devices manually, my rationale was if the EA4500 can’t process them correctly, automatically, it needs to be returned anyway, so I added devices normally letting the device an Router handle the process.
In thinking through this issue, all devices on our network are detected and identified by Windows Explorer on Windows 7 computers; except of course the Apple and Android devices (Apple TV, iPad, and Smartphone). So, I wondered if one of those three devices being added to the Router’s device list was somehow causing issues or interfering with Windows 7’s ability to generate a Network Map. Therefore, my approach was to turn off or disable all devices on our network, reset the Router to factory defaults, reestablish the Router to my custom Home Network configuration using a Windows 7 PC that has LAN and Wireless access to the Router, then add one device at a time and check with each addition to see if Windows 7 could still generate a Network Map.
With the Router reset and reestablishment complete; I began the process of adding one device at a time and checking to see if a Network Map was being generated. What I discovered was when a recent addition to the network, a Western Digital WD TV Live Streaming Media Player, was connected (wirelessly), Windows 7 could no longer generate the Network Map and the failure was consistent. The only way to get the Network Map to work again was to remove power from the WD TV Live, although it remained in the EA4500’s Device List; simply turning it off didn’t help. Since I’d originally witnessed the Windows 7 Network Map working with the Linksys E2000 Router that the EA4500 replaced, I decided to test the WD TV Live with that Router. It worked initially, but it failed consistently after the first success. Interestingly, the failure indication was a little different, but nevertheless generation of the Network Map failed.
I’ve tried changing a few settings on the EA4500 as well as the WD TV Live, but nothing helped. There was a recent firmware update to the WD TV Live, so I might try rolling back the firmware to see if it makes a difference.
The Network Map issue might very well be an issue with the WD TV Live, not the Router, but after reading many threads on this Community I have reservations that the problems I’m experiencing with the Smart interface lockup will be fixed. I suspect new emerging replacement products will be the focus and these older products will be abandoned and no more firmware fixes will be forthcoming and I don’t want to spend more money for a new product just to fix old problems and get something that works properly. The Network Map issue is troublesome, but the lockup of the Router’s “Linksys Smart Wi-Fi” interface is a serious matter to me. It appears that once it locks up, the only way to correct it is a power off restart; not practical if you’re traveling and trying to access settings remotely; the selling point for this feature.
Given the problems I’m experiencing with the EA4500 and AE3000, I guess I’ll return them. Too bad, because otherwise the EA4500 seems like it’s a good Router. I’ve been brand loyal since the Linksys WRT54G came out, but after reading this Community and with my personal experience with the EA4500 and AE3000, now I’ll probably give the NETGEAR N900 equivalents a try.

The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Profile and Device Manager Issues

