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The following files contain information related to the failover status: -SLFailover.txt: this log file will show you what a current DMA believes it should do related to failover, come online, take the...
View QuestionThe SetDrsState SLNet Message is able to bring a DMA online (by force). This is to avoid disabling the Failover config but still be able to bring the DMA online. The option ForceEventWhenHeartBeatsFailing...
View QuestionThis can indeed be configured in your cube settings If you go to your settings on top and go to "Data Display" you can disable the option "enable heat map on table parameters". This should change the...
View QuestionHi Ashwini, If you can restore an identical snapshot i would say this is the preferred way. we also have a nice MOP to migrate failover DMAs to new hardware: Migrating a Failover pair to new hardware...
View QuestionIt should indeed only generate 1 entry per alarm when the option is set to true this would be expected behavior, also note that systems that were installed many years ago, this setting was standard set...
View QuestionHi Jeff, To confirm i understand your idea with "duplicate max IDs" do you mean all points older than the TTL for a single parameter? What DataMiner normally does is retrieving all parameters within...
View QuestionUnfortunately it was only possible to change the ID until DataMiner v8.0, at this point in time you will need to fully uninstall DataMiner and reinstall it again since the DMA id is now embedded in a lot...
View QuestionWe have seen it before that the max connections reached over 100 on some other setups, what we did in that case is just increase the max connections to 500. You can simply do that in the workbench UI or...
View QuestionI would indeed recommond to take the Visio Plan 2 if you want to work with Visio and DataMiner. Visio is one or our main sources of having a beautiful and nice graphical representation of your system....
View QuestionThat is a correct statement, on a MySQL system you can limit by number of events and this setting indeed immediately applies to both alarm and information events. From then onwards the delete query will...
View QuestionIn our active MySQL database we have 4 tables that are linked with the alarms alarm: contains all alarms Then we have 3 different tables linked to that alarm table: alarm_property, service_alarm and...
View QuestionHi Juan, i believe you are referring to the upload of the elements/connectors on a DMP? You can indeed populate a DMP automatically with a csv import when a connector is already uploaded, this means...
View QuestionAs far as I'm aware this isn't on the roadmap yet, however I would turn this into a feature request here: DataMiner Feature Suggestions - DataMiner Dojo This way we can also track the popularity of translating...
View QuestionHi Jose, with the extra ... you should be able to see extra information or possible solutions to the problem. For this particular BPA you can also find extra information here: Cassandra DB Size - DataMiner...
View QuestionHi Ana, could you make a support ticket for this, if it works locally this surely looks like a bug? You can e-mail your issue to techsupport@skyline.be If you also installed/enabled the support assistant...
View QuestionHi Robert, indeed depending on the volume of data it can take a while, all data needs to be queried and transformed into the correct format and pushed to the new DBs There are several things tho that...
View QuestionHi Jeroen, for local users it's always adviced to change things in cube itself since we have a sync mechanism in the sync info files The folder containing the actions for the admin sync is located at:...
View QuestionThis can happen when a subscription of the booking manager failed for some reason. If there is a DMA restart or forcefully shut down of processes this can occur but we have also solved some issues in...
View QuestionPitching in on the feedback from Alberto For Cassandra it indeed highly depends on the HW infrastructure how "big" you can get MySQL Unfortunately for MySQL the main limit is MySQL itself, we identified...
View QuestionI can think of 3 reasons why this can happen -as mentioned in the catalog that some tables take quite a long time, i also noticed that in the 2 range QAction 14001 can take a while if the connection isn't...
View QuestionThis can happen when a SLNet call fails, we have seen some issues related to this in the early 10.2 releases however they should all be fixed in later versions In case something similar happens again,...
View QuestionHi Robert, this issue doesn't ring a bell, the only thing i can think of is that the services aren't properly registered again after the upgrade, you can do this manually again to verify if this is the...
View Question-Related to the MSSQL user, we just use the user from the settings you filled in in the DB settings, you can change this in the db.xml file or in cube (system center > database), if you change this...
View QuestionIn newer versions you can find information events when e.g. the correlation engine was succesfully started: In older versions i used the trick before to trigger on the last element startup or when the...
