BIM TS3100 Library: Incompatible Magazine!

Recently we replaced our 7 years old IBM TS3200 Tape Library with the new TS3100 FC. For about a week, It worked fine , but when yesterday, our support personnel changed the tape cartridges, and tried to login to the WEBGUI of library to manage and move the tape to drive, it showed following error on screen.

and the tape library showed this “Scanning” message on its panel and none of any function worked properly

I tried every possible method of re installing drivers, pulling magazines manually from back using Access hole (small hatches, facing rear of the library) with pin, but no use.

After carefully deep inspection, I found out that the support personnel remove the MAGAZINE FIDUCIALS by mistake (plastic part attached with the every level of magazine where the cartridge is placed) , the support personnel thought it was some sort of un necessary packing ☻

As showed in the image below . . .

After placing the Magazine Fiducials back to its place, every thing worked fine.
Also make sure that you are using the latest Firmware, it helps too :)

Magazine Fiducials  are location sensors utilized by the library accessors.

Possibly it may help some one else too, because in my personal experience, If you don’t have SLA or service contract with the IBM or there vendors, you won’t gonna find much support over the web or in local market.

Regard’s
Syed Jahanzaib

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June 24, 2013

Lotus Notes: Duplicate PUBLIC name CMEMOOBJECT in USE module CoreEmailClasses

Filed under: IBM Related — Tags: Duplicate PUBLIC name CMEMOOBJECT in USE module CoreEmailClasses, illegal circular USE: DocExpProcessing, lotus notes error duplicate public name — Syed Jahanzaib / Pinochio~:) @ 9:59 AM

 

 

 

 

 

 

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If you receive above errors while accessing emails in Lotus Notes client, then simply refresh your design from domain admin or client.

Open Domino Admin Client,

Goto FilesGoto Mail Folder, (In domino usually users mail db are exist in mail folder, ifyou have different folder structure, select that one)
on right window, you will see the users mail db files, select your required user
Now goto FILES menu,
Select Applicaiton
Replace Design

As showed in the image below . . .

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A new window popup will appear with few options,
In Template Server , select your Lotus Domino Server
Also select mail (R8.5)
& Click on REPLACE

As showed in the image below . . .

After it finishes replacing the design, you will be able to open the mails properly.

Another Quick Solution !!!

Another solution that may work is following

• Close Lotus Notes.
• Delete cache.ndk & bookmark.nsf in the Lotus directory. For example I have Windows 7 64 bit, and the location is C:\Program Files (x86)\IBM\Lotus\Notes\Data
• Now Open Lotus Notes Client and hopefully it will work fine.

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Lotus Notes: Field: ‘tmpRepeatsText’: Array index out of bound while opening TO DO

One of our Lotus notes users received following error while opening TO DO mail

Field: ‘tmpRepeatsText’: Array index out of bound

I fixed it by using

1	load convert mail\[maildatabase] * mail85.ntf

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Lotus Notes wants to open some emails with browser, rather than within Notes itself !

Today, One of our user faced problem that when he tried to open certain emails , it gives option to open it in my web browser, rather than within Notes itself. it showed all of the html formatting characters in the notes, rendering it almost unreadable. I applied fresh install of Notes but no use. The client was using Lotus notes 8.5.2

This is how I solved it.

Open Lotus Notes Client

Goto Files / Preferences

In the right window, click on ADDITION OPTIONS, Tick on DISABLE EMBEDDED BROWSER FOR MIME FORMAT”

As showed in the example below , , ,

Now restart Notes Client, and the problem solved :)

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[Lotus Notes] INBOX not showing any mails, but appearing in ALL DOCUMENTS folder

Today morning, When one of our user opened Lotus Notes client, no email was showing in INBOX, but all appearing in ALL DOCUMENTS folder. To fix this I issued following command and problem went away and INBOX showed all emails.

load updall -r mail\usermailfile.nsf

This problem also occurs if you have corrupted INBXO view , dual of them. To check this you ahve to open user mail file in Domino Designer, and lookfor two inbox view. If there are two inbox view, first create a temporary folder, and move all the inbox mails to this temp folder, now create both inbxo folder, and replace design, this will create inbox view, now move all mails from temp folder to inbox , simple is that :p

Tip: If the problem remains still, then try to replace the FOLDER DESIGN.

