Server name changed but old server name reflecting

Hi Experts,
Issue is In the SQL server name is changed.
When the user is logging on SAP old server name is appearing and in SAP 8.8 there is no option of change like in SAP 2005B and 2007B so no database is appearing on screen.
What should be done in such condition.
Thanks & Regards -
Mona.

In 8.8 you need to add and maintain servers through the license manager of the server tools. Open license manager settings and click the button on the bottom left (Configure Security). Enter your B1 site users details and then in the next screen you can define an additional server as well as remove the old one; I had the exact same issue a few days ago!

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Authentication popups after computer name changed to computer record name

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I'm not sure if anyone else is facing this issue, but I have been unable to find anything in the forums.
I have setup a number of client machines on Lion Server, all using 10.7.4. I used WGM and Remote Desktop to make some changes and deploy software
Since then, I have been getting the following authentication popup on all client machines (twice after login, and then every 30 mins or so afterwards):
Mac OS S wants to make changes. Type an administrator's name and password to allow this.
The changes made prior to this happening were:
- Overplay VPN installed (using RD pkg install)
- Adobe CS 5.5 installed (using Adobe Enterprise Deployment Tool and RD package install)
- Evernote installed (using RD copy)
- Set computer name to computer record name (From WGM > Computer Groups > Preferences > Options)
I have now removed all the installed software from one machine, and log in as administrator, unbind the machine, rename the computer manually to the record name, rebind the computer.
As far as I can see, I have reverted all changes one at a time, and am still receiving the admin password requests when logged in as a network user.
The only machine that seems to be ok, is the one where the name change to computer record name was unsuccessful.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can fix this issue?
Thanks
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How do I remove old web site when publishing new site with same URL in iweb? Hit replace when publishing new iweb site (so we could have control over changes) but new site name is attached to old via a / after our www address we want to keep.

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It would have been easier also if you had used Cyberduck initially to connect to your server and delete your old site yourself - at least that way you would have deleted the correct files rather than relying on your hosting service to do it and doing it incorrectly.
Download Cyberduck and then select the publish to a local folder option from iWeb and then use Cyberduck to upload your site to your server, but rather than uploading the whole site folder and separate index file, upload ONLY the contents of your site folder and then your url will be http://www.domain.com/page_name.html.
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Server name change leads to Server.app not being able to add users/groups

