#System Administration

Hi All

I'm looking for some field experiences, lessons learned, or actual deployed solutions to the problem of replicating non-CACHE.DAT data in a mirrored Cache environment.  

Environment:

• Operating System is IBM AIX
• Hardware is IBM Power w/ virtualised storage
• Cache 2017.1
• 2x Production mirror members
• 1x DR mirror member

There are a number of different data types that we're looking at mirroring, and a number of identified solutions.  The two main types of data to be mirrored outside of Cache mirroring are:

hi

   I want to online backup one Caché database by windows bat, I find some article from the online documentation about  terminal script and the ^DBACK tool and External Entry Points for ^DBACK,  so I can invoke the External Entry Points for ^DBACK from terminal  script like this:    send: Do BACKUP^DBACK<CR>

Is there other better way for backup database from bat/script?

Thanks

Hi Everyone,

Link to webinar recording: https://learning.intersystems.com/course/view.php?id=623

Thank you for your interest in this webinar!

Please submit questions about the content of the webinar as comments below this article.

The webinar covers two topics: monitoring message activity and volume and monitoring disk space. I summarize and motivate the topics in the following two sections. The information in this webinar and post applies to the Ensemble, Health Connect, and HealthShare products. For simplicity, I am only going to refer to Ensemble in this post.

Hello everyone.

I'm new to Caché.

I would like to know how I can connect my PHP application to the intersystems database.

Is it the same as MySQL?

Need help.

Thank you

Hi All -

Our environment has multiple instances of HealthShare installed and most are on separate VMs/servers. Does anyone have any ideas on how to efficiently manage user accounts across all of these multiple instances of HealthShare? As you can imagine, creating 10 separate Cache accounts on each instance during onboarding of new associates is cumbersome and tedious as is disabling them. We have yet to integrate with AD but we do have a Cyberark initiative under way but it is in the very early stages.

A few years ago InterSystems announced a tool to help Caché system managers on sites with a large number of Caché instances. It was called Enterprise Manager.

When I recently searched for information about it I didn't have much success.

Please let me know the Configuration management tools that can be integrated with InterSystems....

How to integrate the Config management tool with InterSystems.. Please let know the steps

Have you ever thought about leveraging IIS (Internet Information Services for Windows) to improve performance and security for your Caché web applications?  
Are you worried about the complexity of properly setting up IIS?

See the webinar Configuring a Web Server presented by @Kyle Baxter,  InterSystems Senior Support Specialist. Learn how to install IIS, set up it up to work with the CSP Gateway, and configure the CSP Gateway to talk to Caché.

If you have not subscribed to our Developer Community YouTube Channel yet, let's get started right now.  

Enjoy!

Hi All,

         We can sent the file to FTP server using CMD prompt.

         When trying send file using cache FTP. it automatically logged out.

          While cache FTP access (read/write) FTP server it automatically logged out.

CODE:

I only recently noticed the presence of a local database named CACHE alongside the more familiar CACHESYS, CACHELIB, CACHETEMP and CACHEAUDIT.

A bit of digging through the documentation archive led me to conclude that the CACHE database arrived in 2010.2, where the release notes say:

Note the lack of an accent on the words I have highlighted.

Hi!

Sometimes when I have Zen page in a browser (e.g. Management Portal page) and when my Internet connection interrupts, I see the alert window on the page, something like this screenshot:

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Is there any setting for the CSP web app to prevent this alerts from popping up?

Hello,

During startup a Caché/Ensemble/HealthShare instance must consult a parameter file to get some information it needs at the early stages of startup. By default it uses the file called cache.cpf, but by adding an extra argument to the ccontrol start command you can make it use an alternative file.

Usually I recommend to set the global buffer (GB) as large as possible in order to maintain in memory more globals as possible. I don't know if this is a standard recommendation, but I want to discuss what should be the best buffer size for a Ensemble instance that only process messages. 

Hello,

I have a problem with an Ensemble instance on Windows to access to a network shared directory. Ensemble service (services.msc) is executed with a user which has access to this network shared directory :

 - When I try to copy or access files from a terminal ==> this is OK : the command w ##class(%SYS.ProcessQuery).%OpenId($Job).OSUserName returns the user defined in Ensemble service logon screen.

