Architecture

Hi FME-Users and -Experts!I am creating a custom WebApplication for my co-workers to use some workbenches on their own with FME Server instead of asking me all the time. So far it works quite well. The site can load the parameters of a workbench automatically. I can even submit a job and retrieve the results as a download-link. But: Every now and then the upload-function stucks. On the server I can see that the specific folder is created (System/temp/upload/<repository-name>/<workspace-name>/<session>), but the content is empty. After some minutes the session-folder is deleted. Furthermore the parameters are not completey loaded. The default values are missing. When using the plain example from FME Server Playground (Upload File In Session) and just replace the server, token, repository and workspace it works. suspect m

Hello, I'm a newbie here so I hope someone can help me out.I have a basic work space where I extract data out of an Oracle DB and write it out to an MS Access DB and compact on completion.This is to be run by a scheduled task on a server calling a batch file which has the command line prompt for calling my FME workspace.I wish to use 64 bit FME to do this transformation but upon completing the transformation successfully it gives an error saying compacting of database is not available in 64 bit.The result being a Access DB with all the data but not compacted.Thanks in advance for any help.

I am running FME 20170331 - Build 17280 - Win64, with ArcGIS Desktop 10.5 and ArcGIS Pro 1.4 in the background.For ArcGIS Desktop I also installed the Background Geoprocessing extension to enable a 64-bit Python with arcpy. For ArcGIS Desktop, that's of course always for Python 2.7. ArcGIS Pro comes with Python 3.5 and is a 64-bit system.When I ran my workbench with four little Python scripts, whereof not a single one is calling arcpy, gp or something related to ESRI Python modules, only standard modules are used, then I got a Python error: File "c:\\apps\\arcgis\\desktop10.5\\arcpy\\arcpy\\geoprocessing\\_base.py", line 14, in <module> import arcgisscripting ImportError: No module named arcgisscriptingI set my Pythonpath to the bin64 folder of the desktop10.5 installation, referencing the 64-bit geoprocessing tools, and adjusted the Python interpreter in FME to 'Esri ArcGIS Desktop Python(2.7)'

Our FME Server fsconfig backup file is 15Gb. It is a 2015 server that we plan to upgrade to version 2017 and then clean up the legacy workspaces that we inherited from another team.But with a back up of 15Gb I expect problems when I read that other users on the forum had problems with a 3Gb backup file.What is the easiest way of determining what is contributing to the large backup file size so we can clean the biggest offending workspaces etc.Thanks in advance,Annette

I am trying to modify the docker-compose file available here to work on a Docker Swarm but I end up with an FME Server core that does not see my engines. My modifications to the docker-compose file included updating the version to 3 and removing the networking information. If I run the compose file with the networks attributes I received errors about them being out of scope of the swarm. Any hints?

It has been awhile - but will be getting a new machine and will need to reinstall fme. In previous versions I was able to identify the path to our floating license server, but cannot figure out how to do this in my current version. I am running 2016.0.1.2(20160318 - Build 16178 - win64). Where can I go to identify or reset our floating license server?

Currently the license code is hosting 2 engines and server edition. I need to increase 3 more engines to the existing license code. Could anyone guide me on the procedure to add more engines to the existing license code?

I have a FME workspace which converts spatial data from an Oracle database to XML using a XMLTemplator and a XML Validator. With an input of 80.000 features, FME stops in the XMLTemplator with the following error:unable to realloc 447475646 bytes. Error running translation.With smaller selections (a few thousand), the workspace works fine. We suspect that due to working in a Citrix Evironment (with Windows 10.1) FME_TEMP should probably be redirected to another drive instead of C:\\ to get enough memory space. How can we change the FME_TEMP variable in Citrix?  Or does someone know other possible solutions we could try?

Hi,The last time I tried connecting a floating license from one of the FME license servers from an Amazon EC2 instance, I couldn't connect.Any idea that leads to connecting a floating license from EC2 will be much appreciated. Thanks.

Hello everybody,unfortunately, all FME apps (workbench, inspector, licensingmng atc.) are not able to open after its start. I tried to start FME on another server to server with floating licence. If I tried to start via FME API, it showed me this message:ERROR 2017-12-15 08:51:54,392 FmeInvokerCore [FmeInvoker] - Error Safe.FMEObjects.FMEOException: FME floating license system failure: cannot connect to license server(-15) ERROR 2017-12-15 08:51:54,392 FmeInvokerCore [FmeInvoker] - FmeErrorNumber:-1If I tried to start FME on licencing server, it runs without problem.I checked also this article https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/543/floating-license-troubleshooting.html, but no advice helped :-(Please, does anybody have any tip, how to solve this problem?Thank You so much!Lubo

Hi there,I try to call an FME POST call using Postman using sample workspace austinDownload.fmw, in Server2017 it works fine, when I test using FME Server2016, it always give me an error:415 Unsupported Media Type(see attached image). Passing parameters I copied from API document. Could you tell me why and how to fix it? Thank you very much.

