Architecture

I have the following problem:The configuration of the active directory for the access to fme server is being done but when trying to import users or groups the following error appears A null object was provided where a non-null object is required (non-null index 0). Thread stack trace: getStackTrace(Thread.java:1559) / ensureNotNull(Validator.java:61) / createSubstringFilter(Filter.java:633) / searchUsers(FMEUidActiveDirectoryConnection.java:948) / searchForUsers(LdapSearchServer.java:366) / executeRequest(SecurityRequestsDispatcher.java:1274) / handleRequestSecurity(FMEServer.java:507) / handleFMEServerClientRequest(FMEServer.java:368) / handleFMEServerClientRequest(RequestHandler.java:98) / processClientRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:856) / readClientRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:589) / handleClientRequest(RequestHandlerBase.java:772) / run(RequestHandlerBase.java:946) / run(Thread.java:748).  I appreciate your help in verifying what may be causing the error and how to solve it.

I get this error:(Active Directory) Exception: "An error occurred while attempting to connect to xxxxxxxxxxxxxx:636: IOException(LDAPException(resultCode=91 (connect error), errorMessage='An error occurred while attempting to establish a connection to server xxxxxxxxxx/xxxxxxxxx:636: SSLHandshakeException(sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested target), ldapSDKVersion=4.0.14, revision=c0fb784eebf9d36a67c736d0428fb3577f2e25bb'))" I followed instuctions, googled, watched video's but still no solution and struggling. port 636 is open to communicate over SSL with LDAPcertificate is installed in java keystore and added to cearts port 389 unscure is working in FME server with AD No valid certification? With program keystore explorer everything looks fineBut I am not expert in certification.  Requested target?This should be FMESer

Has anyone already installed FME Desktop on Linux MX 19? If so, which version was used?Thanks and greetingsPat

We have a corporate proxy server in our organisation. We have this server configured in our desktop version of FME successfully. We have just started trialling FME server and running a workbench returns the following error for a HTTPCaller(HTTPFactory): HTTP/FTP transfer error: 'SSL connect error'(HTTPFactory): Please ensure that your network connection is properly set up(HTTPFactory): No proxy settings have been entered. If you require a proxy to access external URLs, please ensure the appropriate information has been enteredI'm assuming this is because we have to configure a proxy for our FME Server application however I can find no information regarding this issue.

Hi, Im looking for documentation on License manager support for RHEL7. Is it supported using the same license manager used on RHEL 6 to RHEL 7 for Floating licenses?

Hi, I have the next question with FME Server: The configuration is being done to give access through the url of the aqueduct to the FME server application, which uses the IBM WebSEAL solution as a reverse proxy, I have not found documentation for the configuration of the reverse proxy in the version that we have installed FME server, so I request your kind cooperation to define what would be the steps for the configuration of the reverse proxy. I’m attentive to your important answer and help. Best Regards

The server seems to send emails fine but when i setup a receive email topic, nothing happens. I looked at the publication log and nothing in the log that would reference receiving an email. Any idea on troubleshooting this. maybe i'm emailing incorrectly? or maybe the username in protocol isn't setup correctly? not how these should look since the example isn't clear.

Hi guys, Been looking forums and gallery to see examples of FME Server Apps. Do Safe have this available anywhere would be great to view? I am really eager to see FME apps which are for example form based and users can enter data, then this will push through to a database.

Hello,  I run free FME desktop 2020.0 (free home edition) on Linux Mint 19.3. The upgrade check for LM 20 warns me that FME will be removed. Would I be able then to install FME 2020.1 using the same licence code I was given or do I need to request a new one ? 

Hi.I'm new to administering an FME Server, but needed to upgrade my desktop client (from 2020.0 build 20252) to 2020.1, so I figured I also needed to upgrade the server. I chose to upgrade the engines only, by parallel installing the new version, and switching the engine reference. This worked very nicely.Both the client and the server (as reported on the engine page) now runs FME 2020.1 build 20594.But when I now try to upload a workspace, it warns me that I'm uploading to an older server !?"You are connecting to an older version of FME Server"Why does this error show ? Doesn't it look at the build numbers of the engines ?And how can I remove this bogus error message (except by suppressing it completely) ?Cheers 

I have an FME Cloud Starter instance, 2019.1.3.1, with 2 engines which, at the moment, is running mainly one workspace with an average processing time of 20-30 seconds on a 1-minute schedule plus some other (10 at most) jobs either on a schedule or ad-hoc. There are no job queues in use so I would expect each of the two engines to be used "about 50%" of the time. However, it recently (with the addition of that workspace on the 1-minute schedule, replacing an ad-hoc workspace with similar load figures) started to show a preference for running many jobs in a row on the same engine. This load graph from yesterday shows it clearly and I'm especially surprised by the sudden switch to running almost all jobs in a given hour on the same engines.Of the 500 jobs on the completed page right now, 347 have been run on Engine2, that includes a whole section of this morning where only about 1 in every 30 jobs was run on Engine1.Is there a logical explanation for this?