Also read this thread, it really have some very good information to solve this problem.

http://community.spiceworks.com/topic/231092-lotus-notes-no-emails-showing-up-in-inbox-but-are-in-all-documents-folder
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21093841

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IBM Lotus Domino Fix Packs Upgrade Error

Few days back, I was upgrading Lotus Domino 8.5.3 Fix pack 4 to Fix Pack 6, and during upgrade, I encountered following error …

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To solve it, Make sure that

• Lotus DOMINO is stopped by using QUITE command in domino console,
• Lotus Services are STOPPED in services before running the upgrade package
• Any Lotus CONSOLE is closed 
  [I forgot to close the console which resulted in wastage of precious 15 minutes on Live Production Server, anyway this is how you learn things in real life,]

http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd%5Cfixlist.nsf/WhatsNew/2ca7aa993e50ba8285257c1d006472bd?OpenDocument

8.5.3 Fix Pack 6 Preliminary Fix List descriptions:

Client

• SPR# TSHI8SD538(LO68047) – Fixed an intermittent Notes client crash when opening a corrupted Notes document.
• +SPR# MLAT99RKAG(LO76668) – Improved javascript disablement and disabled for HTML Email messages (body field and memo form) only. This regression was introduced in 8.5.3 FP5.
• SPR# ACHG8STC6T(LO68380) – Fixes intermittent Notes Client crash when the user hits “send” on a large email (also the email is lost).
• SPR# MCHZ8R4HPK(LO67040) – “Search Directory For” results in Typeahead are displayed in Alphabetical Order. (technote 1580001)

Server

• SPR# KBRN8Q6JXC(LO71360) – Performance and reliability fix to network session code.Prior to this fix, many users accessing a Domino server simultaneously could cause a performance bottleneck resulting in slow server response or timeouts attempting to connect to the server. The error ‘Unable to redirect failover from <SERVERNAME>’ could also appear where SERVERNAME is the same name of the server encountering the issue.
• SPR# JPAI94HR3N(LO75003) – Fixes potential deadlock on process startup between LkMgr locker and semaphore locker(Directory manager queue semaphore). (technote 1644240)
• SPR# MYAA8LV385(LO64012) – Fixes an issue where an incorrect warning for a database over quota threshold could be generated.
• +SPR# RMAA94WKMG(LO73956) – Fixes intermittent Domino Server crash when closing a database. This regression was introduced in 8.5.2. (technote 1644232)
• SPR# VPRS8YBRZ6(LO71728) – Fixes Domino Server mail relay host crash on router on Jonah::asn_sorted::encode_value
• +SPR# AJMO8NVM8F(LO66491) – Prevent Directory Assistance on Domino 64-bit servers from doing unnecessary search references and referrals which were leading to “81” LDAP timeout errors. This regression was introduced in 8.5.
• SPR# JPMS8KZLLC(LO63217) – Fixes Domino Server crash during database cache maintenance with PANIC: ERROR – LockMemHandle() Handle 0xF0259F47 is not allocated
• SPR# PPET98CPBN(LO7562) – Security enhancement to scrub query strings causing search to fail; work around is to add the following notes.ini: HTTP_QUERY_STRING_SCRUB=0. This fix changes the default to be off instead of being on and adds new code to prevent security X-Site script attacks against search urls.
• SPR# AJAS8WSB9B(LO70861) – Prior to this fix multiple “Received” headers could be overwritten by one when retrieving e-Mails with IMAP client.
• SPR# KHAN87ZUTS(LO55991) – Prevents excessive InsertPermutations recursion that can lead to a Domino Server crash. The new notes.ini variable MAX_PERMUTE_RECURSE=<number>, where <number> limits the number of hierarchical responses that can be added to a given collection, is recommended to be set to 200. (technote 1600317)
• +SPR# PHEY8UDJYW(LO65911) – Fixes ACL corruption with: “ACL Corrupt in database <Database_Name> creating new ACL with default set to no access”. Now we block unintended deletion of ACL Note that would leave to a DB set to no access.This was a regression introduced in 8.5.3.

