Group Format Errors (AREV Specific)
At 21 JUL 1998 04:19:34PM Pati Taylor wrote:
I'm running Arev 3.02, Win95, Novell 4.11, with the Arev NLM, the application we're running is Power Pay, a payroll package that uses Ceridian's HRIS.
We installed the NLM two months ago and things went well for a while. However, last week we saw over 15 damaged groups in one main data file, and today we had over 30 damaged groups in another main data file.
Arev mentions that when using Novell 2 and above, transaction tracking should be turned off, however, in a multi server environment transaction tracking is necessary for NDS authentication. The files on the server are all flagged non-transactional, (or rather, not flagged transactional). Is this sufficient to prevent GFE's for this reason?
I'm asking my IS department to run an integrity check on the disk itself, but I'm wondering if there are any other thoughts as to what could be causing these errors to re-occur all of a sudden.
Thanks in advance for your help.
At 22 JUL 1998 03:06AM Egbert Poell wrote:
Setting the transactional flags off should be fine.
The GFE's could be caused or indicated because of one or more of the following reasons :
- Loading other software after the NLM on the Novell server. We saw at a client site symptoms like these after starting anti-virus software. Putting the NLM behind it fixed the problem.
- All files are SHARED?
- As you think maybe hardware trouble, could be a disk or one or more networkcards
- Does the VOC record in FILES still contains FFFFFFF on line 5?
- Check the settings of your workstations. All necessary information is in the Advanced Revelation FAQ document.
If you need more please let me know.
Good luck,
Egbert Poell
Revelation consultant
Mecomp Automatisering