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  • 1.  ucsrv.ini Update by System?

    Posted Nov 14, 2017 02:39 PM
    Can anyone out there confirm why the ucsrv.ini file gets updated when you start up the system?  We use the service manager program to start things up.  Only thing I can think of is that it is modifying the StartMode parameter for NORMAL or COLD, etc.

    It's changing the mod date on the file which is going to throw off our audits so I need an explanation as to why the system is updating this file.

    Can anyone 100% confirm this is what it is doing?


  • 2.  ucsrv.ini Update by System?

    Posted Nov 14, 2017 06:26 PM
    Regardless of whether the AE server is started via the SMgr, it downloads the latest CP list from the AE, and writes the CP list to the ucsrv.ini file. If ucsrv.ini is a symlink, it will remove that link and replace it with a copy of the original target file of the link.


  • 3.  ucsrv.ini Update by System?

    Posted Nov 15, 2017 08:34 AM
    I don't see any CP entries in the ucsrv.ini file.  


  • 4.  ucsrv.ini Update by System?

    Posted Nov 15, 2017 10:08 AM

    Yes, I can confirm. The WP is updating the ini file (UCSrv.ini) during the startup. The reason is the StartMode parameter, it needs to be set to NORMAL.



  • 5.  ucsrv.ini Update by System?

    Posted Nov 15, 2017 10:29 AM
    Laura Albrecht wrote:
    I don't see any CP entries in the ucsrv.ini file.  
    Well, there are CP ports listed under the [PORTS] section, and client programs that connect to the AE do get a new CP list and often write this list to a file. But now I think about it, it does not make sense for the server to change these values in its own INI file. I assume Josef_Scharl_103’s answer above is the correct one.


  • 6.  RE: ucsrv.ini Update by System?

    Posted Oct 28, 2021 04:38 PM
    I know this is an old thread - and I did get an answer - back in 2017.  When I was on V11.  But we are now on V12 and things are a little different.  I have auditors asking me why the ucsrv.ini file got updated...... and it was ~ 12 hours AFTER the server / system were restarted.  Which doesn't make any sense.  I can see / understand that the StartMode parameter gets updated.  But then what happened 12 hours later after the system was already up?  I'm just looking for any plausible explanation I can give to the auditors.

    Thanks.

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    Laura Albrecht
    Enterprise Scheduling Lead
    Takeda Pharmaceuticals LLC
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  • 7.  RE: ucsrv.ini Update by System?

    Posted Oct 29, 2021 05:01 AM

    Hi, 

    We run version 12.3 here in an active / active environment. I cannot see the behavior, that ucsrv.ini is updated at later timestamp than the UC4 System was started.

    Here an example how it looks like currently:

     

     

    On August 28th I started the UC4 System (after Oracle 19c upgrade) at 11:07.

    The first WP (PWP) got ready for run at 11:07 on UC4 Server Node1. And that is exactly the modification timestamp of ucsrv.ini.

    The other WPs on UC4 Server Node1 and Node2 became ready some minutes later.

    As you can see the ucsrv.ini on Node2 has an very old timestamp, cannot remember what we did in October last year ;-)

     

    I would check if there was a PWP switch (from one WP to another WP) at the timestamp of ucsrv.ini … I'm just guessing.

    KR, Josef


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