1. Tips for System Administrators

2. Tips for System Admins  Use Macros to automate repetitive tasks  Must use telnet or Presentation Manager  Press Control-R to start then choose option key to record macro (option, option, 7, 7 usually safe choice)  Enter keystrokes, press Control-R to stop  Press Option key to play back

3. Tips for System Admins  ADC command line options. Everything you see under Preferences can be set on the command line.  Parameter name is option name, case sensitive.  Allows you to create a shortcut that logs on & runs a specific process.

4. Tips for System Admins  Other useful settings:  textReverseEnterKey to switch Enter key in Text fields.  For Mac clients, set ‘–shell=start’ to enable documents to be automatically opened  For Linux clients, set ‘-shell=konqueror’ for same purpose

5. Tips for System Admins  Converting Data:  Inexpensive tool is ‘able2extract’, converts PDF to various formats  Define form with 0 length  Print PDF report & load into able2extract. Suppress Headings/Totals, where appropriate.  Convert!

6. Tips for System Admins  Checking your appxd settings. Point your browser at http:// :, and Appx will respond with information page  Currently only works on the server with IE. Should be fixed in 4.3  Can set up multiple ports with different settings via –modify option of appxdsvc

7. Tips for System Admins  Recovering accidentally deleted records  You can use the ‘recover’ utility to try to recover deleted records, if you are quick enough  Syntax: recover  Syntax: recover  Watch out for Windows utility of same name!

8. Tips for System Admins  Can ignore newfile, since we aren’t recovering corrupted file  Design Xfer existing file to new file, remove keys, create file  Deleted records are now available!

9. Tips for System Admins  Login Problems:  Try stopping/starting the service with Windows Control panel (or kill in Linux/Unix)  Try scratching the USAGE* files in $APPXPATH/0SA/Data

10. Tips for System Admins  Finally, if nothing else works, scratch/rename the $APPXPATH/0SA/Data/USER.* files  This should allow anyone to log in.  More tips at www.appx.com/assets/asp/dynamic_gener ator.asp?pageid=671

11. Tips for System Admins  Online System Admin manuals available at: http://www.appx.com/assets/asp/dynamic_ generator.asp?pageid=558 http://www.appx.com/assets/asp/dynamic_ generator.asp?pageid=558  Questions?