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1E 8.1 (on-premises)

Troubleshooting

A general methodology for investigating issues with Dashboards, as well as identifying key issues and their resolutions.

1E Support contact details

Support Web portal

Maintenance support customers can log onto the 1E Support Web Portal at http://1eportal.force.com using the login details provided with their maintenance contract. This provides issue tracking, product hotfixes, and knowledge base articles related to each product.

Telephone support

Maintenance support customers can contact the technical support department at 1E through the following support numbers. Just phone the relevant number for your area, so your call can be routed quickly and efficiently to the correct support group:

  • US/Canada:

1-866-349-4032 (Toll-Free)

1-917-339-2360 (Standard)

  • UK/Europe:

+44 (0)208 326 3499

  • India:

+91 120 402 4002

  • Australia:

+61 739 111 118

Email support

Maintenance customers can use the following email for additional support. Evaluation customers can also use this email with the temporary access code that is provided through customercare@1e.com as part of their evaluation.

support@1e.com

Maintenance

You are recommended to review and apply hotfixes on a monthly basis. Hotfixes are provided in Hotfix Bundles and in Monthly Updates, which are installed using Tachyon Setup. Please refer to Maintenance.

Creating a technical report

If possible, please obtain the following details and log files before contacting 1E, to include in your technical report.

Version details

  • The OS, version number, and patch level for:

    • Tachyon Servers

    • 1E Client

    • Configuration Manager - if used

    • Other 1E Server software, for example, Shopping, Nightwatchman, and WakeUp.

  • For Nomad and Shopping, please provide OS, version number, and patch level for:

    • Configuration Manager DPs

    • Nomad extensions used on Configuration Manager Consoles

    • ActiveEfficiency Server.

Environmental details

  • If there were any recent changes made to your configuration

  • The name of the machines, Configuration Manager Application and/or Package IDs for when the issue occurred

Problem details

  • When did the issue occur, ensure log files cover this period

  • The scope of the issue – did it affect a particular geographical location, group of users, or client machines

  • Details of any self-help troubleshooting steps you carried out

  • In the event of a service crash or if you are experiencing high CPU or memory usage, provide us with the dump file, event viewer logs, and traces. We will provide you with FTP details to upload these files.

Log files

Below is a summary, please refer to the Log files page for more details.

Tachyon Setup log files

Tachyon Setup creates a Setup log file for itself and an Install log for each of the components (if used) in the same folder as itself:

  • BIInstall.log

  • CatalogInstall.log

  • ContentDistribution.log

  • SLAInstall.log

  • Tachyon.Setup.log

  • TachyonInstall.log

Tachyon Server log files

For any issue, please provide a zip containing log files from the following locations:

  • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Catalog\*.log

  • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\ContentDistribution\*.log

  • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Platform Consumers\*.log

  • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\SLA Platform\*.log

  • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Tachyon\*.log

If you are having licensing issues, please include:

  • %ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Licensing\*

Please refer to the Tachyon Platform 8.1 - Log files page for more details.

1E Client log files
1E Client logs on Windows

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Client\1E.Client.log (Used by 1E Client and Tachyon features, and Shopping client).

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Client\NomadBranchUninstall-YYYY_MM_HHTMM_HH_SS_000Z.log

1E Client logs on macOS

/Library/Logs/1E.Client.Daemon.log (shows any service start errors)

/Library/Logs/1E.Client.log (shows the current operation of the 1E Client)

1E Client logs on other non-Windows platforms

/var/log/1E/Client/1E.Client.log

Nomad client log

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\NomadBranch\LogFiles\NomadBranch.log

PXE Everywhere Agent log

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\PXEEverywhere\PXEEverywhere.log

Shopping WSA client log

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Client\WSA.log

WakeUp client log

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\1E\Agent\WakeUpAgt.log

Note

By default, Windows resolves %ALLUSERSPROFILE% as C:\ProgramData\

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