Architecture

As I never have migrated FME server before, I'm not sure what to expect / what the best practice is. I have mainly standalone workspaces in server 2016 which are started via the API from an external application. I studied the "Migrating From REST API V2" documentation and understand the changes. What is the correct way to migrate the workspaces? Download them using desktop 2016 and upload them using 2019? I understand there are no guarantees and will check outputs but should this work in general? Or is this a real no go. For desktop workspace migrations I copy - paste all transformers in a new workspace and then upgrade them individually, or just rebuild the entire workspace. But I would not prefer to do that for all server workspaces if not needed.

Bought a new computer and are trying to install my FME again. When I use the original installationfile (fme-desktop-2013-SP2-win-x86.msi) the computer says that the administrator has blocked the installation and I should contact him/her but I am the only one using my computer? How can I get around that, I have win 10 pro 64-bit

Workbench extension successfully runs within ArcGIS Pro 2.4 but standalone Workbench (2019.1) throws the Dependency Check Failed dialog. Licensing Assistant shows the type as Desktop Data Interoperability Edition (floating). License server seems ok, I see multiple OUT/IN lines in the log when the assistant is launched. -------- Status -------- Flexible License Manager status on Fri 9/20/2019 11:06 [Detecting lmgrd processes...] License server status: 27000@server License file(s) on server: C:\\Program Files\\FlexServer\\safe.lic: server: license server UP (MASTER) v11.13.1 Vendor daemon status (on server): safe: UP v11.13.1 Feature usage info: Users of FME: (Total of 1 license issued; Total of 0 licenses in use) Users of FME_GUI: (Total of 1 license issued; Total of 0 licenses in use) Users of national: (Total of 1 license issued; Total of 0 licenses in use) Users of basic_raster: (Total of 1 license issued; Total of 0 licenses in use) Users of segy_reading: (Total of 1 license issued;

Hello, I have just finished to install FME Server (build 19 617). (Installation with our own Oracle db). I can connect to the Web interface, launch workspaces, build automations, create new user, publish workspace, etc. BUT I CANNOT create a new Database Connection (Oracle or geodatabase, etc.). When I tried I get this message : The rest api "/fmerest/v3/namedconnections/connections" get a code 500 in response. I also tried to publish a workspace with a database connection but I get this message : Database connections access failed - FME Server encountered an error and reported the following message. 929028:SQL Query SELECT NCID FROM fme_nc_namedconnections WHERE connectionname = ? AND username IS NULL failed. Error: Unsupported feature Request to http://xxxxxxxxxx/fmerest/v3/namedconnections/connections returned status code 500. I found a dirty workaround : 1. Insert a new row in the table fme_nc_namedconnections in the Oracle FME Server database 2. Then the connection is visible via

I have created a bunch of FME server Apps (FME 2019), and they're highly appreciated. Easy to use and to understand. When used with the right input data it's just fenomenal. However, when something goes wrong (usually faulty indata) there isn't much information about what went wrong. It just says FAILURE. In cases that yielded zero output features. It just says COMPLETED (and does not present the results because there are none).Is it possible (of course it is) to get somewhat a somewhat more verbose response? How do I do it? Is it a notification service? Where do I start? I am at a complete loss. (It was 2 years ago I went to the FME server course and the memory seems to be of non stick material)I just want the server app to respond with something at the app running page. Please save me!

Hi All, In the FME "Desktop Administrator's Guide" there are only instructions regarding Installing a Floating License on Windows / Linux. How to install a Floating License on Mac OSX 64-bit? Thanks in advance

My FME Server environment has one engine that is 32-bit. The others are 64. I have a workspace configured to run under a queue (Engine 3) that is 32-bit, and consists of FMEServerJobSubmitter transformers, launching workspaces that are required to run as 32-bit, due to format limitations. The FMEServerJobSubmitters are configured with the following parameters: Submit Jobs: In Sequence Wait for Jobs to Complete: Yes Sub-processes are being generated and run under Engine 3, however, while the parent workspace runs as 32-bit, the child processes run (and fail) as 64-bit. This is apparent in the log files based on where the FME_HOME parameter is pointing to. Is there any way to have the sub-processes run as 32-bit, preferably with the same engine? Note: I need to perform further processing once all the child processes have completed, so I am open to other suggestions to notify another application that this has occurred

