Threads on Hold

[Chris Williams]

Is there a variable we can access that indicates a thread is on hold without having to look at the gui? It’s available as an alert condition so it must be somewhere.

Thanks.

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[John Hamilton]

I have looked everywhere trying to find it. And have asked how to get access to it. It it out there somewhere. I never found it.  

If you get an answer please make sure to post it.

Thanks.

[Keith McLeod]

I had asked this question while at the user’s group.  The only place that we found any indication was if you run hcimsiutil -dd .  In the output there is a flag called Proto Flags that presents as follows:

On Hold:

Proto Flags   : 0x1

Not On Hold

Proto Flags   : 0

Hope this helps….  If you find another location please let me know.

[Tom Rioux]

You could try doing a search on the process log files to return any line that has “phold_obd”.  If a thread is put in on hold it will place the entry

Received command: ‘ phold_obd’

Doing ‘phold_obd’ command with args ‘‘

That may or may not help you in what you are attempting to do.

Thanks….Tom Rioux

[Jim Kosloskey]

Chris,

From Tcl you can reference the msistats and get the thread status therein.

The Programmer’s Reference Guide gives some info.

Jim Kosloskey

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[Richard Hart]

Jim.

I could not find a key within the list returned by msiGetStatSample that provides a status.

Which one did you mean?

Thanks.

[Jim Kosloskey]

Richard,

I think it is the pstatus field.

It has been a while since I have done anything with this but I think that is where I found that information.

One thing everyone needs to keep in mind about msistats (I think this is stated in the manual): these stats are intended for internal use (meaning Quovadx) and thus are subject to change without notice.

Jim Kosloskey

email: jim.kosloskey@jim-kosloskey.com 29+ years Cloverleaf, 59 years IT - old fart.

[John Hamilton]

I will check that again. I did look at the pstatus field. But I did not see any difference between hold and not on hold. It has been a long while maybe it has changed.

[Chris Williams]

PSTATUS is unaffected by the hold condition. It doesn’t seem to be anywhere in the msiGetStatSample output, though that would be the logical place.

[Tom Rioux]

The pstatus just tells you whether it is up or down.  Unless I’m overlooking it, I don’t see anywhere in the msistats that references if the thread is on hold or not.

[John Hamilton]

That is what I thought. But things change.

Thanks for saving me the time of going out there and looking it up.

[Keith McLeod]

You might want to try something like:

set thdname

set msi [exec hcimsiutil -dd $thdname]

regexp -line -nocase {^proto flags.*?$} $msi flag

regexp — {d+$} $flag flagnum

set flagnum [format “%d” $flagnum]

if {$flagnum == 1} {

echo “${thdname} is on HOLD!!!”

} else {

echo “${thdname} is NOT on HOLD!!!”

}

flagnum will either have a value of 0 or 1  depending whether it is on hold or not..

[Richard Hart]

Cl version 5.6 contains the ‘PFLAGS’ key in the msiGetStatSample ouput.

Thread {ALIVE 1} {LASTEXTRACT 1205288649} {LASTUPDATE 1205288669} {START 1205285205} {STOP 0} {PSTATUS opening} {PFLAGS 0} …

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