Comments for Change Assistant at http://www.erpassociates.com , comment 1 to 39 out of 20 comments http://www.erpassociates.com Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:21:58 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1515 Hi Brent, I have one problem with Change assistant, We are having One DB server (different mechine) Two Web servers(both are different Machines):- Here working fine Application Server and Process Sheduler side:- TWO Application and prcs Servers (one App Serevr and one prcs servers in one Machines and second also)?I am getting problem here when I am starting PSEMAgent.bat recrawl i am getting below error:- 2010-10-22 01:03:21,947 main EMF_CATEGORY - Proceeding with matching for AppServer 2010-10-22 01:03:21,963 main EMF_CATEGORY - Detected an install for appserver at c:/UAT_HOME/UATHR//appserv/Search - unable to detect a configuration file. Ignoring this installation 2010-10-22 01:03:24,260 main EMF_CATEGORY - SFMAINT did not end normally 2010-10-22 01:03:24,260 main EMF_CATEGORY - C:UAT_HOMEUATHRPSEMAgent>set PS_SERVDIR=c:UAT_HOME/UATHR/appservUATHR C:UAT_HOMEUATHRPSEMAgent>set PS_SERVER_CFG=c:UAT_HOME/UATHR/appservUATHRpsappsrv.cfg C:UAT_HOMEUATHRPSEMAgent>set EMF_XML_PATH=envmetadatadataemf_psae.xml C:UAT_HOMEUATHRPSEMAgent>c:UAT_HOME/UATHR/binserverwinx86psae.exe -CT MICROSFT -CD UATHR -CO PS -CP PS -R X -AI SFMAINT Error in sign on Database Type: 6 Database Name: UATHR Server Name: OperID: PS ConnectID: people Process Instance: 0 Reason: Invalid user ID or password for database signon. (id=PS) 2010-10-22 01:03:24,275 main EMF_CATEGORY - See 'envmetadatadataemf_psae_error_UATHR.bat' to look at the script that could not complete. 2010-10-22 01:03:24,275 main EMF_CATEGORY - Detected an install for appserver at c:/UAT_HOME/UATHR//appserv/UATHR - unable to verify connecivity to a running database. Ignoring this installation 2010-10-22 01:03:24,275 main EMF_CATEGORY - Root Cause SFMAINT did not return a Success message. Suggestions: make sure DB is started,check credentials in config file: c:/UAT_HOME/UATHR//appserv/UATHR/psappsrv.cfg 2010-10-22 01:03:24,275 main EMF_CATEGORY - Proceeding with matching for prcsserver 2010-10-22 01:03:26,557 main EMF_CATEGORY - Proceeding with matching for CLIENT 2010-10-22 01:03:26,588 main EMF_CATEGORY - Proceeding with matching for Host 2010-10-22 01:03:28,369 main EMF_CATEGORY - Diff: Hours 0 Minutes 0 Seconds 7 Note: our webservers ips are natted with other ips. so which ips are i want use here. All are in windows only , Please help me on this - Viswanadha Tue, 26 Oct 2010 05:31:27 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1447 I've seen this before where an object gets into the Hub's database twice, usually because a PSEMAgent reported the file server on one peer id, then was cancelled, then restarted but it got a different peer id. The only way I know to fix it would be to clear out the PSEMHub's data repository and restart everything. Okay, I usually just pick a different environment to serve as the hub and save some time, but that's the lazy way. At any rate you should be able to apply your patch, you'll just need to pick the right file server. Do you feel lucky? - Brent Martin Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:41:18 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1446 Agent is running, but in CA once the DB is selected my file server shows up in the list twice. The EMF log also shows the following twice: EMF_CATEGORY - Proceeding with matching for Host. Any idea what would cause this? - Nathan Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:55:15 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1432 You'll need to start a least one PSEMAgent and have it running while you're applying your change assistant packages. Also make sure change assistant and your agent are both using the same PSEMHUB URL. - Brent Martin Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:38:02 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1431 If you have a running agent and the agent's log file shows that it's able to ping the hub, it could be that you're looking at a different hub than the environment is pointing to. Double-check the configuration.properties file in the agent and make sure that the URL is the same one you're looking at in your browser. If that's all good, you might issue a recrawl command and watch the output to make sure that it finds valid PeopleSoft environments in the scan. - Brent Martin Mon, 16 Nov 2009 13:32:35 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1430 When trying to work with change assistant I am getting this error: no environments were found in the environment management hub. I am sure PSEMHUB is running. ANy help will be greatly appreciated - NEW_TO_PS Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:55:39 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1427 hi, My problem is that after running start agent and making changes to configuration.properties