Strange behaviour of excluded servers in group

Hi,
I have found a "bug" or "feature" when doing availability reports I dont understand. Basically I have created a group called "SLA" that first of all contains all server health monitors using a wildcard. I then manually add QA
servers to excluded members.
If I then do "view group members this works fine"
However I did most of this work on the group in the last week in March. When I run my availability report they are all showing. Its a though because they where available before I excluded them in the group it ignores them.
If I run the same report for April so far it works...
help.. and thanks!

If I've understood your question correctly I believe this is by design - as the information is aggregated then if the system was a member at the time the information was collected then it will still appear in the report. For historical reporting this would
make sense as at the time it could have potentially affected availablity of the collection/system your looking to report on.

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At work (education level), I'm starting to take charge of windows admin, so beiing a noob admin I'm finding strange behaviours that I hope you can help me solve them all :-)
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Hi Paul,
Honestly, I'm still trying to figure out all broken things reported by tests :( Guess Jesper's suggestion about adding a new 2008 DC to get rid of 2003 and start checking again after that may be best option.
I'll try to summarize list of things I believe are wrong:
running
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Latency information for 35 entries in the vector were ignored.
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On Services test, I see an
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Very strange behaviour master-detail-detail please help
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Kind regards,
Jan-Marcel

Hi Tim,
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We would like to exclude all servers from being discovered by Active Directory System Discovery. Is there any way to achieve this, i. e. with a custom LDAP query? Or does SCCM always detect all systems in the configured OUs? (Moving all servers to a separate
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Well, good question ;) ... We don't use SCCM on servers, and the basic reason was excluding them from statistics. Of course we want to prevent accidental client installation, but that can be done in other ways (like mentioned by Eswar).
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Well.If that is the issue with reporting,then you may have to edit the report to avoid servers in displaying in reports ,so will be on right track with results.
Or while creating collections to exclude certain number of computers or may be more,create a AD sec group and all the computers to it .Create collection to exclude computers which are member of this AD group to aviod accidentals installation...
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Strange behaviour of 32bit app on 64bit OS

I have a piece of software developed by the company where I work , that is refusing to run on a couple of virtual Windows 7 (64bit) machines and a couple of client machines. (it should be noted, that it runs fine on my Win 7 x64 machine, and also
on a couple of 64bit laptops used by our Sales staff)
the machines in question are running Windows 7 Professional (x64)
The application I'm trying to run is a .NET4 based app (32bit)
Now this is where it gets strange.
On restoring a clean snapshot of my Win 7 machine, and installing my application , I will get clr.dll errors (which, I'm led to believe are generic .NET errors, usually indicating that there is a dependancy missing)
If I then launch the application in Compatability Mode (Win XP SP3) it works okay
If I then disable Compatability Mode (ie reverting the machine back to the state is was at step #1....the application continues to work fine (even after the virtual has been restarted/ shut down)
This would imply that all the pre-reqs are present (in this case .NET 4.x and VCRedist2010)
Whilst this is a workaround, it's just that, and I can't really tell my clients to do this on each machine that is going to be using our software (clients concerned enforce very strict Group Policies)
Any idea as to what could be causing this strange behaviour, and how I can get past this without the need for a workaround.

Hi,
Firstly, Please understand that third party software has its own way to program codes and call corresponding system resources when installing and running.
You may use the hotfix below to check the issue:
FIX: "Faulting module name: clr.dll" error message when you run a Microsoft .NET Framework 4-based application
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2640103/en-us
clr.dll error usually occurs when a program crashes and is really generic.
Hope it helps.
Regards,
Blair Deng
Blair Deng
TechNet Community Support

APEX Listener and EPG - strange behaviour

Hi
For some years, I've used EPG for APEX but have struggled with performance particularly as I can have up to 150 student developers using at any one time.
I do a fair amount of work using ORDImage and have successfully developed APEX applications to upload image files and display full-size and thumbnail images.
After upgrading to APEX 4.1 (from 4.0), I decided to install APEX Listener standalone.
Before I did so I checked that my applications still worked in 4.1 and they did.
However, just installing APEX Listener but not configuring it (yet) has meant that my image display in a report using a procedure based on wpg_docload.download_file( l_ordimage_image.source.localData ) no longer works in EPG - the images are not displayed.
Configuring APEX Listener and running the same application through that DOES display the images.
So this part of the application works under APEX Listener but not under EPG.
My application also allows users to upload images from APEX_APPLICATION_FILES using standard code. Under APEX Listener after uploading, I'm left with a blank page with a wwv_flow.accept URL although the image does indeed upload. Under EPG it works as expected and I get a success confirmation.
So this part of the application works under EPG but not under APEX Listener.
Has anyone else come across different behaviour depending on the mode of connection?
Thanks
Brian
[Oracle EE 11gR2, Windows Server 2008R2, APEX 4.1, APEX Listener 1.1.3]