Hello, after upgrading to FME 2019 from 2018 my workspace stopped working with error Saving spatial index into file 'C:\\Users\\dusan\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\wb-cache-Konacni_model_jul-KaOtqX\\Main_FeatureMerger_4 -1 298 fo 4 _lt_REJECTED_gt_ 0 82253bb54d545775c6265f622c6bd44f5854eccb.fsi' Finished saving spatial index into file 'C:\\Users\\dusan\\AppData\\Local\\Temp\\wb-cache-Konacni_model_jul-KaOtqX\\Main_FeatureMerger_4 -1 298 fo 4 _lt_REJECTED_gt_ 0 82253bb54d545775c6265f622c6bd44f5854eccb.fsi' Transcoding the binary string '1`\\xA8\\x83\\x191\\x02\\x00\\x00\\x00H\\xE1z$\\x04\\x14YA\\xB8\\x1E\\x85\\x8B\\x03\\x14YA\\xD7\\xA3p\\xAD\\xA4bRA333s\\xA5bRA\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x001\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x02\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\xF8\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\xF8\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00\\x00' to another encoding can not be done A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details

There is a bug in FME Server 2015 1.3.1. that lets me change the number of engines on the core-server, but not on the attached engine-only server. Default is 2 engines per server, 4 in total. I want 3 engines to run on the core, and 1 on the other server. Is there a way to edit fme-engine config file to force ONLY 1 engine even if there are licenses available?

Hi Partners, A new article has been published which rounds up all the resources related to upgrading an FME Server deployment (Express Installation) to a Fault Tolerant deployment. How to Upgrade from an Express Install to a Fault Tolerant Install

Hello, We are in a process of upgrading fme 2016 to 2019. After some tests that passed well we need to move all our components to use fme 2019. Normally what we would do is to create backup of fme 2016 and restore it on 2019. And this is what we did initially, Then for 2 weeks both 2016 and 2019 was running thats why we have some new things on 2016 and some on 2019. What we need to migrate from 2016 to 2019 are only schedules that were created after given date. For some reason I can't create normal backup on fme 2016 right now. I wrote it to safe support and they know that in this build there is a bug so we would need to apply fot fix. My idea to do it in a different way is to: 1. Use fme 2016 desktop to export FME Server Configuration to ffs file (choosing repository and scheduling) 2. Run fme 2016 desktop to write from ffs file to fme server configuration of fme 2019 only scheduling with insert mode. Will it work and I will not do any damages to new fme 2019 database configuration? T

Hello I have just upgraded to FME Desktop 2019.1 and am getting a few errors when running a published workspace in FME Cloud. How is FME Cloud Upgraded? and is it necessary to keep the two in sync?

I upgraded FME Server to 2019.1 and my streaming services are failing. It appears that 'FME_SERVER_WEB_URL' in the request did not pick up the change when I enabled HTTPS during the install. It is still showing the original HTTP url with Port 8080 (http://SERVERNAME:8080). Is there another file besides fmeServerConfig.txt that needs to be modified? I have a distributed architecture deployment: All components are on a single machine except the Web Services component, that is on a separate machine. I upgraded from 2019.0.1 to 2019.1 and now my streaming services are not providing an output. Thanks in advance. -Mark

I need to create FME Smallworld Edition license server. Do I need to install smallworld core on that system?

My company has an MITM proxy setup, which is resulting in many cloud based service requests failing. Obviously it only applies to any requests via HTTPS, so I am wondering how other people have gotten around these issues? I have set the correct proxy settings within the 'Network Proxy' options and have even setup custom proxies for each of the cloud based services, but still no success. For instance, attempting to use the HTTPCaller to access the HERE Geocoder results in the following error (the blacked out proxy is correct): An example of another issue I am encountering is when I attempt to create a CartoDB connection, I am receiving the following error (the blacked out domains are correct): I have tried everything other than asking my IT department to white list the cloud based services. IT have confirmed that they can see the requests reaching the proxy, but have claimed that the authentication needs to be set to NTLM, but this only results in similar errors. Even when I use the Geo

