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AJF
AJF

Reputation: 1931

Run a Notes Agent on the server

I have developed a Notes Agent that does exactly what I desire when I run it on my Workspace. The Notes database is on a domino server on our network. I scheduled the Agent to run at a certain time and on the actual server but it did not run. Why did the Agent not run as I specified the coreect server?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3421

Answers (4)

Richard Schwartz
Richard Schwartz

Reputation: 14628

You haven't given nearly enough information for us to pin down the precise cause, so if the other answers don't help you, here is an old but still very useful article that you should refer to in order to help you understand more, maybe fix your problem yourself, and give you enough background about how things work so it will be easier for you to collect information for additional troubleshooting:

Artcile About Troubleshooting Agents.

Pay particular attention to the section labeled Common Problems.

Upvotes: 0

user784540
user784540

Reputation:

  1. Check Notes Log database (log.nsf, located on your server's root folder), section Miscellaneous, a document on time when your agent should be executed. Error message may give you a hint, what went wrong.

  2. Make sure the signer of the agent has necessary permissions (to run scheduled agents on the server). This option can be set in the server document in the server address book (names.nsf located on your server's root folder).

  3. If your agent involves any file and/or network operations, make sure that the signer of your agent has necessary permissions to run restricted operations (server document in the server address book). And check Security tab of your agent properties and enable Allow restricted operations flag.

  4. Make sure that your agent does not use any UI-classes (NotesUIWorkspace, NotesUIDocument, etc) and neither use any script library that uses itself or refers to a library which uses UI classes. Only backend LotusScript classes are allowed for agents which run on the domino server context. Use of UI-classes in server agents lead to hard-to-catch errors for novices, when agent runs properly when launched manually, but does not work when is running as scheduled.

Upvotes: 1

Karl-Henry Martinsson
Karl-Henry Martinsson

Reputation: 2795

In addition to making sure that the ID used to sign the agent actually has the rights to execute code on the server, you also need to make sure that the agent is only using backend classes. Don't even declare any objects using the UI classes, or the agent will not run.

Upvotes: 1

Knut Herrmann
Knut Herrmann

Reputation: 30970

The agent's signer (that's your Notes id) has to have the right to execute (unrestricted) agents. Have a look in Domino Directory in server's document in security tab who is allowed to execute agents and sign the agent with such an id or let add your id to the list.

Upvotes: 0

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