Archive for Automation Server

WWW Crawlers gotcha down? De-mystifying the nebulous “OKAssertError (282610)” error and the dreaded Property Bag

Automation Server, Portal Server on July 28th, 2009 1 Comment

Howdy all, We recently had a customer who was running into a problem with their WWW crawlers.  Sadly, the verbose job log wasn’t of much help in tracking down the issue: Jul 20, 2009 5:25:02 PM- *** Job Operation #1 failed: This crawl could not be launched because the location from which it was supposed [...]

Beware the Security Propagation Bug(s)

Automation Server, Bug, Portal Server, Security on September 28th, 2008 1 Comment

We’ve warned you before about ACL propagation when you’re changing the security in ALI.  Heck, we even created a product to ease the pain of this important task.  Today’s bug is about another issue with security propagation. Well, it’s actually 2 bugs (maybe 3).  Let me explain: When you answer “yes” to that question about [...]

Crazy Database Growth? Check your PTJOBLOGS table.

Automation Server, Portal Server on September 25th, 2008 No Comments

This is a little old-school, but still a very relevant tip.  This problem has been around for all of the ALI 6.x days (including 6.5), and if I remember correctly, even the Plumtree 5.x days.  Basically, the automation server logs its activity to the PTJOBLOGS table, and if you’ve got jobs that are logging in verbose [...]