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Category Archives: M3 / MoveX
Usernames and the Beauty of LDAP
As part of a project to standardise our network I’ve needed to change our authentication source from Novells eDirectory to Microsofts Active Directory and along with this change, standardise our user naming scheme. There are a number of challenges … Continue reading
Posted in M3 / MoveX, Misc
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SmartCache
What on earth is Smart Cache? Though we never SQL data in to the database, some of you may have come across instances where you are err… directly updating the database with your favourite tool, and yet nothing changes in … Continue reading
Posted in How Far is Too Far?, M3 / MoveX, Misc
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M3 UI Adapter 10.3 – Jscripts directory and personalisations have moved
I was at the M3 User Group biannual conference in Australia last month and I was told about an interesting change to how JScripts were handled. The comment was that under the new M3 UI Adapter, copying scripts in to … Continue reading
Posted in Development, M3 / MoveX
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The Poormans M3 Monitoring Part 2 – the AUTOJOBS!
Back in the dim dark past, before IFLs M3 install became gridified I had set up Nagios (an open source monitoring tool) to check the autojobs – this would verify that the autojobs had a status of OK and it … Continue reading
Posted in M3 / MoveX, Misc, Monitoring
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The Poormans M3 Monitoring – Powershell and REST
Todays post is about the poor mans M3 monitoring, I want to demonstrate that with existing tools you can quickly and easily get emailed notifications if any of your grid applications go offline. You don’t need to install anything for … Continue reading
Posted in M3 / MoveX, Misc, Monitoring
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MWS Designer – Installation and Basic Usage
Over the years I’ve seen a number of people whose environments aren’t configured correctly and don’t have MWS Designer installed correctly. This post is to run through the setup and creating some webservices. I deliberately haven’t gone in to detail … Continue reading
Posted in M3 / MoveX
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Grid Environment Consistency
Today I’m going to talk about something a little different. Grid Environment Consistency – have you ever been in the situation where you have other people messing^w errr…tweaking with the settings of the various grid applications leading to inconsistencies between … Continue reading
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Installing a M3BE 15.1.2 Test Lab
This post is to run through the installation of a basic M3 15.1.2 environment. As with my previous documentation of the 10.1 installation – this is about achieving a few things Create a completely isolated environment that I can test … Continue reading
Posted in M3 / MoveX, Misc
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Launching Business Objects from Smart Office and Running a Script from a Script
As part of a project I am working on, we have got budget to purchase additional licences for our chosen reporting tool – Business Objects Edge. This means that we can move most of our Crystal Reports on to the … Continue reading
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Purchase Order Receipting – Process Automation
Most of my posts have been around how to do things. Typically they are small scripts. Today I’ll discuss one of the projects I have been working on to demonstrate that scripting isn’t just for the quick and easy tasks … Continue reading
Posted in Development, M3 / MoveX
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