Unstable server ENV after upgrade to Forte 30M2.

Question

We are running Forte 3M2 clients and server in our test environment with
clients on NT and server on Solaris 2.6. Eversince the upgrade from 3L to 3M
we have been having an unstable environment that does not remain alive for >
10 mins. These are the details of the Forte installs and server setups :
1. The server hosts the development and test environments which use the same
Forte 3M installs through links (same ftcmd, ftexec, nodemgr, etc.). The
environments are at compatibility levels 0 and 1 respectively.
2. The two environments have the same definition files (defining the ENV
variables), though seperate copies and the two environments are hosted on
different ports on the same server.
3. While building the new 3M environmnets in DEV and TST, we exported the
old 3L repositories and imported them into the new 3M repositories and
deployed the applications.
While the DEV environment is stable the TST environment is not. This has
been observed while moving plans between the environments (export and
import) using fscript commands, deploying the apps after the move using
fscript, and testing the apps. Sometimes it has come down right after a
startup. There is no programatic reference to the environment agent in the
code. So, a programatic shutdown is ruled out.
Does anybody have a clue or a similar experience ?
Thanks.
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Answer 1

Hi Michael,
thanks for your reply. Sorry I forgot to mention that our application server is running on windows 2003 server. Our variable and the corresponding value is uppercase. It is not the name of our reports server. For the test I used a hard coded reports server name. The same reports server name is also included in the call to web.show_document whitch worked fine.
I also tried to read other variables defined in .env file. The only variable I could read was 'FORMS_PATH' which is defined in our application specific .env files. But the value I got had nothing in common with the value defined in these files ???
regards gisela.