Hello,I'm facing a problem for licensing server configuration. FME Server 2017.There is a firewall between the server and the clients.The server is a single instance and no other flexnet servers are installed in the same machine.The 27000-27009 ports are open in the firewall.No additional configuration done in the safe.lic file.For a long time, everithing worked properly.Now, even if the 27000/27009 ports are still open, the clients seems not able to reach the license server.At least, a telnet to these ports is fine.Trying to solve, I want to modify the safe.lic file.Is the syntax correct? From the documentation, the SERVER port seems not to be mandatory.In case I could use another port like 27001. Is that correct? SERVER servername 000c290de0df (or SERVER servername 000c290de0df 27001)VENDOR safe PORT=27000USE_SERVER........TIA

Hello:At https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Transformers/Transformers/spatialrelations.htm the Pattern Matrix for OGC "Equals" relation is filled with some * characters .However, Simple Features OGC 06-103r4 document (p. XXXV) at https://www.ogc.org/standards/sfa defines "Equals" relation with no * characters:a.Relate(b, “TFFFTFFFT”)To follow OGC specifications, shouldn't the matrix be filled up accordingly?Thank you very much

We're interested in using FME Desktop for automated ETL processes on Kubernetes cloud infrastructure. We intend to use it on "Job" type because it allows us to use our clusters for the shortest possible time, taking only the resources it needs to complete the job, and nothing else. This is why our interest lies in FME desktop for parameterized ETL jobs much more than with FME Server, which requires costly dedicated services that run unused for most of the time.However, we have some trouble Dockerized installs of FME Desktop on newer versions of Ubuntu. This is all fine:ARG UBUNTU_VERSION=16.04FROM ubuntu:${UBUNTU_VERSION}# After FROM all ARGs are wiped, so we need to set againARG UBUNTU_VERSION=16.04# Installing required packagesRUN apt-get update && \    apt-get -y install \        curl# Frontent must be disabled during installARG DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive# I'm not using the docker ADD command to be able to use cache.ARG FME_MAJOR=2019ARG FME_MINOR=1.2.0.19630RUN curl --f

This is probably rather a Windows 10 problem but maybe someone can help: If I use the StringLength function I get wrong counts for words with German special characters (e.g. "Ä" or "ß") because they get a length of 2 instead of 1. When I ran the same workspace on a colleagues machine the length was calculated correctly so I guess I have to change some region or language settings but so far I could not find the culprit. Any idea what's the issue here? Thank you for any help.Edit: For some reason the StringLengthCalculator Transformer calculates the right length.

I am trying to set a variable in the RCaller console. For example...type = (List$my_list{}.type)but it returns the error Error: unexpected '{' in "type = (List$my_list{"Is there some trick to using FME lists which contain braces in the RCaller script console?

In FME Server, I am trying to use a basic proxy and version control but I am getting errors. How do I fix this?

Does the latest version of FME Server use Apache Tomcat versions 7.0.94, 8.5.40, 9.0.19 or later ? Our security monitors alerted us to the following Critical vulnerability. See https://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/uncovering-cve-2019-0232-a-remote-code-execution-vulnerability-in-apache-tomcat/Thanks

Hi,Currently in the process of setting up a distributed install of FME Server 2019.2.3.1 (Build 19823). In its current state a load balancer points to one of two webservers and both web servers point to one FME Server. (second server isn't setup yet) The webservers are ISS and are using ARR to pass calls through to tomcat. IIS is configured with a wild card certificate, as is tomcat, so it is HTTPS all the way through to FME Server.  The redirects work fine, we are able to view logs, change settings ect both within the internal and external networks.The issue that we're having is that when the Service Hosts are set to the external url we are unable to submit jobs. no log files, nothing When we change the Service Hosts to the machine host name, we are able to submit jobs when accessed from the internal network but not from the external network.Looking at the network traffic this is the error that tomcat is returning We have tried a number of things:Certificate is setup as per me

I want to jazz up my server app a bit. Where is the file on disk? Can I use CSS/javascript? I have some great ideas for this. Thanks! Tyson

HI !If you haven't heard, the next generation of consoles, Microsoft’s Xbox Series X and Sony’s PlayStation 5, will support Unreal Engine platform. SourceMaybe you're seeing me coming... because as you know, FME does support Unreal Engine. SourceDo you think that it could be hypothetically possible to push data on those consoles with FME and navigate into it with consoles controllers?I like to dream...

From FME Rest API getting an error as "No token was found for user id XXXXX". Latest created a service account to execute jobs from FME Server. The same service account is working on another FME server, the same service account only using in new FME server. Please advice

Howdy, We're looking to upgrade our instances of FME Server. Our licensing uses the new model (web page portal, not FlexLM). The page has the serial # for the FME Server license but doesn't denote for what versions it will host. How do we determine this? Thank-You, Laramie

Hi,I created my first ever FME Server app yesterday and when I ran it the first few times, everything was fine.However, for an un-related reason, I changed the permissions (I added a new role with 'Can Run' permissions) to the repository that the workspace which is used in the FME Server App, is sitting in, and then following this the app no longer works. When I go to the app URL now I get a message saying ' Repository "XXX" doesn't exist or you do not have permission to Read or Run from it '.I don't understand why I am getting this message as the repository definitely still exists and I actually added more permissions to it rather than removing permissions.Anyone experienced this before?I am using FME Server 2019.1Thanks

We recently added an FME Server engine to run on a machine (#2) separate from our existing FME Server (#1), in order to be able to run some workspaces closer to the data source they read to and write from.After installing FME Server on the new machine (#2) and "registering" that engine with machine #1, I am able to see it listed under "Engines & Licensing" in the admin console on machine #1. So far so good.Next, I created a new queue and a new respository for workspaces I would like to run on the new engine. Next, when I publish a workbench to that repo and try to run it, it will show up as 'Queued' but never execute. It will just stay in "Queued" mode.What am I missing?