I came recently across a strange error while trying to access my SAP Afaria 7 self-service portal. Suddenly I got a 403 error message. The server was down for a few days as I did not have to use it. Maybe the shutdown of my VM didn`t work or Microsoft Read more…
SMP3 runs on Tomcat, and therefore inherits its basic configuration from Tomcat. One of these is the session timeout parameter. By default, timeout is set to 20 minutes. Depending on your requirements this can be too short or too long. Changing the value is easy as you only have to Read more…
Blogs with content referred to by this blog: Install Afaria Server Install Afaria API Service and Administrator Install Self Service Portal Install Enrollment Server Install Package Server Validation of Afaria 7 SP6 Afaria 7 SP6 update Afaria 7 SP6 is available as of 11. September 2015 and can be downloaded Read more…
After updating from SP5 to SP6 it is a good idea to check that Afaria is capable to start and runs without errors. For a very basic check of the server, see here some examples on how to do this. Check that all Afaria services are up and running Check Read more…
As always, select the DB type, server and db name of Afaria.
Next component to be updated is the enromment server. Select the DB type. Select where the DB server is running. In case the setup program can connect to the DB server, it will show a list of databases available to the user. Select the Afaria DB. In case an error Read more…
Next component to be updated is the Self Service Portal. This will update the web site hosted by IIS. Confirm the user credentials used to connect to the API server. Possible error: API server cannot be reached Solution: check if API server is up and running If not, start the Read more…
The upgrade of the API service and administrator console is listed as one step, but will be executed as two steps: 1st the API service and directly afterwards the Administrator console As both are bound together, you cannot install the admin console separately. As the API service is installed first, Read more…
Start the Afaria Server update. First agree to the license agreement, of course, only when you have read the license and agree to it. Afaria server update starts. First the currently running server service is stopped. The setup program will stop the Afaria services. In case this is not possible, Read more…
When you install Afaria 7 or access it the first time, it`s likely that you`ll get into some problems. I`ve collected here some more or less common issues that you may face. IIS ASP.NET error 500.21 When you access the Afaria web site, you get a IIS error (500.21). The Read more…