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Hmmm, Windows 7, Word 2000 and Scanning

January 2, 2014, 10:53 am
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Having upgraded my Aunt's PC to Windows 7 Professional 32-bit over Christmas, I'd asked her to test and report back.

There were a few things left to do, including installing Irfanview and sorting out the drivers for the Nvidia video card.

However, there was one thing that bugged me for most of this afternoon.

Whenever she attempted to insert a scanned image into a Microsoft Word 2000 document, she got: -

Unable to connect to scanner or camera. Check the connection and reinstall driver if necessary


even though the scanner ( in fact, TWO scanners; a Canoscan 8800F and a HP Deskjet 3055A ) worked perfectly outside of Word.

After much Googling and a fair bit of fiddling and faffing, I realised that, if I ran Word as Administrator, the scanner integration worked perfectly.

Long story short, the problem was NOT related to the Canon drivers ( in fact, I reinstalled them ! ), the USB cables betwixt PC and scanners, Word 2000 or the Windows Image Acquisition service.

For some reason, Word 2000 can only see the scanner ( using, I believe, the TWAIN drivers via c:\windows\twain_32 ) *IF* Word is run as Administrator.

I ended up creating a little batch file to make use of the runas command. This allows Word to be started as Administrator from a short-cut on the desktop.

However, the good news is that it now works.

For my next trick, I need to work out how to add a short-cut to the batch file into the Quick Launch task bar at the bottom of the screen.

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Hmmm, Mac OS X Mavericks - Keychain not playing nicely

January 4, 2014, 2:03 am
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Hmmm, I've just updated my MacBook Pro to OS X 10.9.1 Mavericks and, after a cold boot this morning, I started getting prompts for a password for the "Local Items" keychain - neither my login password nor my Apple / iCloud password would let me in.

Thankfully, Google led me to this item on the Apple website: -


Symptoms

After logging in, you are repeatedly prompted to unlock the "Local Items" keychain in multiple apps.

Resolution

Note: This article is about the "Local Items" keychain, not the "Login" keychain. Please see this article for issues with "Login" keychain password.

Follow these steps to prevent prompts to unlock the Local Items keychain.

• In Finder Select Go > Go to folder… (⇧⌘G)
• In the window that appears, type the following:
~/Library/Keychains/
• Click OK.
• Look for a folder with a name similar to this "A8F5E7B8-CEC1-4479-A7DF-F23CB076C8B8". 
Note: Each folder has a unique number.
• Move this folder to the Trash.
• Immediately choose Apple Menu () > Restart… to restart your Mac.
After restarting the computer, a new folder is created in the Keychains folder with a name similar to "4B29A0BB-599D-47FC-A2D1-42B5592B130B". There is no need to repeat the steps in this article, or to delete this folder. The new folder is expected and corrects the symptom described in this article.

Scary, but it's all working now :-)
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Reposting - WebSphere Application Server Security Hardening

January 7, 2014, 8:33 am
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Purging data in IBM Business Process Manager

January 8, 2014, 6:28 am
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IBM® Business Process Manager is a stateful product that accumulates data over time. As with any stateful product, it's essential to its ongoing health to have a strategy for purging some of that state occasionally. This article explores the areas of IBM BPM where data is collected and the methods that exist today to purge that data. This content is part of the IBM Business Process Management Journal.

If data grows without bounds, it can over time lead to disk space issues and to performance issues as database queries take ever longer. In this article, we cover all the areas where IBM BPM collects data either in a database or in the file system. We point out where information is specific to IBM BPM Advanced or Standard editions, and provide release-specific information. We go back as far the V7.5.1.1 release of IBM, though much of what is stated there will apply to the predecessor WebSphere Process Server and WebSphere Lombardi Edition products.

We will cover the following topics in this article:

• Process Center projects and snapshots
• Process Server process and task instance data
• Performance Data Warehouse event data
• Some additional secondary data that can accumulate, though not as fast as the above
• IBM Business Monitor, a complementary product to IBM BPM.

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Using IBM Notes support tools on Mac OS X

January 9, 2014, 7:01 am
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Following on from my earlier post: -


I decided it was time to do some basic house-keeping on my mail file.

From last time around, I realised that I had to copy two of the required tools to a slightly different directory on my Mac, as follows: -

$ cd /Applications/IBM Notes.app/Contents/MacOS
$ ln -s Support/NotesFixup .
$ ln -s Support/NotesCompact .