View QuestionYou have 2 methods to get the LDAP updates, through notifications or with an hourly scheduled task. They are both enabled by default (but that might change towards the future) Depending on the size of...
View QuestionThere are several routes you can take to investigate this. But one of the main things is to check if there are no Run Time Errors or other problems at the moment the alarm gets "sticky". You can find...
View QuestionI believe your experiencing 2 different problems, the cube will mark an element as deleted as long as it didn't receive from server side that the element was deleted. For some reason it is still waiting...
View QuestionI can confirm both comments To see the queries passing by you can check the ActiveDirectory.txt file where you'll see the hourly queries passing by to retrieve the groups The process responsible for...
View QuestionOne of the most common things are connection issues between the different DataMiners or low latency. If you e.g. are doing bulk actions, depending on how and what this can generate a huge list of things...
View QuestionHi Elvio, i assume we are talking about a MySQL Central Database? As described here? Offload database | DataMiner Docs We will indeed push all data into the database unrelated to the time you push the...
View QuestionHi Julio, can you confirm that deleting those dlls was a workaround or actually something that needed to be done? Should this be chased further as an issue?
View QuestionTo automate RCA configuration i used in the past service templates but that means that you can only do this with elements included in services Another option might be the DCF updating RCA chains: Automatically...
View QuestionWere you able to solve this issue? At first glance this looks like a bug, my advice would be to try to see if you can simulate this for multiple resources and provide the steps you did to techsupport@skyline.be
View QuestionI believe a further investigation needs to happen to identify the root cause I do see 2 errors in the alarm console there might be some ongoing issues on the system that could be causing this I would...
View QuestionThere is no difference for the backup location for Cassandra/MySQL, the main difference for cube and taskbarutility is indeed as Miguel mentions the standard folder In the past most references were to...
View QuestionHi Dave, i want to add to this question that we also now have a flowchart that helps you to debug these kind of issues: There is also quite some information about troubleshooting database issues: Troubleshooting...
View QuestionHi Neil, having your DMAs disconnect that often is not a healthy situation, what i think happens is that SLNet starts to be overloaded. Each time a DMA disconnects it will try to connect to the entire...
View QuestionFollowing up on this question, in our latest SRM versions some more robustness changes were made and on top of that i can also think about some enhancements in our core software to update caches in a more...
View QuestionHi Alberto, the smart baseline is indeed a sliding window, we get the trend point in from the past, as you specified the window, and we compare the 2 values In the alarm template documentation there...
View QuestionAs far as I'm aware you can't JOIN anything in the service template itself since this is mainly to collect the data from the different elements/services, this doesn't really have any visualization possibilities...
View QuestionI would actually wipe the DB as well, probably even best to start from scratch restoring a backup on a cassandra node already containing data will normally create new tables and it will use those new...
View QuestionHi Piotr, can you confrim that the RN 28028: Display values of rate alarms would have an unnecessary level of precision after an element restart on systems with a MySQL database General Main Release 10.0.0...
View QuestionHi Piotr, sorry for the late confirmation but this is indeed not possible, the group permissions are all configured in the security.xml file but we also have a cache to know when a user was updated to...
View QuestionHi Neil, apologies for the late reply, do you still run the 9.5 version? There are some things i can actually add to this problem. There are 2 different ways a DMA can disconnect from the cluster, option...
View QuestionUnfortunately it's not possible with the current SLA version, in case you would regurarly need this as a new feature, i would suggest to request a change to the driver
View QuestionHi Manuel, i noticed this question is now open for a while now. Can you confirm you found a solution? As Michiel mentioned, you can also reach out to techsupport@skyline.be for a more in depth investigation.
View QuestionHi Enrique, can you confirm that everying is working fine for the Nexus 5K familly? In case there are still other OIDs that need to be implemented, don't hesitate to request them via techsupport@skyline.be
View Questionan easy way to recreate the tables both on MSSQL, MySQL and local Cassandra is to restart the DMA, however the DMA needs to be active so in your case, if it are for example trend tables you would need...
