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Hi All,Is there a means to build KM files without using the Patrol Developper Console, since they are all clear ASCII files.I would like to write a java based KM generator. That is a small a proprietary tool with a Graphical UI through which you can define a managed object, add classes, instances, parameters and so on, then with a magical button, you generate all KM related files to deploy on the agent(.km,.psl,.kml.).The problem i am facing is the necessity(in my knowledge) to use the Console when building KMs because of serial numbers internally used to maintain modifications on KM files.I want my KMs to be entirely generated outside the Patrol Console. So i am looking for any document that describes the internal structure of KMs, in particular how serial numbers are handled.Any help will be appriciated.AronaSupport EngineerParis - FRANCE. 'Hi, I don't whether it is possible but Vladimir Tsichevski has a nice tool in this forum, it is vc.At this time there is no KM-Create function (or I don't know it) but this tool is for developers and perhaps he can integrate it.'

At the moment VC is not capable of creating KM and storing them asfiles. I use another tool named kmgen2 which is similar to that Aronaplans to implement as Java-based program.At the moment there are only two things that prevents me from making it public:1. It is not cross-platform2. It is poorly documented yet.Here is a small readme:kmgen2======kmgen2 is a command-line tool that reads and writes Knowledge Moduledata in different formats, most notable of which are the Patrol KMfile format and XML. Kmgen2 makes it possible to create and manage aKM-based project as a single unit, with kmgen2 the development processlooks like the following:-- you create a project in a form of an XML file (or as a set of XML files) or use kmgen2 to convert existing Patrol KM files to XML.-- You export your project as a number of KM, KML and (optionally) PSL files.-- You use Patrol Developer Console or VC to load the results to patrol agents for testing and debugging.kmgen2 does all conversion in lossless one-to-one manner, i.e.

EveryKM structure or attribute has a corresponding presentation in everysupported format.Developers may define KM data in their own format, then use kmgen2 topre-processing it with XSLT templates. Kmgen2 distribution provides anexample of such template, which provides reasonably default values forall missing KM attributes and structures, thus allowing the source XMLbe as simple as possible.kmgen2 is implemented in the Scheme programming language.

It wassuccessfully built and used in Linux, Solaris and Windows (CYGWIN)environments. Hi Johannes, You can change the tree view to a flat table view by customizing the Layout Profile with TableProfile and layout profile etc as shown below. Layout Profile: ZConsumerTableProfile Layout Set: ZConsumerTable Collection Renderer: ZAppDocumentCollectionRenderer Resource Renderer: ZLinkListResourceRenderer Command Group: ZDetailsGroup But in this case also user need to navigate to subfolders. So if user do not want to navigate to subfolders means u have to place all the documents in one folder itself and create a KM Navigation iView pointing to that folder. Regards Basha. Hi All, bThe situation:/b 1. An R/3 database table where a GUID (reference to KM-document) is stored.

So we have a relation between a R/3-entity and KM-documents. We expose the information within the R/3 database in a UI, build with Web Dynpro.

We use KM-API's to access the documents in KM. In a portalpage the Web Dynpro's are displayed in iViews where the iViews are 'connected' by PortalEventing (eg. WebDynpro-iView displaying a list of KM-documents; when a line is selected an event is triggered which is received by another WebDynpro-iView which displays the document). BThe Problem/b We want to store some customer-defined Properties with the documents.

The properties can be defined dynamically in KM. We can create a Web Dynpro to change the values of the properties stored with documents.

But then the flexibility is gone: when new Properties are defined in KM we need to change the Web Dynpro. We imagine a portal-page with 2 iViews. One is a WebDynpro-iView displaying a list of KM-documents. The second is a??-iView displaying the properties of the document selected in the WebDynpro-list. In the second iView the user can change the values of the properties. When a new property is defined (in the right way), this new property should be displayed in the second iView WITHOUT coding!

