I've noticed that the operations list on the FIM Event Broker home page appears to reorder itself every so often, presumably based on the time each operation is scheduled to run. While neat from a technical perspective, I've found a number of times lately that the page has refreshed a fraction of a second before I've gone to manually run an operation which has resulted in operations being triggered other than those I intended to be execute.

So far this hasn't caused me any issues, but I imagine there may be some situations where it is undesirable to have certain operation lists execute, and the reordering of this list may cause that to happen.

I'm not 100% sure what the best solution is given the list is obviously sorted by time so it can only show 10 or so operations, but part of me would prefer to have the option to toggle an alphabetical listing (and have this remembered via a cookie or something), even if it means more than 10 operations need to be listed for that view to make sense.

The work around is to go to the Operations page to trigger the operations if I'm worried I could select the wrong operation. But if the run button is on the home page, I'd like to be able to reliably use it.

An export run profile initiated by Event Broker via an Outgoing Pending check operation for the FIM MA returned a "completed-export-errors" status, resulting in an indefinite loop (see https://unifysolutions.jira.com/browse/EB-294). In order to investigate the problem, the operation list was disabled, but an attempt to edit the Outgoing Pending check operation resulted in the following exception:

System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at ASP.Page_Views_Operation_Index_cshtml.<>cDisplayClass1.<RenderGroups>b_0(TextWriter __razor_helper_writer) in c:\Program Files\UNIFY Solutions\Event Broker\Web\Views\Operation\Index.cshtml:line 39
at ASP._Page_Views_Operation_Index_cshtml.Execute() in c:\Program Files\UNIFY Solutions\Event Broker\Web\Views\Operation\Index.cshtml:line 19
at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy()
at System.Web.Mvc.WebViewPage.ExecutePageHierarchy()
at System.Web.WebPages.StartPage.ExecutePageHierarchy()
at System.Web.WebPages.WebPageBase.ExecutePageHierarchy(WebPageContext pageContext, TextWriter writer, WebPageRenderingBase startPage)
at System.Web.Mvc.ViewResultBase.ExecuteResult(ControllerContext context)
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.<>c_DisplayClass1c.<InvokeActionResultWithFilters>b_19()
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultFilter(IResultFilter filter, ResultExecutingContext preContext, Func`1 continuation)
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeActionResultWithFilters(ControllerContext controllerContext, IList`1 filters, ActionResult actionResult)
at System.Web.Mvc.ControllerActionInvoker.InvokeAction(ControllerContext controllerContext, String actionName)

The New version of Event Broker appears to have an issue around managing the Jobs after scheduling has been disabled. The steps are as follows:
1. Event Broker running and scheduling jobs.
2. Event Broker initiates a run (say a Full Import of a large Connector Space)
3. An issue is discovered so Scheduling is halted on the home page of Event Broker
4. The Job is manually killed in the FIM Admin console (sometimes a restart of the FIM Service is required to kill it)
5. Even though scheduling is off - Event broker tries to restart the job that was just killed.

This is rather annoying as I have to continue to kill the job until it's retries expire of Event Broker eventually gives up.

The documentation is clear on what is required for the Event Bropker service account:

• access to read each of the connected directories for each of the MAs defined by the corresponding ILM/FIM configuration, e.g. member of the Readers group in an ADAM (ADLDS) instance corresponding to an instance of an ADAM MA update access is required for operational plug-ins such as the MOSS user profile migration plug-in;
• access to write to its log file;
• access to write MIIS archive files;
• full update access to the c:\Program Files\Unify Solutions\Event Broker folder ;
• rights to launch DCOM applications;
• db_owner rights to its own SQL database;
• db_datareader rights to the MIIS SQL database;
• db_datareader and db_datawriter access to any SQL stores if it is configured with the SQL helper for a SQL MA; and
• member of the MIISAdmins or FIMSyncAdmins group (e.g. launch a run profile, archive run history).

What is less clear is what rights are needed to successfully run the Management Studio.

At DET I am accessing a production server as a user in the MIIS-Admins group and can happily run the FIM Synchronization Service Console. When I try to run EB Management Studio, I get an error (eb error.jpg). If I accept the error, I get some of EB, but no access to the important bits(eb error2.jpg).

Even when I managed to get it running (using runas user command) I found that I could not browse to and add a run profile in my schedule because I did not have access rights.

Is there a concise list of the rights required for a normal user to run the EB Management Studio? I guess administrator rights would do it, but would rather be requesting the minimum required.

Cheers,

Eddie

See attached screenshot. Resolution of session is 1280x1024 and even in full screen the font underneath the management agent names is a bit hard to read.

I would appreciate it if someone from the PG could respond to the latest question on this thread please. This could be another valuable selling point ... but besides that, I'm wondering myself whether or not this is possible based on my understanding of WMI and the connection configuration supported by EvB 3.0. I have a suspicion you'd need a domain trust ... no?

When the user stops the run profile (i.e. trying to do something in the FIM UI), the retries kick off and relaunch it. This occurs even if the EB scheduler has been paused, sometimes making it a long process to stop EB and allow access to modify the system.

Can you please stop the retries when the run profile is stopped by the UI. Also allow the retries to be bypassed if the scheduler is stopped.

Thanks

Would like to be able to configure Event Broker to be able to utilize Windows Event Logs. By Default would like Warning and Above to be logged to Event logs.

See title

From PRDGRP:2013-05-14 - Roadmap discussion it was discussed that the file changes operation could be improved.

Sometimes the time the file changed is not powerful enough, for example:

• The file is rewritten, but no changes are made;
• The file is touched, but not changed.

It could be improved by hashing the file.

See:

• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177607/what-is-the-fastest-way-to-create-a-checksum-for-large-files-in-c-sharp
• http://www.codeproject.com/Articles/9560/Get-MD5-and-SHA-1-SHA1-of-any-file