Shafqat: As a tester at my site, I’ve had to become aware of this procedure because weird results can occur during testing if it’s not done, but I’m not a Remedy admin and I’ve certainly never flushed the mid-tier cache myself. I just ask one of our Remedy admins if it’s been done and they take care of it for me if it hasn’t.
Do any of you listers out there know enough about what flushing the mid-tier cache entails to be able to give Shafqat some pointers on how to automate that procedure? Thanks, Natalie Stroud SAIC @ Sandia National Laboratories ARS-ITSM Tester Albuquerque, NM USA nkst...@sandia.gov<mailto:nkst...@sandia.gov> ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 – Windows 2008 – SQL Server 2008 From: Shafqat Ayaz [mailto:shafq...@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 9:26 AM To: Stroud, Natalie K Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] caching issues mid-tier 7.6.4 SP3 Hi Natalie Any chance you could please tell me how you clear the cache on the server? Apart from the obvious way of going to the server properties! I am trying to automate it from the command line. Thanks Shafqat Ayaz ________________________________ From: "Stroud, Natalie K" <nkst...@sandia.gov<mailto:nkst...@sandia.gov>> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 7:39 PM Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] caching issues mid-tier 7.6.4 SP3 ** Josh: It’s not clear to me whether the cache directories you’ve already deleted are server side (i.e. mid-tier) or user side (web browser) or both. In our 7.6.04 SP2 installation, we’ve found that if we flush only the mid-tier cache without also having the users clear their browser caches (and they need to FULLY clear their browser caches by closing ALL open browser windows, marking every possible option for clearing in IE – our site-standard browser, then going in and deleting any leftover files - I can send you the full procedure if you use IE at your site), then behavior similar to what you describe happens. We’ve particularly seen behavior like this when we upgraded the ITSM application itself, but I would recommend doing it even for a mid-tier-only upgrade. It’s like both the server side and user side caches need to be fully refreshed in order for everything to work right. And if you do this and still have issues, you can be confident that the problem isn’t being obscured or caused by caching conflicts. We’ve found that in going to ITSM, we’ve had to become very familiar with the web browser – how its settings affect behavior in ITSM and how to clear its cache properly so that you get a “clean” pull from ITSM. Good luck! Natalie Stroud SAIC @ Sandia National Laboratories ARS-ITSM Tester Albuquerque, NM USA nkst...@sandia.gov<mailto:nkst...@sandia.gov> ITSM 7.6.04 SP2 – Windows 2008 – SQL Server 2008 From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG]<mailto:[mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG]> On Behalf Of Bray, Joshua Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:47 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: [EXTERNAL] caching issues mid-tier 7.6.4 SP3 ** Has anyone on the list run in to strange corrupt cache issues with mid-tier 7.6.4 SP3? We just upgraded from 7.5 and are having issues since the upgrade. What we are seeing are certain fields duplicated and in strange places. We are also getting “Caught exception” errors (there are several different errors, but they all start with Caught exception). We are in a load balanced environment. When a user is having an issue, if they go to the other server, they are usually fine (but sometimes, it’s messed up, but it’s a different field duplicated and in the wrong place). Usually, if we clear the cache on the server, that will clear up the issue, but then another user will have a different field that’s messed up. I’ve read back through the list and seen others with similar issues, and followed the suggestions, but they haven’t fixed the issue. Here is what I have tried so far: 1. Delete bak files 2. Deleted cache directories 3. Added the results list on all views (on the forms where we have seen the issue) 4. Increased the java heap size 5. Turned off the persistence cache in the mid tier console I have looked at some of the hot fixes, but they don’t seem to have any fixes for our issues. Here’s our full mid-tier version: 7.6.04 SP3 201201302357. We are on Windows 2008, 64GB ram. We have a ticket open with BMC, but they just keep asking us for logs. Thanks, Josh Bray Turner Broadcasting System, INC _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com<http://www.wwrug.com/> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com<http://www.wwrug.com> ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
