FME Flow

Hi, me and @thomas_merkus have this simple question on configuring FME Server to receive e-mails. If we wanted to configure FME Server to receive mail, we end up with a notification content that possibly contains a reference to an e-mail attachment, which is stored somewhere on the local system. But if that attachment contains a virus, how secure is that? As a human it is possible that I recognize the danger and thus I do not open the attachment. But for a machine as FME Server is, that could be not as simple as that, so the question is: how can we ensure that FME Server is not storing malicious software on the local disk?

Hi! I am using FME Desktop 2016.1 to publish workspaces to FME Server. I found that after I change the log settings in Tools menu-->Translation (for example, change to only log errors) and republish the workspace to FME Server, the log obtained by running it from FME Server will be different.It seems a little bit odd to me, and I wasn't able to find help file about this after trying, so I just want to make sure I understand correctly the way it works: will the FME Desktop publish its desktop settings to FME server? or it is my misunderstanding?Thank you!

Hello,we used to deploy FME in silent mode using a so called NOVELL Zenworks Bundle. This worked fine up to version 2015. Since version 2016 we are having the following problems:1.) Novell Zenworks is not able to install the msi-file any more. It shows an undefined error.2.) Installing FME using msiexec on the client computer is possible in silent mode, but when you start FME the EULA-window and the FME Desktop Licensing Assistant window pop up, what we'd like to avoid because our students should no be forced to make any input in these windows.We use the parameters:qnINSTALLLEVEL 3ENABLE_POST_INSTALL_TASKS no Does anyone else have the same problem?Roland

I want to install the latest FME version, but (I assume to store temporary installation files) it tries to get acces to a location I do not have access to. I added FME_TEMP, but (for this purpose) does not make sense. Also modified TEMP and TMP environment variables to a directory I definitely have access to, but that also didn't help. Which environment variable is used to specify the temporary directory to store the installation files?

I have recently switched from a floating license to a fixed license and the licensing assistant is still picking up my old floating license. What can I do to resolve this?

I have several hundred jobs that I'm processing on FMECloud. The FMEJobSubmitter is set to 'Wait for job to complete: No" so I can take full advantage of 10 engines and the queue. After the JobSubmitter I have a FeatureHolder, then a Sorter (Descending by _Job_id), then a Sampler (First 1 Features) to get the last job "_job_id". When the last jobs arrive from the queue and run on the 10 engines the dataset for the last job is smaller and therefore finishes before the others, therefore the FMEServerJobWaiter sees the last job is Complete the workbench continues, although all the jobs are not really complete. If one could set the Priority in the FMEServerJobSubmitter via an attribute one could set the priority of the last job to be lower (ie. 101) than the others (ie. 100) forcing it to really be last.

Looking for some confirmation here:If I have set up a publication in FME Cloud to use the built-in SMTP email and send an email to it while it's paused it never gets delivered and thus the associated workspace never gets triggered, correct?

hey folks,https://fmeserver-eval-safe-software.fmecloud.comwhen attempting to send sockets to the FME Cloud eval, it will continually fail for local host on port 7078, which makes sense, cause I am using the trail version on the cloud, anyways does anyone know of a way to connect to the sockets through FME cloud?Thanks,Doug

Hello FME Community:When I create a new 'Author' role level user and grant it ability to access the Schedules page, the user is actually able to see the schedules created by all other users including Admin, from repositories that it should not have access to. When I click into one such scheduled task, some fields will be blank (due to no access), and the scheduled task details look 'incomplete'. It appears to be able to click on "Ok" and I'm not sure if that means it'll try to save the Schedule.I think it'd make more sense if a non-Admin user does not see schedules that it does not own, or at least have the ability to differentiate them and definitely not have the ability to click into them by accident. Or, if this is something that can be resolved by better configuration of the roles, please advise. I have been unable to find this in the Security tab.Thanks! Ray

Hello,  FME Server only seems to display a maximum of 100 scheduled tasks. We've got more than 100 defined so some are missing - is there any way to access these in the backend to edit them?  Thanks,  Peter.

