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Tips for System Administrators

Tips for System Administrators. Tips for System Admins. Use Macros to automate repetitive tasks Must use telnet or Presentation Manager Press Control-R to start then choose option key to record macro (option, option, 7, 7 usually safe choice) Enter keystrokes, press Control-R to stop

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Tips for System Administrators

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  1. Tips for System Administrators

  2. Tips for System Admins • Use Macros to automate repetitive tasks • Must use telnet or Presentation Manager • Press Control-R to start then choose option key to record macro (option, option, 7, 7 usually safe choice) • Enter keystrokes, press Control-R to stop • Press Option key to play back

  3. Tips for System Admins • ADC command line options. Everything you see under Preferences can be set on the command line. • Parameter name is option name, case sensitive. • Allows you to create a shortcut that logs on & runs a specific process.

  4. Tips for System Admins • Other useful settings: • textReverseEnterKey to switch Enter key in Text fields. • For Mac clients, set ‘–shell=start’ to enable documents to be automatically opened • For Linux clients, set ‘-shell=konqueror’ for same purpose

  5. Tips for System Admins • Converting Data: • Inexpensive tool is ‘able2extract’, converts PDF to various formats • Define form with 0 length • Print PDF report & load into able2extract. Suppress Headings/Totals, where appropriate. • Convert!

  6. Tips for System Admins • Checking your appxd settings. Point your browser at http://<appxserver>:<port>, and Appx will respond with information page • Currently only works on the server with IE. Should be fixed in 4.3 • Can set up multiple ports with different settings via –modify option of appxdsvc

  7. Tips for System Admins • Recovering accidentally deleted records • You can use the ‘recover’ utility to try to recover deleted records, if you are quick enough • Syntax: recover <appxfile> <newfile> <deletedrecordsfile> • Watch out for Windows utility of same name!

  8. Tips for System Admins • Can ignore newfile, since we aren’t recovering corrupted file • Design Xfer existing file to new file, remove keys, create file • Deleted records are now available!

  9. Tips for System Admins • Login Problems: • Try stopping/starting the service with Windows Control panel (or kill in Linux/Unix) • Try scratching the USAGE* files in $APPXPATH/0SA/Data

  10. Tips for System Admins • Finally, if nothing else works, scratch/rename the $APPXPATH/0SA/Data/USER.* files • This should allow anyone to log in. • More tips at www.appx.com/assets/asp/dynamic_generator.asp?pageid=671

  11. Tips for System Admins • Online System Admin manuals available at: http://www.appx.com/assets/asp/dynamic_generator.asp?pageid=558 • Questions?

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