How do shops with thread limit monitor how many threads

[Jim Kosloskey]

For those of you with thread limit licenses, do you have a method to identify how many threads are defined?

Do you just count them up in all site’s NetConfigs or is there a function within Cloverleaf that tells you?

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

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[Dirk Engels]

Hi Jim,

as you might know, we have over 500 Cloverleaf customers over here in Germany and some of them also have limited licenses. So, I created a little tcl script which gives me a list of all threads over all sites as a csv file so I can easily open that file in Excel and have a counted list of all threads sorted by site and process of a Cloverleaf box.

The script also tries to create a thread matrix to show what systems processes what messages (based on HL7 message types). That, of course only works if thread names follow a specific syntax. But that can be easily adapter in the script (see line 122-126).

Grretings from Germany.

Dirk

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[Keith McLeod]

Have you tried hcilicstatus?  It gives threads by HCIROOT and right at the end of the Threads listing is:

Currently there are 366 thread(s) running under HCIROOT(/hci/cis19.1/integrator).

Not limited, but it also provides licensing information as well.

• This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by Keith McLeod.

[Jim Kosloskey]

Dirk,

Thanks for the input and the proc.

Jim

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

[Jim Kosloskey]

Keith,

I was not aware of that utility – thanks for the assist.

Jim

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

[Jim Kosloskey]

Keith,

I note hcilicstatus does not report any threads which are not running at the time hcilicstatus is run. That information is still valuable, but I suspect for, limited licenses, there could be threads which are started ‘on demand’ which would not be accounted for but could take one over the limit when they are activated (perhaps in the middle of the night).

Something to be aware of when planning a strategy.

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 30+ years Cloverleaf, 60 years IT – old fart.

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