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ArunKrishna How to determine the appropriate page file size for 64-bit versions of Windows - Windows Client | Microsoft Learn has details on what Microsoft recommends for the page file size. Following...

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Naveen Please note that we no longer recommend any production deployments with Cassandra database only; please refer to Supported system data storage architectures | DataMiner Docs .  However, you...

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Pramod Absolutely, you can deploy Dataminer in the cloud environment. We have customers who deployed DataMiner in AWS, however I don't see an issue you using that Azure or GCP conceptually. You can also...

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Alberto, that is correct. There is a new capability using the hostname rather than the virtual IP address in the configuration. Please see the attached screenshot. Also release notes link DataMiner...

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Snapshots are not the backups. There is a possibility of the DB corruptions based on the timing, but you need to follow the best practices recommended by VMWare Overview of virtual machine snapshots in...

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This can be done using the 'reports and dashboards' app, using the 'DMS Status' template that is available with the product. Please see the following screenshots for the report generation template and...

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Gilles Everything is possible in Linux OS, but it won't be just a few clicks. What is the intention behind installing the software under a custom directory? Typically /data storage is mounted to a separate...

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Jorge In the current implementation, IDP configuration needs a minimum of one location, building, floor, room and aisle for creating a rack. Please raise a new feature request at DataMiner Feature Suggestions...

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Alberto, you will see all the supported architectures recommended by Skyline at Supported system data storage architectures | DataMiner Docs .  Many features are distributed across Cassandra and Elasticsearch,...

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Paul, thanks for raising this question. We have two types of failover, i.e. Manual and Automatic. Details are available at Advanced failover configurations.  When DMA has the Manual failover type in...

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Javier You need to provide more details on this to get the support. You may have a network drive connected for backups or some other purposes, and that may be resulting in the errors. Provide the details...

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Please see the DataMiner client requirements at DataMiner Client Requirements - DataMiner Dojo . From 9.6+ versions, Microsoft .NET framework version 4.6.2 is required.

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Sergio Not aware of anything directly through the DataMiner for this at the moment. Cloudwatch is best suited for the monitoring aspects of the AWS services, and you can also send the custom metrics...

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Arunkrishna, We have something similar in the AWS cloudwatch connector. Assuming it's the same, we can extend this capability to the mediaconnect connector as well. We will update the documentation...

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Paul, there doesn't seem to be any maximum limit. The documentation doesn't mention any maximum number, but I have tried 40 parameters in the lab, and it works. I hope it helps.

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Stefaan You need to use a plugin to integrate with different data sources usually. I have not tried this, but you can try Cassandra plugin Apache Cassandra plugin for Grafana | Grafana Labs . Good luck....

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Manuel Following information might help. Elasticsearch comes under elastic license, and it's free to use. There was an interesting event for Elasticsearch earlier in the year, so they have changed their...

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Some essential background information before we tackle your questions. Details of the Nevion products you mentioned from what we understand. TNS4200 https://nevion.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Nevion_TNS4200_data_sheet_R1730-1.pdf...

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This may help while one of the SME's come back with more specific to DataMiner and Elastic performance metrics. 10 Elasticsearch metrics to watch – O’Reilly (oreilly.com)

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Jeroen This is not something that Skyline or one of our customers have tried as AWS Outpost need some investment. Conceptually, this should run same as using AWS services such as EC2 and Database nodes....

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Adding a screenshot to what Ben already confirmed.

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Jeroen There is no easy answer to this such complex question, as there are 250+ instances that cater to different business needs. Unfortunately, the elasticity provides that challenge as the users need...

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Paul, there is no such capability within Dojo. You can filter the questions based on the tags assigned to them only. This may be on the roadmap for Dojo features, I will let other Skyliners confirm this....

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Ruben, You can use the default IAM profiles that AWS provides for this purpose, i.e. CloudWatchFullAccess or CloudWatchReadOnlyAccess. Read only access should be sufficient for the purpose of our CloudWatch...

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Ashwini If you are simply trying to import the drivers/protocols then you have couple of options. Getting hold of the driver package files again from Skyline, contact your TAM or techsupport@skyline.be...

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Hi Jochen Expect is a well known tool in the Linux world to automate password prompt scenarios. I see that they also support Windows, may be you can consider integrating that in the driver development....

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Miguel A partition question exists in any Linux server setup, irrespective of DataMiner software. The need for partitioning depends on the objective of the solution and storage needs. A separate file...

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Alberto Do you not have any offload configuration of the database? Please note that recent versions of the DataMiner support file-based offload mechanism. Offload database | DataMiner Docs "From DataMiner...

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Paul Using GQI on HTML5 dashboards, I am able to do this for one parameter but not for 5 different parameters in one query. Others may have a better solution for this. Please see the video at DataMiner...

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Omar One option is using our API to collect the data and store that in the Elasticsearch indexes.  For example, you can use GetTrendStatisticsForParameter | DataMiner Docs to collect the trend stats...

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Jeff DataMiner Compute Requirements - DataMiner Dojo provides the hardware specification for the new deployments. This also shows the minimum requirements for DMA, Cassandra and Elasticsearch. You will...

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Bernard Technically it is possible to have different hardware configuration in an Elastic cluster, as 3-node requirement to avoid split-brain scenario and making sure that there is always a master node....

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Pilar In order to perform a new installation by cleaning up the current, you can also use the option resetting the database. Please see the details at Factory reset tool - DataMiner Dojo . Thanks

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Ruben Please see DataMiner supported versions of MySQL server - DataMiner Dojo and see whether this information helps. Looks like we are not supporting version 8.0 as this is breaking features and also...

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Rodrigo, you may find the following video by our Skyline colleague very useful. Agents - configuring DMA Failover - DataMiner Dojo . Do provide more details on the setup if you are still stuck in getting...

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Jose, DB.xml needs to include the configuration for Cassandra and also Elasticsearch if you are planning to use the latest version of the DataMiner. If what you posted is the complete DB.xml then that's...

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I had a similar problem upgrading from 9.6.0.0 to 10.0.4.0 version, and progress.log indicated that the upgrade is completed. However the cube is stuck with the message of 'upgrade is in progress'. Initially...

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