The following article also applies to issues after re-setting the severs' hostname. It also applies to situations where re-setting the Code Signing Certifictateas described by Apple has not resolved the issue.
Hello,
I have been plagued with Profile Manager and Device Manager issues since day one.
I would like to share my experience and to suggest a way how to resolve issues such as device cannot be enrolled or Code Signing Certificate not accepted.
I shall try to be as brief as possible, just giving an overview of the steps that resolved my issues. The individual steps have been described elsewhere in this forum. For users who have purchased commercial SSL certs the following may not apply.
In my view many of these issues are caused by missing or faulty certificates. So let us first touch on the very complex matter of certificates.
Certificates come in many flavours such as CA (Certificate Authority), Code Signing Certificate, S/MIME and Server Identification.
(Mountain?) Lion Server creates a so-called Intermediate CA certificate (IntermediateCA_hostname_1") and Server Identification Certificate ("hostname") when it installs first. This is critical for the operation of many server functionalities, including Open Direcory. These certs together with the private/public keys can be found in your Keychain. Profile and Device Manager may need a Code Signing Certificate.
The most straightforward way to resolve the Profile Manaher issues is in my view to reset the server created certicates.
The bad news is that this procedure involves quite a few steps and at least 2 hours of your precious time because it means creating a fresh Direcory Master.
I hope that I have not forgotten to mention an important step. Readers' comments and addenda are welcome.
I shall outline a sensible strategy:
1. Clone your dysfunctional server to an external harddrive (SuperDuper does a reliable job)
2. Start the server fom the clone and shut down ALL services.
3. It may be sensible to set up a root user access.
4. Back-up all user data such as addess book, calendar and other data that you *may* need to set up your server.
5. Open Workgroup Manager and export all user and workgroup accounts to the drive that you using to re-build your server (it may cause problems if you back-up to an external drive).
6. Just in case you may also want to back-up the Profile Manager database and erase user profiles:
In Terminal (this applies to Lion Server - paths may be diferent in Mountain Lion !)
Backup: sudo pg_dump -U _postgres -c device_management > $HOME/device_management.sql
Erase database:
sudo /usr/share/devicemgr/backend/wipeDB.sh
7. Note your Directory (diradmin) password for later if you want to re-use it.
8. Open Open Server Admin and demote OD Master to Standalone Directory.
9. In Terminal delete the old Certificate Authority
sudo rm -R /var/root/Library/Application\ Support/Certificate\ Authority/
This step is crucial because else re-building you OD Master will fail.
9. Go back to Server Admin and promote the Standalone Directory to OD Master. You may want to use the same hostname.
10. When the OD Master is ready click on Overview and check that the LDAP and Keberos Realm reflect your server's hostname.
11. Go back to Workgroup Manager and re-import users and groups.
NOTE: passwords are not being exported. I do not know how to salvage user passwords. (Maybe passwords can be recovered by re-mporting an OD archive - comments welcome! ).
12. Go to Server App and reset passwords and (not to forget) user homefolder locations, in particular if you want to login from a network account!
If the home directory has not been defined you cannot login from a network account.
13. You may now want to restore Profile Manager user profiles in Terminal. Issue the following commands:
sudo serveradmin stop devicemgr
sudo serveradmin start postgres
sudo psql -U _postgres -d device_management -f $HOME/device_management.sql
sudo serveradmin start devicemgr
14. You can now switch back on your services, including Profile Manager.
In Profile Manager you may have to configure Device Management. This creates a correct Code Signng Certicate.
15. Check the certificate settings in Server App -> Hadware -> Settings-> SSL Certificates.
16. Check that Apple Push Notifications are set.(you easily check if they are working later)
17. You may want to re-boot OS Server from the clone now.
18. After re-boot open Server App and check that your server is running well.
19. Delete all profiles in System Preferences -> Profiles.
19. Login to Profile Manager. You should have all users and profiles back. In my experience devices have to be re-enrolled before profiles can be pushed and/or devices be enrolled. You may just as well delete the displayed devices now.
20. Grab one of your (portable) Macs that you want to enrol and go to (yourhostname)/mydevices and install the server's trust profile. The profile's name should read "Trust Profile for...) and underneath in green font "Verified".
21. Re-enrol that device. At this stage keep your finger's crossed and take a deep breath.
22. If the device has been successfully enrolled you may at last want to test if pushing profiles really works. Login to Profile Manager as admin, select the newly enrolled device. Check that Automatic Push is enabled (-> Profile -> General). Create a harmless management profile such as defining the dock's position on the target machine. (Do not forget to click SAVE at the end - this is easily missed here). If all is well Profile Manager will display an active task (sending) and the dock's position on the target will have changed in a few seconds if you are on a LAN (Note: If sending seems to take forever: check on the server machine and/or on your router that the proper ports are open and that incoming data is not intercepted by Little Snitch or similar software).
Note: if you intend to enrol an Apple iPhone you may first need to install the proper Apple Configuration software.
Now enjoy Profile and Device Manager !
Regards,
Twistan

HI
1. In Action profiles, logon to system and recheck correcion are available in action definition as well in condition configuration and the schedule condition is also maintained. but the display is not coming(i.e in the worklist this action is not getting displayed).
You can check the schedule condition for the action and match the status values...or try recreating the action with schedule condition again....for customer specific ....copy the standard aciton with ur zname and make a schedule condition and check the same.
2, In suppport team of incident when i give individual processor it throwing a warning that u r not the processor. but when i give org unit it is working perfectly. Could anyone guide on this.
You need to have the empolyee role for BP ..goto BP and got here dropdown for ur bp and choose role Employee and then enter ur userid
also make sure that u have the message processing role
Hope it clarifies ur doubt and resolve ur prob
Regards
Prakhar

