Architecture

I understand that the license server will check the licenses back in if it loses contact with the client, but will the client continue to function with its already checked-out license, or having lost the connection to the license server does it stop working until it has a valid connection to the license server again?

As usual, when a new version is released, I download both desktop, server, and engine, just in case. One thing puzzles me though: Why is the engine download so big (3.9g) ? It's 600Mb bigger than the full server (3.3g), and more than 2Gb larger than desktop (1.7g), which I would assume should be very similar in content to engine. What is the extra 2Gb of dead weight in the engine download ? Cheers.

I would like to install the transformer AutodeskBIM360DocsConnector o a shared folder instead of an user profiel. That way the transformer can be used by all employees without having to install it in every profile. As we work in Citrix the package is not installed completely and needs to be finished manually for each profile.

We want to set up our Flex licensing server using a CNAME instead of a server name. When submitting the license request do we just enter the full CNAME of the machine in the hostid field of the form? e.g. lic.prd.companyname.nl Will this work via the submission form? Thanks, Annette

We can only do one software upgrade a year because of restrictions from our IT department. Would be good to know if if we can wait for that and benefit from some bug fixes or just have to go with 2022.1

At the moment we are dealing with not enough licenses, part of the problem is naturally to buy new licenses, however sometimes users have their FME workbench session open for a long time, while they are not doing anything at all in the FME workbench. So I think it would partly solve the problem of not enough licenses, if inactive FMe desktop workbenches are closed down after a certain duration. Is something like that possible to configure for the users of FME desktop. It would be nice, if the changes made are saved automatically and no changes made are lost.

At our organization, we don't have enough licenses at the moment. Naturally, part of the solution is to buy new licenses, however it would also be nice to implement something that certain users get priority in getting a FME desktop license over other users. I was looking at the following link https://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_Desktop_Documentation/FME_Desktop_Admin_Guide/FMEInstallation/Restricting_Licenses_to_Users_or_Groups.htm. I see it's possible to reserve for certain groups, however instead of reserving, I would like to do priotising. Is it possible to configure something like that.

Hi all, We are planning our 2022 Server upgrade and it is the first time I have have done it with a parallel machine where we want to retain the original same server CNAME. We are also using IIS as our webserver with a URL rewrite. The machine is only internally available and is hosted in Azure. Our current proposed steps are to: 1. Install existing certificate on new Azure server 2. Install FME Server 3. Test basic server installation using localhost on the server itself 4. Configure FME Server for IIS via URL rewrite based on CNAME 5. Test ALL workspaces - access FME Server application via client with modified lmhosts 6. DNS switch - turn off old server, turn on new server The new machine will be placed in the same Azure subnet so all existing firewall rules and whitelisting with apply to the new machine. Does anyone forsee any issuses with this approach?

Has anyone tried do configure a FlexLM manager on a Kubernetes environment? Can someone inform me whether it is possible or not? If yes, what should I should watch out for?

Dear FMEers, We are proceeding to upgrade to 2022.1 FME Server and would like to take advantage of the Azure Marketplace install option. Our cloud provider noticed that domain joining is not supported in the current Marketplace install. There are some workarounds available but this negates some of the benefit of using Marketplace. Has anyone used this configuration and what is their experience? We need to decide early next week whether to go down this route or whether to go for a tried and test traditional deployment on an Azure VM. At the moment we have a single stack and should stay this way for the next year. Any tips or experiences would be appreciated. Annette

hey guys, I'm installing FME Desktop 2022 on a linux operating system (ubuntu 20.04), but it does not install the sdk! any directions on how to install the sdk on that system? i can't find any sufficient documentation about it

The FME Server docs do a good job of telling you how to uninstall and reinstall Server, whatever configuration you choose. However, if you want to migrate from last year's FME Server to the latest release, you have to backup and uninstall everything first. This might work fine for an Express install. But if you have a distributed install of FME Server, the server backup only contains the workspaces, repositories, services and supporting files from your last install. Your previous architecture's configuration isn't stored anywhere. How would you recommend backing up your previous distributed configuration settings (network locations, ports, service account names, etc) to make it easier to install the new release so you have the same configuration as before?

I need that every user who launches FME Workbench has set paths to a shared folder, in order to share connections to databases. However, I do not find where FME saves this information. In the Windws registry?

We have setup a FME server with app gateway as the load balancer. App gateway (App Gateway IP) is mapped to Azure Front Door. Azure Front door URL is mapped with the public DNS. When user logins using SAML credentials (IDP: Azure Active Directory), user login is successful but it is redirect the application to Application Gateway URL rather than public URL (which is mapped to Azure Front Door).

After upgrading to FME Server/Desktop to 2022.1 we are now having issues with the workbenches running SQLite with a joiner. The application stops on this transformer. Appears to connect them nothing after. Any ideas?

