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  43                      <h2 class="date-header">September 23, 2005</h2>
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  46                         <h3 class="entry-header">PQA Code Page/SJ Vob move</h3>
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  50   <li>Attended meeting regarding SJ/Irvine Vob move. Shivdutt is investigating doing vob moves instead of replication. Briefly discussed Disaster Recover options.</li>
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  52   <li>Got Chris' scripts that check for invalid characters in string data for the ASCII character set to work on our test PQA database. Found invalid characters.</li>
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  55                               <h3>Invalid ASCII Characters in Clearquest databases</h3>
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  57 <p>With Clearquest 2003.06.15 there is more support for internationalization. This means that Clearquest now implements a <i>Code Page</i> which essentially defines the valid character set for data. If it encounters invalid characters the user must correct them.</p>
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  59 <p>Question is do we have invalid characters in the current database. Chris Rump had found such invalid characters when performing his Clearquest migration from Irvine -> San Diego. I've quickly adapted his scripts to check a few fields in the TO database and found some. So far all I've found are non ASCII characters for the apostrophe. We think this happens when a user copies and pastes text from Microsoft Word into Clearquest (Thanks Microsoft! :-()</p>
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  61 <p>In any event I still need to update the script to check all string oriented fields. If only a few isolated cases can be identified (e.g. Apostrophes, perhaps soft carriage returns, etc.) then perhaps this could be made into a function that will check for invalid ASCII characters and fix them</p>
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  77                         <h3 class="entry-header">PQA CQ Setup</h3>
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  81   <li>Set up CQ Web Server on p4test. Web client has been updated. Seems a little sluggish</li>
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  83   <li>Investigated CQ Web Performance tweaking</li>
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  85   <li>Looked into Chris's scripts for handling CQ code page problems</li>
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  89                                  <span class="post-footers">Posted by  at  2:26 PM</span> <span class="separator">|</span> <a class="permalink" href="http://defaria.com/blogs/Status/archives/000424.html">Permalink</a>
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 102                         <h3 class="entry-header">SJ/Irvine Triggers/Sync lock problem/rgy_backup</h3>
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 106   <li>Tried to help Arun in Bangalore to be able to create views</li>
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 108   <li>Investigated trigger set up for SJ/Irvine</li>
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 110   <li>Investigated relocate sync_locked problem</li>
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 113                               <h3>rgy_backup</h3>
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 115 <p>There's bad news then worse news WRT rgy_backup.</p>
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 117 <p>First the bad news:</p>
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 119 <blockquote><p>It was hoped that when rgy_backup was run on each of the clients - i.e. any machine that is not designated as a backup registry server - it would contact the primary registry server and ask "Who's the backup registry server?" then check to verify that the client was proper configured. If not, that it would update the client's notion of who is the designated backup registry server. Turns out this is  not the case! So we would have an issue of how do we properly configure all the clients.</p></blockquote>
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 121 <p>Now the worse news (AKA Why that CC Doctor warning about running Clearcase on a machine that uses DCHP is important):</p>
 122
 123 <blockquote><p>When I tested rgy_switchover I was surprised that it was unable to switch over any Windows desktop! Here's the output:</p>
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 126     Wizard ccase-sj1-3:rgy_switchover ccase-sj1-4 ccase-sj1-3
 127     Registry switchover started at 20-Sep-05.16:56:33
 128     ccase-sj1-3: OK
 129     ccase-sj1-4: OK
 130     rgy_switchover: Error: Switchover for client LTSJCA-ADEFARIA failed
 131     rgy_switchover: Warning: LTSJCA-ADEFARIA: Unable to reconfigure - rgy_switchover: Warning: could not find host, please check hostname
 132     rgy_switchover: Error: Unknown host 'LTSJCA-ADEFARIA': Host not found
 133     rgy_switchover: Error: Switchover for client LTSJCA-ADEFARIA failed
 134     LTSJCA-ADEFARIA: FAILED
 135     rgy_switchover: Error: Switchover for client PCSJCA-SHIVJHA failed
 136     rgy_switchover: Warning: PCSJCA-SHIVJHA: Unable to reconfigure - rgy_switchover: Warning: could not find host, please check hostname
 137     rgy_switchover: Error: Unknown host 'PCSJCA-SHIVJHA': Host not found
 138     rgy_switchover: Error: Switchover for client PCSJCA-SHIVJHA failed
 139     PCSJCA-SHIVJHA: FAILED
 140     rgy_switchover: Error: Switchover for client lbsjca-nnalluri failed
 141     rgy_switchover: Warning: lbsjca-nnalluri: Unable to reconfigure - rgy_switchover: Warning: could not find host, please check hostname
 142     rgy_switchover: Error: Unknown host 'lbsjca-nnalluri': Host not found
 143     rgy_switchover: Error: Switchover for client lbsjca-nnalluri failed
 144     lbsjca-nnalluri: FAILED
 145     Registry switchover finished at 20-Sep-05.16:56:34
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 148     <p>I suspect that the problem is that the Windows machine name does not resolve to an IP address:</p>
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 151     Local:ping ltsjca-adefaria 64 2
 152     PING LTSJCA-ADEFARIA.corp.ad.broadcom.com (10.16.65.94): 64 data bytes
 153     72 bytes from 10.16.65.94: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=2 ms
 154     72 bytes from 10.16.65.94: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0 ms
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 156     ----LTSJCA-ADEFARIA.corp.ad.broadcom.com PING Statistics----
 157     2 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
 158     round-trip (ms)  min/avg/max/med = 0/1/2/1
 159     </pre></div>
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 161     <p>However:</p>
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 164     Local:nslookup 10.16.65.94
 165     Server:  dns-sj1-1b.sj.broadcom.com
 166     Address:  10.16.64.11
 167
 168     Name:    dhcpe1-sj1-094.sj.broadcom.com
 169     Address:  10.16.65.94</blockquote>
 170     </pre></div>
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 172 <p>So then, even if we managed to configure all the clients, if switch over time came, most of them would fail.</p>
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