Identifying processess using specific xlate?

[Kumar Ananth]

Hi All,

I’ve been using Cloverleaf for about 4 months now. The other day I modified a xlate(introduced a phone nbr format tcl call from xlate) and bounced the source process which was using the xlate. All was fine except that an hour later I got a call from our testing team that another interface stopped working. When I investigated the issue I found the source thread of the interface that was having trouble was also using the same xlate I modified but was in a different process which I didn’t bounce. So, the messages were erring out on the phone format tcl call. Lucky this was in non-prod. So, no damage done.

So, my question is what are some of the ways in which I can identify if a particluar xlate is being used by what processess/site.

Talking to one my team member one way is go to each site and search the NetConfig for the xlate and find the source thread and process name. But, this is bit time consuming as we have about 10 sites and I’ll need to do repeat the process on 10 NetConfigs

Are there other ways to find this information? What is the most efficient way?

TIA for your reply.

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[Max Drown (Infor)]

What operating system are you using?

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Charlie Bursell]

There is no way this can happen unless you specifically rw route the IB thread to an OB thread and then send that, probably via TCPIP, to another thread in another process.  

By definition the Xlate thread is always in the same process with the IB thread.  You must have had another issue.

[Gene Salay]

One way to check multiple NetConfigs at once is to use an editor like Boxer that allows you to open files via FTP.    Boxer allows you to define a “project”, which can consist of multiple files.   When you open the project it opens all the files you want at once.   Then do a find across all open files.

[Max Drown (Infor)]

I though he as just asking for a way to see what threads are using the same xlate.

If so, I would just use grep to search the NetConfigs.

cd $HCIROOT

grep */NetConfig

Or some such.

-- Max Drown (Infor)

[Mark Thompson]

On AIX, this command will list each thread along with any translates and the process name running the thread:

egrep “^protocol| PROCESSNAME | XLATE ” NetConfig

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