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API Failure workflow

mttwnxn — Thu, 06 Jul 2017 06:37:10 -0400

Hi - if we are running API pulls via Omniscope (e.g. DoubleClick) and for some reason these fail (maybe an external factor such as API downtime) can we set up a workflow to be able to loop around and retry x number of times?

Scheduler: Refresh action skipping one of 3 sources?

Alexander — Thu, 14 Jan 2016 07:12:31 -0500

Hi all,

I was wondering whether anyone has experienced a similar situation, and what a solution might be.
Last night our scheduler performed a chain action. One of the tasks is a file action, (refresh and publish).

The file action has 3 main sources, combined in joins and append operations. The output only contained data from 2 of the 3 sources. When executed again this morning, the result was as expected containing data from all 3 sources.

This situation create a feeling of unstable processes, a feeling we desperately want to avoid ourselves but especially at the client side.

Scheduler file action: importing value order for Category fields

Alexander — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 15:52:16 -0500

Hi all,

In some of our dashboards we import the order of values in a category field, but we have to do this manually. Is it possible to add this function to the file action in the scheduler?

Thanks

Idea: Scheduler - Scheduled tasks finished successfully?

Alexander — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:12:13 -0400

Hi All,

We would like to introduce an idea. Working the Scheduler we would like to have an overview of all the tasks, the last scheduled run and if it was successful.

Is there something available like that? Or could this be added to the wish list for future development?

(Attached an image of a task list that shows the information we would like to see)

Scheduler: Concurrent task execution (2.9 Plus)

steve — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 05:15:19 -0400

We've just added concurrent scheduler execution to Omniscope, as requested here:
http://forums.visokio.com/discussion/851/idea-scheduler-running-2-jobs-at-one-time/p1

For those who use the Scheduler to manage automated refresh and publishing tasks, you can now configure the server to process multiple tasks in parallel.

This has now been integrated into the 2.9 Plus version, from build 1615 onwards, available now:
http://www.visokio.com/download/plus

Once installed, start Omniscope Server, and open Scheduler > Config > Advanced. The new "Concurrency" setting is empty by default, which is the same as the previous behaviour of only executing tasks in series. Enter "2" or higher to allow parallel execution. Then stop and start the Scheduler service for it to take effect.

Check the "service_scheduler_log.txt" file, typically at http://your_server_ip:48080/logs/scheduler, to verify it has taken effect. Log messages will be preceded by "#0", "#1", ... to show which parallel worker is processing a task.

You should not set this value too high. Unless you have lots of low-CPU high-I/O tasks, on a 4-core server, it be very unlikely to help setting it higher than 4, and would probably degrade performance.

In any event, there must be enough memory in the server to process any tasks likely to overlap execution. If not, and you cannot increase server memory, reduce the concurrency number or rearrange the schedule.

We've also made some small refinements to the Scheduler UI, such as ability to "Add > Duplicate selected" on a list item (such as a task), and grouping of advanced options.

Please comment here with any test feedback.

Scheduler: Tasks performed only working days & hours?

Alexander — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 10:16:34 -0400

Hi All,

We have some tasks that we run every few minutes. We would like that this "loop of tasks" is only performed working hours from 9 am until 5 pm every day, and/or only on working days.

Currently, we can only set a range on dates.

Scheduler: Running multiple instances concurrently

michael — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:12:26 -0400

To run 2..N Schedulers simultaneously:

In the text below:

1) Change YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME for you correspondent account name.

2.1) If you have User specific installation (not system-wide) replace OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR for:

C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local\Visokio Omniscope app

2.1) If you have system wide installation, replace OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR for:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Visokio Omniscope

Make sure that the path exists.

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1) In your service directory

"OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\service\"

Create 2..N folders s1..sN

2) In each directory create config.xml file
and set different/correspondent port and configurationFilePath:
E.g.:

OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\service\s1\config.xml

OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\service\s2\config.xml

3) Go to "OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR"
and create executable file run_scheduler.bat (if you have x64 version, leave it as in the example below otherwise change for x86 )

For Omniscope 2.7
set CONF_DIR=%1
"OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\x64\bin\java.exe" -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -DschedulerConfigLocation="OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\service\%CONF_DIR%\config.xml" -Xms64M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=20 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:NewRatio=8 -XX:+UseSerialGC -Xmx6183M -Dvisokio.localappdata="C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local" -Dvisokio.winproxyenable="0" -Dvisokio.winproxyserver="" -cp "OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\Main.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\mail.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\activation.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\plugins\bccrypto.jar" com.visokio.ent.EntLaunch -scheduler

From Omniscope 2.8
set CONF_DIR=%1
"OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\x64\bin\java.exe" -Dsun.java2d.d3d=false -DschedulerConfigLocation="OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\service\%CONF_DIR%\config.xml" -Xms64M -XX:MaxPermSize=128M -XX:MinHeapFreeRatio=20 -XX:MaxHeapFreeRatio=30 -XX:NewRatio=8 -XX:+UseSerialGC -Xmx6183M -Dvisokio.localappdata="C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\AppData\Local" -Dvisokio.winproxyenable="0" -Dvisokio.winproxyserver="" -cp "OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\Main.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\mailapi.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\smtp.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\pop3.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\imap.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\dsn.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\lib\activation.jar;OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\plugins\bccrypto.jar" com.visokio.ent.EntLaunch -server