BThe Question/b How can this be achieved? OR are there other scenario's possible which implements the same functionality? Kind regards, Maarten. Does any one have consolidated info on the diff types of iViews that we can create from portal templates available. I want to know the specific bpurpose/b of each iView and also bhow to create/b them. Here are some of them. Hi all, I am trying to integrate my KM developments (.PAR) into NWDI.

TO archive my goal, the first thing that I need to do is convert my.PAR into Development Components (DC). I create a new DC using the.par, then I add the KM jars directly into the build path but I am getting build errors because of this KM libraries.

I think that I need to create an External Libs DC and then add them to my DC but I can't find how to add this libs in the perspective of EP. Please any guideline would be appreciated.

Regards, Orlando Covault. Can I write a KM directely instead of write PSL script and save as KM?From what I learned, you need to write a psl script and then save it as KM or psl script then you can load this KM to whatever agent you want.Can I edit a KM and save it then load it? I am not talking about simple case like monintor CPU utilization. I am stalking about some more complicate case.I think if you start write KM without use psl script.

It's really hard to following the logic. Inside psl script you can distinguish function by function, but km you only see a big one block code.I am just trying to find out if that is possiable to create a complicated KM from scratch.Thanks for any help. Pablo- If you want to simply backup the KM documents (not guids or properties), you can use a 3rd party tool with WebDAV capabilities. We use one from www.superflexible.com and set it up to run on a nightly basis. Note that if file backup is what you're after, the standard file system and DB backups will not do you any good when it comes time to restoring a single file or handful of files (unless it's ok for you to restore the entire DB and lose other file changes that occurred in the meantime).

Also we have discovered that the SAP-recommended approach to restore the DB in a test environment and recover the file does not work. Restoring your production DB in the test environment will cause portal not to start. I assume this is because some of the portal init configurations are stored in the DB.

Hi All, I am trying to access a KM Excel Sheet using jxl jar in my project. I am using a webdynpro DC and adding the jxl jar to the public part of the external library and adding it to the used DC's. I didnt deploy the application instead build the DC and deployed the DC. While previewing the iview, i am getting an error like 'java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: jxl.read.biff.BiffException '. How shall i resolve this error.

I tried manually adding the jxl jar to the lib folder of the project. But still i am getting the same error. How else can i resolve this error and access the Excel Sheet in km. Can any one please help me out in resolving this issue. Thanks and Regards, Divya. Hi, I have a dashboard page, that I want to change slightly and save as another dashboard page. For Ex: Dashboard page 'Overview'.

I want 2 version, one for Managers with only summary report, second 'Overview - Analyst' dashboard page for Analysts, which shows both summary and details report. Is there a way I can build 'Overview' dashboard page and then 'Copy'/'Save As' 'Overview - Analyst'? THis would help, to keep the formatting across dashboard pages, without having to manually set all properties for dashboard page, columns, sections etc.

Hi, Just adding to the information already posted: The BMC Performance Manager Portal offers a Software Developer Kit (SDK) which you can use to create par files based on KM files. However, we do not have a tool to automatically convert the KMs to par files.

The SDK would allow the creation of the par file based on the KM details, but it would still be a manual process. Please refer to the BMC Customer Support Site for the version specific manuals for the 'BMC Performance Manager Development and Certification Guide' which is already provided. Thanks, Arvind. I am trying to build a custom KM search application/component/Options Set that will, based on the users ID, redirect the search to a specific folder. Are there any examples on how to develop a custom Search for KM? I have looked at the 'Developing a Search Component for KM search Iview' at but I am not sure if this is the right direction. Can I just develop a custom Option Set and call that?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank youPaul. I am just getting started and have read numerous documentsabout building KMs, using Patrol Console, etc.I sort of understand the details about classes, parameters,attributes, psl, etc. However, I don't quite understand thespecifics on how to actually build, load, and test your ownKM.Is this process explicitly documented somewhere? If not, can someone please provide some information?Specifically, I am looking for instructions at the following level:1.

From a developer console, define your application class and related parameters2. Save KM from console (to save in $HOME/patrol/knowledge)3. Load KM into agent???4.

