Archive for the 'System Administration' Category

Change Assistant: Not all environments are showing up when I run the viewer.

PeopleSoft environment agent uniquely identifies a particular instance based on a GUID. PeopleSoft assigns this Unique value to each PeopleSoft database instance (application if you have multiple versions installed on the same servers), so when an EM Agent notifies the Environment Management Hub that it has found a component belonging to an environment and if [...]

Posting a 1099 File to Web

Recently I came across one issue that the 1099 Process is generating a file with .001 getting posted to Report Repository, but it is not producing any link in View log / trace.
The link is not showing up in View Log trace, because the file type .001 is not defined in the Process Scheduler [...]

Change Assistant: not showing up the environment name and system

Change Assistant not showing up the environment name and system type
While uploading the Environment to the peoplesoft gateway. The XML file is not including the environment name and system type.
Solution:
This happens when there is no environment name and system type not mentioned in PeopleTools options. Use the following navigation.
PeopleTools -> Utilities -> Administration -> Peopletools [...]

Unable to connect to RenServer

When One of our functional People running a report from the page they were getting the following error.
Unable to connect to RenServer
Solution:
I verified the Ping Test and Buffer Test by going to RenServer cluster, everything was working Normal. Then I changed the machine name to Lower Case and I was able to run the report successfully.
Strange [...]

Changing Access ID and Access Password

If you need to change the both Access Id and Access Password follow the following steps.
UPDATE PSSTATUS SET OWNERID = ‘ACCESSID’
UPDATE PSACCESSPRFL SET ACCESSID = ‘NEW_ACCESS_ID’, SYMBOLICID = ‘SYMBOLIC_ID’, ACCESSPSWD = ‘NEW_ACCESS_PASSWORD’, ENCRYPTED = 0
This AccessID should have dbo access when it created on database server.
Note: No need to encrypt this, when you open the [...]

REN server with DNS alias issue

I was getting REN server communication failed eror when I try to ping from REN Server cluster page, After changing the URL from machine name to a DNS alias.
Workaround:
Go to PeopleTools -> REN Server Configuration -> REN Server Cluster
Replace your machine name in Cluster URL and Browser URL point to your DNS name.
Recycle Your Application [...]

Improving the System Performance by Enabling Server Cache

With PeopleTools 8.4 and higher PeopleSoft delivered a great feature to improve the online performance, which is shared caching. This will eliminate the unnecessary caching and trips to the database.
Without enabling the shared cache,  application server domain will create separate cache file for each process. With shared cache enabled all the user processes will share [...]

Installing PeopleSoft 7.5 Single User edition on Windows 2000

I know lot of my friends had this problem but I never put focus into this until my wife asked me to inslall for her. I thought that she was also doing some mistake and I can do it, unfortunately I got the same issue. There I started to put my brain to work. First [...]