Configuration and Monitoring

In this section:

This section provides detailed descriptions of new configuration and monitoring features.


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Check Boxes Added to Kill Data Service Agents

The Data Services Agents page now includes check boxes to enable you to kill one or more agent.

Select the check box next to each agent, and click Kill Selected Agents, as shown in the following image.

The running agent is terminated, ending any current connection to that agent. If a request is then issued from such a connection, an error message is returned. After an agent is terminated, the Data Services Agents pane refreshes automatically. The corresponding row of the terminated agent remains, and the State is listed as stopping until the row eventually disappears. You can also click Refresh Now to update the pane and remove the row.


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Including Subject, Importance, and Body Information in Emails

How to:

Emails sent on the start, completion, or failure of a procedure can now include subject, importance, and body information.



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Procedure: How to Include Subject, Importance, and Body Information in Emails

You can set up email for procedures from the Web Console or the Data Management Console (DMC).

  1. From the Web Console menu bar, click Applications, or from the DMC, expand the Server node folder.

    On the Web Console, the Applications page opens.

  2. Expand an application folder.
  3. Right-click a procedure, select Schedule/E-mail, and then Manage.

    The Manage Schedule and E-mail for procedure page opens.

  4. Select the Advanced check box in the E-Mail On Start or E-mail On Completion section.

    Additional parameters become available, as shown in the following screen.

  5. To provide advanced parameters:
    • Select an option from the Importance drop-down menu: Normal, Low, or High.
    • Enter information in the Subject field.
    • Enter in information in the E-Mail Message field.
    • Select the Send HTML output as inline message check box (only available in the E-Mail On Completion section).

      Note: This option will use the report as the email body. Any content in the E-Mail Message field will not be included.

  6. Click Set or Set and Test Run.

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Support for Unlimited Connection Queue Size

How to:

Unlimited connection queue size is now available from the Data Service Properties page. Set the maximum_q parameter to -1 for unlimited queue size.



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Procedure: How to Set the Connection Queue Size to Unlimited
  1. From the menu bar, select Workspace.
  2. In the navigation pane, open the Data Services folder.
  3. In the navigation pane, right-click a Data Service and select Properties, as shown in the following image.

    The Data Service properties page opens.

  4. Select on from the Queuing drop-down menu.
  5. Enter -1 in the maximum_q field, as shown in the following image.

  6. Click Save.

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Restoring Defaults for Application Settings and Scheduler Properties

A Restore Defaults button has been added to the Application Settings and Scheduler Configuration pages. It enables you to revert configuration values to the server defaults.


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Creating Backup Copies of Server Configuration Files

How to:

Backup copies of the server configuration files can now be saved to provide restore points when the files are changed through the Web Console or the Data Management Console.

Note: This feature is not currently available on PDS servers.



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Procedure: How to Create Backup Copies of Configuration File
  1. From the menu bar, select Workspace.
  2. Right-click the Configuration Files folder and select New Backup, as shown in the following image.

    A confirmation message opens.

  3. Click OK.

    The Configuration Files Backup page opens, as shown in the following image.

    A folder with the backup files is created. The folder name uses a cf prefix, followed by the date and time, separated with an underscore. For example, cf110612_113717 is a backup created on November 6, 2012 at 11:37 am.

The configuration files that are backed up can include:



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Procedure: How to Restore Server Configuration Files From a Backup Folder
  1. From the menu bar, select Workspace.
  2. Right-click the Configuration Files folder and select Manage Backups.

    The Configuration Files Backup page opens.

  3. Right-click a backup folder and select Restore, as shown in the following image.

  4. When the confirmation message is displayed, as shown in the following image, click OK.


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Support for Procedures That Retrieve Email Addresses and User IDs

An email retrieval procedure can now be entered in the Mail To field on the Manage Schedule and E-Mail and Submit with E-Mail (Run with Options) pages, as well as the E-Mail field on the Customize New Event Routing page.

The procedure will be run to retrieve a list of email addresses or user IDs for recipients of the email.

If the procedure generates a list of user IDs, the email addresses will be retrieved from the user IDs registered in admin.cfg or in the LDAP directory for a server running with LDAP security. The syntax for entering the procedure in the Mail to or E-Mail field option is:

%baseapp/get_emails.fex

The following image shows an email-retrieval fex that will run on completion of the procedure.


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Adding Reports to a Custom Page

How to:

You can now add a procedure that generates a report to a Custom Page. The option is available from the Add Procedure button. The procedure is executed when the custom page is opened.

You can also edit custom pages that were created in earlier releases to include procedures. All Workspace pages previously added will be maintained.



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Procedure: How to Add a Report to a Custom Page
  1. From the Application page, select New and Custom Page.

    The Custom Page workspace opens, as shown in the following image.

  2. To add the procedure, click Add Procedure.

    The Select Page(s) to Add dialog box opens, showing the application folders.

  3. Open an application folder and click a procedure.

    The procedure is added to the Selected Page(s) field, as shown in the following image.

  4. Click OK.

    The procedure is added to the custom page.

  5. You can continue adding procedures or monitor pages. When you are finished, use the Arrange Windows button to position them.
  6. Click the Save As button.

    The File Picker page opens.

  7. Select an Application folder from the Look in drop-down menu, enter a name in the File Name field, and click OK.


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Limiting the Size of edaprint.log on PDS Servers

On PDS servers, you can now limit the size of edaprint.log using the edaprint_max_lines and edaprint_max_days parameters. This allows you to delete the log from the JES spool when a limit has been reached.

The edaprint_max_lines and edaprint_max_days configuration parameters are supported in PDS deployment mode when DD EDAPRINT is allocated to the JES spool (SYSOUT=class).

These parameters are available from the Workspace page by opening the Logs and Traces folder, right-clicking Workspace Logs, and selecting Properties.

The Workspace Logs Properties page opens, as shown in the following image.

The edaprint_max_lines parameter defines the maximum number of lines in an edaprint.log before it is archived, and a new edaprint.log is started.

The edaprint_max_days parameter defines the maximum number of days from the time the server is started before an edaprint.log is archived and a new edaprint.log is started.


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