OpenText Archive Server Release Notes

10.5
2015-06-17
Revision version: 17

Contents
1

Introduction .................................................................................................................................... 4
1.1

Release Notes Revision History .......................................................................................... 4

About OpenText Archive Server ................................................................................................... 6

2.1

New Features ....................................................................................................................... 7

2.2

Discontinued and Deprecated Features .............................................................................. 7

Packaging and Documentation .................................................................................................... 7

3.1

Packaging and Delivery Information .................................................................................... 7

3.2

Related Documentation ....................................................................................................... 8

Supported Environments and Compatibility ............................................................................... 8

4.1

Supported Systems.............................................................................................................. 8

4.2

Cluster environment ........................................................................................................... 11

4.3

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine ........................................................................................ 11

4.4

Supported Web Browsers for the Archive Monitor Client .................................................. 11

4.5

Supported Storage Platforms ............................................................................................ 12

4.6

Compatibility Matrix............................................................................................................ 12

4.7

Archive Server API 10.5 ..................................................................................................... 12

4.8

Component names............................................................................................................. 13

4.9

Restrictions ........................................................................................................................ 13

4.10

Supported Scenarios ......................................................................................................... 14

Installation and Upgrade Notes .................................................................................................. 16

5.1

Installation Notes ............................................................................................................... 16

5.2

Upgrade Notes ................................................................................................................... 16

5.3

Patches .............................................................................................................................. 16

Recommendations and Scenarios ............................................................................................. 17

6.1

Host names of Archive Server ........................................................................................... 17

6.2

Time settings ...................................................................................................................... 17

6.3

Antivirus software............................................................................................................... 17

6.4

Passwords ......................................................................................................................... 17

6.5

Volume migration ............................................................................................................... 17

6.6

Storage Quotas .................................................................................................................. 17

6.7

Archive Server Configuration Parameters ......................................................................... 18

6.8

Disk buffer .......................................................................................................................... 18

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Archive Server HW Recommendation ............................................................................... 18

Fixed Issues .................................................................................................................................. 19

Known Issues ............................................................................................................................... 21

8.1

Archive Cache Server ........................................................................................................ 25

8.2

Archive Server Administration ............................................................................................ 27

Contact Information ..................................................................................................................... 28

OpenText Archive Server 10.5 Release Notes

1 Introduction
These Release Notes provide an overview of OpenText Archive Server 10.5, including new features,
delivery information, and supported platforms. OpenText recommends that you read these Release
Notes in conjunction with the documentation included with the software package. If any conflicts exist,
the Release Notes supersede the other documentation.
We also recommend that you check the OpenText Knowledge Center
(https://knowledge.opentext.com/) for any patches or documentation updates that may have been
posted after the initial release of OpenText Archive Server 10.5.

1.1

Release Notes Revision History

Release
Notes
Revision
Number

Modification
Date

Section Modified

Modifications

All

Initial release

7, 8

Updated due to patch bundle release 2013.1

4.9.4

New chapter: Server Survey Tool

6.9

Added Figures for minimum requirements

8-30-2013

5.1, 5.2

Improved links to KC

11-27-2013

4.1, 4.1.1

Solaris 10 Support

11-29-2013

External/internal Hostname

Wrong response for cache that is not

configured correct

Delay with Remote Standby access

4.1, 4.1.2

Support of Windows 2012 R2, Red Hat

RHEL 5

4.3

Supported Web Browsers

12-05-2013

8.2

Shadow Pool volume name restriction

2-24-2014

4.1, 4.1.2

Added Virtualization statements for nonWindows platforms

3-13-2014

6.9

Corrected typos

3-28-2014

4.1.1, 4.2, 8, 8.1

SAP NetWeaver is not supported

3-28-2014

Volume size limit

4-26-2013

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Release
Notes
Revision
Number