Hi Brian,
it sounds like you have both EPG and APEX Listener running on the same machine, so your problem might result from a port conflict. Note that both services use TCP port 8080 as default.
At least a port conflict would explain the strange behaviour in your case, some things working on one web server and some on the other.
Some parts of your initial post hint to that direction, e.g.
However, just installing APEX Listener but not configuring it (yet) has meant that my image display in a report using a procedure based on >wpg_docload.download_file( l_ordimage_image.source.localData ) no longer works in EPG - the images are not displayed.... because the APEX Listener only interfere with the EPG if it is at least running on the same machine as your database and furthermore, if it is unconfigured in terms of ist database connection, a port conflict might be the only way it could cause anything like that.
However, if you are sure that's not the issue, please check if you see any error in the APEX Listener's log for the following action you performed:
My application also allows users to upload images from APEX_APPLICATION_FILES using standard code. Under APEX Listener after uploading, I'm left with a blank >page with a wwv_flow.accept URL although the image does indeed uploadIf you actually see just a blank screen, something very bad must have happened and you should see some kind of stack trace there.
For further investigations, if necessary, it would be helpful to know how you deployed or started your APEX Listener and which JDK version you use.
For the moment, I still think the port conflict is my best guess.
You could avoid it by either changing the port for EPG (I'd not recommend that if you have other users still using it) or by changing the port for your APEX Listener.
-Udo

Strange behaviour of Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command)

hello guys,
i wrote a program which executes some commands in commandline (actually tried multiple stuff.)
what did i try?
open "cmd.exe" manually (administrator)
type "echo %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%" and hit enter, which returns me
"AMD64"
type "java -version" and hit enter, which returns me:
"java version "1.6.0_10-beta"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-beta-b25)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b12, mixed mode)"
type "reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\7-zip"" returns me:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\7-zip
Path REG_SZ C:\Program Files\7-Zip\
i wrote two functions to execute an command
1) simply calls exec and reads errin and stdout from the process started:
public static String execute(String command) {
          String result = "";
          try {
               // Execute a command
               Process child = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
               // Read from an input stream
               InputStream in = child.getInputStream();
               int c;
               while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
                    result += ((char) c);
               in.close();
               in = child.getErrorStream();
               while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {
                    result += ((char) c);
               in.close();
          } catch (IOException e) {
          return result;
     }the second function allows me to send multiple commands to the cmd
public static String exec(String[] commands) {
          String line;
          String result = "";
          OutputStream stdin = null;
          InputStream stderr = null;
          InputStream stdout = null;
          // launch EXE and grab stdin/stdout and stderr
          try {
               Process process;
               process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("cmd.exe");
               stdin = process.getOutputStream();
               stderr = process.getErrorStream();
               stdout = process.getInputStream();
               // "write" the parms into stdin
               for (int i = 0; i < commands.length; i++) {
                    line = commands[i] + "\n";
                    stdin.write(line.getBytes());
                    stdin.flush();
               stdin.close();
               // clean up if any output in stdout
               BufferedReader brCleanUp = new BufferedReader(
                         new InputStreamReader(stdout));
               while ((line = brCleanUp.readLine()) != null) {
                    result += line + "\n";
               brCleanUp.close();
               // clean up if any output in stderr
               brCleanUp = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stderr));
               while ((line = brCleanUp.readLine()) != null) {
                    result += "ERR: " + line + "\n";
               brCleanUp.close();
          } catch (IOException e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
               e.printStackTrace();
          return result;
     }so i try to execute the commands from above (yes, i am using \\ and \" in java)
(1) "echo %PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE%"
(2) "java -version"
(3) "reg query "HKLM\SOFTWARE\7-zip""
the first function returns me (note that ALL results are different from the stuff above!):
(1) "" <-- empty ?!
(2) java version "1.6.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_11-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.0-b16, mixed mode, sharing)
(3) ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
the second function returns me:
(1) x86 <-- huh? i have AMD64
(2) java version "1.6.0_11"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_11-b03)
Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 11.0-b16, mixed mode, sharing)
(3) ERROR: The system was unable to find the specified registry key or value.
horray! in this version the java version is correct! processor architecture is not empty but totally incorrect and the reg query is still err.
any help is wellcome
note: i only put stuff here, which returns me strange behaviour, most things are working correct with my functions (using the Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command); code)
note2: "reg query "HKLM\HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0" /t REG_SZ" IS working, so why are "some" queries result in ERR, while they are working if typed by hand in cmd.exe?

ok, i exported a jar file and execute it from cmd:
java -jar myjar.jar
now the output is:
(1) "" if called by version 1, possible to retrieve by version 2 (no clue why!)
(2) "java version "1.6.0_10-beta"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_10-beta-b25)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 11.0-b12, mixed mode)"
(3) C:\Program Files\7-Zip\
so all three problems are gone! (but its a hard way, as i need both functions and parse a lot of text... :/ )
thanks for the tip, that eclipse changes variables (i really did not knew this one...)

Report S_ALR_87013542 strange behaviour

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Report S_ALR_87013542 - Actual/Comm/Total/Plan in COAr crcy - is showing up cross signs in some of the columns.When the cross sign (like any other column value) is clicked the line item detail are sown correctly.
Has anybody encountered this kind of issue before ?
I googled and searched various forums but all in vain.
Please provide inputs to correct this strange behaviour of Report S_ALR_87013542. Thanks!
Regards
Dev

Hello Dev,
Did you execute report RKACOR04 for the affected object number and checked if this still happens ?
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