I have two fme versions installed, 32 and 64-bit. I need to run my workbench in 32-bit but the default version is 64. How can i adjust for this when i run the workbench using python. Currently it fails silently with "Failure running workspace" and i am guessing the version is the issue. Any advice? I am running the workbench the fmeobjects The coda I am running is almost an exact copy of this article https://community.safe.com/s/article/run-an-fme-workspace-from-python-using-fmeworkspac

I would like to overwrite a feature class in our ArcGIS Enterprise database into our online Portal on a weekly basis. I have attempted this in ArcGIS ModelBuilder but there is only the option to "Replace web layer". I have seen a few people use AttributeRemover and AttributeManager to overwrite a published web layer but I would like to know if there is a best-practice workflow to this. Thanks!

Notes on FME and Esri Versions, doesn't mention ArcGIS Pro 3.0, which is being released soon. https://community.safe.com/s/article/notes-on-fme-and-esri-versions-and-compatibility Could you advise if 3.0 is support by 2022 and if not when this combability might be implemented?

Hi all, I'm looking for a specific FME version: FME(R) 2019.2.3.1 (20200212 - Build 19823 - WIN64) I'm not able to find it in the past versions section: https://www.safe.com/support/downloads/#past-versions Is it still available somewhere? Thanks

Hi. Im having no luck connect to sql express db. Can FME connect to SQL Express? If so, should I be using the ADO or JDBC reader? Also, is there anything else that could be an issue? Ive put the server and instance name in and port 1433 is open. Thanks

My Setup: FME 2021.2 ArcGIS Desktop 10.8 advanced, 64bit backgroundGP Python 2.7 (C:\\Python27\\ArcGIS10.8 and C:\\Windows\\SysWOW64\\python27.dll) ArcGIS Pro 2.9.3 Python 3.7 (C:\\Program Files\\ArcGIS\\Pro\\bin\\Python\\envs\\arcgispro-py3) FME Workbench uses py 2.7 scripts (GeoScaler). ESRI ArcGIS Compatibility: Auto Python Compatibility set to Esri ArcGIS Pyton 2.7 ArcGIS Desktop started in advace to get the license from the server. Workbench run stops with an error: ERROR : A compatible ArcGIS application could not be found or is not licensed for Python Compatibility 'Esri ArcGIS Python 2.7'ERROR : FME supports Python 2.7 and Python 3.6 to 3.8. A compatible ArcGIS Python within the supported range could not be found. Please ensure a proper ArcGIS is installed with an architecture matching FME's A Python interpreter could not be loaded. Please ensure the workspace `Python Compatibility` is set to an available Python version Program Terminating Translation FAILED. I have no idea.

The loaded plugin's FMEPluginCapabilities 'xlsx' has changed the process locale to 'C' which is incompatible with FME 'French_C\\xF4te d\\x92Ivoire.1252' locale. Please see 'pluginbuilder/cpp/fmeplugincapabilities.h' documentation or contact Safe Software support at https://www.safe.com/support

I am trying to install latest 2022 version using helm and I get following error. Error: template: fmeserver-2022.0/charts/postgresql/templates/svc.yaml:34:24: executing "fmeserver-2022.0/charts/postgresql/templates/svc.yaml" at <{{template "postgresql.port" .}}>: template "postgresql.port" not defined Following are steps I followed. Steps: 1. Add repohelm repo add safesoftware https://safesoftware.github.io/helm-charts/ 2. Update repohelm repo update 3. Get values.yamlhelm show values safesoftware/fmeserver-2022.0 >> values2022.yaml 4. Installhelm install fme2022 safesoftware/fmeserver-2022.0 -f values2022.yaml -n fmeserver2022 Can anyone help on this issue?

Hi all, I am new to FME and got a configuration question. I noticed that when I start an FME translation, so-called "shared folders" are created (https://desktopmanualbasic.safe.com/DesktopBasic3BestPractice/3.19.SharingResources.html#shared-resource-folders). Obviously, there is a default location below which these folders are created. For me, this default location is '<USERDIR>\\Documents\\FME'. I have seen that under Tools > FME Options > Default Paths > Shared FME Folders the paths for these shared folders can be configured. However, it appears that there, only an EXTRA location is configured - IN ADDITION to the default location. I.e. if under "Shared FME Folders", I specify for example 'C:\\MyPrograms\\FME_Shared_Folders' as additional shared folder location, the shared folders are created at TWO locations, namely (also see attached image '01_shared folders log.png'): C:\\MyPrograms\\FME_Shared_Folders <USERDIR>\\Documents\\FME Is there any way to ensure the shared folders are cr

Hello, I am newbie to FME and need help on FME setup on Kubernetes cluster. I am refering to HEML chart as mentioned here : https://github.com/safesoftware/helm-charts I see all configuration is related to POSTGRES and nothing related to SQLServer. Can anyone please help how do I deploy FME on Kubernetes which uses SQL server database?