Modification
Date

Section Modified

Modifications

3-31-2014

7, 8

Fixed and new restrictions

4-01-2014

4.1

Oracle Support on Microsoft Windows 2012

4-02-2014

4.1.1

Required Java for IBM AIX 7.1

4-09-2014

4.2

Clarification on cluster environment

4.1.2

Clarification on virtualization environment

6-05-2014

4.2

Corrected statement about cluster

environment

7-10-2014

7, 8

Fixed with patch bundle 2014.2

4.1

Support of SAP Hana DB

New restriction

8-05-2014

4.1

Support of DB Oracle 11.2.04 on Windows

2012

10

8-20-2014

5.2

Upgrade hint when Archive Server 10.1.1/

RCS 10.2.1 is deployed on Tomcat 7
already.

9-18-2014

2.2

10-02-2014

5.3, 7, 8

10-23-2014

4.1

11-28-2014

4.3

12-05-2014

12-12-2014

4.1

05-01-2015

4.1.2

08-01-2015

4.1.1

Updating Tomcat 7

24-02-2015

4.1.2

Clarification on virtualization software

19-03-2015

Added restrictions

userSync is not supported

11

12

13

14

OpenText Archive Server 10.5 Release Notes

Patch bundle September 2014

Support of DB Oracle 12 for Red Hat RHEL

6 and IBM AIX 7.1
Supported browser versions
New restrictions
Support of DB Oracle 11.2.04 on Windows
2012 R2
Support of Hyper-V 2012

Release
Notes
Revision
Number

Modification
Date

Section Modified

Modifications

15

27-05-2015

4.1

Support of Microsoft SQL Server 2014

4.1.1

Support of Java 8

16

16-06-2015

4.3

Support of Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines

17

17-06-2015

4.3.1

Azure VM size

2 About OpenText Archive Server

OpenText Archive Server enables storage, management and retrieval of data and documents.
The OpenText Archive Server is a scalable and integrated service for archiving all of your enterprise
content. This content is archived on a secure document repository, giving you the guarantee that all
documents are safely stored for years, yet still instantly available when needed.

OpenText Archive Server 10.5 Release Notes

2.1 New Features

OpenText Archive Server 10.5 includes the following new features.

2.1.1 Single File backup

Local backup of Hard Disc bases systems

Local backup to different medium type

2.1.2 Configuration of storage systems

Storage systems can be configured initially via Administration Interface (MMC).

2.1.3 Monitoring/ Statistics/ Threat Detection

App for Monitoring/ Statistics/ Threat detection based on HTML5

2.2

Discontinued and Deprecated Features

The following features have been deprecated in this release:

Old OpenText Monitoring Web Client

The following features have been discontinued in this release:

Direct support of optical jukeboxes

Timestamp control client
Runtime and Core Services is no longer used.
OpenText Archive Server API does no longer support the flag delayed.
Trouble shooting utilities are no longer shipped with the product.
RPC interface for document access is discontinued.
Archive property No delete / no error is no longer available.
Application types are no longer supported
The tool userSync is not supported.

3 Packaging and Documentation

Downloads and documentation for OpenText Archive Server are available in the OpenText Knowledge
Center (https://knowledge.opentext.com/).

3.1

Packaging and Delivery Information

The software is posted as an ISO-9660 image file in the download area of the Knowledge Center:
https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/13055575
Documentation on Archive Server is available under: https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/12331031

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3.2

Related Documentation

For additional information on OpenText Archive Server, or for supplemental information on related
products, refer to the following documents, which are available in the OpenText Knowledge Center
(https://knowledge.opentext.com/).
Additional technical hints can be found in the Knowledge Base under:
https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/15391847

4 Supported Environments and Compatibility

This section provides details on supported platforms and version information.

