September 24, 2018 – Advisory: VMWare vSAN and Data Integrity

Clients running vSAN 6.6 or later should review a very important article that VMware published on September 21, 2018.  The article describes the possibility of file system and database corruption, which can lead to outages and possible data loss, and we believe that some of our clients have encountered this issue.  Therefore, we encourage you to act on this as soon as possible.

The VMWare knowledge base article is titled:

Virtual Machines running on VMware vSAN 6.6 and later report guest data consistency concerns following a disk extend operation (58715)

We are excited to announce a new part of InterSystems documentation that makes it easier to upgrade InterSystems IRIS® data platform, InterSystems IRIS® for Health™, or HealthShare® Health Connect. The Upgrade Impact Checklist at https://docs.intersystems.com/upgrade shows you all the things you need to consider – and only the things you need to consider – in an upgrade between any two versions.

Hi Community,

Watch this video to see how to expand or truncate a database using the Management Portal in InterSystems IRIS data platform, and learn about the best times to do each:

⏯ Managing Database Size

Course: Managing InterSystems Servers

When: July 10-14, 2023 9am to 5pm US Eastern Time (ET)

Where: In-person only at InterSystems Headquarters in Cambridge, MA.

While you don't need to take your exam before the end of 2022, the vouchers provided to the UK&I Summit 2022 must be redeemed before January 1, 2023. Please register for an exam before time runs out. 

You can find additional information about the InterSystems Certification Program here.

Get certified on InterSystems IRIS System Administration!

Hello Community,

After beta testing the new InterSystems IRIS System Administration Specialist exam, the Certification Team of InterSystems Learning Services has performed the necessary calibration and adjustments to release it to our community. It is now ready for purchase and scheduling in the InterSystems certification exam catalog. Potential candidates can review the exam topics and the practice questions to help orient them to exam question approaches and content. Passing the exam allows you to claim an electronic certification badge that can be embedded in social media accounts such as Linkedin.  

InterSystems is proud to offer 50% discount on InterSystems Certification exams to all registered attendees of UK&I summit.  Vouchers will be available at the registration desk.

Available Exams

Hello IRIS Community,

InterSystems Certification is developing a certification exam for IRIS system administrators and, if you match the exam candidate description given below, we would like you to beta test the exam. The exam will be available for beta testing on June 20-23, 2022 at InterSystems Global Summit 2022, but only for Summit registrants (visit this page to learn more about Certification at GS22) . Beta testing will open for all other interested beta testers on July 18, 2022. However, interested beta testers should sign up now by emailing certification@intersystems.

Free certification exam attempt for all registered attendees of Global Summit 2022!

InterSystems is proud to offer free InterSystems Certification exam attempts ($150 value) to all registered attendees of InterSystems Global Summit 2022. The free exam attempt will be made available for any of the 7 live-proctored sessions during the Summit.

The Documentation team in InterSystems Learning Services is happy to announce the new InterSystems IRIS Server Migration Guide!

Have you ever wanted to copy, move, or clone an instance of InterSystems IRIS to a new server? Maybe the operating system on the old server is no longer supported, or maybe you want to add a new member to an existing mirror. Migrating your application databases is easy, but what about your tasks, users, roles, resources, and other security settings? What do you need to migrate, and how best to do it?

Hello Everyone,

In October 2021 we asked for input from the IRIS community regarding exam topics for our InterSystems IRIS System Administration exam. We will close the window for providing feedback on the exam topics on Wednesday, January 12, 2022. Thus, if you would like to have your say in what topics are covered on the exam, this is your last chance!

Extra perk for US-based, non-InterSystems employees: To show our appreciation for helping us validate our exam design, we will offer the first 20 volunteers that complete the survey a $50 gift card.

Greetings, InterSystems community!

I am pleased to announce that the web terminal project, Caché WebTerminal version 4 gets its release! After long period of enhancing this web application from 2013, it came to the version 4, which features major stability and security improvements, intelligent autocomplete and syntax highlighting, convenient SQL mode and a lot of other useful features.

The goal of this article is to spread the knowledge about this project over the InterSystems community.

Hi,

As part of our continuous efforts to expand and improve the InterSystems IRIS Data Platform, we’ve set up a brief survey around SQL monitoring. Your feedback will help us in designing and developing the right tools for the job and improve the platform’s overall ease-of-use. Please use the link below to access the survey, which should only take around 5 minutes to complete.