iNotes

• SPR# WRAY8QKLTQ(LO66604) – Fixed issue where when opening messages in iNotes Ultra Light Mode, that have mixed case mail file names specified in the URL, the mail message fails to open.
• SPR# KRAU8Y2MX6(LO71593) – Fixes issue where the iNotes UI window shrinks to a small size when the iNotes UI is resized several times.
• SPR# HKOA7T4DN5(LO49113) – Notes web: Fixed an issue where the web browser could hang if a window is resized to or from a very small size.
• SPR# PTHN96NRTP(LO45468) – Notes web: Fixed an issue where the unread count on a folder is not updated automatically when new messages were transferred into it via a mail rule. Clicking on the folder or using F5 to refresh would update the count.
• +SPR# HSKM8TN39T(LO68949) – Fixed problem which caused a custom sized table to be inserted in the wrong place in the Rich Text Editor. This is a regression in 8.5.3.

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Howto get DSA Output in HTML format for IBM xSeries 3650 M4 [7915] Server

Recently one of our newly acquired IBM xSeries 3650 M4 [7915] Server start sending email regarding Predictive Failure (PD,PAF) alerts. and on panel, we get amber light on HDD,

To receive support from the IBM or vendor, we have to send DSA Logs. this DSA report contains each and every detail regarding all the hardware components of the machine. In the past we used DSA logs to generate html base outputs on previous 3650 or 346 series servers, but we were unable to found any installable DSA package. Only PORTABLE or PRE–BOOT versions were available. Since it was a production live server so we cannot take downtime to boot from dsa pre-boot cd, and the portable version produce single XML file which is not human friendly or readable. So I used following trick to make its HTML output , (provided by vendor and GOOGLE)
(Make a new folder where you dsa will generate its HTML output , in any location, e.g: c:\dsa_output)

ibm_utl_dsa_dsytd3l-9.52_portable_windows_x86-64.exe -v -d c:\dsa_output

Output Sample:

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SAN attached windows 2008 hangs on boot

Just for reference purpose:

Recently I was testing some disaster recovery scenario of restoring Server A to Server B with identical hardware using Symantec Backup EXEC 2014 Simplified Disaster Recovery [SDR]CD. The hardware specs were as follows …

IBM Xseries 3650 M4, with RAID1
Dual Q.Logic Fiber Channel cards Mode: QLE2560 connected with two FC switches for multi path and failover
32 GB RAM,
IBM v3700 storewize SAN Storage

The restore went fine , system boot fine for the first time with everything intact, but when I rebooted it again , it failed to boot and shows only cursor blinking,  As showed in the image below …

I tried to boot it several times but with no results. I then removed the FC cables from the server’s Qlogic FC cards, and this time windows booted fine.

Solution:

I started the server without FC cables attached, then I removed the Windows MPIO features from ADD REMOVE FEATURES, and rebooted again with FC cables attached, and this time it works fine but showed duplicate SAN partitions. Then I applied IBM’s SSDM MPIO driver (MPIO_Win2008_x64_SDDDSM_64_2434-4_130816 for v3700 storewize)  and everything went fine :)
You may also want to read the IBM’s article.
http://www-947.ibm.com/support/entry/portal/docdisplay?lndocid=migr-5081613

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Lotus Domino SMTP Relay

It’s not a new story, but today I had to do it again to restore our email relay successfully. so I am writing this just as a reference.
Recently we were having some issues in sending emails to various domains , in some particular case, our Public IP was blacklisted at one or two spam lists. To sort it out, we used our ISP’s SMTP (example: smtp.yoursip.com.pk)to relay mails successfully. Here is how you can add/change the relay host.

• From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab and then expand the Messaging section.
• Choose Configurations.
• Select the Configuration Settings document and then click Edit Configuration.
• Click the Router/SMTP - Basics tab.
• Complete this field, and then click Save & Close:

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Field
Relay host for messages leaving the local Internet domain

As showed in the image below . . .
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To take changes take effect immediately, issue this command at domino admin client

tell router update config

To remove relay host, simply remove the smtp entry and reload config.

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