Message Count

[Femina Jaffer]

Is there any easy way we can capture the total number of messages that crossed within a certain time period or 24hr  (MSH 7 date/time or sending date/time and seconds ) for a particular thread?  We do cycle / archive our smat files.  Is this possible in an alert?

Perhaps, even capture by writing out MSH 7/ sending date to a file, and then counting the total.

Thanks,

Femina

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[James Cobane]

Femina,

Are you looking to capture the stats for each thread or are you looking to know how many messages went from thread A to thread B?  Either way, this information can be captured using the ‘msi’ extensions available in Cloverleaf.  We currently capture stats prior to cycling SMAT and then re-initialize the stats so that we get a fresh count daily.  This is done with some tcl scripts utilizing the ‘msi’ extensions and are scheduled in cron (along with the ‘cycle save’ process)’.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Femina Jaffer]

Thanks Jim.  We are actually looking to know how many went from Thread A to Thread B at a given time.

Currently we are cycling three times a day; but, perhaps we can analyse the volume again and only cycle at those times.  Would you have an example script on how we can capture the stats prior to cycling?

Thanks,

Femina

[James Cobane]

Femina,

Attached is a script that we run to simply capture the stats at midnight (prior to cycling/re-initializing).

[Femina Jaffer]

Thank you James, just got around to this.  Very much appreciated.

Are you running this script in the cron?

Femina

[James Cobane]

Femina,

Yes, we are running this script in cron and simply re-directing the output to a file that we can look at, i.e.

59 23 * * * setroot;setsite mysite;getroutestats >> /logs/getroutestats.log;

We also re-initialize the stats after running this script so that we have a daily total each day.

Thanks,

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[Kelvyn Ng]

anyway we can capture from archive idx/msg file?

[James Cobane]

The .idx files contain all the metadata associated with each message, so you could use this information to cobble together whatever statistics you want to collect from the metadata available.

Jim Cobane

Henry Ford Health

[David Coffey]

We run TCL jobs against all the SMAT files extracting certain data elements from the MSH and dump them into an SQLite database.  From there we can report on run rates, throughput, utilization.

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