GA releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short)
  
InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking.
 
V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline.

Preview releases are now available for the first version (v1.0) of InterSystems System Alerting and Monitoring (InterSystems SAM for short).
  
InterSystems SAM v1.0 provides a modern monitoring solution for InterSystems IRIS-based products. It allows high-level views of clusters and single-node drilled down metrics-visualization together with alerts notifications.  This first version provides visualization for more than one hundred InterSystems IRIS kernel metrics, and users can extend the default-supplied Grafana template to their liking.
 
V1.0 is meant to be a simple and intuitive baseline. Please help us make it great by trying it and sending us feedback!

SAM can display information from InterSystems-based instance starting with version 2019.4
 
SAM is only available in container format. You will need the SAM Manager container plus a small set of additional open-source components (Prometheus and Grafana) that are added automatically by the composition file.

SAM components and the SAM Manager Community Edition are available from

• The WRC Preview page: as “SAM Components” and “SAM Manager” 
• Externally at the SAM components Github repo & the SAM Manager on Docker Hub if you want to download it before the docker-compose runs (this last link might not be available for few hours but the container is pullable)

If you are traveling or prefer a voice-based  Q&A description on what SAM is, here is a podcast we have prepared for you: 

Manage all of your APIs and servers from within InterSystems IRIS — find out how in the new API Manager with InterSystems IRIS resource guide!

Don't let your system grow unwieldy. Learn how to manage HealthShare Unified Care Record and make it work for you! HealthShare Management Resource Guides are now available through InterSystems Learning Services.

Hi Everyone,

Are you ready yet? Have you packed all you'll need for the summit? And don't forget the needed power-socket adapters if you come from outside the US! 

Have you signed up for the Container Bootcamp on Sunday? Or one of the various Experience Labs, the many informative sessions and one of the symposia on Wednesday afternoon?

Again, there is a mobile app for attendees that should help you keep it all under control and even allow you to book time with InterSystems personnel for a one-on-one deep-dive on whatever you need.

Hi Community!

Check the fresh Virtually Speaking recording "InterSystems on vSAN" with @Murray Oldfield 

Have a great weekend!

I have already mentioned my project CacheBlocksExplorer recently in two articles

1. Internal Structure of Caché Database Blocks, Part 2
2. Internal Structure of Caché Database Blocks, Part 3

Now I would like to inform that this project can be easily run with docker.

Version for Caché and for InterSystems IRIS, now publicly available on docker hub.

Remember that you need the appropriate license key (for RedHat Linux) to be able to run this project.

Caché

docker run -d --rm \
 -p 8080:57772 \
 -v ~/cache.key:/usr/cachesys/mgr/cache.

Do you want to simplify your user management by using Windows domain accounts? When you add LDAP integration to your system, you can: 

• Use the same logins on all your instances 
• Manage the user accounts centrally 
• Stop worrying about synchronizing accounts between systems 

In Active Directory Integration with LDAP, a live webinar (June 21, 11:00 a.m. EDT) Katherine Reid, Senior Support Specialist at InterSystems, will discuss the main options for integrating your user accounts with your domain, including delegated authentication and LDAP authentication.

This document describes considerations around SDDC and HCI solutions for InterSystems Clients.

Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) – Important Considerations for InterSystems Clients

A growing number of IT organizations are exploring the potential use of SDDC and HCI solutions. These solutions appear attractive and are marketed as simplification of IT management and potential cost reductions across heterogeneous data centers and cloud infrastructure options.

Have you ever thought about leveraging IIS (Internet Information Services for Windows) to improve performance and security for your Caché web applications?  
Are you worried about the complexity of properly setting up IIS?

See the webinar Configuring a Web Server presented by @Kyle Baxter,  InterSystems Senior Support Specialist. Learn how to install IIS, set up it up to work with the CSP Gateway, and configure the CSP Gateway to talk to Caché.

If you have not subscribed to our Developer Community YouTube Channel yet, let's get started right now.  

Enjoy!

Attached to this post is a PDF document outlining some of the key enhancements included with 2016.2. I will be giving a WebEx session that is open to all tomorrow at 11 AM EST. Once the WebEx is over I will be adding a link to the recording for those who cannot attend.

2016.2 Field Test Launch
Tuesday, February 2, 2016
11:00 am  |  Eastern Standard Time (New York, GMT-05:00)  |  30 mins
 
Meeting number:    747 673 229

Join!