4.1

Supported Systems

The following sections provide a reference to the supported hardware and software components
required to use OpenText Archive Server 10.5.
Only the products and versions specified in the Release Notes are supported. Other versions have
not been tested and are therefore not officially supported for this version. The Release Notes contain
the definitive list of supported versions. Any other versions mentioned in the product documentation
are superseded by the versions specified in the Release Notes.
If no service pack, maintenance level, patch level or similar is explicitly mentioned for a specific
software version, Open Text supports all deliverables for this version that are released by the
manufacturer, unless explicitly stated otherwise. If details of a specific service pack, patch and
maintenance level etc. is given, then this one and all subsequent ones are supported.

OpenText Archive Server 10.5 Release Notes

Operating System

Processor

Microsoft Windows Server

2008 R2 64-bit

x86-64

Microsoft Windows Server

2012 64-bit

x86-64

Microsoft Windows Server

2012 R2 64-bit

x86-64

Oracle

11.2 64-bit

Microsoft SQL
2
Server

SAP Hana DB

2008 R2 64-bit

2012 64-bit
11.2.0.4 64-bit
12.1 64-bit

11.2.0.4 64-bit
12.1 64-bit

2012 64-bit

2012 64-bit

2014 64 bit

Oracle Solaris 10 64-bit

(Update 9 or higher)

SPARC

11.2 64-bit

Oracle Solaris 11 64-bit

SPARC

11.2 64-bit

HP HP-UX 11i v3 64-bit

Itanium

11.2 64-bit

IBM AIX 7.1 64-bit

POWER

11.2 64-bit
-

1 Service Pack 7

12.1 64-bit

11.2 64-bit

Novell SUSE Linux ES 11

64-bit

x86-64

Red Hat RHEL 5 64-bit

x86-64

11.2 64-bit

Red Hat RHEL 6 64-bit

x86-64

11.2 64-bit

12.1 64-bit

12.1 64-bit

The database can be installed locally or on a remote system.

Oracle Database
Oracle Real Application Cluster (RAC) 11.2 is supported as remote database. If you want to use
Oracle roles then please contact customer support.
Contact Professional Services for use of Oracle Data Guard cluster database.

Instruction set

Supported editions: Standard and Enterprise

With 64bit Oracle client 11.2.0.4

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4.1.1 Runtime environment

Application Servers:

Apache Tomcat 7 (64 Bit)

Oracle WebLogic 12c for
o
o

Oracle Solaris 11
Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 using an Oracle Database

Updating Tomcat 7 is described in https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/56938643

Important
SAP NetWeaver is not supported!

Java Environment:

Java 7: JRE or JDK (64 Bit)

Java 8: JRE or JDK (64 Bit)

Note:

On Solaris 10 or 11 Java 7 update 21 or higher must be installed.

On AIX 7.1 Java SR6 or higher must be installed.
Java 8 requires Tomcat 7.0.50 or higher.

4.1.2 Supported Virtualization Software

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Hyper-V R2
VMware vSphere 4.0, 5.0 and above

Microsoft Windows Server 2012 & Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2

Microsoft Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V R2

VMware vSphere 5.0 and above

Solaris 10, 11, HP-UX 11i, AIX 7.1

The built virtualization technology is supported.

SUSE Linux ES 11, RHEL 5, RHEL 6

VMware vSphere 4.0, 5.0 and above

Other combinations and/or virtualization software:

OpenText Archive Server is supported for use with the server operating systems listed in 4.1. The
supported server operating systems may be installed on physical or virtual hosts. Customers that

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choose to use a virtual environment are encouraged to select a virtualization platform intended for
production systems and known to be fully supported by the server operating system vendor.
Please note that OpenText Archive Server will require at least the same amount of resources in a
virtual environment as it would in a physical environment. Therefore, additional resource scaling may
be required to maintain the same level of performance in a virtual environment as observed in
physical environment.
Please make sure that the 3rd party software required by OpenText Archive Server is supported by
the virtualization technology to be used.

4.2

Cluster environment

Contact Open Text Professional Services for installation/setting up of Cluster environments.

Clustered File systems like OCFS (Oracle Cluster File System) or Red Hat Global File System (GFS)
must not be used as shared file system.
Running a Remote Standby Server on a cluster is not supported.

