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| achocks |
 Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 5:47 pm Post subject: File Read & Network Files local to Broker |
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Voyager
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Guys,
I am losing a battle with the WMB Admin guys..Need your help!
I am trying to read a file that is in the network file system, According to the FileRead node documentation, it can access a file that is local or in a network file system that is local to the broker.
Admin team is saying no way to make a network file system (WINDOWS) local. (Note: We are running WMB in AIX)
Can some one let me know how to make a windows network file system local to the AIX broker?
Thanks in advance!! |
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| mqsiuser |
| Posted: Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:39 pm Post subject: Re: File Read & Network Files local to Broker |
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Yatiri
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You are talking about windows "file shares" (no AIX, no Unix-NFS?) ?
Test it in a development environment (to prove that it is working to your WMB admin guys).
Though I have not done what you are exactly doing... here are my rules for windows file shares:
1. Make it available as a (network-)share (for a user) (rightclick the folder -> Properties -> share)
2. Make sure Windows-User-permissions are also set correctly (for a user). This is often overlooked and even if you set "1. share"-permissions to read/write you also need to set "2. OS-level"-permissions right (to allow read(/write) to the harddisk).
3. If a programm (e.g. the file-read-node) can't use UNC-Paths "\\computerName\myShare" map it as a network-drive, so that it appears as "t:\myShare" |
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| achocks |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:51 am Post subject: |
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Voyager
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Thanks for your suggestion.
I tried as per your suggestion , it works in the development environment.
But the issue is, my development environment is WINDOWS. Not AIX.
Any suggestions?
Thanks Again! |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 2:58 am Post subject: |
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If the AIX admin says that file share is not accessible from AIX, you have to reexamine the business requirement that says you need to get at the file that is not accessible.
Maybe the only reason it's not accessible is because nobody's needed it before. So if your requirement is firm, then someone needs to do something to *make* it accessible. |
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| mqsiuser |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:08 am Post subject: |
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Yatiri
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| achocks wrote: |
| But the issue is, my development environment is WINDOWS. Not AIX. |
Developing on Windows and then (later) deploying to AIX/Unix is fine.
But you should have the following environments: DEV(local Windows), TEST, (QA), (Pre-Prod) and PROD ... or a similar setup.
Just having Windows-Dev and AIX-Prod is not enough. You'd need AIX-TEST (at least)
So you have DEV (Windows) and there should be TEST (which should have the OS of PROD).
NFS on Unix/AIX: "mount <remoteHostName>:<remotePath> <localPath>", where <localPath> must exist (do an "mkdir <lokalPath>" first). |
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| achocks |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 3:09 am Post subject: |
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Voyager
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Thanks Jeff! Hope you are doing great!!
I am planning to suggest our Admin team the following.( I hope you know them  )
1) Create a NFS directory in AIX.
2) Creare a SMABA Share to that NFS directory.
3) Now the Unix directory can be accessed by the Windows Webpage team to drop the file.
4) Now the NFS share should be local to the Broker and should be able to access the file.
Do you see any issues with that?
Thanks! |
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| mqjeff |
| Posted: Tue Aug 28, 2012 4:34 am Post subject: |
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| achocks wrote: |
Thanks Jeff! Hope you are doing great!!
I am planning to suggest our Admin team the following.( I hope you know them )
1) Create a NFS directory in AIX.
2) Creare a SMABA Share to that NFS directory.
3) Now the Unix directory can be accessed by the Windows Webpage team to drop the file.
4) Now the NFS share should be local to the Broker and should be able to access the file.
Do you see any issues with that? |
That looks reasonable from here. I'm sure you know how to acquire additional help if needed...  |
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