Update: Newb issue with FME Server. Opened up port 587 on the FME Cloud security settings. So as with most things I solved my own problem minutes after I gave up and asked for help. I am building an application using FME Server (cloud) and part of it is an email exchange. Using the extensive tutorials provided by Safe (thank you for that) I am able to receive and process the email from an Office 365 accout with imap settings outlook.office365.com and publish to a READ_EMAIL notifier. The issue I am now having is setting up the SMTP settings. Following the great tutorials by Safe I can successfully send via my gmail account. However, Office365 seems to be another animal. I've logged into the account and used the specified settings: Server name: smtp.office365.com Port: 587 Encryption method: TLS I've tried every permutation of this (SSL, TLS, nothing, etc.) The only place I can see the difference is there is no option to verify the certificate (yes or no.) Microsoft specifies not to ver

I'm using fme desktop 2018 (18586) on ubuntu 18.04 and that was working perfectly. After an update on the system, fme workbench isn't initializing anymore but the other applications are working fine(data inspector, license manager, and quicktranslator)

Hello, We have fme 2016. We have two engine servers, on each one 4 engines. What is the algorithm for choosing engine to each new job will be assigned? Let's say that we are not using any routing tags.

Root certificates are automatically placed in “C:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Utilities\\jre\\lib\\security”. This is where the keystore is and also our self-signed root certificate with others. In “C:\\Program Files\\FMEServer\\Server\\fme\\ssl” we can find only the PEM file which is obtained from Mozilla (public root certificates). Unfortunately we cannot find anywhere how to use the keystore instead of a standard PEM file, as FME takes only public root certificates. Now we made some changes in the PEM file to import the root certificate. But how to officially import an Self-Signed SSL certificate in keystore on FME Server? Kind regards, GeoJan

Hi all, I have a list of urls (50 in number). For each url there are 10s of thousends requests to be made. 12 engines in my fme server. What I want to do use 5 of fme engines to run the jobs in parallel - so 10 jobs each engine. How can I do that? At the moment I have: xls reader -> sampler2 (first 10 urls) -> FMEServerJobSubmitter1 (submit in sequence, wait to finish) , sampler2 (connected to sampler1,not_sampled port (first 10) -> FMEServerJobSubmitter2 and so on. But it just runs the 10 jobs on one engine in FMEServerJobSubmitter1 one after another.

I'm having the following issue. The FME server engine can't access ESRI license in order to read / write to GDB. Although the ESRI license is clearly available (I can open and use ESRI products on the host machine). License type is set to Floating (concurrent) and borrowed for 30 days. Error message for SDE writer is: The Esri Product license 'ArcInfo' is unavailable because all licenses of this type are currently in use. Unable to perform licensing related tasks. Please ensure that ArcGIS is correctly installed. And for GDB message looks like: An ArcGIS license is already checked out. The product checked out is 'ArcInfo' . Installed ArcGIS version is '?.?' Unable to connect to the File Geodatabase at '[some_location]'. Make sure the correct filename was specified, and that the geodatabase wasn't saved with a newer version of ArcGIS than the one installed locally. The error number from ArcObjects is: '-2147220952'. The error message from ArcObjects is: {} Any ideas on what's wrong and

Does anyone have an example of a system architect diagram where FME is being used to validate and transform CAD data into GIS? Just looking at what the best practices are around the key components in an enterprise system.

I am a post graduate student working on 3D modelling using FME Desktop. I would like to know if FME Server is available free for the student community.

Hello, I have few workspaces created in FME 2016. If I would run them as they are in FME 2019 would they use old version of transformers or new (potentially with some improvements)?

Filter tasks can be added to FME Server 2019 Automations, as demonstrated during the FME World Tour. The example shown during the WT was filtering incoming Shape file datasets after a Directory Watch trigger had fired so that the subsequent workspace would only process files with a .shp extension. However, when the Automation logs are viewed, it indicates that a filter.fmw workspace is being run to apply the filter. Does this filter workspace tie up an available Engine license? If so, could it cause contention on a system with only 1 available Engine?