[THIN] Re: New Server: Need advice
- From: Marco Cortigiani <tuscan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 22:28:26 -0400
Tyfanie,
I am familiar with fs 7.x, do you mean hr 7.57. Version 8 is web based,
and citrix has a good white paper that explain how to configure it on a
citrix server, and the advantages. Basically if I remember correctly you
need to install the browser on your server. Are you running peoplesoft 2
or 3 tiers? In either cases when you are installing peoplesoft you need
to switch the server in install mode and then run pscfg, look for the
workstation tab, I believe. Then select install the workstation and ODBC
driver. The ps configuration need to be customized for this environment,
and for this you need to work really close to a peoplesoft admin. The
main problem is that Peopletool in order to improve performance creates
user's caches on the local machine. If you don't twick this process
you'll end up having multiple users use the same cache with
unpredictable results. If you look at the article that I recommend you
there is a section that go over this issue. To avoid this issues you
have to replace some of the cache settings of the ps config with user
variable like %username%. When we implemented PS on our environment I
wrote a script that each time that the user was starting Peoplesoft,
was parsing a template configuration file and replacing on the fly some
place holder with the userid. After that I was importing the config and
finally launching the application. The script was a little bit complex,
that why I recommend you to look at the doc.
To get Crystal to work you need to copy one of 2 dlls from the Crystal
directory into the c:\winnt\system32, I don't remember the corrent
reason why, but give it a try.
Another recommendation is that you should create silos of peoplesoft
servers. In other words on install FS and HR on the same server. If you
can split the farm, even if they look similar FS and HR are really 2
totally different applications. After you are done with the installation
you'll have to twick the registry.
I have to get going now, but I can continue to help you someother time.
Marco
Wilson, Tyfanie wrote:
>Marco:
>
>We are already running PS FS7.01 and we were running HE7.57, though now =
>we are running HE8 (for the few users that cannot go through the heavy =
>client), and we will have to run FS8.4 for a few users as well. We were =
>able to get them working, albeit separately for the ODBC Driver issue & =
>users exporting to Crystal. Other than that, the previous owner of =
>these servers did a wonderful job of making it all integrate perfectly; =
>now I get to try to repeat the performance.. won't be easy. I =
>appreciate the link, I will probably need it when I find she did =
>something I wasn't aware of.
>
>Thanks again for everyone's help. I found a lot that I need to learn =
>more about before the servers come..
>~Tyfanie~
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Marco Cortigiani [mailto:tuscan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]=20
>Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2003 8:49 PM
>To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: [THIN] Re: New Server: Need advice
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>Wilson,
>What version of Peoplesoft are you going to install? I presume some=20
>flavour of 7.x since version 8 is web based. I implemented 3 peoplesoft =
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>module, basically the company ERP system on Citrix. Installing=20
>Peoplesoft in a multiuser environment is quite a challenge. You need to=20
>address the issue of the application individual caches, printing, number =
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>users per servers etc etc. I don't think that you are going to have=20
>problems with the OS or the Hardware, the biggest challenge is going to=20
>be the fine implementation of a single user application in a multiuser=20
>environment. We had to spend a lot of time to integrate this=20
>application. Check the citrix knowledgebase=20
>http://support.citrix.com/kb/entry!default.jspa?categoryID=3D122&entryID=3D=
>412&fromSearchPage=3Dtrue=20
>for articles about like this related to the integration of PS.
>We used just HP/Compaq for servers, I don't have any experience with =
>Delll.
>
>Marco
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>Wilson, Tyfanie wrote:
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>>All:
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>>Finally got the budget to upgrade servers, and I would very much value =
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>>your input/advice if anyone has any.
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>>Here are the specs I am looking at. Has anyone had any problems with =
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>>running Citrix on this, or can they see any problems I may have? (The =
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>>farm will have a PDC, BDC, 4 citrix load-balanced, running Peoplesoft & =
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>>a few other apps)
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>>Dell PowerEdge 4600:
>> Dual Processors, both Intel Xeon 2.4 GHz, 512 K Cache
>> 2GB DDR SDRAM 4X512MB
>> 2 18 GB HD
>> Embedded RAID (PERC3/Di 128MB 2 channels)
>> Redundant Power Supplies
>> CD/DVDR
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>>Thank you very much.=3D20
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>>~Tyfanie~
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