Having done this, I validated that the tools were available in the right location: -

$ ls -al Notes*

-rwxrwxr-x  1 root  admin  29168 15 Oct 09:03 Notes
lrwxr-xr-x  1 hayd  admin     20  9 Jan 14:45 NotesCompact -> Support/NotesCompact
lrwxr-xr-x  1 hayd  admin     18  9 Jan 14:45 NotesFixup -> Support/NotesFixup

I then ran the two tools as follows: -

$ cd /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data
$ /Applications/IBM\ Notes.app/Contents/MacOS/NotesFixup GBHX9675.nsf 

[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:50   Database Fixup: Started:  GBHX9675.nsf
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:50   Performing consistency check on GBHX9675.nsf... 
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:53   Completed consistency check on GBHX9675.nsf 
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:53   Performing consistency check on views in database GBHX9675.nsf 
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:53   Informational, rebuilding view - user specified REBUILD (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf default design note Title:'')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:54   Informational, rebuilding view - notes have been purged since last update (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'Biz\AITS')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:54   Informational, rebuilding view - notes have been purged since last update (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'Personal\Career')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:54   Informational, rebuilding view - notes have been purged since last update (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'($FolderAllInfo)')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:54   Informational, rebuilding view - notes have been purged since last update (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'($FolderInfo)')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:54   Informational, rebuild view needed - collection object was deleted (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'($SoftDeletions) ($SoftDeletion')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:55   Informational, rebuilding view - notes have been purged since last update (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'($ThreadsEmbed) $ThreadsEmbed')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:55   Informational, rebuilding view - notes have been purged since last update (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'($Trash)')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:55   Informational, rebuilding view - notes have been purged since last update (reading /Users/hayd/Library/Application Support/IBM Notes Data/GBHX9675.nsf view note Title:'($Users)')
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:55   Completed consistency check on views in database GBHX9675.nsf 
[C231:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:45:55   Database Fixup: Shutdown

and: -

$ /Applications/IBM\ Notes.app/Contents/MacOS/NotesCompact GBHX9675.nsf 

[C23F:0005-B036A000] 09/01/2014 14:46:24   Compacting GBHX9675.nsf (Dave Hay),  GBHX9675.nsf
[C23F:0005-B036A000] 09/01/2014 14:47:07   Compacted  GBHX9675.nsf, 40960K bytes recovered (45%),  GBHX9675.nsf
[C23F:0002-A15591A8] 09/01/2014 14:47:08   Database compactor process shutdown 

Shiny shiny shiny :-)
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Repost - Building a Topology for Integrations Converted from WebSphere ESB

January 9, 2014, 9:41 pm
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This from developerWorks: -

<snip>
If you are considering converting from WebSphere ESB to IBM Integration Bus, then one of the most important technical planning steps is to consider the runtime architecture and topology.

Maybe you have already taken a look at the conversion tool provided in IBM Integration Bus to accelerate conversion of WebSphere ESB development artifacts, and are beginning to think about your development approach.
</snip>


Definitely worth a read ….
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Using Jython servlets with WebSphere Application Server for more than system administration

January 13, 2014, 10:09 am
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This from developerWorks via Twitter: -

It is common for developers to use Jython scripting in IBM® WebSphere® Application Server to perform system management tasks, but with some simple additions, it is easy to add Jython processing to supplement your servlet and JSP application programming. This article describes what you need to do to incorporate Jython servlets into your projects for even greater flexibility. This content is part of the IBM WebSphere Developer Technical Journal.

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IBM BPM 8.X - Creating user interfaces for business processes

January 13, 2014, 10:12 am
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This from the IBM BPM 8.0.1 Information Center, via Twitter: -

Users interact with a IBM® Business Process Manager process through human services.

There are two types of user interfaces for human services: task completion and dashboards. A task completion user interface implements a specific activity within a process instance. It has access to the details of that process instance. For information, see the User Task implementation option in Implementing activities and see Building a Human service. A dashboard is a stand-alone user interface that users can run at any time. Users can access dashboards through the Process Portal. For information about dashboards, see Managing processes and workload using dashboards in Process Portal. You can also use a Coach-based dashboard as a WebSphere® portlet. For information, see Generating portlets for human services exposed as dashboards.