From Omniscope 3.0
set CONF_DIR=%1
"OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\OmniscopeEnterprise.exe" "/jvmarg=-DschedulerConfigLocation=OMNISCOPE_INSTALL_DIR\service\%CONF_DIR%\config.xml"

4) Start schedulers using run_scheduler.bat and passing folder names s1, s2, ... sN as a parameter:
E.g.:

run_scheduler.bat s1
run_scheduler.bat s2
...
run_scheduler.bat sN

You can do it into two ways.

a) You can create Shortcuts. Right-click on your Desktop->New->Shortcut.

Specify the path to your run_scheduler.bat file and pass the parameter, for example on my computer it is:

"C:\Users\michael\AppData\Local\Visokio Omniscope app\run_scheduler.bat" s1

b) Alternatively you can run the command from Windows Console - cmd.exe

5) In C:\Users\YOUR_ACCOUNT_NAME\scheduler\log.txt you should see log messages from all schedulers.

You can use attached files as templates replacing (here it is text in bold) with your current file paths
and then renaming
config_xml_tempalte.txt => config.xml
run_scheduler_bat_template.txt => run_scheduler.bat

Scheduler: creating XML Actions files in file output?

andy_white — Wed, 08 Jan 2014 07:43:57 -0500

Hi guys,

In earlier versions of 2.7 it was possible to have a file output block that would create an xml file. This was basically just a straight text output so we could have a data manager setup that would batch append a number of files and then a field organiser that would create a number of small xml scheduler processes that would move the files into a "processed" folder. It seems in the recent versions of 2.7 and definitely in 2.8 this is much more complex (the xml output options put a number of preformatting in the output and doesn't pass "<" or ">" chars) - can we have this back as an option!!

Thanks!

Scheduler: Set a task to repeat X times after X hours?

cgamolo — Thu, 02 May 2013 16:58:25 -0400

We currently have a need to set a task to repeat one more time after a certain time period. We need to choose that a task repeat a few times using the interval period.

Scheduler: Task List admin improvements (2.8+)

steve — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 09:48:38 -0400

From 2.8 b839, the Server/Scheduler Task List UI will include an "Enlarge" button which toggles between extra-large and normal Task List display size. This allows you to see longer task names and more tasks at once.

Scheduler: multiple instances running many tasks?

Alexander — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 06:04:13 -0400

Hi all,

We are having trouble with a rather strange problem within our Schedulers. On our server we have 4 Scheduler instances running simultaneously. The last few weeks some tasks that are scheduled were not started, and in the log these tasks do not appear at all.

Last week we thought we discovered a pattern in this problem. As we schedule many tasks rapidly after each other, the queue builds up. I think that when Omniscope is using a lot of RAM, this queue is forgotten. Another plausible reason could be that “garbage collection” or “diagnostics ”actions also delete this queue.

The problem is that we cannot recreate the situation, but when it happens, this problem obviously disturbs our processes.

We solved the problem in one particular situation by leaving more time between the different tasks in order to avoid accumulating a queue of undone tasks.

Hope you guys can explain how the queue works and what reasons could be causing this problem? Thanks!

Scheduler: Ordering Task Lists-version 2.8

cgamolo — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 17:25:25 -0500

We're currently sharing one Scheduler Task List across multiple teams and our Task List is expanding. Is there any way to sort the tasks in alphabetical order? We have a fairly strict naming convention for the tasks and it would be nice to see all of the tasks in order.

Scheduler: How to call/run an external batch file?

benjamin — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 04:54:35 -0500

Hi - I am trying to run an external batch file process after Omniscope Server Scheduler has opened and saved an Omniscope IOK file.

Is there any way to do this in using the automated Omniscope Server Scheduler Task List actions?

I have been trying to use the Command action but this does not seem to work ??

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks, Ben

Scheduler: XML Actions file options?

andy_white — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:27:23 -0400

Hi guys - Apologies if this already exists elsewhere in the forum, I had a quick search and couldn't find it. A couple of questions:

Is it possible to create an XML Actions task script that will create multiple files (so for example, open a source file, refresh it, save it with a new location as an IOM, then save it with a different new location as a domain locked IOK)?

Secondly, is it possible to have the option to pass a specific empty IOK template file/location within an XML Action script, so (with the above example) open a source file, refresh it, save it with a new location as an IOM, using an empty template file developed from a different source?

Andy

Scheduler: Import/export/copy/paste actions, tasks & recurrences (2.8+)

steve — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 10:45:19 -0400

Tonight's build of 2.8 brings some simple time-saving improvements to the Scheduler UI.

You can now import/export/copy/paste any actions, tasks and recurrences.

From 2.8 b226 onwards.

Scheduler: Setting 'Action' name for 'Chain Action'?

naruemon — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 01:25:06 -0400

Could we have an option to set 'Action' name in 'Chain Action'? It would help a lot when we have many actions run in sequence. Thank you.