Re: ZAM on XP?

David Herde,
>I have the three ZAM services running: collection client, collection
>server and task manager.
>SQL Server (2005) is running and apparently responding (I have been able
>to add two users into the database and they can log in.).
>I have 1 collection server (default domain_name and default_server;
>hostname = _Unknown(don't know why); server status is 'unavailable'
>I have no task servers. (refereshing finds nothing. I have forgotten if I
>have to manually create a task server or just turn it on. (I can't find a
>way to create one manually.)
Are you running a local firewall?
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Now I tried a clean reinstall of my Nvidia display
drivers already It does sound like a video card or video driver problem. You said "my Nvidia display drivers" . Have you gone to [url nvidia.com]Nvidia's website and downloaded the latest Nvidia driver. Also if you haven't already install the latest Microsoft DirectX software.
After installing the latest drivers you may want to turn off direct draw:
java -Dsun.java2d.noddraw=true
There are other java2d flags you can try. See http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/2d/flags.html

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"Bill" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>I just noticed today that any Graph or PDF report I try to view I get the
>following error - Error from reports from ZAM - File does not begin with
>'%PDF-'. I tried to just save the file and then open it, but get the same
>error. I can open other pdf files I have downloaded from other sites ok.
>Anyone have any idea? I haven't done anything to that server that I am
>aware of in quite a while.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
>

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I just need a simple test to see quick if it is installed properly in Windows XP. For example, what's the name of the task (process)? Should there be a taskbar tray icon? etc. I can't seem to find this information (but then again I'm terrible at searching).
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Whenz,
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> My organization would like to create a web page (or an API) that when
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Originally Posted by lennyd
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I don't know if this is helpful. I still get the same messages since I started this thread. I hope you can see what is going wrong.
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Originally Posted by blcald
Can you supply your Task Server logs? That might shed some light on this for us. I am going off memory here but they will be on the your task server under Program Files, Novell, Asset Management in a folder callled logs. It will be date time stamped and have the work TaskSvr in the title of the text file.
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