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Hi Mieke, Currently, the only way to get this working is by placing the dll in the "C:\Skyline DataMiner\Files" folder. Also see this question: https://community.dataminer.services/question/using-nuget-dll-in-a-gqi-data-source/

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Hi Laurens, From within a script, you can launch a subscript and define the DMA where it needs to run: Skyline.DataMiner.Net.Messages.ExecuteScriptMessage scriptMessage = new ExecuteScriptMessage() {...

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Hi Mieke, This is possible with 2 Filter operations, 1 that uses the 'From' property of the Time range component, and 1 that uses the 'To' property of the Time range component:

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Hi Robert, The below example was not for the wind direction, but for the direction of an RF Antenna, but the same is applicable. If you get the direction from the sensor in number of degrees, you can...

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Hi Vasco, Specifically for your use case, a new option WantsOnFocusLost was added. This is available from 10.1.10 onwards and will only trigger if the user focusses on an other component.

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Hi Wale, The intended way to position the shapes is to right click on the visio and choose "Arrange". This is a very quick way of arranging the shapes. Bulk editing (I guess you mean by multi-selecting...

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The currently supported third-party products are: PTP Grand Masters: Meinberg Lantime M3000 Tektronix SPG8000 Evertz 5700MSC PTP Transparent/Boundary Clocks: Arista switches Cisco Nexus switches...

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Hi Trong, As this is an out of memory exception, and as nothing changed in the protocol, it will probably indeed not be related to the protocol. Is the total memory usage of the DM system high (>90%)...

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Hi Jeroen, IDP is not packaged in the new package format. The IDP package can be installed as a DM upgrade package with the taskbar utility or with cube. Note that this will restart your DM.

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You can go into the group and add a larger shape to it (or make a background shape larger). If you then go out of the group shape and click the Update Alignment Box action, the group shape size will be...

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Hi Jeroen, VLC can still be embedded in a visual overview. There are a couple of points of attention to get it working: When using a 64-bit Cube (with the launcher), a 64-bit version of VLC is needed...

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Hi Jens, this probably happened after upgrading from version 1.0.0.x to 1.0.1.x? Version 1.0.1.x is unicode compatible, and needs a new element, not an upgraded element from 1.0.0.x. Migration steps are...

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Hi Manuel, DataMiner is trying to automatically determine if the script should be an interactive script or not. This is done by searching for "engine.ShowUI". This would normally be in the code, but...

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Hi Ana, Please have a look at this custom gqi operator: https://catalog.dataminer.services/details/65cce917-0194-4789-a2f6-9affd0f3f494 It will change the display value of the date time column. The actual...

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Hi Tim, There is indeed a framework available, see the details here: https://github.com/SkylineCommunications/SLC-AS-ScriptPerformanceAnalyzer There is a nuget available to implement in the scripts,...

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Hi Catalin, When you are using Hysteresis ON, (and the alarm lasts longer than the hysteresis) the alarm will have the timestamp when the trap came in (so not the time after the hysteresis). The same...

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Hi Alberto, Gaps in trending can be caused by multiple things, like element or DataMiner restarts, but in this case it looks like the protocol is setting the parameter value to an exception value "N/A",...

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We did look around in the market to see if we could find use cases for this, but we didn't find any with this use case in a production environment. Because of this, it was decided to not support this...

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Hi Martin, Using the same Cassandra (or OpenSeach) cluster for multiple DMS is not a problem, just make sure to configure different prefixes for every DMS.

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As Miguel said, renaming the files with a .mib extension should work (are you sure the extensions are not hidden in File Explorer?) As an alternative, if there are a lot of files for example to change,...

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Hi Michael, I have created multiple Low-Code apps that display booking data. As an example, this app lists all the "Shared sources", these are contributing bookings used in multiple other bookings. When...

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Hi Koen, I made a dashboard that shows the usage (number of hours) of resources in a resource pool over the selected timerange. It also shows the amount of bookings that the resource was used in: The...

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Hi Luis, There are indeed multiple possible solutions, definitely also have a look at the  Skyline DataMiner System driver. Also see this question: https://community.dataminer.services/question/communication-through-dmss/answer/108309/

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Hi Gerwin, The new Download button component is indeed not yet supported in the IAS Toolkit. Feel free to create an issue (or a pull request) on github: https://github.com/SkylineCommunications/Skyline.DataMiner.Utils.InteractiveAutomationScriptToolkit...

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Hi Christopher, There is indeed a build in safety to prevent the accidental creation of very large services. The safety limits can be configured, see this help page.

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Hi Tiago, An Elastic cluster is required if you want to migrate to Cassandra cluster as not all data (Alarms for example) is stored in the Cassandra cluster. The picture you have is indicating to have...

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If you are using the installed desktop version, you can use these command line arguments.

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This was fixed by removing the protocol folders of the DVEs that were using the same name in both protocols (for example "AppearTV Input COFDM"). Before removing them, make sure no elements are using...

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Hi Jeroen, Did you add the ;ypos as a ColumnOption in the driver as well?

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A way of doing it could be by using an SNMP Manager on the DMS that needs to forward the alarms and a trap receiver on the receiving DMS. The SNMP Manager can have an alarm filter to only forward the needed...

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Hi Nils, Visio files are linked by name to the views, so if you use the same name for your updated visio file, you only need to upload it once, and it will automatically be used by all views that use...

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Since DM10.0.11, there is the possibility to use Application Packages, these do not require a restart of DM. The SRM and IDP packages however do not come in this type of package.

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Hi Baptiste, I had a quick look in how the monitoring app is doing this. It is using a GetVisioForView message. This returns (in my case for a view with elements, but without other views or services)...

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Hi Peter, HLS live streaming is only supported since DM 10.1.11: RN Is your system running this version?

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Hi Ana, Can you double check that the PublicVersion that is mentioned in the App.info.json is available in the application folder?

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Hi Randy, This driver can indeed search for specific strings in log files (with the grep command). Here is a screenshot of how the driver looks: Whenever something is found that matches the grep, an information...

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Hi Nathan, If you want to mimic the look of the parameter control, then the easiest way is to use the ParameterControl shape data as Miguel mentioned. If you want to give it a custom look, you could...

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Hi Gerwin, To package a low-code app, you can use the CompanionFiles folder, like it is used for example in this repo. To automatically deploy a DOM structure, you will need to programmatically create...

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Hi Ali, Next to the sms options mentioned by the other answers, it might also be worth considering messages via Microsoft Teams. This method doesn't require a hardware sms gateway or an online sms service....

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Hi Philip, If I remember correctly, the Cassandra implementation in DM is using the DCAwareRoundRobinPolicy, it will basically detect the closest DC automatically and use all nodes of that DC in a round...

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Hi Stefan, This driver is indeed designed to periodically send HTTP queries to 1 or multiple endpoints and it's possible to alarm on the responses if they for example did not return with a 200 OK response....

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Hi Jim, The row in your alarm template is not monitoring (first checkbox). Could you enable that checkbox and try again? I just tried (with a discreet param) and it worked for me.

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