4.3

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine

Microsoft Azure Virtual Machine Services offer an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Open
Text Archive Server 10.5 and Directory Services 10.5 are supported on Azure Virtual Machines (IaaS).

4.3.1 Prerequisites

Archive Server Patch Collection 1050.2015.01

Azure VM Operating system: Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2
Database: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 SP1
Minimum Azure VM size for productive use: 2 cores and 3.5 GB RAM in standard configuration

The IaaS platform allows deploying various scenarios, including hybrid deployments with connections
to the on premise customer network.
For questions about installation, sizing, storage, backup, monitoring, integration into on the premise
network, contact OpenText Professional Services.

4.4

Supported Web Browsers for the Archive Monitor Client

The following Web browsers are supported:

Internet Explorer 10.0, 11.0

Mozilla Firefox 33
Safari on iOS 6.1

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4.5

Supported Storage Platforms

For supported storage systems, see the OpenText Archive Server 10.5 Storage Platforms Release
Notes. Use of storage systems can require consulting by Open Text Professional Services or
hardware vendors.

4.6

Compatibility Matrix

For details on compatibility between OpenText products, refer to the Compatibility Matrix
https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/15909981 in the OpenText Knowledge Center.

4.7

Archive Server API 10.5

Use of the Archive Server API requires additional licenses.

API versions 9.7.1 and 10.1.1 are compatible with OpenText Archive Server 10.5.
In IPv6 environments, the following environment variable must be set for a client application using the
API: DSH_USE_IPV6=yes

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4.8 Component names

Component names are treated as binary data. The length is limited to 255 characters.
Note: Unicode characters are supported.
Some characters are not permitted as part of component names for documents in Archive Server. For
further information, see Knowledge Base entry Forbidden characters for filenames:
https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/15531700
Trailing blanks are not allowed for component names.
Reference AS-5377

4.9

Restrictions

4.9.1 Retention Periods

Use of event-based retention is not released.

4.9.2 Language Support

Only English versions of the operating system are supported.

4.9.3 3rd Party Monitoring Products

This paragraph addresses support provided by Open Text for its OpenText Archive Server software
rd
running with 3 party monitoring products.
Open Text expects the monitoring tools to be transparent for the OpenText Archive Server software.
For Open Text customers who have a support agreement, Open Text will use reasonable efforts to
investigate potential issues with Open Text software running with monitoring tools. As part of that
investigation, Open Text may require that the issue be reproduced independently from the monitoring
products. Where issues are confirmed to be unrelated to the monitoring software, Open Text will
support its software in a manner that is consistent with support provided when that software is not
running in such an environment.

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4.10 Supported Scenarios

4.10.1 Archive Cache Server
Archive Cache Server supports the same operating systems as the Archive Server.

4.10.2 Remote Standby Server

Remote Standby Server and Original Server must use the same Archive Server version and
patch level.
Remote Standby scenarios are not supported for Archives that are used within Enterprise Library
scenarios (i.e. Archives that are used to host records referenced within Content Server).

4.10.3 Supported Timestamp Providers

If you want to use Timestamp Providers, not mentioned in this document please contact Open Text
Customer Support.
The algorithms supported by OpenText Archive Server are:
RIPEMD-160, SHA-256, SHA-512
The hash algorithms mentioned below are the algorithms supported by the Timestamp providers.
AuthentiDate
Supported scenario:

Timestamps via Internet for ArchiSig

Supported hash algorithms:

RIPE-MD160, SHA-256, SHA-384, SHA-512

Contact:

http://www.authentidate.de

Quovadis
Supported scenario:

Timestamps via Internet for ArchiSig

Supported hash algorithms:

SHA-1, SHA-256, SHA-384 and SHA-512

Contact:

http://www.quovadisglobal.ch

4.10.4 Server Survey Tool v10.5

Server Survey Tool is an application to collect information about an OpenText Archive Server's
installation, e.g. OS, database, Archive Server version, patches, configuration etc.
The Server Survey Tool is called on the OpenText Archive Server. It can be called even if the
OpenText Archive Server is not running. The tool collects information and writes the output text files in
a folder. You can use the output to document the current state of your installation. In case of

