- Usual server backups this morning
- Received an updates from Bill Dolley regarding the COGNOS data pull, his update basically told me to continue waiting on Tangie who is figuring out what data need to be ingested
- Received an email from someone working on our SSP. Apparently it expires in 5 days and there’s a bunch of stuff that needs to be done to renew it. I started working on the list but need more guidance on a few items.
- Back at the Mill looking in to GWT related things
- Creating a sanbox project modeled after the SmartGWT Showcase so I can build components and quickly test them while keeping track and being able to demo things I’ve already built
Category Archives: Mike
Mike 4.4.2012
- Usual server backups this morning
- No updates from anyone at site
- I installed wordpress on my local machine at site and reverse engineered the domain model. The blog uses 11 tables in a pretty straightforward model.
- Back at the mill finishing up the visibility PKI integration. I update the LoginScreen in ManagementUtils so any application that uses it will also have auto-login. I probably won’t deploy any of this until we have the test and production servers at site up and running.
Mike 4.3.2012
- Usual backups at site
- No news at site
- Finished my financial disclosure and submitted it
- Had some thoughts about maven and looked up stuff:
- Maven now has the ability to encrypt passwords inside the settings file so you can safely distribute the settings.xml file
- Maven also allows the use of environment variables in the settings file. So for example you could set the repository to be <localRepository>${env.M2_REPO}</localRepository> which would make sharing your settings file much simpler
- Combining these you should be able to check your entire maven install, settings and all, in to subversion and use it to distribute changes to things like repositories, servers, passwords, etc.
- Working on PKI integration of visibility
- While doing that I got tired of closing, deleting, reopening and scrolling around the tomcat log files. I figured there must be program designed for monitoring log files more efficiently and there is: BareTail (Windows). It’s like the unix ‘tail -f’ command but you can add color coding rules and monitor multiple files among other things.
Mike 4.2.2012
- Usual backups at site
- Typed up our March status report at site and submitted it to Jim from TASC
- Dug up some paper work and started entering my financial disclosure information, need more info across the board
- Back at the mill tracking down more financial info
- Working on integrating visibility in to the pki auto login stuff
Mike 3.30.2012
- Usual back ups at site
- Still no word from Tangie about deployment or COGNOS data
- No word from the EDC about connectivity to our production server
- Compiled team’s status reports for the month of March
- Continuing work on PPM PKI integration
- PPM PKI integration seems to be working and done, will need a lot testing before deploying. I’m going to wait until we have both servers at site up and running. I will move the currently deployed version of PPM to the production server then stand up our test server with this new version.
- Visibility is the next for a login overhaul.
Mike 3.29.2011
- Usual back ups this morning, there was a small change in the database!
- The production system was still inaccessible on 443 and no word on my help ticket
- Still no word from Tangie, sent her an email asking for updates, no reply yet
- Back at the mill working on PKI integration
Mike 3.28.2012
- Backups this morning, no DB changes but tool is up
- No word from Tangie regarding my inquiries a few days, she said she would have an answer to me yesterday
- No word from the help center, the production server is still not reachable via 443
- Working on PPM PKI integration, log in is working but permissions aren’t making it to the client, need to redo the query to add in permissions or add a new method
Mike 3.27.2012
- Backups this morning, still no DB changes
- The help desk finally got back to me and I now have access to our production machine
- I started loading software on it:
- JRE 7u3
- Xampp 1.7.4?
- Tomcat 7.0.23
- Configured tomcat for 2-way SSL on 443, it worked locally but there seem to be some outside firewall issue, I submitted a ticket
- Back at the mill working on PKI stuff
- Auto-login is now working for PPA. Working on updating PPM but it was written in Flex 3 and has differently log in procedures so it be a straight copy/paste.
Mike 3.26.2012
- Usual backups, the server is running well but the database isn’t changing
- Contacted Jim Griffe regarding several things:
- Dong’s VR – it got refreshed within hours and is good through 4/26 now
- COGNOS data that needs to be integrated but hasn’t been given to us yet
- Progress regarding deployment, the tool is up and running but unfortunately I can’t make anyone use it
- Jim got the VR and assigned Tangie the rest
- The help desk got back to me about connecting to our other VM, my remote desktop session are still timing out. I replied essentially asking “Have you tried connecting to this machine? Is it plugged in and turned on?” He didn’t reply before I left…
- Working on auto-login PKI integration
Mike 3.23.2012
- Database backup this morning
- The server still was not responding to remote calls on 443 so I put in a ticket.
- A few hours later the support team responded saying someone had closed the port on the firewall and they reopened it. No explanation regarding who closed it or why…
- Starting to implement the distinguished name PKI thing in PPA
Mike 3.22.2012
- Back ups a little later than usual this morning due to a doctor appointment
- The server is extremely slow via https. Remote desktop to the server works fine, pinging it works fine and quick, local https requests on the server are quick but accessing it via https from my desk is very slow. I figure I will give it a day since it is not an issue with our server itself.
- Finally heard something back from the server help desk. A guy emailed me asking for more information. I replied and got his out of office message. He will be back Monday…
- Back to working on PKI security stuff. The interface classes are done and now I am writing a test implementation that will pull user IP addresses off the session and use them instead of userDNs to try and auto log in users.
Mike 3.21.2012
- Usual backups this morning
- very quiet at site, Dong stopped by and we looked at the formatted cognos pull, still waiting on the raw pull before doing anything
- Coded and tested a force decay for the network map. Phil approves so I uploaded the changes and put a new version on fgmdev
Mike 3.20.2012
- Usual back ups this morning, nothing has changed in the database in about a week
- No word back from Gina or the help desk. I did some searching and found our integration and test servers are WHITE LISTED as accepted and should be visible from the outside reaching network.
- Found a bug in the network map widget that was preventing colors from working correctly, fixed and checked in to GenericQueryWidget project
- Looked over a powerpoint sent by Jim Gorgei, not really much I can help fill out
- Playing around with the network map some more trying to fix some instabilities, simply taking time between frames in to account did not work
- I think we may need to track time from last user interaction (dragging a node or changing a setting) and slowly increase drag while the movement calculations are taking place, then once things stabilize they do not need to move again until the user does something and the system is free to move again
Mike 3.19.2012
- Usual backups this morning
- Still no word from Gina about her connection issues. I am assuming it’s a 404 not found.
- I contacted the enterprise server help desk with 2 questions:
- How do I remote desktop to the development and production VMs?
- How do users connect to the systems from outside networks? Is the URL different? Is there a port that needs opening?
- Got a spreadsheet of cognos data and was told to look at it but wait for further information. It matches up somewhat with our data but the structure is a little different and column names very different.
- Got my cars_enchanced spreadsheet working after dealing with a mapping error. It works pretty well but colors are not working in the network map, they work in the geo map.
Mike 3.15.2012
- Usual back ups this morning
- No reply back from Gina about the connection issues at site
- Taking a break from PKI integration to create a better cars demo
- Cars are now sales from one of 3 dealerships
- The map locations of each buyer and the dealerships are in the table
- Also there is connection info for the network map
- Network map is not displaying anything, need to figure out why
- Also need to get colors and or icons
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