I have seen this as well

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On Oct 20, 2011, at 6:03 PM, Jason Miller <jason.mil...@gmail.com> wrote:

> ** I remember seeing a lot of plug-in server time out error too when we went 
> to 7.6.04 SP1.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:04 PM, strauss <stra...@unt.edu> wrote:
> **
> Okay, 5 hours for ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 on an SP1 test system.
> 
>  
> 
> The install succeeded, but on restart the logs are filling up with this 
> error, even after a reboot:
> 
>  
> 
> Thu Oct 20 15:50:23 2011  390602 : Cannot establish a network connection to 
> the AR System Plug-In server (ARERR 8760)
> 
> Thu Oct 20 15:50:23 2011     itsmt01.unt.edu (9998) ARSYS.ARF.FTS : RPC: 
> Miscellaneous tli error - System error (Connection refused)
> 
> Thu Oct 20 15:50:39 2011  390602 : Cannot establish a network connection to 
> the AR System Plug-In server (ARERR 8760)
> 
> Thu Oct 20 15:50:39 2011     itsmt01.unt.edu (9998) ARSYS.ARF.FTS : RPC: 
> Miscellaneous tli error - System error (Connection refused)
> 
> Thu Oct 20 15:50:39 2011  390602 : FTS Plugin is not available -- will retry 
> connection. (ARERR 685)
> 
>  
> 
> The FTS entry in ar.cfg is NOT different from before:
> 
> Server-Plugin-Alias: ARSYS.ARF.FTS ARSYS.ARF.FTS itsmt01.unt.edu:9998
> 
>  
> 
> The FTS entry in the armonitor.cfg is only slightly different:
> 
>  
> 
> "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java" -Xms1024m -Xmx3072m -classpath 
> "D:\Program Files (x86)\BMC Software\ARSystem\pluginsvr\fts;D:\Program Files 
> (x86)\BMC Software\ARSystem\pluginsvr;D:\Program Files (x86)\BMC 
> Software\ARSystem\pluginsvr\arpluginsvr7604_build002.jar" 
> com.bmc.arsys.pluginsvr.ARPluginServerMain  -x ITSMT01 -i "D:\Program Files 
> (x86)\BMC Software\ARSystem" –m
> 
>  
> 
> Versus old version:
> 
> "C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\java" -Xmx512m -classpath "D:\Program Files 
> (x86)\BMC Software\ARSystem\pluginsvr\fts;D:\Program Files (x86)\BMC 
> Software\ARSystem\pluginsvr;D:\Program Files (x86)\BMC 
> Software\ARSystem\pluginsvr\arpluginsvr7604_build002.jar" 
> com.bmc.arsys.pluginsvr.ARPluginServerMain  -x ITSMT01 -i "D:\Program Files 
> (x86)\BMC Software\ARSystem" –m
> 
>  
> 
> It picked up a -Xmx3072m parameter…
> 
>  
> 
> Fun, fun, fun!  I shut it down for now.
> 
>  
> 
> Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
> Call Tracking Administration Manager
> University of North Texas Computing & IT Center
> http://itsm.unt.edu/
> 
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
> [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of strauss
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 3:09 PM
> 
> 
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: ARS 7.6.04 SP2 Solaris installer Oracle db.
>  
> 
> **
> 
> I restored my test/sample data system back to where ITSM was still SP1 (ARS 
> and Atrium at SP2) and performed two manual interventions before kicking off 
> ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 again:
> 
>  
> 
> Delete join form VIS:Status_Stage_Flow_TransitionRulesLookup which is 
> carrying an outdated View ID for the Default Administrator View (the only 
> view present)
> 
>    I am told that this was _supposed_ to have been changed in the upgrade to 
> 7.6.03, but none of my systems reflect that change.
> 
>  
> 
> Delete all existing records in DLD:SYS:DataLoadStatus that were preventing 
> SP2 from creating a unique index on InstanceId
> 
>    There were 126 old records in there with GUIDs that are NOT UNIQUE on a 
> case-insensitive system (SQL Server).
> 
>    Looking at the production system which had no records in that form, it 
> actually looks like the unique index was created by the upgrade to 
> 7.6.04.0000 – which is when I have been told it was introduced.  Somehow, my 
> test system got past that and SP1 both without the installation hanging – 
> until SP2.
> 
>  
> 
> The installation of ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 has been running since 10:30 AM; we’ll 
> see how long it takes, but this is on a low powered VM and isn’t a good 
> measure of what it will take on production grade equipment.  From what you’re 
> saying, Pat, it doesn’t do very well on MUCH higher-powered servers, either.  
> I guess the Thanksgiving holiday will be my first window of opportunity for 
> applying a service pack that runs for hours and hours and hours to the 
> production environment.
> 
>  
> 
> Christopher Strauss, Ph.D.
> Call Tracking Administration Manager
> University of North Texas Computing & IT Center
> http://itsm.unt.edu/
> 
> From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) 
> [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG] On Behalf Of patrick zandi
> Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:49 PM
> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
> Subject: Re: ARS 7.6.04 SP2 Solaris installer Oracle db.
> 
>  
> 
> ** Yeah::: Upgrades look like they are going to disappear for the create a 
> new server and migrate data option soon.
> 
> Most change windows: especially Enterprise wise:: could they really go down 
> for 5-7 hours? NO! not happening.. 
> so My guess is there is some sort of single FIFO job process single Java 
> thread into the server needs to be change to something a little more robust. 
> don't know what the answer is.. but I can see this as an issue...
> 
> I have 64 CPU's and it took forever.. cpu never went over 6%... had tons of 
> ram too... 
> not sure what the answer is ? BMC Engineering might have a better clue...  
> 
> _attend WWRUG11 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_
> 
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