Unable to Deploy process via Designer

LeeNa

Hi, I have just installed BPM 9 SR1. everything was ok until when i was trying to deploy a process. When i click Deploy. It prompted me to enter username and password. After entering it,it keep prompting me a warning message stating my username and password are invalid. May i know where is this username and password is being authenticated? I've checked from the Event Viewer, and this is the message i got. " Authentication failed for DCOM connection [ ], username [sa], additional data: Invalid user name or password." Anyone know what exactly i missed out???

scutura

Hi LeeNa, for the deployment you need a user with the right role.

 

By default your sysadmin will be able to deploy. You can setup every other user through Metastorm Admistration.

 

Best regards

Brian Mellert

Building in what Scutura said, if you want to use more than the default sysadmin account, add "real" users using via the admin tool and assign the Deployment role to those user(s) you want to be able to publish.  Then you should be able to log in to the deployment session with that user and deploy your solution.

Jerome_Pearce

The default username is SysAdmin, and password is metastorm, BTW

Rick Kushner

I am using SysAdmin and I still can't deploy. I still get the same error as LeeNa. I have also seen some issue about deploying from a PC that doesn't have the Engine installed, or at least the Deployment Service, locally!

John Grygorcewicz

We are having the same issue but have one machine running XP which is able to deploy. Our other machines cannot. If we go back to V9 without the SR 1 we are OK.

 

We are trying to fine out what is different on the machine that is able to deploy with SR1.

John Grygorcewicz

The only difference we can see at the moment is with the Microsoft updates that are on installed on each machine. We are going through those now...will keep you posted of what we find.

LeeNa

I noticed that the deploy config file at  Program Files\Metastorm\BPM\Designer\Deploy.config.xml the username and password was missing. I guess that is why it keeps showing the error invalid username and password when i was trying to deploy a process. 

 

however after adding the username password in the config file. I face the next problem. I have the following error shown in the event viewer. Not sure what exactly is the cause of it?

 

 

Fatal -> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.

   at Metastorm.Deployment.Core.DeploymentService.DoDeploy(IEntity rootEntity, IEnumerable`1 entities)

   at Metastorm.Deployment.Core.DeploymentService.Deploy(IEntity root, IEnumerable`1 entities) -> 8/16/2010 6:53:11 AM

 

 

MY PC is WinXP SP3. 

 

Vijay Kotecha

Hello Leena,

 

I suspect the problem you are seeing is with a file contained in the Deployment folder.

 

Please navigate to your installation folder, normally, C:\Program Files\Metastorm\BPM\Deployment.

The file in question is Metastorm.Deployment.Core.addin.
(Before making any changes please ensure the deployment service is stopped)

Open this file in notepad.

Ensure that the following section looks like this;

   
   
   
 

We have noticed in some instances, where the last line in the section is missing and can cuase the failure you are seeing.

Once you make the changes, restart the deployment service.

Try to deploy a simple proces.

 

 

Best Regards,

Vijay Kotecha