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Troubleshooting validation and promotion process errors

To troubleshoot possible errors in the validation and promotion process, you can perform tasks described in this topic.

Related topic

Troubleshooting-Data-Management

Monitoring the thread manager for a validation or promotion process that has stopped responding

Issue symptom

When you start a validation or promotion process, records are added to the DMT:ThreadManager form. At the end of the process, the records are deleted.

Resolution

You can search for the records in the DMT:ThreadManager form. If the records are not being added, modified, or removed, the process has stopped.
Perform the following steps:

Recovering from a validation or promotion process that has stopped responding

If the validation or promotion process has stopped responding before the operation is complete, an administrator must perform the following steps to resolve the issue:

  • Reset the maximum number of filters for an operation to the original value. 
  • If you encounter the following error, check the Short Description field in the forms that have the error flag set:
    An error was encountered during data promotion. The Short Description field of this record has been updated with the error details. 
  • Check for other errors as described in the Checking for errors in validation and promotion topic on this page.

To reset the maximum number of filters for an operation to the original value

  1. Open the AR System Administration Console.
  2. Select System > General > Server Information.
  3. In the Server Information window, click the Advanced tab.
  4. Change the value in the Maximum Filters for an Operation field to the original value, and then click OK.

BMC Helix ITSM is installed with this value set to 200000.

Checking for errors in the validation and promotion process

Check for validation and promotion process errors in the following files:

  • Error Management console—Errors found on the staging forms are flagged.
    For details about fixing errors, see Managing-data-errors-from-data-load-jobs.
  • ARerror.log—This log file lists errors that occur during the validation and promotion process.
  • CAI Events form—Search for records with the Return Code set to Error. The comments in Return Message indicate which error has occurred.



 

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