Architecture

I recently installed the new ArcGis (10.5) on our system. ArcGis is working perfectly well, but since then FME isn't able to execute ArcGis related (GeoDatabase) tasks. The Error call is: Unable to check out an Esri license. Please ensure ArcGIS is correctly licensed and that there are available licenses. Is this a known problem and what can I do to solve it (except for waiting 2 weeks for the new FME release). The only thing I can think of is reinstall the older ArcGis.

All, I have read and implemented the docker installation of FME server on Docker Engine as published by @GerhardAtSafe. https://knowledge.safe.com/articles/24815/deployment-of-fme-server-using-docker-toolbox.html Mostly the installation, licensing and engine management runs fine. However, I am having an issue using the job manager to kill jobs. Any time i try to terminate a job I get error communicating with FME server host (hostid). Connection Refused. I have reason to believe this is to do with the fact that the hostname of the engine and the web/core are different (as they are containerised) do kill requests get sent on a different port address? Is this an issue with the docker configuration or has anybody else had the same issue? Appreciate any insights you may have had. Regards Gavin Montgomery

hello, i have a strange request and i am thinking if FME can help me in anyway, we have walked down a railway track and taking a video (360) allowing us to see the condition of assets eg a signal box, i have also got a simple ployline in LL84 showing the path. the request i have is when someone clicks on a point on the line they will get the video related to that area. could FME server crop the video? can FME be used to scale the video eg the start of the video is the start point of the line and the end of the video is the end point of the line? i know FME is not a video editing tool, but any help or ideas would be much appreciated thanks

HI for obtention of licence code in case of floating licence for FME Desktop, I would like to know if the informations contained in the MD-DOS command : ipconfig/all, are sufficient.... I won't be able on site to be connected everytime, so I would ask the customer to type this command on the server computers where the licences will be installed. Regards

I'm trying to install FME desktop on a VM that's configured with a very small C:\\ drive which contains just the OS. All the program files are installed on the D:\\ drive. When prompted for installation folder I'm changing it to the D:\\ drive. I'm getting an error that there is not enough space on the drive, then I get an error 2755. I've tried installing it on my own workstation, on the C:\\ drive and it installs properly.

FME desktop application disappeared after upgrading Ubuntu 14.04 to 16.04. Reinstall FME 2016 on the new OS failed. Safe tech support confirmed that 16.04 had not been tested. If someone has had luck with Ubuntu 16.04, please share your installation procedure. Much appreciated!

I'm trying to set ORACLE_HOME for FME Server on Linux, but the FME Engine is not seeing it. I fetch it and print it in a workspace, but it's set to a value I definitely didn't set: /opt2/oracle8i/app/oracle/product/8.1.6 How can I set ORACLE_HOME for the FME Engine?

How does licensing of an active/passive FME Server setup work?Is it correct that if you do a high available FME server install with a fail over node (active passive) and I have a license with 2 engines that I have to divide those two engines over the two nodes. Meaning my active node will have 1 engine and my passive node will have 1 engine? Or will they both have 2 engines? What happens if I have a license with 3 engines? Can I give 2 engines to the active node and 1 to the passive node?

I installed FME on Mac. FME starts but when i try to add a reader, I get this type of error message: "File /Library/FME/2016.0/metafile/NULL.fmf could not be opened". I checked the filesystem and the file is on the filesystem but the filename is lowercase. When I change it to Uppercase (NULL.fmf), I don't get this message anymore but I get another error message: "File /Library/FME/2016.0/metafile/GEOJSON.fmf could not be opened". I guess the files should all be in uppercase. Could the installation package be updated?

Hi All, I am trying to install FME in my system. I got FME trail version key from FME team. After installation when i try to register my key it displays following error. "FME license system fiIure: FME is not Iicrid for this mcbin. Coritct your Distributor. ‘tour r9istrtion kj is 0-1 77-567-212. TIi’ SAFE_LICENSE_FILE nc1 LM_LICENSE_FILE rc being ignored byFMIE;ft erLIe t[’iem. setthe envirorimentvrible FME_USE_LM_ENVI RONMENT to the value YES." How can i install my licence? Thanks in advance for your help.

Unable to start the FME server services after the upgrade to 2016.1.2.1

What is the location of the license files created by FME Desktop Licensing Assistant? And how can I ensure that users without Admin privileges will not have to run this application too? Keywords: mac license location fixed licence location

I'm quite new to the docker and docker cloud. It would be really useful if you could provide a standard stack file for the docker cloud enviroment. It should be quite similar to the compose file: http://downloads.safe.com.s3.amazonaws.com/fme/beta/docker-compose.yml Stack file definition of docker cloud: https://docs.docker.com/docker-cloud/apps/stack-yaml-reference/

I have a scheduled script in FME Server that has to run every half hour during week days. However, I have to schedule it to run every half hour for 24 hours a day for every day in FME Server 2015, so that it runs at night and on weekends when it doesn't have to. Are there any plans to improve the granularity of the schedule in a future FME Server version?