I am getting 404 Error when I click on the zipped file in the email, while doing Directory Watch Publisher Tutorial (2016). I am using 2017 FME Server.

I just downloaded the FME Desktop Trial, but I didn't get my trial serial number to license the trial. How can I find it?

Hi All, Are there possibilities to specify a finite timeout for a job? I need to stop a job that is running and is never ended without using admin interface?  Thanks an advance; Farfar

I've heard of The Spatial Community Slack Channel and I know there is an FME YouTube Channel, but are there any other websites (forums, publications, etc.) that you frequent for sponging up FME knowledge or go to for FME help?

You've been asked to install FME Server. First question you ask yourself, what does the IT department want? Is it an Express Installation or is it Distributed or maybe Customized installation. Do I install an Express first and later reconfigure a distributed database? Do I use an FME Server System Share on the network or locally? What are the advantages? Do I need a new user for the FME Services. The questions go on and the options are many, often leading to more questions. There are many ways to install FME Server and we do our best to share the documentation and articles to try to highlight the more popular and supported installation options. Do we cover all your questions? I'm personally curious to learn our user experiences when they are approached to install FME Server in a new environment. Could we make your job easier? Do you have suggestions on how we might present the documentation differently to help you make the best decisions for the installation d

As we have FME server deployed externally, I have to make a trade off to either upgrade or skip a version.Big changes I found were: - GUI (less clicks) - Projects (export/import for better DTAP) - Security (AD)Do I miss any important changes, besides the upgraded FME Desktop functionality? (readers / writers / transformers)With these changes I tend to skip a version as nothing comes for free, please don't be offended dear Safers. I am very happy with the functionality in the 2016.1 package. As a technician I would love to upgrade but you know how it works...

We are looking to utilize Job Queues. Does anyone have any best practices?We have 6 engines to utilize.2 folders with various real-time operation jobs that run every 3-10 minutes.1 folder for nightly ETL jobs1 folder for on-demand jobs that support a web APIMultiple folders for other on-demand/weekly to monthly scheduled jobsThanks in advance!

Hi Folks, I have tried - without success to use Notification in FME Server (version 2015.1.3, customer's one) I have used IMAP protocol, following Safe documentation :) as follows : I begin with creation of a topic (see attached image1)Testing it, it’s ok. Then creating a publication named “IMAP Email” with these parameters : (see attached images 2 and 3)Then I monitor the topic, send an email to the address , but nothing is detected …I activate on my gmail account the IMAP protocol too …Control that the port 7078 is open …. I have (of course) the same problem with subscription (in fact, my emails are never detected by FME Server) I need to show this part of the configuration on the next training in the 19 and 20/9, so don’t know what to do . do you have any idea about it ? regards Pascal Mortz1Spatial Lyon, Francepascal.mortz@1spatial.com

I have the following situation, using FME Server 2017:I created an Email publication (IMAP) to check for new emails.Based on the subject line I want to trigger a Topic, triggering a subscription to run a workspace.How can I trigger different topics for different Subject lines in the Email?I tried replicating the publication, but FME does not allow multiple publications to the same email account (with different Subject line filters).Anybody any ideas or experience with this?Any help is appreciated.Erik

Hi,Is it possible to enforce the minimum password length for FME server from application? If yes, what is password policy and how to enforce?

There are standalone installers available for the Floating License Installer available at safe.com/downloads – what are the system requirements for this application?  keywords: flexlm license manager flexara flexnet publisher

Hi ,We want to upgrade FME server but are still using SQL 2008 R2 SP4

I want to install a newer version of fme but windows 7 does not have fme in it's list of installed programs. I can however run the program from the task bar so it is installed ok. Is there an unistall utility from SAFE? How can I uninstall fme otherwise?

I have a FME Server 2017.0 - Build 17259 - win64 and I was wondering if it's possible to have a 32 bit engine (2016 v1.2.1: we need it because the APIC plugin is not working with 2017 version) working together with a 64 bit engine (installer with the server). If it's possible, how can we manage to license all that?Thanks for your help!

Does anyone have recommendations on training or white papers that go over the requirements and best practices for FME Server architecture? Looks like the training classes are geared towards building workspaces.