I changed the name of my server from vanroodewierda.rna.nl to rna.nl. I recreated my DNS setup (only used on the LAN) and everything works. I do have one problem, though: in Server.app, it is impossible to add/delete users and groups. (Yes, I can use Workgroup Manager, but this situation makes the system less robust, certainly, so it should not persist)
changeip -checkhostname says all is well:
$ sudo changeip -checkhostname
Password:
Primary address     = 192.168.2.66
Current HostName    = rna.nl
DNS HostName        = rna.nl
The names match. There is nothing to change.
dirserv:success = "success"
system log says
Apr 7 12:36:47 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:36:48 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: flushing dns cache
Apr 7 12:36:54 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:36:55 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: --Module servermgr_devicemgr's response has retain count of 3.
Apr 7 12:36:55 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: --request was {
Apr 7 12:36:55 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: --response was {
Apr 7 12:36:55 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:37:01 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: nsc_smb XPC: handle_event error : < Connection invalid >
Apr 7 12:37:01 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: nsc_smb XPC: handle_event error : < Connection invalid >
Apr 7 12:37:27 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: nsc_smb XPC: handle_event error : < Connection invalid >
Apr 7 12:37:48 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: -[AccountsRequestHandler(AccountsSystemConfigurationObservation) registerForKeychainEventNotifications]: SecKeychainAddCallback() status: -25297
Apr 7 12:37:48 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:38:48 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:41:24 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: getting service list
Apr 7 12:46:25 rna.nl servermgrd[5046]: No requests in 300 seconds, shutting down
Apr 7 12:48:38 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: -[AccountsRequestHandler(AccountsOpenDirectoryHelpers) openLocalLDAPNodeIfNeeded]: dsLocalLDAP = (null), error = Error Domain=com.apple.OpenDirectory Code=2100 "Connection failed to node '/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1'" UserInfo=0x7f9fc501c950 {NSLocalizedDescription=Connection failed to node '/LDAPv3/127.0.0.1', NSLocalizedFailureReason=Connection failed to the directory server.}
Apr 7 12:48:49 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: servermgr_accounts: noteDirectorySearchPolicyChanged (reopening nodes)
Apr 7 12:48:50 rna.nl serveradmin[156]: --Module servermgr_devicemgr's response has retain count of 3.
Apr 7 12:48:52 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:48:52 rna.nl serveradmin[156]: servermgr_accounts: noteDirectorySearchPolicyChanged (reopening nodes)
Apr 7 12:48:53 rna.nl serveradmin[156]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:49:44 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:49:44 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:49:44 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: getting service list
Apr 7 12:50:44 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:53:44 rna.nl servermgrd[148]: No requests in 300 seconds, shutting down
Apr 7 12:56:59 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:57:00 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: flushing dns cache
Apr 7 12:57:03 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:57:04 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: --Module servermgr_devicemgr's response has retain count of 3.
Apr 7 12:57:04 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: --request was {
Apr 7 12:57:04 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: --response was {
Apr 7 12:57:04 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:57:08 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: nsc_smb XPC: handle_event error : < Connection invalid >
Apr 7 12:57:59 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: -[AccountsRequestHandler(AccountsSystemConfigurationObservation) registerForKeychainEventNotifications]: SecKeychainAddCallback() status: -25297
Apr 7 12:58:00 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
Apr 7 12:58:59 rna.nl servermgrd[422]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
In All messages, I see that the name VANROODEWIERDA.RNA.NL is still used (note: vanroodewierda.rna.nl is an alias in DNS for rna.nl)
4/7/13 1:07:55.037 PM kdc[73]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 192.168.2.86:56402 for krbtgt/[email protected]
4/7/13 1:07:55.046 PM kdc[73]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 192.168.2.86:56402 for krbtgt/[email protected]
4/7/13 1:07:55.048 PM kdc[73]: Client sent patypes: REQ-ENC-PA-REP
4/7/13 1:07:55.048 PM kdc[73]: Need to use PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP/PA-PK-AS-REQ
4/7/13 1:07:55.072 PM kdc[73]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 192.168.2.86:56901 for krbtgt/[email protected]
4/7/13 1:07:55.081 PM kdc[73]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 192.168.2.86:56901 for krbtgt/[email protected]
4/7/13 1:07:55.082 PM kdc[73]: Client sent patypes: ENC-TS, REQ-ENC-PA-REP
4/7/13 1:07:55.083 PM kdc[73]: ENC-TS pre-authentication succeeded -- [email protected]
4/7/13 1:07:55.083 PM kdc[73]: Client supported enctypes: aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96, aes128-cts-hmac-sha1-96, des3-cbc-sha1, arcfour-hmac-md5, using aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96/aes256-cts-hmac-sha1-96
4/7/13 1:07:55.083 PM kdc[73]: Requested flags: forwardable
There is one stupid thing I might have done myself that caused this. In WGM in my Machines directory there was a machine called vanroodewierda.rna.nl$, I removed that and replaced it with the same MAC address and the name rna.nl$. Might the following have to do with that?
4/7/13 2:03:57.457 PM kdc[73]: Server not found in database: ldap/[email protected]: no such entry found in hdb
4/7/13 2:03:57.457 PM kdc[73]: Failed building TGS-REP to 127.0.0.1:50170
4/7/13 2:03:57.458 PM opendirectoryd[31]: GSSAPI Error: Miscellaneous failure (see text (Server (ldap/[email protected]) unknown while looking up 'ldap/[email protected]' (cached result, timeout in 1200 sec))
What must I do to correct this? It feels like something should change in the Keychain and/or in Kerberos, but what and how?
Thanks,