To build either type of user interface for human services, you use Coaches or Heritage Coaches. Coaches are composed from user interface controls called Coach Views. You can create Coach Views in Process Designer. For information, see Coaches and Coach Views. Heritage Coaches are composed from a fixed set of user interfaces controls. They are primarily for compatibility with IBM Business Process Manager before version 8.0. For processes created with IBM Business Process Manager v8.0 and later, Coaches are recommended.


and here's the BPM 8.5 version of the same page: -


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From spreadsheets to IBM Business Monitor dashboards in under an hour

January 13, 2014, 10:15 am
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This from IBM developerWorks via Twitter


In Part 1, you'll earn how to create custom IBM Business Monitor® dashboards in under an hour. Using only a spreadsheet tool, such as Microsoft Excel®, you can define the metrics, KPIs, and reports you desire, and fill in sample data that you want to see in a dashboard. Then learn how to customize that dashboard to more closely meet the visual requirements of your business users. This content is part of the IBM Business Process Management Journal.


Learn how to customize all parts of the IBM Business Monitor dashboards produced by the CSV tool. Customizations include sorting and formatting, adding and configuring widgets, changing display types, and advanced Cognos® report editing. Make your dashboard look just the way your users want in a matter of minutes. This content is part of the IBM Business Process Management Journal.


Learn how to define alerts for when a specified situation occurs, watch the IBM® Business Monitor dashboards update in real time as you feed in further sample data, and learn how to edit the monitor model produced by the CSV tool in Eclipse, if desired. This content is part of the IBM Business Process Management Journal.



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WebSphere Application Server - Liberty Profile - Oh, what fun

January 15, 2014, 11:26 pm
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A recent comment on my blog reminded me that I'd not "played" with the Liberty profile in a while.

I installed it on my Mac a while back, so it was an easy task to find it and fire it up.

This is what I did ( from Terminal ): -

Navigate to the Liberty directory

$ cd ~/wlp

Navigate to the bin directory

$ cd bin

Get the version of Liberty installed

$ ./productInfo version

Product name: WebSphere Application Server
Product version: 8.5.0.2

Check the status of the defaultServer instance

$ ./server status

Server defaultServer is not running.

Start the defaultServer instance

$ ./server start

Server defaultServer started with process ID 11626.

Stop the defaultServer instance

$ ./server stop

Server defaultServer stopped.

I then deployed a web application ( SuperSnoop ) from this old-but-useful IBM Techdoc: -


This document is almost 10 years old, dating from September 2004, but the Snoop servlet contained therein is still useful.

I'd previously packaged the sample Javacode up into a WAR file - SuperSnoopWeb.war - so it was a simple matter to place the WAR file and then restart the Liberty server: -

$ cp ~/SuperSnoopWeb.war ~/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins

and then start the defaultServer instance again: -

$ ./server start

Server defaultServer started with process ID 11823.

and check the logs: -

$ cat ~/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs/console.log 

Launching defaultServer (wlp-1.0.2.cl0220130316-0213/websphere-kernel_1.0.2) on Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, version 1.7.0_21-b12 (en_US)
[AUDIT   ] CWWKE0001I: The server defaultServer has been launched.
[AUDIT   ] CWWKZ0058I: Monitoring dropins for applications.
[AUDIT   ] CWWKT0016I: Web application available (default_host): http://localhost:9080/Liberty1/*
[AUDIT   ] CWWKZ0001I: Application Liberty1 started in 0.72 seconds.
[AUDIT   ] CWWKT0016I: Web application available (default_host): http://localhost:9080/SuperSnoopWeb/*
[AUDIT   ] CWWKZ0001I: Application SuperSnoopWeb started in 0.6 seconds.
[AUDIT   ] CWWKF0011I: The server defaultServer is ready to run a smarter planet.

and then test the SuperSnoop Servlet: -



Note that the dropins folder ( ~/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/dropins/ ) provides the mechanism for …. well, dropping WAR files in ( and out ) of the Liberty configuration without the need to actually deploy the WAR file ( which typically requires an edit of the server's configuration file ( ~/wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/server.xml )

In other words, it's the lazy solution :-)

As ever, #LifeIsGood

What's next ?

I note that I'm still running Liberty 8.5.0.2, and strongly suspect that there's an updated version out there i.e. 8.5.5.1, so I'm off to the web to get a new wlp.jar file :-)

Here's some required reading for you: -




WebSphere Application Server V8.5.5 Liberty Profile - Test drive Liberty, the WAS profile designed for developers.