ORACLE NETWORK MANAGER 기본적인 사용방법

제품 : SQL*NET
작성날짜 : 2002-04-12
ORACLE NETWORK MANAGER 기본적인 사용방법
========================================
I. TERMINOLOGY TO KNOW BEFORE USING THIS GUIDE
A. community - a set of nodes that use the same network protocol.
B. listener - a service that waits for incoming requests from client
and server nodes.
C. system identifier - (SID) name of the Oracle database instance,
which is usually the same as the database name
II. NETWORK CONFIGURATION STEPS
A. Develop a pictorial representation of the network.
B. Provide configuration data to Network Manager.
C. Save the network configuration data and generate the configuration files.
Step A. Develop a pictorial representation of the network.
The sample network is a single protocol TCP/IP network with two
databases. Each node has one listener.
Step B. Provide configuration data to Network Manager.
Network Manager requires information about the objects in the
network before it creates the configuration files. There is an
on-line walk-through which leads you through the creation of a
network definition from the beginning (specification of definitions)
to the end (generation of the configuration files). The walk-through
provides information in pop-up boxes before each step. During the
walk through, a series of object property sheets, which gather the
data about network objects, appear with values which you may need
to alter.
** Tasks **
1. Launch Network Manager and click OK to store the network definition
in a file. In the Open window click Cancel.
2. Choose New from the File pull-down menu to start a new network
definition. Use the on-line walk through and click OK in the Network
Description dialog box.
3. In the Community property sheet, enter TCP as the name of the
community and choose TCP/IP from the protocol list box. Close the
community property sheet by clicking OK.
4. a. To define a node, enter the node name, TCP_node1, in the Node
property sheet.
b. Specify UNIX as the type of operating system in the drop-down
list.
c. Click on the community folder tab. Add TCP.WORLD to the node
community list (Note:WORLD is a default suffix) and close the
node property sheet by clicking OK.
5. Click OK to close the Node property sheet. To create the node,
TCP_node2, repeat step 4 and specify the type to be OS/2.
6. Create a listener in the Listener property sheet, by entering
TCP_listener1 as the name and choosing TCP_node1 in the node
pull-down menu to indicate what node TCP_listener1 will listen to.
Select the addresses folder tab and click Create. This defines the
address of the listener. A service address property sheet appears
with the address information as default values. Click OK.
7. Click the database folder tab to define a database for the listener.
In the Database property sheet, click Create to specify information
about the Oracle database that will be included in the network.
Enter TCP_DB1 as the name of the database. Click TCP_node1 as the
node. Enter the SID: db1. In the Operating System Specific Details
field, enter the directory path of the Oracle executables, i.e.
/usr/oracle for Unix or c:\oraos2\ for OS/2. Click OK to close the
Database property sheet.
8. Click OK to close the listener property sheet. To create
TCP_listener2, repeat steps 6-7 and substitute TCP_node2, TCP_DB2,
and db2 for the node, database, and SID, respectively.
Note: The on-line walk-through automatically validates the network configuration.
Step C. Save the network configuration data and generate configuration files.
1. Save the network definition.
2. Click File System in the Export Network Definition dialog box and
click OK. Choose the directory and click OK. The network definition
is now complete and the configuration files are generated.
III. OTHER INFORMATION
A. About the configuration files
If the network definition is saved to the file system,
Network Manager creates two types of subdirectories within the
directory chosen to store the network definition.
These are: a node specific directory, which has the same name as the
node and contact configuration files for the service the node provides,
and a client profile directory, which has the same name as the client
community and contains configuration files for each client.
B. Hardware and Software Requirements
PC with 6Mb disk, IBM or 100% compatible with an 80386 processor
or higher one CD-ROM drive
MS-DOS Version 5.0 or later and Windows 3.1

Hi Steve,
1) PL/SQL API for Network Analysis is coming in Oracle 10g Release 2.
2) In Oracle 10g Release 1 it is a requirement to load the entire network. Loading the entire street network of new york city on my 1 Ghz laptop requires about 1 minute. In Oracle 10g Release 2 you can specify a predicate on the load network so you do not have to load the entire network.
3) Source code for elocation will be available as an Oracle 10g Release 2 feature (I'm not sure what the "name" of the feature is, but it is a bundling of geocoding and routing, and when combined with MapViewer is a complete "elocation in a box" type of feature.
Hope this helps.

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