@John & MrHoffMan,
thanks for replying.
- I know about the split-horizon DNS, it is by design so that, say, mail.rna.nl on the LAN resolves to the same machine as on the WAN and people can take their laptops anywhere and mail 'just works'.
I tried this in Server.app (last night also). I now changed from rna.nl to rna.nl to vanroodewierda.rna.nl and back to rna.nl. (I did this because a change to the same might be ignored by some services and I wanted to force them). In the system log I notice (esp. the first 4 lines):
Apr 7 18:28:21 rna.nl changeip_certs[5029]: found identity for vanroodewierda.rna.nl in keychain
Apr 7 18:28:21 rna.nl changeip_certs[5029]: certificate for vanroodewierda.rna.nl is not self-signed
Apr 7 18:28:21 rna.nl changeip_certs[5029]: no self-signed identity for the previous hostname 'vanroodewierda.rna.nl' found in keychain
Apr 7 18:28:21 rna.nl changeip_certs[5029]: not generating a self-signed certificate for new hostname 'rna.nl'
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Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl changeip_mail.py[5035]: Mail Service new host/domain/IP settings:
                    mail:postfix:submit_cred:rna.nl:username = "submit"
                    mail:postfix:submit_cred:rna.nl:password = "8OOkDnAXKi8bHYHwft1mWs"
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                    mail:postfix:submit_cred:nl:username = "submit"
                    mail:postfix:submit_cred:nl:password = "8OOkDnAXKi8bHYHwft1mWs"
                    mail:postfix:add_whitelist_host = "rna.nl"
                    mail:postfix:add_whitelist_domain = "nl"
Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl com.apple.SecurityServer[22]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [147] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [147] (2,0)
Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl com.apple.SecurityServer[22]: Succeeded authorizing right 'system.privilege.admin' by client '/Library/PrivilegedHelperTools/com.apple.serverd' [89] for authorization created by '/Applications/Server.app/Contents/ServerRoot/usr/libexec/ServerEventAgent' [147] (100000,0)
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Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl kdc[73]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 127.0.0.1:64299 for krbtgt/[email protected]
Apr 7 18:28:22 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl kdc[73]: Client sent patypes: REQ-ENC-PA-REP
Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl kdc[73]: Need to use PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP/PA-PK-AS-REQ
Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl kdc[73]: AS-REQ [email protected] from 127.0.0.1:52730 for krbtgt/[email protected]
Apr 7 18:28:22 --- last message repeated 1 time ---
Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl kdc[73]: Client sent patypes: ENC-TS, REQ-ENC-PA-REP
Apr 7 18:28:22 rna.nl kdc[73]: Need to use PA-ENC-TIMESTAMP/PA-PK-AS-REQ
Apr 7 18:28:23 rna.nl servermgrd[1402]: servermgr_accounts: got error 5000 trying to auth to local LDAP node
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Does nobody have an idea ?

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TIA.
Pauline

Amasis wrote:
On ML there's no plist file for Mail, so nothing to delete there.
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.mail/Container.plist
(Go to your Finder "Go" menu hold the option key to choose "Library", since the ~/Library is hidden on ML)

How do I move mail from an old server to a new server?

I am rebuilding my server. The new server runs on OS X 10.9.4 with Server 3.1.2. The old server ran OS X 10.9.x and Server 3.x (the exact versions are not known).
Within the folder /Library/Server/Mail, I found the email stores for both systems. I have gone through each folder and identified the 36 character string that serves to identify the user's mailbox and paired each one to a user id on both systems. On the old system, there are multiple mailboxes for some users, and I think it is a result of the users being deleted and recreated: perhaps the system identified the identical name and assumed that the user might be different and therefore created a unique 36 character id for the mail system.
The trick is, I am trying to recover the mail from the old server.
I have attempted to copy the files which are human readable and formatted for SMTP transmission to the new server under the correct mailbox corresponding to the owning user (see screen shots below). The simple act of copying the files has not made these files visible via the IMAP protocol. I have tried restarting the mail service hoping that the Server app would rebuild whatever indexes need to be built so that the mail can be served via IMAP, and that has not worked either.
The question is, how do I get the mail from the old server mail boxes into the new server mailboxes?
This screen shot shows the location of one mail collection at /Library/Server/Mail/Data/mail/[userid]. Mail sits in the "new" folder only for a moment before being processed and put into the "cur" folder. Copying mail from the old server into the "new" folder produces an empty "new" folder, but one can see the files populate briefly before they are moved into the "cur" folder.
The next screen shot shows one email opened in TextEdit. The format should look very familiar. This is the same format that one would use to send SMTP requests to an SMTP server. This particular example happens to be an email from a Gmail account to the PediatricHeartCenter.org domain to test the mail system when the old server was set up. It was sent on 24 Jan 2014 and had text reading "Intended for Mavericks1. -Jared".