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problems, you can send the output to Open Text Customer Support where it can help support
personnel to track down and fix the cause of your problem.
Prerequisites
Server Survey Tool version 10.5 is released for OpenText Archive Server 10.5. JRE 7 needs to be
installed to run the Server Survey Tool.
Download and Installation
Download is available under folder Archive Server Tool Package:
https://knowledge.opentext.com/knowledge/cs.dll?func=ll&objId=33706999&objAction=browse
Download the zip file Open Text Server Survey Tool 10.5 and extract the zip archive into any
convenient location on the OpenText Archive Server. The zip file contains a README.txt file for basic
usage.
To get an overview on the usage and options available for the Server Survey Tool run:
java -jar sst.jar -h

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5 Installation and Upgrade Notes

This section provides additional installation and upgrade information, including related or third party
product information and any required critical patches.

5.1

Installation Notes

Before you install OpenText Archive Server, review these additional installation notes and verify
related product or third party product requirements.

The installation guides are available in the Knowledge Center under:

https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/33716843

5.2

Upgrade Notes

Before you upgrade, review these instructions.

The upgrade guides are available in the Knowledge Center under:

https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/33716843

Note: If Archive Server 10.1.1/ RCS 10.2.1 has been deployed on Tomcat 7, then its required to
install a new Tomcat 7 instance for upgrading to Archive Server 10.5.

5.3

Patches

The following patches must be applied to OpenText Archive Server 10.5:

Archive Server and Enterprise Library 10.5.0 patch collection 2014.03
This is available in the Knowledge Center under: https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/35946516
The fixes are listed in the Update Installation Guide of the patch collection in chapter patch
descriptions.

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6 Recommendations and Scenarios

6.1

Host names of Archive Server

See Knowledge Base article Renaming an Archive Server 10.5 Computer

6.2

Time settings

All computers (servers and clients) must use a central time server.
Times returned by the OpenText Archive Server are in UTC (coordinated universal time).

6.3

Antivirus software

To archive virus-free documents, you must protect the documents from viruses before archiving.
Archive Server does not perform any checks for viruses. To ensure error-free work of OpenText
Archive Server, locations where documents are stored temporarily like disk buffer partitions, cache
partitions, and Document Pipeline directories must not be scanned by any antivirus software while
Archive Server is using them.

6.4

Passwords

The minimum length for passwords of users administered by OpenText Archive Server 10.5 is
8 characters.

6.5

Volume migration

Remote Volume Migration is supported:

- from Archive and Storage Services 9.7.1, Archive Server 10.1.1
Note: If you want to use Remote Volume Migration in other scenarios, contact your Open Text
Professional Services department.
It is strongly recommended to use 1 Gigabit Ethernet connection between source and target system.

6.5.1 Ports in use for Remote Volume Migration

See Knowledge Base article (Ports in use for Remote Volume Migration Article number):
https://knowledge.opentext.com/go/15642716

6.6

Storage Quotas

Quotas imposed by the operating system on storage platforms are not supported.
Note: This does not apply to quotas imposed by the storage system itself. Storage systems with
quotas must behave like a normal disk partition.

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6.7

Archive Server Configuration Parameters

Adding new configuration variables in the Administration client under Archive Server / Configuration is
not supported.

6.8

Disk buffer

Local disks or SAN disks have to be used for disk buffers. Dynamic disks are not supported.

6.9

Archive Server HW Recommendation

Minimal hardware requirements for productive installations of Archive Server including local
database:

Archive Server has to be hosted on 64 bit hardware.