View QuestionAs discussed in the comments, the new requirements should be checked to have a proper implementation
View QuestionIn our compute requirements we do not recommend latency higher than 50 ms: https://community.dataminer.services/dataminer-compute-requirements Reading up on Cassandra documentation they only talk about...
View QuestionAt this point in time there are no recommendations yet, you can choose the ID range of your logger table You can have a look of course at other drivers and use the same ID if you see they have similar...
View QuestionReposting the comment from Gelber as an answer to this question: 1. Implement in the connector the required methods of the query DSL 2. Use one of the available and approved .NET clients (Elasticsearch.NET...
View QuestionThis feature became available in 10.2.3 feature release and 10.3 main release More details can be found here: DataMiner Cube - Visual Overview: Problem when navigating inside EPM cards [ID_32288] General...
View QuestionThis looks like a bug, we have a task on the roadmap to provide a fix for this issue if you want an update or have any questions don't hesitate to contact techsupport@skyline.be
View QuestionUnfortunately it is not possible to change this behavior at this point in time Feel free to suggest this as a feature: DataMiner Feature Suggestions - DataMiner Dojo
View QuestionCan you confirm that the new DataMiner releases fixed the problems with the group component? Otherwise i would suggest to chase this further by sending a mail to techsupport@skyline.be
View QuestionHi Paul, you can find more info on those focus alarms in our help (topic "Filtering alarms on alarm focus") Applying alarm filters in the Alarm Console | DataMiner Docs To remove the icons you can right...
View QuestionThis is unfortunately not possible yet but don't forget you can file in a feature request if this would turn out to be too much work to do this manually: https://community.dataminer.services/feature-suggestions
View QuestionLooking at the rate you should consider 2 limits database speed: On a MySQL system the speed of parsing the queries will be your bottleneck For a Cassandra setup the speed of your disk will be the limit....
View QuestionThe logging should provide full details on the creation of the backup file. There are however some "manual" checks you can still do to be certain everything is fine e.g. when you want to use a backup file...
View Questionit’s indeed not possible to see which queries are running on a Cassandra database. There is however logging in SLDataGateway in case a queue starts to build up towards a certain table. Next to that we...
View QuestionThe main difference between SLSNMPAgent and SLAlarmforwarding is the "intention" of the alarm In the SLSNMPAgent you'll see the alarms passing by that are intended for SNMP Forwarding and are matching...
View QuestionHi Bernard, to look at the replication health of the Elastic cluster i use 2 different things The Elastic ElasticSearch Cluster Monitor driver in combination with Elasticvue. However the idea and concept...
View QuestionHi Goran, On which location are exactly trying to filter? is it here in the condition list of the child element? None of the conditions in the service template already support multi layered filtering...
View QuestionAs Rene mentioned, it is possible to run NATS as localhost, there are currently 2 things known that will no longer work: -cloud functionalities -user definable APIs So as soon as you need those features...
View QuestionWe have seen several issues so far when the primary IP wasn't configured OK, so it's always good to double confirm the IP settings before retrying. But it in this case it seems rather specific related...
View QuestionHi Jaime, can you confirm this seems to be resolved by clearing the cache? I would say if you encounter it again, since already more than 1 person reported this, could you ask the client to take a Cube...
View QuestionCould you keep us informed in case there is any update on your findings? In case you are not able to figure it out, i would suggest to create a support ticket at techsupport@skyline.be for a more in depth...
View QuestionThe "correct" behavior should be the following: a flat line should always be a full line except when you pause or stop the element but also when you have a timeout, but looking at the green bar below...
View QuestionHi Alberto, can you confirm you have enough information with the previous community post? There is however one side remark i also want to make, if you run our cloud service the processes start now with...
View QuestionHi Michael, can you confirm that the following RN is the root cause of the problem? Failover: Certain correlation rules would no longer work after a Failover switch [ID_34204]
View QuestionHi Saddam, We already discussed internally to move the logging from text files entirely to elastic, however we haven't placed this yet on the road map At this point in time we mainly use CDMR , this...
View QuestionHi Federico, i've been chasing a DCM visio file here internally but apparently we don't have a generic DCM visio yet due to the complexity however we have quite some custom ones, i would reach out to...