On further research, I have learned that OS X Server sets Dovecot to use the MailDir format. The email messages can be removed from the folders and put back, and as long as they were present in the folder to begin with (received by Dovecot originally), they reflect in the Mail.app on client computers. Deleting a file in the "cur" folder causes the file to disappear in Mail.app. Copying the file back into the "cur" folder will cause the file to reappear without any modification of an index file or any other system component, as long as the file was properly formatted by Dovecot to be identifiable to that folder.
According to Dovecot.org's review of MailDir found here (http://wiki2.dovecot.org/Ma,ilboxFormat/Maildir), the file name can be broken into simple pieces: " [unixtimestamp].[process id].[hostName],S=<message size>,W=<virtual message size>/2,[status tags]". The original MailDir++ specification requires the string ":2," to appear after the virtual size, but this file naming format is not legal in Mac OS X, so Dovecot is modified by Apple to use "/2," instead.
The Dovecot's wiki describes inserting new messages as follows:
Mail delivery
Qmail's how a message is delivered page suggests to deliver the mail like this:
Create a unique filename (only "time.pid.host" here, later Maildir spec has been updated to allow more uniqueness identifiers)
Do stat(tmp/<filename>). If the stat() found a file, wait 2 seconds and go back to step 1.
Create and write the message to the tmp/<filename>.
link() it into new/ directory. Although not mentioned here, the link() could again fail if the mail existed in new/ dir. In that case you should probably go back to step 1.
All this trouble is rather pointless. Only the first step is what really guarantees that the mails won't get overwritten, the rest just sounds nice. Even though they might catch a problem once in a while, they give no guaranteed protection and will just as easily pass duplicate filenames through and overwrite existing mails.
Step 2 is pointless because there's a race condition between steps 2 and 3. PID/host combination by itself should already guarantee that it never finds such a file. If it does, something's broken and the stat() check won't help since another process might be doing the same thing at the same time, and you end up writing to the same file in tmp/, causing the mail to get corrupted.
In step 4 the link() would fail if an identical file already existed in the maildir, right? Wrong. The file may already have been moved to cur/ directory, and since it may contain any number of flags by then you can't check with a simple stat() anymore if it exists or not.
Step 2 was pointed out to be useful if clock had moved backwards. However again this doesn't give any actual safety guarantees, because an identical base filename could already exist in cur/. Besides if the system was just rebooted, the file in tmp/ could probably be even overwritten safely (assuming it wasn't already link()ed to new/).
So really, all that's important in not getting mails overwritten in your maildir is the step 1: Always create filenames that are guaranteed to be unique. Forget about the 2 second waits and such that the Qmail's man page talks about.
The process described by the QMail man page referenced above suggests that as long as a file is placed in the "new" folder, that a mail reader can access it. The mail reader then moves the file to the "cur" folder and "cleans up" the "new" folder. This is clearly happening in OS X, because the messages are moving from "new" to "cur", but IMAP is still not serving these foreign messages to the remote readers.
The thought crossed my mind that perhaps it is the fact that the host name does not match, which would cause the failure, however changing the "host" portion of the name from the old-server to the new-server did not fix the issue. Even with the new server name in the file name, the inserted message fails to appear in client Mail applications.
Within the file their is header information that still references the old machine. I'd like to not have to change the email files, because this will violate the integrity of the message. Also, this might take a lot of time or incur risks associated with poor automated processing. The header information should not be referenced by Dovecot, because the wiki page describing MailDir notes that neither Dovecot nor Dovecot's implementation of IMAP refers to the messages header information when moving and serving these mail files.
Unlike when using mbox as mailbox format, where mail headers (for example Status, X-UID, etc.) are used to determine and store meta-data, the mail headers within maildir files are (usually) notused for this purpose by dovecot; neither when mails are created/moved/etc. via IMAP nor when maildirs are placed (e.g. copied or moved in the filesystem) in a mail location (and then "imported" by dovecot). Therefore, it is (usually) not necessary, to strip any such mail headers at the MTA, MDA or LDA (as it is recommended with mbox).
This paragraph leads me to believe that after the mail box is identified that the content of the file becomes irrelevant to the system which manages. This suggests that we should be able to inject messages into a mailbox and have the system serve them as though they had belonged in that mailbox all along. Yet I have not found a way to do this.

Imported source file name changed for the external table

Hi,
I have external table from flat file. Now the source file name is changed. I can change the file location to point to the new file name, but I can't update the source for the flat file property(as seen under flat file properties,structure tab. the column "Sampled From"). Is there way to have this update without having to import the file using the new file name again?

In the Files section in the object navigator find the flat file you want to change the source of.
Double click on the actual file, and on the General tab change the old file name to the new one.
The fact that it has been sampled from a different file should not 'disturb' the working of the external table.
However, if the structure of the new file is different I'd suggest to resample.
Good luck, Patrick

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