Escape from boredom

There might be several reasons for that, most of them revealing themselves by information in the startServer.log. But earlier today when trying to start the deployment manager it just would not start, saying that I had to look into the startServer.log, but even if I tried several times no new info was to be found. “ps -ef | grep java” revealed no WebSphere processes running, so still no clues. So I gave up and wanted to create a PMR, thus needing to zip the logs-folder, but that process failed. So then I ended up issuing a df-command, realizing that due to some previous heap dumps there was no more disk space left, which caused the dmgr not being able to start. Cleared the disk and voila, back on track.

Then later I got a problem when applications would not install, the error message was

WASX7114E: Cannot create temporary file in directory “null”

Found this technote http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21300016 which mentions the same message, but the solution is simpler than in this case. In fact the /tmp-folder was full with dump-files as well. So when cleaned up, application installation worked as a charm again.

Last week I attended the IBM WebSphere Technical Conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. As always a good event when it comes to the stuff I’m working with, and also good for networking.

Some pictures – first two from the airport train to Gardermoen

The first hotel room I got, missing something important…the bed

At Saturn trying 3D-TV. A bit cool, but if you ask me “Do you want it?” the question is no, just look how stupid the glasses are 🙂

Monday evening at Brauerei Schumacher trying the Schumacher Alt-beer

Traditional German food

Out walking next to the Rhein river

I have had it with a menu in Build Forge – could not understand why the elements where not alphabetically sorted even though the Perl script generating the menu had a line like this

sort( @entries );

So Google to the rescue, I found this article about Perl Sorting Techniques http://www.perlfect.com/articles/sorting.shtml and just had to change the line of code to

@entries = sort { $a cmp $b } @entries;

Problem solved!

I am now allowed to call myself “IBM Certified Deployment Professional on Rational Automation Middleware Solutions“.

The Deployment Professional has extensive product knowledge of some or all of the IBM WebSphere family of products, IBM Rational Build Forge and IBM Rational Automation Framework for WebSphere and can independently perform configuration, training, and mentoring tasks on these products for deployment projects, with limited assistance from peers and vendor support services.

Extensive amount of RAFW usage the past few months and about two hours of preparations reading the Infocenter did the trick

Test Title: Test 000-055, Rational Automation for WebSphere
Start time: 10/14/2010 10:51:32 AM (GMT+0:00) (cst)
End time: 10/14/2010 11:21:41 AM (GMT+0:00) (cst)
Passing Score: 70%
Your Score: Pass (90%)

If you are using Xterm I assume that every once in a while you get annoyed by the colors. Today I just had to do something about it and I found the script provided at http://www.steike.com/code/xterm-colors/ … lovely!!