for both agent and viewer i m not able to see the running agent while its running with peerid=1 and also the XML generated by viewer is empty i have checked this on 2 machines kindly reply as soon as possible its urgent Thanx in advance Shaheena Mushtaq - Shaheena Mushtaq Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:32:37 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1379 Hi, Am in middle of configuring Change Assistant Tool, Could you please guide me if am doing in correct way. For our DEMO instance, WEBSERVER and APPSERVER are on UNIX BOX1 DATABASE and PROCESSSCHEDULER are on UNIX BOX2. And File server is both on NT and UNIXBOXES. So do i need to configure - configuration.properties file from all of the below? UNIXBOX1 – PSEMHUB Navigate to - /psoft/HDMO/webserv/haix/applications/peoplesoft/PSEMHUB/envmetadata/config UNIXBOX1 - PSEMAgent Navigate to - /psoft/HDMO/PSEMAgent/envmetadata/config UNIXBOX1 – PSEMViewer Navigate to - /psoft/HDMO/PSEMViewer/envmetadata/config UNIXBOX2 – PSEMAgent Navigate to - /psoft/hr800aix/PSEMAgent/envmetadata/config UNIXBOX2 – PSEMViewer Navigate to - /psoft/hr800aix/PSEMViewer/envmetadata/config NT Server: Navigate to - \PSHOME\PSEMAgent\envmetadata\config - Pusarla Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:18:30 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1283 Thank you for a great discription of Change Assistant and EMF. It gave me better understanding when I was bringing up my EMF recently. I do have CA up and functioning in my test envirionments. Have applied a bundle to each test environment and now need to move on to production. I'm concerned about a message I see in the CA validation log for step 5 and wonder if you can shed some light on it. For my production environment, 5 agents are listed. Three of them show correct agent info - my process scheduler, application server, and web server. Two of them (duplicates) show info for the machine where my hub runs. I wasn't expecting to see that info under my production environment. It is valid to have it there? I've set up my EMF this way: Test environments - web servers on Windows box, app/batch/database servers on AIX box. One of the test web servers used for hub. Window and AIX agents point to the hub. PIA's are single server. Prod environment - web server on Windows box, app/batch/database servers on AIX box. PIA is mutli-server setup. Don't want to mess with second hub on my production box. Set up agents on prod Win and AIX boxes to point to hub on test box. After new agents (prod boxes) crawled, went into CA and did validate. The messages about the hub web server appearing under my production environment -- are they indicating CA believes they are part of my production environment or are they indicating the hub is on a machine other than the web server configured for this environment? - Peggy Sat, 02 May 2009 15:34:26 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1274 Well, the short answer is that you can't move bundles from demo to dev without overwriting customizations. Here's basically what I do: 1) Apply bundles to Demo 2) Run compare reports of the projects between Demo to Dev so you'll know what changes 3) Apply the bundles to Dev 4) Re-apply the customizations based on what the compare reports identified. Capture each reapplied customization in a bundle recustomization project. Then when you go to test, you'll apply the bundle to test as documented by change assistant, then migrate the bundle recustomization project to test. The "Gotcha" in this approach is the "Alters with Deletes". You'll need to watch the build steps carefully and set project build options in CA appropriately so that custom columns aren't dropped. Change Assistant does have some functionality to do compares for you , helps set upgrade flags and exports the customized objects to files so CA will reapply customizations itself in the Test and Prod environments. I haven't used this functionality myself, so if someone would like to describe their experiences with that process that'd be great. - Brent Martin Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:14:27 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1273 Hi Brent, thanks to your article I have now managed to set up CA successfully. I had also tried to apply bundle to demo and it works, but how do I move the bundle from demo to dev without over-writing customizations ? I read about exporting customizations and re-apply, but I do not know how to perform that in CA. Could you share the steps ? Thanks in advance - Julian Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:21:23 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1228 Pick one that's generally up, and that people won't mind if you bounce occasionally to fix intermittent Integration Gateway errors. I generally perefer Demo and I avoid production. But you can use any environment without adversely impacting it. - Brent Martin Thu, 12 Feb 2009 16:45:16 