NB. Please be advised that PKI is not intended to produce certificates for secure production systems. You should make alternate arrangements to create certificates for your productions.
NB. PKI is deprecated as of IRIS 2024.1: documentation and announcement.

Hi All,

    We using cache 5.02.We have some problem regarding license usage.

Currently, we have an application running in one namespace ("Database B") that has globals and routines mapped to another database ("Database A"). After enforcing clean up on Database A, we found that 90% of the disk is free. We would like to compact Database A and release the unused space. However, we are running OpenVMS, which seems to be the issue.

For databases consisting of only globals, we are able to use ^GBLOCKCOPY; however, we need to ensure that the routines and mappings are also copied.

What would be the best recommended way to do this?

Hy.

Is there a way to migrate MySql db to Cache (like export from MySql and import to Cache - not just the data, but the properties of the table too)?

Thank you.

I have been asked to assist in the planning of the a new server for our database, which we will be changing operating systems from OpenVMS to Linux (RedHat distribution). However, its difficult to find material regarding what would be recommended, which is likely due to the database being proprietary.

In looking at the information provided below and hoping to decrease processing time, would anyone be able to recommend type of configuration we should have for the new Linux server? Please feel free to ask any clarifying questions.

We've been noticing that we're getting this (https://community.intersystems.com/post/cach%C3%A9-sql-error-odbc) error more frequently and having to constantly purge cached queries in order to resolve it. Is there a way to avoid the issue in the first place?

thanks!

Hi All, When i try to run the CSP from Studio it shows "Server Availability Error" and management portal and documents also throw a same error.how to recover it.

We know there are numerous ways to backup cache/ensemble with VMware, but we are not in a state to do that and can't do shadowing because the lack of resources. Anyways how can i backup cache to a drive mounted as network share.

Hi ,

     i installed and configure the cache odbc ODBC-2016.1.1.107.0-lnxrhx64.tar in centos7.

     it connected  while executing  in terminal .(i.e isql -v DSN) 

     odbc_connect work in executing  php shell script  in terimal.

     but odbc_connect not working in PHP web applcation.

Thanks,

Prabakran A.

Hello community,
 

I'm triing to use perl with Caché on CentOS 7.

• Caché is installed and working
• Reading doc for perl module
• Adding path of Caché/bin in PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH as suggested in doc
• Creating mMakefile (perl Makefile.PL)
• Success at compilation (make)
• Fail at test (make test). And return the following message:

Can't load 'blib/arch/auto/Intersys/PERLBIND/PERLBIND.so' for module Intersys::PERLBIND: libcbind.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory at /usr/lib64/perl5/DynaLoader.pm line 190.
 at test.pl line 10.

Can someone direct me to where in the documentation we can find how consumption may be calculated for global storage?

EDIT: After receiving some responses, it seems I was unclear in my initial inquiry. I am looking to determine our rate of consumption of storage; however, I am having some difficulty in doing that.

While utilizing ^%GSIZE, which is used by the %GlobalEdit class, the results appeared odd. I have provided my results below, which illustrate the global structure on the left and the usage indicated by ^%GSIZE on the right.

Recently I started working with GitLab - GitHub self-hosted foss alternative. So far so good, liked the UI,  ease of administration, and available functionality (I was on Phabricator previously,  and still use it for repo mirroring).

GitLab has GitLab CI  (GitLab Continuous Integration) which looks promising (pluggable docker/vm/ds to run code) , but I wondered if someone uses it already and can share scripts for it?

Hi all,

          what reason for DBACK job process lock at time running full backup?

When an error occurs in your application, simply logging it might be enough. But for certain errors, you might want to send a notification to people right away. There are three ways to generate custom email notifications from InterSystems IRIS.

Ansible helped me solve the problem of quickly deploying Caché and application components for Data Platforms benchmarks. You can use the same tools and methodology for standing up your test labs, training systems, development or other environments. If you deploy applications at customer sites you could automate much of the deployment and ensure that system, Caché and your application are configured to your applications best practice standards.