Article - CS198580
Detection, Removal and Prevention of Ghost Entities in ThingWorx Platform
Modified: 19-Feb-2025
Applies To
- ThingWorx Platform 5.0 to 9.7
Description
- What are Ghost Entities in ThingWorx ?
- Unable to create an Entity using the same name as an Entity that failed to create
- How to troubleshoot Ghost Entities in ThingWorx
- How to remove/prevent creation of Ghost Entities in ThingWorx
- Database corruption after creating entities programmatically
- What is proper error handling when creating entities programmatically?
- Need error handling code example to Delete Thing when CreateThing service fails
- Unable to export entities in ThingWorx with error -
error: Unable to remove thing from database:...Node Not Found
- Thing created from a service is only visible from QueryImplementingThings
- Can't search out the thing created from a service, failed to create the same name thing with error the entity already exist
- How to check for Ghost Entities via a custom service
- Unable to delete the thing in ThingWorx with below error -
[1,018] Data store unknown error: [Error occurred while accessing the model provider.]
- Mashup shows Things that have been previously deleted, and can no longer be found within ThingWorx Composer
[1,018] Data store unknown error in application log and following logs in DataBase logs ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "model_index_entities_ukey" DETAIL: Key (entity_name, entity_type)=(AnalyticsServerRuntimeInstance, 2401) already exists. The name of the entity is not unique.
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