Troubleshooting Batch Client error ClrObject static method invocation error System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation

Recently, we shifted our Dynamics AX 4.0 Batch Clients from a Server box to Windows 7 Client. After the move, all other batches were running successfully except this batch which has some custom code to do FTP transmission and then move the files to a different directory

Error:

The batch Client was showing this error “ClrObject static method invocation error” and the inner exception revealed the below detailed error

System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException: Exception has been thrown by the target of an invocation. ---> System.IO.IOException: The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process.
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError(Int32 errorCode, String maybeFullPath)
at System.IO.__Error.WinIOError()
at System.IO.File.Move(String sourceFileName, String destFileName)
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.RuntimeMethodHandle._InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, SignatureStruct& sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner)
at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethodFast(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, MethodAttributes methodAttributes, RuntimeTypeHandle typeOwner)
at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture, Boolean skipVisibilityChecks)
at System.Refle! ction.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, CultureInfo culture)
at ClrBridgeImpl.InvokeClrStaticMethod(ClrBridgeImpl* , Char* pszClassName, Char* pszMethodName, Char* assemblyName, Int32 argsLength, ObjectWrapper** arguments, Boolean* isException)

 

Troubleshooting Steps:

Tried Restarting Batch Client box and AOS Service but without any luck.

Solution:

As the issue was with the FTP batch job and all other batches were working fine, we tried introducing sleep method with 10 secs of delay before the file move process kicked in. Still didn’t work, increased the delay interval for a further of 60 secs and now the batch started working again.

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Issue Installing Intelligent Data Management Framework

Correction:

Update from the MS Folks - The correct link to download IDMF Installation and Admin Doc is http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=16111


Sorry, I had a wrong install document which was bunded with Dynamics AX 2012 Upgrade Docs (in which the below AxSummationProject.xpo is mentioned. With the new installation doc, this step is no longer required.

Thought to share with you an issue which I'm facing while Installing IDMF (Intelligent Data Management Framework)

Last week I downloaded Intelligent Management Framework from the below link in CustomerSource

https://mbs.microsoft.com/customersource/downloads/servicepacks/ax_idmf.htm

I followed the Installation manual which comes with the download. There's a section in it which mentions about "Manually Running the Post-installation tasks"

If you go to Step 7 in that Section, you will find instruction to import Summation Xpo.

But, the issue here is you won't be able to find the xpo's anywhere in the location mentioned above. I did a search for the xpo's in my entire hard drive with no luck. Later on, I tried to examine the msi contents by extracting the msi file which I posted here and to my surprise, the .msi package is the culprit as there's no AxSummationProject.xpo in the XPO folder.

Anybody else facing this issue while installing IDMF, please drop a line? I have reported this issue to Microsoft via "Give Feedback" link.

Meanwhile, I was lucky to have an old copy of IDMF setup which I downloaded last year :) and it has the AXSummationProject.xpo which is missing from the current one.

I will be soon write a blog post on how I went with the installation and setup of IDMF. Watch this space!