Primavera P6 Session Hung on Oracle Database

Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM

Occasionally a user will close a P6 application and the user’s session does not just go away. The easiest thing I’ve found is to check to see if there are hung sessions in the usession table (in Oracle – other database types may use a different name). This is the type of error you might … Read more

Updating the PrmBootStrap.xml Primavera P6 DB Configuration File on Citrix Servers

Oracle Primavera P6 EPPM

I support an environment where users access the Primavera P6 thick client on Windows via Citrix. If I connect to the Database Configuration app and add, modify, or delete the connection to a P6 database, the PrmBootStrap.xml file that is in my profile. For the version we are using (8.2), that location is C:\Users(username)\AppData\Local\Oracle\Primavera P6\P6 … Read more

Datacenter Migration, Authentication Changes, and Solaris – The Perfect Storm

Peter Griffin is calm while the world burns around him

The action of moving an Oracle Primavera P6 database from one server to another should be fairly simple. Changing the authentication type on that database from a virtual LDAP server to native Active Directory should also be simple. Doing both at the same time? Not so much. And even though I generally try to keep … Read more