View QuestionHi Ian, i believe this post already contains useful information related to your question: Cost considerations when hosting DataMiner in Azure - DataMiner Dojo
View QuestionHi Lars, i assume this has to do with the AWS integration? I believe tweaks to the view can be made to achieve that but i would need to look further into this, do you still require this change?
View QuestionFor the Imagine Communications Selenio Network Processor we have indeed implemented the Multicast DCF properties from version 1.1.0.1 onwards. This is only supported on firmware versions: 2.0-2.1.2.19...
View QuestionWhich dashboard method are you using at this point in time? I can imagine a couple of ways to have a nice overview in both dashboard & Visio. In the "old" reporter module there was a possibility to...
View QuestionI'm indeed wondering here if we can't use immediately the csv export AND import functionality? As long as you do not touch the element ID it will "update" the found element with that ID. In your use case...
View QuestionHi Julian, which version are you using of the NuGet? Internal testing pointed out that some versions gave exceptions, but no further investigation happened. If this implementation is important i would...
View QuestionAs far as i'm aware you can't filter indeed on timestamp, it is also not mentioned in the help: Dynamic table filter syntax | DataMiner Docs What should be possible tho is filtering on these types:...
View QuestionI don't recommend using the alarm repository yet, for now it's adviced to still use the following method: How to get history of alarms in a protocol? - DataMiner Dojo
View QuestionI can confirm for now it is better to still use the getAlarmDetailsFromDbMessage instead of the alarm repository, this feature is not fully available yet More info can be found here as well: How to get...
View QuestionHi Martijn, indeed when you delete an element the logger table linked with that element should be cleaned up, in case you would notice this is not the case, this can be reported as a bug to techsupport@skyline.be
View QuestionI can't immediately think of a workaround either, if you still struggle with this behaviour i would ask to provide the following information to techsupport@skyline.be: -2 element DELT package of the 2...
View QuestionIs there any more news about this? As far as i'm aware the SetParameterIndexByKey() is not adviced in some scenario's, will there be a fix or is it necessary to always use SetColumn() for now?
View QuestionI don't think there is a minimul interval to configure on a table but of course caution is adviced. If you are polling and updating faster than DataMiner can process (depending on your HW infrastructure)...
View QuestionThere shouldn't be any limitations related to the string length or characters, if the same method works for other tables then you can consider this as a bug If you are not able to get the show hide to...
View QuestionWere you able to configure the IAM module with the information provided in the template or should we invest to have better documentation? As a side note: the Ziine application will be available in Q2...
View QuestionThis issue will probably require a more in depth investigation I would suggest to take the following logging while the issue occurs: -LogCollector package of DMA where the remote element is hosted with...
View QuestionThere are still some issues pending for using host names in 10.2.9 CU1 The fixes are currently being implemented, which should also include this issue and to be expected in the 10.3.1 release
View QuestionI don't see immediately anything wrong with the param definition, did you finally manage to get this to work? If not we would be able to do a quick check what is going on if you can send a DELT package...
View QuestionI'm indeed aware of some changes somewhere around version 9.5 but i don't think there are any changes between 10.0 and 10.2 This help page contains the information about the SNMP Manager bindings in 10.2:...
View QuestionHi Amit, the window is indeed not 100% user friendly but normally the failed services should be in there when you scroll down with the message why. You can also find more information in the information...
View QuestionHi Christopher In the meantime the 10.2.9 is released and i tested this out on my DMA and for me the link to the cloud admin in cube is now working Can you confirm if this is also the case for you?
View QuestionAs far as i'm aware we never hit the limit on this one yet, i don't think there are any limits build into DataMiner but there are limits depending on the Regex Engine you use. When googling all of the...
View QuestionHi Zheng, I assume the downtime you are talking about is the time it takes to switch the agent from the online to the offline? This indeed takes a while because we close down all the communication and...
View QuestionWould it be an option to change the acquisition IP to corporate and the other way around? Then it would just be a matter of changing the order of IPs. Normally you should be able to connect through the...
View QuestionHi Paul, This is indeed a tricky one, I'm wondering if it's not possible to store the data in a separate element or get the data from another way besides at the point of creating the services with the...
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