What exactly does commit do?5. Copy KM to agent directory ($PATROL_HOME/lib/knowledge???)If I want a KML file, do I need to create this manually?Does the order of the entries in the KML file matter?--Thanks in advance,Tom. Currently I am creating new customized parameters under the ORACLE_AVAILABITY km.

When upgrading the patrol Agent software, these parameters need to be manually migrated to the New ORACLE_AVAILABILTY kM. This is too time consuming and error prone. Distributing the new parameters to other sites is also another problem, as the parameters are embeded in the ORACLE_AVALIABILTY.Like to separate the my customized parameters into a separate ORACLE KM that will display beneath oracle instance name in the ORACLE KM. Tried creating one but without any luck. Does anyone have a working example of the customized oracle KM?Appreciate your help Thanks in advance.

Yes that is true, it does not inherit as the ORACLE_AVAILBILITY KM is not the true parent. Nesting is a visual technique only. The only way to inheirit would be to do just what you are doing. The other way is to transfer those features to your KM, thus the reason you added the command types, so if there are some other things you will need to add those in too. Not sure where those are but they might be in a library file so take a look at your oracle_availability km. The library files are in discovery or the other parameters in your KM just add them at the top of your script just like they have. Also check to make sure that there are no environment variables set as part of the oracle availability definition.

If so add those to if you need them. The library files once loaded of course are usuable by any application.

Hi All, I have to give a download option to the users to download the HTML document present int the KM documents. The user are anonymous users(i.e entering without any authentication) How this thing can be achieved. I also have an iview(KM doc iview) where I have called this HTML docoment. In the HTML document there is an hyperlink(Download form) in which the URL is to be updated. Is there some way of achieving downloading functionality can I give a button in the iview to download warm regards nitin. Thank you Here it is: C: ipconfig Windows IP Configuration Ethernet adapter Local Area Connection: Connection-specific DNS Suffix.: localdomain IP Address............: 192.168.42.128 Subnet Mask...........: 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway.........: 192.168.42.2 However, I am home now and I am able to surf. The VM is on my Laptop which has XP as Host OS.

Could it be related to the work's network?? I will check on Tuesday and I will post the results. Thank you again,, KM. Hello everybody,I would like to build a 2.4GHz Wifi network that will cover an area of 8km radius.The network is to host a hotspot system that should be able to handle users directly without them purchasing additional CPEs (direct with laptops or PDAs integrated 802.11 g/b/n)I would like to know how many cells I am to build and the most efficient equipment that could help me achieve that goal. As well as the most suited network topology and Antenna configuration: Backbone and Distribution systems. Thank you for your help in advance. Hi all- I have permissions set up in KM based on user roles, with the 'everyone' group excluded from the KM permissions.

When users log in, they can see their various documents via KM navigation iViews, and their TREX search results are restricted by their KM permissions. This functions as expected. The problem I have is that when users receive links to KM documents (like from the Subscription Service), they can not directly access the document from the email link. Portal does not ask for a login and throws a 403 error (access prohibited) on the resource. If however, I add the 'everyone' group back to the KM permission, URL access works fine, but without logging in. This behavior seems erroneous to me.should not portal ask to authenticate the user before granting access to a document?

If not, my role based permissions will never be evaluated for access rights (what's the point of defining permissions then?) Any ideas on how to make this work without giving 'everyone' permission to all the KM content? EP 7, SPS10 Thanks Tim. Hi, The above blog might be help ful to you in this context. To get handle to the TBPService, you can do it in the following way: ITimebasedPublishServiceManager tpbService = (ITimebasedPublishServiceManager) ResourceFactory.getInstance().getServiceFactory().getRepositoryService( createdResource.getRepositoryManager(), IWcmConst.TIMEBASED_PUBLISH_SERVICE); To get handle to the VALID TO IMutableProperty mutablevalidToPropertyName = (validToPropertyName!= null? ValidToPropertyName.getMutable(): new Property( new PropertyName( 'VALIDTO'), new Date()).getMutable()); Similarly you can set the properties. For send an e-mail notification you can some thing like this: 1. You have write a java class using JavaMail API 2.

