2014. Moscow goes back to winter

Not having found a more smart targets, we decided to return the Winter Time. So in the night of 25/26.10 Moscow will set time upon hour ago.

It is very joyful news for any Russian sysadmins which always waiting for a possibility to work in the weekends. It is the sarcasm.

My quick way for WAS admins and others.

Connections 5 Metrics. UDA-SQL-0432 Unable to locate the gateway "cogudaor" and others

At last I've installed Metrics for Connections 5. It was a real Kamasutra. Cognos is an awful product for installation. I remember my attempts of installing BAM. But it was only easy walk.
IBM created a new feature named Cognos Wizard for Connections. In my mind (or their may be) it must facilitate a process of installation. In fact I spent a lot of time for hopeless attempts.
But now I can give several advices for future brave hearts :)

FileNet 5 ConfigMgr does not start on RedHat 6

After installing FN Content Engine (5.2 in my case) you want to run configmgr.
But it does not run without any errors.
Go to /root/configmgr_workspace/.metadata/.log and look at:

java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: Could not load SWT library. Reasons:
 /ibm/fnce52/ContentEngine/tools/configure/configuration/org.eclipse.osgi/bundles/93/1/.cp/libswt-pi-gtk-3740.so (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
 swt-pi-gtk (Not found in java.library.path)
 /root/.swt/lib/linux/x86/libswt-pi-gtk-3740.so (libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
 /root/.swt/lib/linux/x86/libswt-pi-gtk.so (/root/.swt/lib/linux/x86/liblibswt-pi-gtk.so.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Interactive script for IBM BPM offline installation of PAs (Import Part)

I continue the theme about automation of deploying of snapshots because some people interested in.
Here you can find the script for export.

Now I am publishing the shell script for importing of a snapshot for offline installation.

How to install a stand-alone installation in IBM BPM 8.5 (Part 1)

I use the environment Linux - Oracle in the main, but, I think, the same way in others environments.

Business Monitor: Solution of CWMTC2210E deploying Cognos Cubes on Linux system

BPM 8: The snapshot ... is already present on this server

I've recently tried to install a snapshot on offline Process Server.
The first attempt has finished incorrectly and I tried to do this one more time.

How to backup all your IBM BPM Process Applications?

As we know, "all sysadmins are divided into those who make backups and those who ALREADY make".

Recently I have been an eyewitness of an accident what reminded me this phrase. 12 of BPM servers were lost in one moment.

By the way, versions of BPM 7.5 and later permit to export snapshots of Process Applications using WAS wsadmin commands.

Deploying snapshots to an offline clustered Process Server

There are a lot of articles about deploying to PS for standalone environments.

But I couldn't find the same for clustered environments.
Also IBM writes that old way (install, retrieve, import) was deprecated.
I had to pass along this way myself.

How to create the service for BPM (or another WAS profile) in Red Hat EL?

You have already installed your BPM environment and you need to start and stop it with OS.
Or you don’t like to use startServer command every time.
RHEL (or Centos, Fedora) permits to use services for these actions.

Surely, the standart installation creates this service but it is better to create it yourself.