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1227 Please how do I pick an environment that will serve as your PSEM Hub? - Denny Thu, 12 Feb 2009 06:29:57 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1158 Further to Tanuja's message (cannot find configuration file at the appserver stage) this case on CC refers; 201042885 [quote]The folder PS_HOME/appserv/Search is a new folder related to a new functionality appeared in PeopleTools 8.48: Configuring Verity to run as a separate process managed by the Application Server. Information about this can be found in PeopleBooks: System and Server Administration > Configuring Search and Building Search Indexes. The Agent tries to retrieve the configuration file psappsrv.cfg for each application server domain, but since Search is not an application server domain, it doesn't find it and shows the above message. The message can be safely ignored, as the agent crawls all the other application server domains and sends the correct information to the Environment Management Hub. [/quote] - John C Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:04:45 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1119 Brent: Thanks for your detail documentation. I am in 8.45. I am getting an error message after I sign in to peoplesoft customer connection. It says "Error getting Content". I copied the detailed error description below Detailed Error Description Unable to signon to server. Please contact your System Administrator. Portal was requested to retrieve this URL:http://update.peoplesoft.com/psc/UGPRD/CUSTOMER/CPPROD/c/UPDATE_GATEWAY.UG_CC_UPDATES.GBL?PortalRegistryName=CUSTOMER&PortalServletURI=http://www.peoplesoft.com/psp/portprd/&PortalURI=http://www.peoplesoft.com/psc/portprd/&PortalHostNode=CUST&NoCrumbs=yes& Portal attempted to access this URL:http://update.peoplesoft.com/psc/UGPRD/CUSTOMER/CPPROD/c/UPDATE_GATEWAY.UG_CC_UPDATES.GBL?PortalRegistryName=CUSTOMER&PortalServletURI=http://www.peoplesoft.com/psp/portprd/&PortalURI=http://www.peoplesoft.com/psc/portprd/&PortalHostNode=CUST&NoCrumbs=yes& Thanks for your help - RajKeshava Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:04:38 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1090 To make a PeopleSoft File Server show up, you'll need to start a PSEMAgent on your Windows server. But a file server isn't required, so fixing that issue won't fix your other problem which I've never seen before. Review the staging & output directories, make sure you have permissions there and plenty of disk space, etc. - Brent Martin Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:37:48 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1089 Once an agent connects, it will always be registered in the hub until you clear the hub's database. This goes beyond just clearing web server cache. Check out solution ID 200769631 on customer connection. Basically the steps are to delete the files in the following directories under PS_HOME/webserv/peoplesoft/applications/peoplesoft/PSEMHUB: PSEMHUB/envmetadata/Scratchpad PSEMHUB/envmetadata/PersistentStorage PSEMHUB/envmetadata/transactions (if it exists) PSEMHUB/envmetadata/data/*.* (files and directories. Don't delete the data directory itself) - Brent Martin Wed, 23 Jul 2008 14:33:16 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1086 The hub thinks I have more agents running than I actually do. CA tries to deploy to both, but since only one is running, the others fail. Anyone have tips on convincing the hub that these are not real? We have already bounced the hub and cleared the cache. - Grant Tue, 22 Jul 2008 21:35:18 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1077 Hi Brent, Firstly, this is an excellent documentation. It explains each and every step clearly.I've been working with CA for some time and now is that I have a doubt and gosh it is bugging me so much. Ihave this CA set up for applying the ML6 (Cum), now when I select Apply Change Packages from the Tools menu, it takes drives me thru several windows, when I come to the window where it says, Select File Servers, I'm not able to see any details in the File Server: box. Here though i'm not seeing any details and hitting Next button , it takes me thru all the necessary windows and finally at the window, where it is Unzipping the Contents, it just remains at 0% and the window vanishes leaving the CA "Nothing Loaded". Kindly help me in this. - SriSaro Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:25:28 +0100 http://www.erpassociates.com/peoplesoft-corner-wiki/peoplesoft-administration/change-assistant.html#comment-1067 Most of the time, all the PSEMAgent does is ping the hub. that's what this message means: Sending pulse from 'com.peoplesoft.emf.peer:id=1 So congratulations, it's working! When change assistant starts sending it commands (for instance to validate the configuration or deploy a file) you'll see different messages. - Brent Martin Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:33:35 +0100