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Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

  • 1.  Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 02, 2020 10:36 AM
    How is everyone packaging/distributing the new Applications Manager Clients?  For our last upgrade 9.3.0, we created an executable that placed the necessary files where they needed to be.  With the next upgrade, it looks like the majority of files will need to be deleted for the new client to work, one issue with this is that the .jar files will not necessarily be the same location for all users. 

    Are people having end-users updated their own clients or are you somehow packaging it for them?


  • 2.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 03, 2020 08:57 AM
    We have very few users, so I wrote up instructions suggesting where to place the client.  This actually works well for us.  Since each member of the team has a slightly different combination of things on their laptop, one end-user had to do something a bit different.

    We went live with 9.3.1 on Wednesday and 9.3.2 going into UAT today.
    So, the users will have two clients until 9.3.2 goes into PRD.

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    Franklin & Marshall College
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  • 3.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 06, 2020 11:44 AM
    I applied the 9.3.2 upgrade in our 9.3.1 UAT environment but the upgrade did not recreate a Client.zip.
    Consequently we get a version mismatch error.
    We license via Ellucian, so I have to wait for them for support.
    Wondering if anyone else has run into this.

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    DBA / Sr Enterprise Applications Administrator
    Franklin & Marshall College
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  • 4.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 06, 2020 02:28 PM
    Hi Heidi,

    Feel free to put in a case with the ActionLine at Ellucian and we will assist.  We have 9.3.2 installed.

    You can also check your $AW_HOME/install/aw_install.log to see if Client.zip was listed in this step:

    ***** extract files from /u02/appmgr/master/AWutil.zip
    java -jar /u02/appmgr/master/AxUnzip.jar -v /u02/appmgr/master/AWutil.zip 2>/u02/appmgr/master/tmp/tar.err

    You should see a line like this:

    15116563 Fri Mar 20 15:12:44 EDT 2020 web/Client.zip

    Thanks!
    Lucy Stevens

    ActionLine
    Ellucian

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  • 5.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 06, 2020 02:37 PM
    Case 02205068

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    DBA / Sr Enterprise Applications Administrator
    Franklin & Marshall College
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  • 6.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 06, 2020 04:39 PM
    My 9.3.2 Client.zip issue was self inflicted.

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    DBA / Sr Enterprise Applications Administrator
    Franklin & Marshall College
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  • 7.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 03, 2020 10:28 AM
    Hi,

    I'm upgrading to 9.3.1 in a couple of weeks and we plan to deploy the client archive file using MS System Center, and instructing users to access MSSC from their menu. The installer expands the archive file to c:\users\<userid>\Appworx\<instancename>\.    I have between 30 - 40 appworx users spread across campus.  This will take care of the majority of my users, there will probably be a few users with non-standard setups that I'll have to fix.

    Hope this helps,

    Jim

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    Core Services Specialist
    University of New Mexico
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  • 8.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client
    Best Answer

    Posted Apr 03, 2020 11:06 AM
    There is probably a more elegant  approach but I took what is provided from broadcom and created a zip file which house all the files necessary to run appworx - in addition connection.properties pre-populated with the connection values and cert/key files also required.  

    Instructions are to extract the the contents of the zip to their desktop, and to kick off appworx I have the following batch file:

    @echo off
    ::Variables::
    SET APPWORXDIR="%USERPROFILE%\.Appworx"
    SET CERTDIR=%~sdp0Client\cert\

    ::Creates .appworxdir under user profile if it doesnt exist
    ::Copies required keystore files to communicate with appworx
    IF not exist %APPWORXDIR% mkdir %APPWORXDIR% 2>&1
    COPY /Y %CERTDIR%\keystore%APPWORXDIR% 2>&1
    COPY /Y %CERTDIR%\keystore_config %APPWORXDIR% 2>&1

    ::Execution of appworx
    cd %~sdp0Client
    java -jar RunClient.jar

    hope that helps


  • 9.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted Apr 04, 2020 04:59 PM
    Many thanks to Lee Tiv.
    I only have to worry about 3 other folks, but your BAT file is much more elegant than mine!

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    DBA / Sr Enterprise Applications Administrator
    Franklin & Marshall College
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  • 10.  RE: Applications Manager 9.3+ Client

    Posted May 08, 2020 10:05 AM

    We managed to create an installer for the 9.3.2 client using the Inno Setup tool (open source/free).

    The installer will places the client files (jars, .properties, etc) plus a "private" JDK (Amazon Corretto 11) under "C:\Program Files\AppWorx Client".  It will also copy the user_keystore and user_keystore_config files for all our environments under the %USERPROFILE%\AppWorx directory.     Lastly it will create a desktop shortcut.

    We included a batch file called AppWorx.bat to setup the runtime environment and kick off the client;  rather than having users click on the runClient.jar (seriously?)

    Our biggest challenge is that a good portion of our users do not have admin rights and the application needs to run as administrator; so the UAC prompt kicks in every time they try to run the client.   Still trying to figure this one out.

    Wolf.



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    Systems Coordinator
    University of Illinois Chicago
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