*UPDATE* 17 January 2014

Yep, and now I have 8.5.5.1 installed: -

$ ./wlp/bin/productInfo version

Product name: WebSphere Application Server
Product version: 8.5.5.1
Product edition: DEVELOPERS

 $ cat ./wlp/usr/servers/defaultServer/logs/console.log

Launching defaultServer (WebSphere Application Server 8.5.5.1/wlp-1.0.4.cl50120131011-1639) on Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM, version 1.7.0_21-b12 (en_US)
[AUDIT   ] CWWKE0001I: The server defaultServer has been launched.
[AUDIT   ] CWWKZ0058I: Monitoring dropins for applications.
[AUDIT   ] CWWKT0016I: Web application available (default_host): http://localhost:9080/SuperSnoopWeb/
[AUDIT   ] CWWKZ0001I: Application SuperSnoopWeb started in 0.215 seconds.
[AUDIT   ] CWWKF0011I: The server defaultServer is ready to run a smarter planet.
SuperSnoop running
 
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IBM SDK for Node.js Version 1.1 - Execute server-side JavaScript with this new SDK for IBM platforms.

January 19, 2014, 1:05 pm
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The IBM SDK for Node.js™ provides a stand-alone JavaScript® runtime and server-side JavaScript solution for IBM platforms. It provides a high-performance, highly scalable, event-driven environment with non-blocking I/O that is programmed with the familiar JavaScript programming language.

The IBM SDK for Node.js™ is based on the Node.js™ open source project. It provides a compatible solution for IBM POWER™ and Intel® products that require Node.js™ functionality and package management.

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IBM BPM - A Bunch of Links

January 19, 2014, 1:19 pm
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IBM BPM 8.5 - A Proof of Technology - IBM South Bank - 26/27 March 2014

January 20, 2014, 7:39 am
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This on Twitter from my IBM colleague @Callum_Bloor

UPDATED: IBM Business Process Manager V8.5 Proof of Technology at IBM Southbank on 26/27th of March 2014. Let me know if you wish to attend.

If you use Twitter, please let Callum know. If not, please contact me and I'll put you in touch with him.
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IBM BPM 8.5 - Download Guide - And some other things ....

January 20, 2014, 8:21 pm
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Whilst preparing for an upcoming client engagement, I wanted to ensure that I had the most recent IBM BPM code: -


This document provides the eAssembly part numbers that are required to download IBM Business Process Manager Advanced Version 8.5 files from the Passport Advantage website.

IBM Business Process Manager is a comprehensive and consumable business process management platform that provides visibility and management of business processes. It includes tools and a runtime environment for process design, execution, monitoring, and optimization. It is specifically designed to enable process owners and business users to engage directly in the improvement of their business processes.

plus, in case it arises: -


This document explains how to download Operational Decision Manager V8.5 eAssembly images from IBM Passport Advantage Online.

Operational Decision Manager V8.5 enables business users and developers to manage action and event rules used in business applications. This page provides information for downloading and installing the product.

and: -


This document provides the eAssembly part numbers required to download IBM Business Monitor Version 8.0.1 files from the Passport Advantage website.

IBM Business Monitor is a comprehensive business activity monitoring (BAM) software product that provides an up-to-date view of your business performance. Personalized business dashboards process business events and data, and calculate key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics. Business Monitor can collect events and data from a wide variety of sources including IBM Business Process Manager and IBM FileNet P8 BPM. In addition, you can use adapters to collect events from additional sources.
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IBM Operational Decision Manager - What It Is

January 20, 2014, 8:25 pm
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IBM® Operational Decision Manager V8.5.1 helps you detect and react to data patterns within a specified time period and provide the appropriate response to transactional and process-oriented business systems. It enables the creation of applications to intelligently automate a wide range of decisions, from product promotions to fraud determinations.

IBM Operational Decision Manager helps you adapt quickly to changing conditions, align across business and IT and act with precision and reliability. It provides visibility to achieve clearer line of sight to business operations, collaboration capabilities to foster cross-functional and cross-divisional outcomes and built-in governance to align business operations with strategic intent.

