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Hello, I'd always start with checking the SLDatagateway.txt & sldbconnection.txt. These might mention some queues going up. For example, trending might be out of control, elementdata might be spiking.......

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Hello Ruben, There is the message "FileOffloadToggleRequest", which does exactly what you need (can be sent through the SLNetClientTest tool). However, this might not work on some versions (in the 9.6.x...

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Hello, This is indeed not done automatically yet. Best thing to do is to add this manually in db.xml, copy the elasticsearch tag from the other agent to the new failover pair (please mind to replace localhost...

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If I'm correct, I have most of the additional features listed below: Netflow is currently supported on Elastic Searching & suggestions on alarms New DataMiner versions require Elastic for SRM...

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Hello, This is a very intresting topic you bring forward. First, the ip's or host names you mention in DB.xml are used to build the connection. If one host of those is down, the Elastic driver should...

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It's rather difficult to say, there could be a backup running or a (few) queries. For example a count aggregation query has quite some resource usage. However, most of these actions would require some...

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Hello Piotr, This is not intented. However, there could be numerous causes to this behavior. In light of this, we have done multiple big improvements regarding the migration and possible issues, these...

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Hello, As mentioned on the official Elastic blog website, this indeed is a way to prevent the exploit. Kind regards,

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Hello, On the Elastic side of the question, it's possible to upgrade to any version in the 6.X range. However, I do not recommend downgrading to lower than 6.8 because there's no free security features...

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Hello Gerwin, I'm assuming you saw this in the Elastic logging. Usually this is not an issue if there's still replica shards online, however, it's better to get this resolved. So, what we want to figure...

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Hello Ryan, The "are first put into file" is probably a reference to mysql. But no, this isn't the case for Cassandra. Data coming into Datagateway first gets stored in a queue and gradually this queue...

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Hello, Although I haven't technically investigated this, I believe it's better to configure the firewall to have the connectivity to both the active and standby server (not just the Virtual IP). I could...

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Hello Jens, This is possible by using shape data ChildrenFilter with value ReservationInstance.Properties."Booking Manager"[String]=='[this element]'

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Hi, My suggestion is to delete "CassandraMigrationConfiguration.txt”, “CassandraMigrationProgress.txt” & “CassandraUpgradeInProgress.txt”, depending on your version these might be located...

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Hello Jelle, This query should achieve what you want to achieve: ALTER KEYSPACE "SLDMADB" WITH REPLICATION = { 'class' : 'SimpleStrategy', 'replication_factor' : 2 }; When configuring the failover, the...

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The TTL for Elastic is controlled by DataMiner. Elastic has no built-in TTL mechanism. These TTL values can be checked in C:\Skyline DataMiner\Database\DBMaintenanceDMS.xml. If the TTL is not in there,...

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As Gelber mentioned, the version should match 6.x.x (preferably 6.8.x, so DataMiner can leverage the free security features). On top of that, it must be made sure that if the customer uses this Elastic...

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Hello, I would not think about the amount of primary shards we configure. This is purely related to scaling and 3 is the default and should be fine. We configure it to 2 as default (replication). This...

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Hello Srikanth The tool was not designed to do this but it's very much achievable. All you will need is a (single) Cassandra node that is reachable by all the DMA's in the DMS. This could even be a temporary...

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Hello, Best thing you can do is check SLSearch log file, if no exception is present, it should start with something along the lines of: "2022/05/12 13:03:15.434|SLLog|ApplyLogLevels|CRU|-1|Log Levels:...

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Hello, How I would consider interpreting these 2 options: Clustering: How do I request my data? (partitioning keys should always be given to request data and clustering keys are optional). In your case,...

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Hello Peter, I'm unsure what is actually happening, could you clarify the following: Where do you see Elastic is going offline? Where do you see it still appears online? What are your current settings...

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Hello Bing Herng Chong, I am not sure about the exact behavior, neither do I believe it's too important since we're trying to describe what will happen in a faulty setup. However, I believe that DataMiner...

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Hello Bruno, Elastic security and TLS used to be configured when doing an Elastic installation trough Dataminer. However, since 10.1.0 main release and 10.1.3 feature release, this is no longer the case....

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Hello Bruno, It's hard to exactly immediatly pinpoint the issue. Here would be some of my pointers: Can you access localhost:9200/ trough a browser? This should return a JSON file, if not, perhaps...

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Hello Jochen, This is indeed not getting cleaned up. I would also like to note that snapshots are sequential, which means that snapshot 2 will use snapshot 1 to build on. So deleting snapshots might not...

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Hello, As the other answers mentioned, the GetAlarmDetailsFromDBMessage is a good start. As Michiel Oda mentioned, this could be subject to change. As it so happens, since internal RN26019 this has...

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This is possible, however, conflicts would arise, you would most likely find data of the other cluster which is most likely not desired. However, there is an internal task for this (DCP135196) so that...

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Hello, You can find a guide on how to enable TLS here: Securing the Elasticsearch database | DataMiner Docs Any shot you missed a step? Perhaps you did not import the certificate on the DataMiner Machine?

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Hello Luis, Take a look at: Standalone Elastic Backup tool. We're still working on a complete backup guide for Elastic, regarding settings/setups/behaviors to cover everything. This should be on finished...

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Hello Tiago, I don't think this kind of query is supported by our SLDatabase.DLL. I can only suggest to use the oracle driver. In SLDatabase.dll we use the oracle.ManagedDataAccess.dll which is already...

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Hello Jeroen, Would it be possible to check whether or not you have a: "<PWD>root</PWD>" tag and value under the <Database> tag with type="cassandra"? Kind regards,

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Hello Jeroen, If no prefix is defined in db.xml, it will indeed apply the "dms" prefix. Kind regards,

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Hello, About this tool, we are currently disabling any Elastic reset that it does by default. Since it's a clustered database, it has too many edge cases and possibilities where an unexpected outcome...

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Hello, I'm not sure about what exactly is going on, but what I can tell you: A loggertable is a table from a protocol that is saved in the database (it has its own database table) The "Could not...

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Hello, I'm going to assume that everything went correctly, since your DMA is indicating that the Elastic is working. You could double check if you've installed the correct version of Elastic trough going...

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As for now, this is a manual configuration. The task to makes this automatically has been created. The information on how to do this is currently private on teams -> Champions -> Elastic -> Files.

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