Bulidin tcl library fuction?

[Hongle Sun]

Does anyone can point me out, in cloverleaf, is (are) there any built_in tcl library or function we can use, to check the status of procesees/thread or check the IB/OB messages queued within a thread(s)? thanks

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[Jonathan Hamilton]

There is a NetConfig api which is located in $HCIROOT/tcl/lib/cloverleaf/nci.tcl which allows you to query your NetConfig file for configuration settings.

As far as checking the status of a running engine etc. the best option is to simply exec the ksh command in Tcl.  I.E.  set tStatus [exec hciconnstatus -c ].  You can also combine with grep, egrep and awk to limit your output.

For statistics use the MSI Tcl extensions.  They are documented in the Users Guide and just about anything statistical can be found in them.

Regards,

Jonathan Hamilton

HCA Healthcare.com

[Charlie Bursell]

Be careful with the liripts.  Those are old scbarary calls to read the NetConfig .  Those are old scripts.  Whe they were written all thread and process names had to be lower case.  As such all thread and process names are returned in lower case.  You may bet mis-leading results.

As for thread status, usi the msi calls.

[Mark Thompson]

Someone must have fixed the scripts in a later version.  The ones that shipped with 5.3 & 5.4.1 don’t seem to have that problem.  I have a site with processes named BIG_PROCESS, little_process and Mixed_Process.  Their corresponding threads are named UPPER, lower and Mixed.

Code:

$ hcitcl
hcitcl>netcfgLoad
1
hcitcl>netcfgGetProcList
little_process BIG_PROCESS Mixed_Process
hcitcl>netcfgGetConnList
UPPER lower Mixed
hcitcl>netcfgGetProcConns BIG_PROCESS
UPPER
hcitcl>exit

Anyone who uses the nci.tlib procs should be aware they are not supported and may not be included or work properly with future Cloverleaf versions.

- Mark Thompson
HealthPartners

[Charlie Bursell]

Those are not the commands I was referring to.  If you want to read the thread configuration, you get a keyed list.

For example:

set netconfig [file join $HciSiteDir NetConfig]

nfLoad $netconfig processData hostData xlateData NetFilePrologue

The array processData is indexed by each process name and contains a keyed list of it’s configuration.  Likewise hostData is an array indexed by thread names containing a keyed list of the thread configuration.

For example:

keylkeys hostData(input)

SYMNAME AUTOSTART BITMAP COORDS CURXACTION DATAFORMAT DATAXLATE EOCONFIG GATEWAY THREADTYPE GROUPS HOSTDOWN KEEPMSGONDISK OUTBOUNDONLY PROCESSNAME PROTOCOL RECVC

ONTROL REPLYFORMAT REPLYCONTROL REPLYXLATE SAVEMSGS SENDDATACTRL SENDREPLYCTRL SMS STARTPROCS USERECOVERDB

It is these thread and process names that are always in lower case.

If what you are doing fits your need, it’s OK.

[Bob Richardson]

Greetings,

Charlie, I am looking at some code that you had sent me a couple of weeks ago which checks if files are ready to process.  You referenced

the nfLoad utility.  I have never heard about this guy until studying your code and finding this post.

Is there any documentation on this utility and similar utilities in Cloverleaf that can save us a lot of grief and “redesigns of wheels”?

Please advise… This is the kind of stuff that I had hoped to find out in my Cloverleaf Level certifications – maybe some sort of post Level III “piled higher and deeper” class could be offered to delve into the inner mysteries of Cloverleaf?

Thanks again – continuing to learn as I grow older… (I hope).

[Charlie Bursell]

These are internals that are not really meant to be used by the general public.  They are written for us (Quovadx) to do our thing.  They are there and if you want to use them, use at your own risk.  All of these are under $HCROOT/tcl/lib/cloverleaf.  They all use the old Tcl library method.

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