I have downloaded the 'fme-desktop-2017_2017.1.1.1.17652_ubuntu.16.04_amd64.deb' installer and attempted installation but this fails. I have followed the suggestions in the post here:https://knowledge.safe.com/questions/33517/fme-on-ubuntu-1604-install.htmlpython3.6.3 is currently installed.but error indicating broken dependencies:-libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpython3.5 (>= 3.5.0~b1), libqt5xmlpatterns5 (>= 5.0.2), libtcmalloc-minimal4, python3-matplotlib (>= 1.2.0), python3-numpy (>= 1.8.0)suggestion was 'sudo apt --fix-broken install' but this only offers to remove 'fme-desktop-2017Any ideas welcome. It seems the installer is looking for python3.5 so will it only install with 3.5?

We have just upgraded our 2017.0 to 2017.1.1.1 server and restored backup. We previously configured https on this machine. Anyone know if you can reuse the certificate on the same server? I would think that if I pasted the keystone file into the directory and made all the changes to the tomcat xml files it would work? Once I completed the FME Server Application Service would not startup and https isn't working? Any thought?

I want to find/check my fixed license, or I want to manually install a license file on my machine. Where do fixed licenses live on a Mac?

HTTPS is becoming a very common configuration tweak after FME Server is installed.Not long ago an idea was posted: Streamline FME Server SSL ConfigurationI'm curious to learn what FME Server admins have experienced when they are configuring FME Server for HTTPS (SSL). This is an attempt to better understand how the instructions, or tools could be improved to make this a better experience. Please visit the idea above and make suggestions or pass along your comments on issues and pains here. For reference here is a link to the HTTPS Configuration Documentation

Hi,I am executing a workbench through web using FME Javascript and in response i am getting the below variables:id:438numFeaturesOutput:65priority:100requesterHost:"192.168.1.103"requesterResultPort:52869status:"SUCCESS"statusMessage:"Translation Successful"timeFinished:"2017-11-18T01:20:11"timeRequested:"2017-11-18T01:19:59"timeStarted:"2017-11-18T01:19:59"Can i write my custom variable to this response? If Yes, Please elaborate the method.

I’m attempting to get a workspace containing SQL Server connections to run as a windows scheduled task. It starts up but but errors out like so:Thus far I have: made my database connections public, built a batch file, given the task ‘highest privileges’, set the Start In parameter to the location of the batch and tried my own user account as well as the network admin.The workspace runs just fine from within FME or from the batch. The error only appears when launched from the scheduler.I realise there are several articles about scheduling tasks in the Knowledge Base and I think I've been through all of them but obviously I’m still missing something. Thanks

Hi all,For a SOAP interaction I need to reply in my FME server datastreaming a 202 header.An external company is sending me data via a datastreaming services, but they waiting for a 202 reply. In the workspace I save the data and process it, but I need to reply with a 202 for the external company to know I received the documents. The external company sends a post request to our FMEREST. The reponse page can be blank.My question is, how can I send out a 202 header with server (streaming)services?

I submitted a critical ticket for this, but I was wondering if anyone else has experienced engines shutting down and not coming back up for a long time or without manual intervention to reboot the service or FME engine service. We saw the error below 1 time yesterday on our test box engine, and I noticed it on 4 of our 6 production engines this morning after we upgraded.I'm seeing the following error in our engine logs:2017-08-16 10:27:08| 142.5| 0.0|INFORM|Handling FME Engine admin request: FME_ShutdownService2017-08-16 10:27:08| 142.5| 0.0|INFORM|FME Engine is shutting down

We applying FME Server trial licenses for our customer in China. And for the strict network management, we should only use offline mode. And we send the json file to codes@safe.com.Then it will auto return a license file, but this license file can not be actived. We have feed back this problem to safe many times ,but it still exist. This problem will influence our promotion of FME and it will take a long time to get every trial license. Can someone help us to answer and solve the problem?

Hi,I installed FME Desktop 2017.1.1.1 under Linux and have obtained trial license code. It worked within that session. However, after I restarted the computer, FME asked for a license again. On Windows, there is no such issue.Is this something expected? Any workaround?

I have a JMS Sender which communicates through SSL with AMQ.On the AMQ log, I get the following error:javax.net.ssl.SSLHandshakeException: Received fatal alert: certificate_unknownAny help is appreciated.

Hey everyone,I'm looking to add an attribute that will list the username of the last person who ran a specific tool. Can this be done in text editor? I have added a date via @Timestamp, but I cannot figure out how to show who the last person was that ran the tool. Any suggestions?Any help would be greatly appreciated!Thanks!