IBM Operational Decision Manager V8.5.1 delivers:

• A new Decision Engine to help improve load time and execution time of decision services within Decision Server.
• A new incremental migration tool in Decision Center to help migrate database content from one version to another on a per project basis.
• Greater deployment opportunities with new application server's support and availability of the business Console all supported ones.


plus an ebook: -


Operational Decision Management (ODM) is the evolution of business rules management. It provides a complete, easy-to-use system for automating day-to-day operational decisions that allows business people and IT to collaborate on business rules.

ODM not only allows you to automate your business rules. It enables you to detect real-time business events (such as a person making a credit card charge) and use rules to automate the appropriate response to those events.

Download this eBook to learn the basics of Operational Decision Management and whether it's right for your organization. In this useful guide, you'll also learn how to get started and what to look for in best-in-class ODM systems.

Table of Contents
• Chapter 1: What is Operational Decision Management?
• Chapter 2: Is ODM Right for You?
• Chapter 3: Looking Under ODM's Hood
• Chapter 4: The Life Cycle of Rules
• Chapter 5: Getting Started with ODM
• Chapter 6: Ten ODM Use Cases
• Chapter 7: Ten Characteristics of Best-in-Class ODM Systems

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IBM Redbook - Configuring and Deploying Open Source with WebSphere Application Server Liberty Profile

January 21, 2014, 3:54 am
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Thanks to one of my IBM colleagues, Richard Gamblin, for sharing this: -


This IBM® Redbooks® publication explains the capabilities of WebSphere® Application Server Liberty profile, whereas, the product is extremely lightweight, easy to install, and very fast to use. It provides a convenient and capable platform for developing and testing your web and OSGi applications. The Liberty profile server is built using OSGi technology and concepts. The fit-for-purpose nature of the run time relies on the dynamic behavior inherent in the OSGi framework and service registry. As bundles are installed or uninstalled from the framework, their services are automatically added or removed from the service registry. The result is a dynamic, composable run time that can be provisioned with only what your application requires and responds dynamically to configuration changes as your application evolves.

This IBM Redbooks publication will help you install, tailor and configure several popular Open Source technologies that can be deployed effectively with the WebSphere Application Server Liberty profile. The following list represents a selection of popular open source toolkits for the Liberty profile server:
>Apache Maven
>Spring Framework
>Hibernate
>Jenkins
>Opscode Chef
>Arquillian
>MongoDB

Each product was selected based on the significant enhancements they provide to the web application development process.

In this IBM Redbooks publication the 'Todo' sample to is used to demonstrate the usage of multiple open source framework/toolkit with Liberty profile server including: Maven, MongoDB, Spring, JPA, Arquillian, Wicket, etc. The 'Todo' sample is a simple application, it can be used to create, update and delete todo items, todo lists, and put the todo items into related todo list.

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WebSphere Application Server - What is Health Management ?

January 21, 2014, 4:30 am
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This rather useful IBM Technote came my way via Twitter thanks to @IBM_AppServer

Question

What is Health Management?

Answer

Health Management is part of WebSphere Virtual Enterprise environment, which is integrated in WebSphere Application Server 8.5. 

Intelligent Management provides a health management feature to monitor the status of your application servers, as well as sense and respond to problem areas before an outage occurs. You can manage the health of your application serving environment with a policy-driven approach that enables specific actions to occur when monitored criteria are met. For example, when memory usage exceeds a percentage of the heap size for a specified time, health actions can run to correct the situation.

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Aide Memoire - Java, Unix and Host Names

January 21, 2014, 4:57 am
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I can't precisely remember why I needed to know this, but I'm sure it'll be useful some day.

Here's a Java class: -

import java.net.InetAddress;
import java.net.UnknownHostException;

public class hostStuff
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{

try
{
InetAddress address = InetAddress.getLocalHost();
System.out.println("My IP address ( via InetAddress.getLocalHost() ) is " + address.toString());

System.out.println("My hostname ( via InetAddress.GetHostName() ) is " + address.getHostName());
}
catch (UnknownHostException e)
{
      System.out.println("I'm sorry. I don't know my own name.");
}

try
{
byte[] ipAddr = new byte[] { 127, 0, 0, 1 };
InetAddress addr = InetAddress.getByAddress(ipAddr);
String hostnameCanonical = addr.getCanonicalHostName();

