Re: Configuration Changing

When a Client Access session connects, I beleive if it sees the
device description not match CA config on pc, it will delete and
recreate the device. Don't know of a way to stop that.
Are you altering the device description after it is created?
The QHST log should show this activity.
jim franz
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Adams" <jerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Midrange-L" <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 9:35 AM
Subject: Configuration Changing

For the last few months the device configuration here has changed
periodically. Tuesday the device configuration object for one of the
virtual workstations got deleted. While that might be an accident on
someone's part, that seems to be a stretch. No one else here, even our
sys admin (really PC stuff) and my boss (another PC-type guy), knows how
to work with the System i5 configuration. And the device was working
fine Monday night before I began the application backup.


Another symptom of weirdness is that device configurations are changed.
For example, a device object for a printer is changed to a workstation
device. This happens about once every two to three weeks.


System values are set so that devices cannot be configured
automatically. I.e., QAUTOCFG = 0 (Autoconfigure devices = Off) and
QAUTOVRT = 0 (Autoconfigure virtual devices = 0). Obviously these
settings have no effect if the device id is already configured; I ran a
test to confirm that.


I have not been able to isolate any set of circumstances that could
cause such behavior. The company is relatively small as regards the
number of hardware devices; perhaps twenty. I have checked the Access
for Windows configuration on each PC; all are as they should be. The
only commonality (and this is a stretch) is that our application backup
ends the QINTER subsystem before it starts the backup; a job scheduler
job shuts down QINTER Saturday and Sunday mornings (at 0130). Our
System i5 is behind the firewall and should be shielded from external
forces.


Has anyone else ever had anything like this happen, or have a clue what
may be causing it?

Also, has anyone used the QGYRHRL (QgyRtvHdwRscList) API? It looks like
I could use it to compare the configuration to what I expect it to be
and, at least, issue a message to me if a discrepancy occurs.


Thanks.
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