Are your Media Objects being backed up?

Media Objects. What are these magical components within EnterpriseOne? How much would you really miss them if they were gone one day? First, let’s take a look at Media Objects and what they do before we dig deeper to see if they are being backed up.

Media Objects in E1 could be any of the following:

• Text – Notes utilizing built in word processor
• Image – e.g. a gif from a fax
• OLE – Object Linking and Embedding technology
• JDE Shortcuts – launch other E1 applications
• URLs – a web link such as www.brij.net

While in the E1 applications your users are probably using this functionality on a regular basis. They could be in Sales Order entry and need to add special instructions on how that order is to be handled and utilizing the Text type Media Object. They might be using Media Objects to store drawings of inventory items.

So where are these magical Media Objects being stored? Look at the application P98MOQUE.

If you note under the Queue path On-Line you will see the address of the server where these objects are stored. Usually this is the Windows server share path on the deployment server, but it could be any another file server on your network. In this example it is stored on the server ent02 and the share is actually mediaobj.

Check with your Network Administrator and confirm that the path defined under Queue path On-Line (e.g. \\ent02\mediaobj) is being backed up. The entire server might already be in the backup list but we are just doing some double checking.

The other location to look at is your JAS servers. This only relates to clients on SP23-8.96 tools releases. Locate your JAS.ini file first – this may require assistance from your CNC Administrator. Once the JAS.ini is located we will need to look at the stanza [OWWEB]. Here you will find a setting for MO QUEUE= and you will see something similar to the path below:

D:\WebSphere\AppServer\installedApps\ent02\EA_JS_81_ent02.ear\webclient.war\moqueue
Or
MO QUEUE=webclient.war\moqueue

Once again please see your Network Administrator to be sure your directories are being backed up on a regular basis. Keep in mind if you have multiple JAS servers, each one will need to be examined.

These tips are based on a typical out of the box installation on a Windows based platform. There could be other configuration variations, but the point is to be sure your Magical Media Objects are being backed up on a regular basis.

Tim Clauberg
Senior Solution Consultant, brij Image & Information