[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Network errors when attempting z39.50 imports

[Duimovich, George]

Hello Raymond,

Please see attached .txt file for sample session in Yaz. Once you have the Yaz client installed, you work off of command line interface. In windows, Yaz opens up a command prompt like window with a Z> prompt.

It's a very useful tool to troubleshoot what you're getting from a Z39.50 server -- in our case, it came in very useful recently to determine that the output format from one of our Z39.50 targets was sending us some bad data (in turn helping us determine what needed to be fixed was not in Evergreen but in an external system, etc.)

Good luck!

George

George Duimovich
NRCan Library / Bibliothèque de RNCan

 

-----Original Message-----
From: open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org [mailto:open-ils-general-bounces at list.georgialibraries.org] On Behalf Of Raymond Norton
Sent: June 11, 2010 14:47
To: Evergreen Discussion Group
Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Network errors when attempting z39.50 imports

I cleared the logs, and only get this one error when attempting to import a record from LOC:

  grep ERR /openils/var/log/*.log
/openils/var/log/osrfsys.log:open-ils.cstore 2010-06-11 13:41:41 [ERR :3228:oils_cstore.c:5045:127628152433102] open-ils.cstore ERROR No "datatype" attribute for field "tcn_value"

No other errors pop up until the import is attempted.

I have zero experience with the yaz-client. Would you have know what the command would be to import a a test record via yaz?



On 6/11/2010 10:53 AM, Jason Etheridge wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Raymond Norton<admin at lctn.org>  wrote:
>    
>> As a test, I logged into an evergreen demo system and imported a record from
>> LOC. Minutes later, I attempted to import the same record into my system,
>> but no go.
>>      
> I'd still be tempted to use yaz-client from your server to see if
> there a connection problem (firewall, etc.) between your server and
> their Z39.50 server.
>
>    
>> Wow, didn't realize there would be so many logs. Which one should I be
>> tailing to troubleshoot this?
>>      
> I'd grep all of them like so:
>
> grep \\[ERR /openils/var/log/*
>
> Anything that matches is bad and noteworthy.
>
> Generally osrfsys.log is a good one to be following.
>
>    
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