21-Sep-2005 (continued)

SOAP installed.
Installed AXIS 1.1 as downloaded from the HP site, because some investigation and hands-on excercise s needed. Did the same at the cusomer's development machine but they run 7.3-1, and thererore the WesServicesIntegrationToolkit cannot be used (it requires 7.3-2 or higher.
One issue found here:

$ dir axis$root:[axis-1_1.webapps.axis]/sec
Directory AXIS$ROOT:[AXIS-1_1.webapps.axis]
EchoHeaders.jws;1 [AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW] (RWED,RWED,RE,)
fingerprint.jsp;1 [AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW] (RWED,RWED,RE,)
happyaxis.jsp;1 [AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW] (RWED,RWED,RE,)
index.html;1 [AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW] (RWED,RWED,RE,)
SOAPMonitorApplet.java;1 [AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW] (RWED,RWED,RE,)
StockQuoteService.jws;1 [AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW] (RWED,RWED,RE,)
web-inf.DIR;1 [AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW] (RWE,RWE,,)
(IDENTIFIER=[AP_HTTPD,APACHE$WWW],ACCESS=READ)
Total of 7 files.
The fun is the last directory: it's name is in lowercase, but since AXIS is a Java application, it is suspected this will cause problems, while it will be expected to be in uppercase.

Since this directory is owned by APACHE$WWW, the file ownership is correct. It has been seen otherwise....

Next followed the manual to install axis, and test it. Again: Diana hangs - due to JAVA running. This time, ^C of the axis server freed enough resources to prevent a reboot. So extend the pagefile by about 50%:

$ dir DISK$ALPHASYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS/siz

Directory DISK$ALPHASYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]

PAGEFILE.SYS;4 532500

Total of 1 file, 532500 blocks.
$ mc sysgen
SYSGEN> CREATE DISK$ALPHASYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS/SIZE=750000
%SYSGEN-I-EXTENDED, DISK$ALPHASYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS;4 extended
SYSGEN> Exit
$ dir DISK$ALPHASYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]PAGEFILE.SYS/siz

Directory DISK$ALPHASYS:[SYS0.SYSEXE]

PAGEFILE.SYS;4 750000

Total of 1 file, 750000 blocks.

That should be enough.

Retry, keeping an eye on performance! But it's worse, nothing works. Can start a new telnet session after the two others have been stopped, and with some time, it succeds. yet another try, with MONITOR up, it shows the system IS busy and not just with AXIS validation. 2 processes are in MWAIT state. Modified page list seems very full, and pagefile is - again - fully taken! Trying to extend it even more (double in size), though the system is VERY slow. By no means. The system won't free enough resources, not even after all windows are closed. Alas, when logged in, need to reboot (both machines due to the cluster address).

More on CommunigatePro
Created screenshots for CommunigatePro confururation. Well - very, very basic configuration. Have to do the pages and add them to the site.
Thinking of a way to move the files from the too small disk to a bigger one: matter of chnaging a logical and move the files. But that has be be checked when possible - not now