Memory recommendation for all supported Operating systems:
minimum 8GB; recommended 16GB
CPU recommendation: at least 4 cores
Provide more CPU Power/Memory Important for single Instance Archiving, compression,
encryption, creation of ISO images.
Minimum hard disk requirement 1 TB, several, multiple partitions
all disks must be mirrored, e.g. Raid1, Raid5
Typically AS performance depends on Disk I/O. Hence a Fast Disk I/O system is mandatory for
high volume archiving.
Network: Min. 1GB Ethernet

Such a systems allow archiving/retrieval of

Document ingestion about 1000000 documents per day (100 GB)

Read requests about 5000000 documents per day

With following assumptions:

Average document size: 100 kB

Ingestion time frame: 8 hours
Storage system: NAS/CAS

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7 Fixed Issues
This section provides information about past issues that have been fixed in this release.

Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-2839

Volume migration client still accepts default retention setting

(-6). This is not handled by the Archive Server any longer
and must not be used.

AS-5775

If the Patch ASR-1021-001 (or any further patch which

replaces this patch) is installed after the first start of the
Tomcat the parameter Enable CRC32 check is true and
must be changed to false.

AS-5716

Generalized Storage process might crash in case of

database problems.

AS-7610

Tomcat/ De-installation of a patch: It is necessary to delete

the directories within the Webapps directory of Tomcat that
correspond to the patched war files after de-installation of a
patch.

AS-5718

Concurrent exporting and reviewing of volumes within

Administration client might lead to exception messages.

AS-5662

Archive Cache Server cannot be used with SSL on IBM AIX

if the Archive Server is hosted on AIX as well.

AS-3080

Protocol files of write-back documents are not deleted

automatically. Ensure regular deletion of protocol files to
avoid decrease of storage.

Web Viewer and Archive Cache Services

Web Viewer and Archive Cache Services must not be

installed within the same Tomcat.

AS-8307

If no backup exists for the volume then Last

Replication/Backup for volumes within ISO Pools show
1970-01-01 01:00:00 instead of -

Fixed with Patch Bundle 2013.1

Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-8160

Archive Server deployed in Oracle WebLogic Application

Server: Usage of Amazon S3 Storage is not released.

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Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-8074, AS-8087

If a lot of volumes are used then Archive Server startup may

take very long.

AS-8120

Exporting documents (dsTools export) is very slow using

Oracle database.

AS-8106

A document stored in a Centera VI pool may become

inaccessible for some time if one of its components is
deleted or updated.
The issue can be resolved immediately by restarting the
application server.

AS-8079

The number of volumes for a pool is limited to 1000.

Fixed with Patch Bundle 2014.1

Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-9624

If the volume name is too long (more than 31 characters

because of the VolumePattern), it can happen that the
shadow pool will be created partly. In this case the pool and
the attached jobs must be deleted manually.

Fixed with Patch Bundle 2014.2

Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-10132

Encryption on the fly cannot be used with Single Instance

Archiving for msg format.

Fixed with Patch Bundle 2014.3

Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-9748

Attribute Migration imports wrong CRC32 checksum

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8 Known Issues
The following known issues exist in this release.

Issue Name

Issue Description

Underline _

Using of underscore within the name of logical Archives may

lead to problems in certain scenarios.

Volume migration

Volume migration is not supported with Hana DB.

AS-10246

Timestamp verification for decomposed emails is not

possible.

AS-11853

If the sign in to Archive Monitoring is not possible then the

URL http(s)://<host>:<port>/archive/monitoring has to be
specified.

AS-11760

ADMS_DEL_VOL_NOT_MODIFIED_SINCE_DAYS (within
ADMS.Setup) must not be set to zero.

AS-9490

In certain scenarios the external host name may differ from

the internal host name and the external IP address is not
equal to the internal IP address.
This may break AS internal communication in two ways:
1. Archives are not detected as local because short external
host name cannot be resolved at all on AS
2. Internal RPC call calls to (long or short) external host
name are not recognized as local, which breaks e.g. the
write tools.
Workaround:
Add a line to the hosts file such that both short and fully
qualified external host names are mapped to the internal IP
address.