System.out.println("My canonical hostname ( via InetAddress.getByAddress() and InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName() ) is " + hostnameCanonical);
}
catch (UnknownHostException e)
{
System.out.println("I'm sorry, I don't even know my own name.");
}
}
}

and here's what it returns ( on my Mac ) : -

$ java hostStuff
My IP address ( via InetAddress.getLocalHost() ) is DMHMBP.local/192.168.1.70
My hostname ( via InetAddress.GetHostName() ) is DMHMBP.local
My canonical hostname ( via InetAddress.getByAddress() and InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName() ) is localhost

and here's what it returns ( on Red Hat Enterprise Linux ): -

$ java hostStuff
My IP address ( via InetAddress.getLocalHost() ) is rhel6.uk.ibm.com/127.0.0.1
My hostname ( via InetAddress.GetHostName() ) is rhel6.uk.ibm.com
My canonical hostname ( via InetAddress.getByAddress() and InetAddress.getCanonicalHostName() ) is localhost

I suspect I was trying to find out the difference between a hostname and a canonical hostname, as returned by different Java methods.

Nice, eh ?
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Argh, escaping from the hell of escape characters with WebSphere Application Server

January 21, 2014, 8:19 am
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This follows on from my earlier blog post: -

and reflects a very annoying hour or so, trying ( and failing ) to create WAS profiles using WAS 8.5.

This is what I kept seeing: -

$ /opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/bin/manageprofiles.sh -response dmgrBPM85.rsp 

The following validation errors were present with the command line arguments: 
signingCertDN: Enter only one value for the signingCertDN parameter.
importPersonalCertKSType: importPersonalCertKSType cannot be empty.
importSigningCertKS: importSigningCertKS cannot be empty.
personalCertDN: Enter only one value for the personalCertDN parameter.
importSigningCertKSType: importSigningCertKSType cannot be empty.
importPersonalCertKS: importPersonalCertKS cannot be empty.
importPersonalCertKSAlias: importPersonalCertKSAlias cannot be empty.
importSigningCertKSAlias: importSigningCertKSAlias cannot be empty.

using a response file like this: -

-create
-adminUserName=wasadmin
-adminPassword=passw0rd
-enableAdminSecurity=true
-cellName=bpm85Cell
-nodeName=bpm85Node1
-personalCertDN=cn=rhel6.uk.ibm.com,ou=bpm85Cell,ou=bpm85Node1,o=IBM,c=US
-profilePath=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01
-signingCertDN=cn=rhel6.uk.ibm.com,ou=Root Certificate,ou=bpm85Cell,ou=bpm85Node1,o=IBM,c=US
-hostName=rhel6.uk.ibm.com
-profileName=Dmgr01
-personalCertValidityPeriod=15
-signingCertValidityPeriod=25
-keyStorePassword=passw0rd
-serverType=DEPLOYMENT_MANAGER
-templatePath=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/BPM/BpmDmgr

I've highlighted the two most annoying messages, as the others shouldn't have appeared, as I'm not importing signer or personal certificates.

Can you spot what I missed ?

Yes, that's right - I'd NOT read my own blog post, and escaped out the commas.

This is what I wrote last time: -

<snip>
It took me a while to work it out, but the WAS Information Center was of great use: -

manageprofiles command

which says: -

…
When you specify a single value that contains a comma character, such as the distinguished names for the personalCertDN and signingCertDN parameters, use a double-backslash before the comma character. For example, here is how to specify the personalCertDN value with a distinguished name:

signingCertDN=cn=testserver.ibm.com\\,ou=Root Certificate\\,  ou=testCell\\,ou=testNode01\\,o=IBM\\,c=US 
…
</snip>

So, once I amended my response file: -

create
adminUserName=wasadmin
adminPassword=passw0rd
enableAdminSecurity=true
cellName=bpm85Cell
nodeName=bpm85Node1
personalCertDN=cn=rhel6.uk.ibm.com\\,ou=bpm85Cell\\,ou=bpm85Node1\\,o=IBM\\,c=US
profilePath=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01
signingCertDN=cn=rhel6.uk.ibm.com\\,ou=Root Certificate\\,ou=bpm85Cell\\,ou=bpm85Node1\\,o=IBM\\,c=US
hostName=rhel6.uk.ibm.com
profileName=Dmgr01
personalCertValidityPeriod=15
signingCertValidityPeriod=25
keyStorePassword=passw0rd
serverType=DEPLOYMENT_MANAGER
templatePath=/opt/IBM/WebSphere/AppServer/profileTemplates/BPM/BpmDmgr

it all worked nicely.

Now to do the same thing for the Node profile …..

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