Hi, Yesterday, I manually started a long running task (at 09 AM), and let it run thru the night. This morning it crashed with a Win32 error. What made me wonder was, that when I looking into the job's log, the process crashed almost exactly after 24 hours to the minute. This made me wonder whether it experienced some sort of 24 hour timeout ? The log contained information about what it was doing when it crashed, so I setup a small workspace to test that. It worked without hickups. My main workspace contains a looping custom transformer if that makes a difference. But I've previously had it running perfectly with other data sets. Has anyone experienced something similar ? Or is this just a very strange coincidence ? Cheers Lars I

Oh, no! The lights have gone out! The data center is on fire! Execute the Disaster Recovery procedure right now!! ...But how do we handle all things FME? This is an opportunity to share your FME experiences while setting up your Disaster Recovery environment! What are some of your best practices and gotchas that you can share with the FME Community? How do you handle all the IP address changes? What if your clients connect to servers via hostnames? (FME Desktop) How do you handle switching (floating) license servers? What if clients are unable to access the FME Desktop Licensing Assistant? (FME Server) How do you ensure that all your workspaces and source data are available in the new environment?

Afternoon All, i have read the documentation on 64bit FME vs 32 bit FME but am still a bit lost... I have a complex 32bit fme workspace in 32bit 2015 FME on windows 10 64bit. Its reading ESRI API file geodatabase data and writing ESRI API file geodatabase data and failing because of insufficient memory issues.... My 64bit PC (windows 10) has 64gigs of RAMM and obviously the 32bit FME is only addressing 3 gigs of this. Am i likely to find my workbech will work (get past the insufficient memory issues) if i run it on FME 2015 64 bit rather than FME 2015 32 bit. Thanks Steve

As the title says, I'd like FME to look at the floating license of another software, read into who is using a license and then send those users an email asking them weather they need to be using a license/politely telling them to give me their license! Thanks,

Why does Topic Monitoring work without error in Google Chrome, but when I try to enable it in Mozilla Firefox, it starts and immediately stops? I have configured my FME Server installation to use a self-signed certificate, but I have already made the security exception for each web browser! What gives? Note that the fmewebsocket.log doesn't contain any helpful information, it only lists the attempted starts and immediate stops: Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:17 PM INFORM New I/O server boss #5 408506 : channelOpen => -1,008,910,118Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:17 PM INFORM New I/O worker #1 408511 : Channel closed: -1,008,910,118Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM INFORM New I/O server boss #5 408506 : channelOpen => -231,922,873Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM INFORM New I/O worker #2 408511 : Channel closed: -231,922,873Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM INFORM New I/O server boss #5 408506 : channelOpen => 2,132,443,954Fri-21-Oct-2016 05:20:23 PM INFORM New I/O worker #3 408511 : Channel closed: 2,132,443,954

Hello, The window named "Transformer Gallery" is very big. How to how to reduce the size and move it at the bottom of the screen

Hi there, We are working with FME Server for the past four months, and we've noticed that sometimes, seemingly out of the blue we get an error like this one: Mon-24-Dec-2012 06:44:08 PM ERROR Engine-Thread-<ServerName>-Engine1 401854 : No message length returned in FME Engine reponse Mon-24-Dec-2012 06:44:08 PM FATAL Engine-Thread-<ServerName>-Engine1 401872 : Failed to get translation result. Returning failed result. Mon-24-Dec-2012 06:44:09 PM WARN Engine-Thread-<ServerName>-Engine1 402615 : Job 8469 failed and has been resubmitted. This is resubmittal 1 out of a maximum of 3. Mon-24-Dec-2012 06:44:09 PM INFORM Engine-Thread-<ServerName>-Engine1 401936 : Disconnected FME Engine: Engine1 on host <ServerName> We are using FME(R) 2012 SP4 20120926 - Build 12266 with only one Engine running on a 64-bit Linux environment with 4 Gb of RAM, and we are currently in a testing phase - meaning we send an average of more than 500 requests per day. There is also an ArcIMS 9.3 running next to FME

Hi, As of late I've noticed that we've got a lot of sprawl with the names of our repositories. Does anybody have any best practices/recommendations on how their organization creates repositories/topics/notifications and assigns permissions? One thought I had was to create a repository per application and also per department/organizational group as needed. But I'm wondering if anybody else has any other ideas/thoughts on the matter. In addition, my thoughts really only apply to repositories and don't take into account permissions/topics/notifications. If it matters, my FME Server install only runs on my intranet. I don't need to expose it to the public. Thanks! -Jeff

Do you use a proxy with FME Server? If so how do you implement it?

We have our servers running on RHEL 6, is FME Desktop available for this? Thanks, Vinod