I’m about to head out the door on vacation so I’m going to make this quick J. I will be out of town the week after that for the FME User Conference in Canada (going to Canada, eh!) but I should be available in between sessions while I’m there.

• Flex Viewer Fixes
  • I have modified the code for the default viewer to fix some issues that I’ve previously blogged about, the source code and instructions are available if anyone wants them.
    • When you select the Satellite, Topo or Relief map, the road layer will be overlaid at the same time
    • The Topo or Relief layers were not cached beyond 1:6000 so you would just get a blank window, you will now see the Basemap layer instead
    • BE SURE YOU CLEAR YOUR BROWSER CACHE OR YOU WILL NOT SEE THE CHANGES!
      
• FME Server
  
  • We are now running a distributed and redundant setup of FME Server, setup the same way our AGS servers are
    
  • The FME Servers are sharing a database so we have a single place to go for job history, configuration and so forth
    
  • I have an architecture diagram on the beta site: http://www.geostor.arkansas.gov/G6/files/new_environment.pdf
    
• Lessons Learned
  
  • I had a pretty major setback last week, this is one of the reasons I haven’t posted to the blog, I’ve been busy trying to recover from it
    
    • As they almost always are, this boo-boo was my fault, I was attempting to migrate the FME Servers to the setup described above
      
    • I was low on disk space so I decided to delete some of the virtual machine snapshots that I have taken to be able to revert back to a good configuration if something went south
      
    • Unfortunately I didn’t shut down the virtual machines prior to doing this and it irrevocably corrupted them beyond repair, I won’t repeat some of the things that came out of my mouth at that point…
      
    • So, one AGS machine and BOTH
      FME Servers were offline and not coming back any time soon L
      
    • Luckily the new architecture that I have been struggling to get working saved my butt at least for the website and AGS services but all downloads were offline
      
    • I was also lucky in the fact that I had an older copy of one of the FME Server virtual machines on my development boxes so I brought it back up to snuff and then cloned it, I had the production FME Server online within a day and the development one a day later
      
    • I wasn’t as lucky for the AGS machine that I crashed, I had to rebuild it from scratch which took me a couple days from start to end
      
    • I am happy to report that (as far as I know) everything is back up to where it should be and better than it was before
      
    • So whatever you do, DO NOT DELETE YOUR SNAPSHOTS WITHOUT TAKING YOUR VM OFFLINE FIRST!
      

So much for a quick post! Hopefully everything will stay working while I’m on vacation but sadly that isn’t the way things work. You know how it is, when Daddy is away, crap breaks…

Glen (gone on vacation) Rhea

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