AS-9042

The global cache must be configured properly (e.g. at least

one volume is assigned) otherwise it seems that document
access succeeds but no content is delivered.

AS-8488

Volume size limit for Archive Server is 8 TB.

AS-7037

IXOS, SAP or TSTP must not be used as logical Archive

names.

AS-7768

Wild card search within documents is not possible.

AS-8840

If the original Archive Server is down then calls to the

Remote Standby Server then there will be a call overhead
when DSH_ADMS_REFRESH_INTERVAL is exceeded.

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Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-8303

The network configuration is missing for the Server Survey

Tool output on HP-UX.

AS-7684

Delayed archiving should not be used for Archives with

shadow pool.

Restrictions in connection with the use of TSM

Single File Storage and Tapes

See Knowledge Base Article KB: 35599299

AS-6986

The expand/collapse buttons do not work for Monitor Web

Client within Firefox, Internet Explorer 11.

AS-6170

Addressing a mount path or network share directly for a disk

volume does not work. Its required to address a subfolder
below the mount point.

AS-8155

Archive Server deployed in Oracle WebLogic Application

Server: Usage of OTDS is not released.

AS-8075, AS-8072

Retention prolongation is not reflected on storage for Single

Instance Documents.

AS-7990

Retention prolongation is not done on the storage if there is

a pending write job for the storage.

AS-6848

Remote migration of documents with Archisig timestamps is

not supported.

AS-5667

On Unix the change of the process priority with vmclient is

not working.

AS-5548

Setting parameter CHECK_CONTREP to Off is against the

SAP specification and hence will be no longer available.

AS-8138

Timestamp verification strict fails on AIX for documents with

ArchiSig hashes after importing from an ISO image.

IPv6 support

IPv6 addresses in place of host names are not supported. It

must be ensured that host names are resolved to IPv6
addresses.

Starting Archive Server processes (UNIX only)

In order to start the Archive Server processes (i.e. call script

S18BASE start), the root user is required.

AS-5559

Custom attributes are only persisted within the database.

Restore from medium is not possible.

Archive Server Cache paths (Windows only)

Subdirectories must not be used as cache path.

AS-5334

There might be issues with full qualified (FQDN) and short

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Issue Name

Issue Description
host names (SHN). This can be avoided by setting additional
variables MY_HOST_NAME=<SHN> and
MY_HOST_NAME_ALIASES=<FQDN> in DS configuration.

AS-5268

It is not possible to create component versions with a

number greater than 999.

AS-5279

The replication job can fail to delete a document, if single

instance archiving used. The problem is solved next time the
job runs.

AS-5238, AS-5240, AS-5271

ArchiSig must not be used for components of type: single

instance archiving, Blobs and components greater than 500
MB (parameter BIGSIZE).

ArchiSig: reHashTree

Tool dsReHashTree is not supported

AS-5493

verifyATS and getATS for old timestamps (type dsSign) is

only supported if the hash algorithm of the old timestamp is
available within ArchiSig.

AS-5293

To use form overlays or hyperlinks in print lists in seckey

protected archives it is necessary to enable the signUrl
functionality in the Archive Server.
The use of forms in protected archives is only supported
when the data is also in a protected archive and the leading
applications certificate is also enabled for the archive in
which the form is stored.
Contact Open Text Customer Support if you need this
functionality.

Size of ISO images

The recommended size for ISO images is 4 GB.

The maximum supported size for ISO images is 10 GB.

Maximum number of volumes within STORM

STORM does not support more than 65000 volumes

AS-3173

When you delete data in a logical archive that has the

retention setting Purge Destroy (unrecoverable), this results
in overwriting of the document's files with random patterns.
This does not work for all file systems!
E.g.: SUN ZFS uses Copy-on-Write (blocks are not
overwritten but copied) and the NetApp file-system
(WAFFLE) uses an identical mechanism.
The administrator has to check how attached file system and
storage system behave on overwriting files when enabling
that feature.

