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Hi Hans, We're currently aware of this issue and actively working on restoring this. The feature itself has not been purposefully removed but rather disappeared as the consequence of a bug which can occur...

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Hi Carolina, The Security.xml file is bespoke to a DMS. It is not a portable file that can be imported on another system by copying it over. I would advise not to do so as this could cause unforeseen...

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Hi Ladan, As the client secret is sensitive data, we do not store this plain text in the DataMiner.xml file. Instead there is a file with encrypted values that is used for storing this type of data. During...

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Hi Jens, The documentation mentions that usage of RADIUS necessitates a matching DMA user on the system. This means that there's 2 main ways of using RADIUS with DataMiner. RADIUS with local users...

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Hi Alberto, It's not possible to have different types of database configurations running within a single cluster. So if the agents within a cluster are making use of local Cassandra then each new agent...

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Hi Jonas, To work around an upgrade that has gotten stuck you can navigate to the C:\Skyline DataMiner\Upgrades\Packages directory on the system where your DMA is installed and delete the directory of...

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Hi Dave, Efforts for validating Windows Server 2025 are ongoing, I can not share an estimate for when this will wrap up currently. This will be validated with the latest Feature Releases and Main Release...

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Hi Philip, I believe a third site may be the solution here. On the condition that the sites have a low latency connection (<50ms) to each other. The goal here is to have both sites be able to function...

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Hi Martin, The contents of this test can get updated with each new version and is thus linked to the version that you'd aim to update to. It's possible to run all of the prerequisite tests ahead of the...

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Hi Leander, This is possible to do. The main thing to keep in mind configuration wise is to ensure that each DMS has its own bespoke keyspace/database prefix configured in the configuration in DB.xml...

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Hi Leander, It is possible to configure different authentication methods on different DMAs in the DMS. The entire DMS can be set up with regular AD authentication and one specific DMA which is accessible...

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Hi Gerwin, In the current releases there is no support for Elastic 7 or Elastic 8. In the upcoming 10.3 main release there will however be support for the supported versions of OpenSearch. Which is a...

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Hi Thomas, Currently this is not supported as a feature in DataMiner. Though I would opt for an alternative architecture here if the goal is to achieve redundancy for the RADIUS auth server. Multiple...

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Hi Alberto, When using the migration functionality of DELT within a cluster a network outage between the source & destination will interrupt the process if it happens during the transfer of the DELT...

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Hi Danielle, For an external Cassandra cluster, Medusa is the recommended approach for managing backups and restores of the data. As a utility it is more feature complete than the stand alone backup tool...

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Hi Jeroen, The procedure is feasible as each of the two Opensearch clusters are treated independently. However this would require downtime of the DMS from step 5 onwards up until step 11. This to ensure...

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Hi Alberto, Between the 10.2.4.0 and the 10.2.10.0 feature release there have been quite a few improvements to memory handling in SLDataGateway. A few of those resolved situations in which memory would...

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Hi Bart, A restart of the DMA should clear any pending notifications that are lingering in the DataMiner system still. If any of those were already buffered on the configured mail server itself then they'd...

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Hi, The registry key command you've used will check the .NET Framework version, which is the old .NET that has been discontinued by Microsoft. However, for 10.3 CU16 we require the new .NET. You can check...

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Hi Tser, As far as functionality is concerned Elastic and OpenSearch perform the same function as a dependency of DataMiner. Both allow for efficient indexing and querying of large datasets. The main...

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Hi Christine, Currently there are still some known issues with using hostnames for the connections between DMAs. By extension the same applies to FQDNs. We're hoping to resolve this in an upcoming release...

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