String mailServer = ResourceBundles.getBundle(SendingMail.class.getName()).getString( 'sendmail.mail.server'); 3. Hello, We are migrating from EP5SP6 to NW04 EP6SP9+. We are currently using MSS 50.4 (in EP5) and are trying to keep changes to a minimum while we upgrade to EP6.

Based on the documentation I have read, Universal Worklist now requires KM, which we don't have installed. So, we need to determine if we need to install KM as part of this upgrade. (Note- I saw that there is a way to install Universal Worklist without KM, but it is not supported by SAP. So, we are trying to identify the minimum supported solution.) - Any advice on how much overhead KM requires even if it is only used in this minimal configuration would be helpful! -Also, would there be any reason we would need to run TREX and Indexing processes if we are only using KM to launch Universal Worklist/R/3 Inbox transactions? Thanks for your advice.

Hi Doug, I'm kinda concerned about the thought process of the infrastructure group. Being on the technical side of things, I would always want to be running a supported configuration. I wish I knew why they are so worried about the extra overhead.

If it is because they are not comfortable supporting the Java side of things and the feel the less the better, my comment would be, that they have to support the Java side anyway for the portal. Supporting the additional KM code would me minimal especially if it weren't being used.

My worry would be, suppose a future portal or Web AS support pack broke something in the UWL. With it being unsupported configuration, worst case SAP may say that you are out of luck since they don't support the solution you have implemented.

More likely, you will have to go back and forth with SAP trying to get them to support it. This could be a very time consuming process. If they are concerned about the overhead of the KM resources as a performance issue, I would say they are trying to squeeze the system resources to tightly. The difference between not installing and installing and not using is at most a gigabyte of disk and negligible cpu cycles and memory usage.

This is just my two cents worth. Either way, good luck with your migration and implementation. Ill start by saying that I am new to the whole KM area, so this question maybe silly. I have an XML form that was build by a consultant that writes an XML document to a KM directory. This all works great.

My issue is we have an iView with the KM navigation template. The iView loads and works properly except the business want me to change how the hyperlink to the document works.

Ill try to explain more. When you enter the directory you get a list of all the xml documents that were created with our XML form. The business wants to click on the link in the navigation and have it bring up our XML form with the data loaded into it. Right now when you click-it you get the actual xml document. Is it possible to get the km navigation hyperlink to open the xml form without right-clicking and choosing edit? Hi Ryan, I would recomend to do some reading on Layoutsets, Collection Renderers, Resource Renderers, Property Renderers. With out these basics, you will not be able to do any custom coding to implement your usecase.

Regards, Praveen Gudapati p.s. If you are short in time and cannot go further, just hire a KM Consultant. Hi, I am trying to build a custom search interface in Web Dynpro which leverages the KMC Indexing and Search services. In this interface I would like to display value lists of predefined properties in KM (created using the Property Metadata Service) and bind each predefined property's value list to a checkbox group UI element. Which KM API should I use to retrieve the values of a specific predefined property?

When using the standard flexible user interface in the portal this can easily be achieved through configuration, but now I would like to know how to achieve this in Java code. Thanks in advance for your input. I have some idea on how to get the propertymap from a resource, but how can I access the metadata of a predefined property in KM directly? Hi All, Have a couple of qns pertaining to developing km applns with nwdi: 1) when creating a SC for a KM Portal application (repository service), do I need to add the following dependencies (in addition to KMC-COLL, KMC-CM): DI BUILD TOOL 7.00. SAP J2EE ENGINE 7.00, SAP JAVA TECH SERVICES 7.00, EP BUILD TOOL 7.0 2) In NWDS, we need to add dependencies to KM DCs (for accessing KM APIs): Will these be made available once I add them as dependencies for the SC I'm creating.

If not, how can I obtain a reference to the DC in nwds, any additional configurations to be done? Appreciate your inputs on this! I have a customer who wants to integrate the KM data into their existing web portal. They DO NOT want to use the GUI of KM itself, but only to be able to search our KM, and display the content in their own 'template/layout'. So what is possible here?