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Issue Name

Issue Description

Calling command line tools

Command line tools require loading the Archive Server

environment first.
Under UNIX call:
<OT install AS>/bin/profile
Under Windows open a command line window and call:
<OT install AS>\bin\profile.bat

Installation: restricted choice for directories

CDDIR and CDIMG

The installation guide states the following restrictions for

directories chosen during installation:

a) directories CDIMG and CDDIR must not be

identical
b) var directory must not be a subdirectory of
neither CDIMG nor CDDIR
If some of these parameters have been chosen
inappropriately you still can correct them by taking the
following steps:

1.

Edit DS.Setup:
o
o

Open <config directory of archive

server>/setup/DS.Setup in an editor.
Correct two lines as follows:

CDDIR=<absolute path to correct cddir>

CDIMG=<absolute path to correct cdimg>
o Save DS.Setup
Create the two directories in the file system and make sure
that they are owned and writeable by the archive spawner
user.

Restart the archive spawner processes (spawncmd

stopall ; spawncmd startall) and the
application server.
AS-4898

The maximum number of groups a user can be assigned to

is 17. If you try to assign another group, a message is
displayed informing that the maximum number of groups for
the current user is reached. Assignment denied.

AS-7557

The schema migration of the database must be finished

before the shadow pools can be used.

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Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-7814

After deleting a shadow pool the application server must be

restarted.

AS-7604

Use of the AL migrate command in copy or move

mode is not supported for

documents having at least one SIA (source)

component

documents having at least one component in a BLOB

AS-7605

Shadow Pools:
In the tape scenario the usage of shadow pools is not
supported:

the FS pool used in tier2 must not have any

shadow pools
the GS pool used in tier3 must not have any
shadow pools

Additionally, the usage of TSM GS volumes in a shadow

pool of type GS is not allowed.
AS-7606

Shadow Pools:
The disk buffer used by a shadow pool must not be used in
any other pool as buffer.

AS-7608

Shadow Pools:
To get a complete backup in the shadow pool the
createLcpOrders utility will have to be run for the target pool
of volmig after all volumes have been processed
successfully by volmig.

AS-9768

8.1

dsPurgeVol must not be used with age zero days.

Archive Cache Server

Issue Name

Issue Description

AS-8118

Archive Cache Server 10.5 cannot be used with Archive

Server 10.1.1 using SSL

AS-5228

If both IPv4 and IPv6 are enabled on Archive Server and or

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Issue Name

Issue Description
Archive Cache Server, and Tomcat uses NIO connectors the
Tomcat will listen on IPv4 sockets only.
For the copy back job to work it is necessary to add the
variable AS_PREF_IP=4 in the system environment of the
Archive server.

ELIB-6823

If the Archive Cache Server is not available, a client using

the Archive Server API sends its requests directly to the
Archive Server.
If the client tries to access a placeholder (for a write-back
document residing on the Archive Cache Server which is
currently not available) the Archive Server will redirect the
client to the Archive Cache Server. As the Archive Cache
Server is down, the client assumes that the server it directed
the original request to is down, this is the Archive Server. As
a result the Archive Server will be marked as down, causing
all further client requests to any document on the Archive
Server to fail.
This behavior will prevail until the client refreshes its status
info of the server (some minutes).

AS-5267

It is strongly recommended not to use the root partition as

cache partition.
Windows creates a bunch of system folders in the root
partition with special security settings, e.g. System Volume
Information, $RECYCLE.BIN, etc.
In case a checkVolume is made on the Archive Cache
Server partition, it may try to delete these system files.
Depending on user/process rights the behavior is undefined.
Create a directory under the root partition and use this
directory as cache partition.

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Issue Name

Issue Description

ADC-428

Scheduled Activities Protocol List is limited to 500 entries;

showing and refreshing the list takes very long
To increase the number of lines of the protocol list (of the
jobs of Archive Server) the user environment variable
JOBPAGESIZE can be set.

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