Can the RTC server list JBE hostnames?
Hi,
What is the best way to see the hosts connected to RTC as jazz build engines and what user id they are connected as? I have a problem where lots of jazz build engines have been created in RTC on lots of different machines and connected using a single task id, when it comes to the time to change the password for this task id I can't find any way of listing the machines connected to RTC using that task id so I need to maintain a list of the JBE names, the host they are running on and the username they connect with, is there anyway of getting this information from RTC in logs or through the API? It is particularly problematic as the manually created list gets out of date or machines missed through human error, so it would be very useful to be able to query this from the RTC server. A related problem, we have all these machines running JBEs when we want new machines to do a similar job we just clone the machine, however this results in the name the JBE is started with being the same on both machines which RTC doesn't allow. As we don't control the cloning of machines it is hard for us to know when a new clone will be created and more importantly which machine is created with a JBE matching name, breaking our existing working builds. E.g Host host01 running JBE jbe05 Cloned to : Host host07 running JBE jbe05 The JBE jbe05 won't work because it is running on 2 machines, but it seems impossible to tell where the 2 conflicting JBEs are running, can you offer any suggestions? |
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That's correct, since the JBE instances are clients of the RTC server, the RTC server is not aware of how many are out there, or which hosts they're running on. JBE builds do log the (simple) host name at the top of the build log though, so for a given engine item you can double-click on it to list builds, the view one of the build's logs to see which host it ran on.
Comments But if I attempt to start another instance of BE5 (for example) it will fail long before logging a job. Why? That seems like a different issue than what Alix is reporting. Builds that do get started will log the host name. I think the issue with JBE running on multiple hosts for the same engine id is that it will auto-abandon builds, thinking that they've been orphaned (i.e. it's not the current JBE running them, so it abandons them).
The auto-abandon log message should also include the host name, but I don't think it does currently. @Alix does this accurately represent the issue?
You can disable the auto-abandon behaviour with:
In this case, the duplicate JBEs would each run builds even if the engine id is the same. This would then let you examine the build logs to see which hosts are running the JBEs.
The downside if that if a JBE does drop a build for some reason (JBE dies / server connection interrupted, etc) then the build will still appear as in-progress even though no JBE is running it anymore, and it will need to be manually abandoned.
It would certainly help to have the auto-abandon log message to also include the host name, would this tell you both hostnames or just one of them?
There is a third problem case in there area, what if a person creates a JBE on a build machine but doesn't create a build engine in the RTC server, is there anyway to find out if such a JBE exists from the RTC server?
> It would certainly help to have the auto-abandon log message to also include the host name
> would this tell you both hostnames or just one of them?
Just one: the host doing the abandon.
> what if a person creates a JBE on a build machine but doesn't create a build engine in the RTC server
Then different builds will be picked up by the different JBEs, and the only way to tell which hosts are being used is to check the logs for the builds that actually run.
huh? if I create a new JBE build process on some server using some ID which does not exist, then the jbe command reports
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There is really no linkage between JBE build engine ID and the machine hostname.