I have searched and searched for an 'integration guide', white paper or whatever, but this product seems to be the least documented in the remedy line:( Should the Intranet: Just search the xml files, and build thier own 'Renderer'?Use a KM api (if any), how do the Remedy integration work?Go directly to the hummingbird server, and if so, what options do I have there? Any feedback (especially the quick ones;) ) is highly appreciated!

Hi All, Is there a means to build KM files without using the Patrol Developper Console, since they are all clear ASCII files. I would like to write a java based KM generator. That is a small a proprietary tool with a Graphical UI through which you can define a managed object, add classes, instances, parameters and so on, then with a magical button, you generate all KM related files to deploy on the agent(.km,.psl,.kml.).

The problem i am facing is the necessity(in my knowledge) to use the Console when building KMs because of serial numbers internally used to maintain modifications on KM files. I want my KMs to be entirely generated outside the Patrol Console. So i am looking for any document that describes the internal structure of KMs, in particular how serial numbers are handled. Any help will be appriciated. Arona Support Engineer Paris - FRANCE.

Hi all, I am trying to create a news scenario displayed in tabs. I succesfully created simple KM news scenarions but now I want to follow the steps described in the PDF file 'How to Build a News Scenario Using KM Features'. I did everything described in this document and succesfully created a few news items. The TREX server picks these enrties up and correctly classifies them according to the properties of the news items. Now I try to create an iView which displays the items in an tab layout, but there it goes wrong. The news items are created in the folder '/documents/noki-online/news', when I browse the KM Taxonomies folder I see my items succesfully sorted on the correct folder structure. They are located in the KM directory: '/Taxonomies/KM News Index/SortNews' (and then in the subdirectories PSV, SAP, Intenzz and General)I assume that I should create an KM Navigation iView (with the adjusted tab layoutset) to the Taxomonies folder (and not to the original folder '/documents/noki-online/news') since you want to see the sorted structure in tabs.

But when I create an iView with the paths pointing to '/Taxonomies/KM News Index/SortNews' then I get the following error when pressing the preview button:bItem not found/Taxonomies/KM News Index/SortnewsThe item you are attempting to access is not available. Check that the name or link is correct. You might also check whether the associated repository is currently accessible./bAt first I thought that it might be caused because of the spaces in the name 'KM News Index' but I get the same error when I just point to /Taxonomies.

If I point to a folder under '/documents' everything is fine.My question is, am I correct that I should point the iView to the Taxonomies directory structure instead of to the /documents structure where they are originally created. And what could cause the error when trying to open the taxonomies structure? I checked the permissions and they are set to everyone full control so that should be enough:-). I have no problems when navigating via 'Content Administration -- KM content' only by using the KM navigation iView.I would be very thankfull if someone can help me with this, I feel that I am so close to get this scenario working but this stops me now Kind Regards, Nico van der Linden.

Alt J An Awesome Wave Deluxe Edition Rare there. Good day All We have a customer that has about 350 hosts that are monitored with a patrol agent based setup. They require us to exclude some netbackup services from alerting.

I am aware of how to manually uncheck each service device by device in the Patrol console (KM Commands Configure Service Monitoring Configure Service) I have done a couple of machines unchecking each service they do not want,but this is extremely tedious. Is There no way one can override the alerting for all hosts without going through each machine? Any info would be appreciated Cheers.

Hi All, how can I get access to the KM API in a GP Web Dynpro form. NWDS doesnt show an Error in delepment mode. But when Im trying to Build the Application I got the following Error message.

Hi All, how can I get access to the KM API in a GP Web Dynpro form. NWDS doesnt show an Error in delepment mode.

But when Im trying to Build the Application I got the following Error message. Hi can any one help me what are all the properties i need to set in KM search iview. There are component set, option set, layout set and query with some default value.what should be the values for this properties.

When i click priview without setting any of these values i'm getting a message no search indexes could be found. I created a km navigation iview which dispalys the contents of some repository.

I also wantto put a search optios there which searches in that repository.can any one help me how achive this. Hi, We have a central portal (NW 7.0) and a CE portal. Application (CAF/WDP Java) running in the CE portal will be accessed via the central portal using an Application Integrator. Lately, i have a requirement to build an application (CAF/WDP Java) that running in the CE portal, which need to access the KM to upload/download files. However, due to the fact that the CE 7.1.1 portal does not support KM, i guess my only option is to use the KM in the central portal. How could i achieve it? Any help would be much appreciated.

Hi Villalain, the easiest way to achieve this is to write something we call 'proxy iview', that is a component (AbstractPortalComponent, implementing doOnNodeReady), which calculates the path (in your case: gets it from a backend system) and after that just calls the document component (by using the URL generator), passing the path dynamically (by calling redirect on the request object). For further details, just type 'proxy iview AND detlev' into the SDN search. Hope it helps Detlev PS: Please consider rewarding points for helpful answers on SDN. Thanks in advance!

Hi, I have never done it before but you should look into adding external repositories. In the portal you can attach various document locations. This can be your mailserver (a exchange repository), a website or even another KM portal.

I`m not sure but I pretty sure you can add your other KM in you current portal by creating a WEBDAV repository. Webdav being the protocol portalKM`s can talk to each other. Once done you will get an extra KM folder on you current KM showing the complete other KM. (at least if you pick the root) Go to System ad;ininstration Knowledge Managment configuration Repository managers Webdav repositories. Hope this helps Best Frederik. Hi everybody, I built a new KM help file with.chm extension and i have installed it in the console server environment. When selecting a parameter of this KM and clicking on the 'Help' menu-command, the help for the selected parameter is not displayed, and an error message is reported in the console messages window that tells: 'Topic [404] is not found in help file [C: Documents and Settings Didier Application Data BMC Software PATROL Central Help 1 consolemodulehelp EN_USA SYSLOG_1_6_00 MY_HELP.chm]' The topic 404 is the HELP_CONTEXT_ID as it can be found in the.km file.

So, i guess that there is something wrong in the binding of the.km and the help file. Does exist a document that explain how to build the.chm file?

Does anybody know how to correct this problem? Thanks a lot. Best regards, Didier. Hi everybody, I built a new KM help file with.chm extension and i have installed it in the console server environment. When selecting a parameter of this KM and clicking on the 'Help' menu-command, the help for the selected parameter is not displayed, and an error message is reported in the console messages window that tells: 'Topic [404] is not found in help file [C: Documents and Settings Didier Application Data BMC Software PATROL Central Help 1 consolemodulehelp EN_USA SYSLOG_1_6_00 MY_HELP.chm]' The topic 404 is the HELP_CONTEXT_ID as it can be found in the.km file. So, i guess that there is something wrong in the binding of the.km and the help file. Does exist a document that explain how to build the.chm file?

Does anybody know how to correct this problem? Thanks a lot.

Best regards, Didier. Hi,I wrote SQL_MONITOR for scheduling SQL queries on a weekly basis. However if you just wish to execute a SQL query once every 10 minutes then just copy most of the KM and remove the scheduling part. This is pretty easy and would be a good way to get into PSL.Regarding your sample code. Without actually testing it myself I would guess that it is missing some n (newline) characters, so that sqlplus does not process the text until a n character is also sent.

Br /write #40;chan, quot;connect user/password@INSTANCE nquot;#41;;br /. Hi, The functionality is available in TM and you have to really explore it to find out the solution and configure. You can have A to C as one route with various legs in between, A to B and B to C as subsequent legs and from point of departure to A as primary leg. Accordingly you have to create a shipment docuemnt first of primary leg type and then one or two shipment documents of type main leg / subsequent leg.

If the concept of legs is well understood and explored, it is possible to enable this functionality in TM. Accordingly, you can also create shipment cost documents for each of these shipment documents irrespective of the leg type.