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The Workflow Monitor controls workflow execution and presents a detailed view of the workflow execution status. |
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The Workflow Monitor can apply commands on to only one workflow at a time, in one monitor window per workflow. The monitor functionality is not available for groups or the whole workflow configuration. The Workflow Monitor displays the active version of the workflow. |
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To open the monitor from a workflow configuration:
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(Run) button - From the Run Workflow dialog, Select the workflow you want to view in the workflow monitor.
- Click the Run button to open the selected workflow in the workflow monitor. The workflow will only run once you click on the Start button in the workflow monitor.
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Workflow Monitor
To open the monitor from from the Execution Manager, see the section , The Right-Click Menu, in in the Execution Manager.
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While a workflow is running, agents report progress in terms of events. These events can be monitored in the two Agent debug panels at the bottom. You can also Enable Debug to view more events or messages from the debug command in the Analysis or Aggregation agents.
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When you Enable Debug, it might may slow down the workflow due to log filinglogging, especially if you set it to log debug into files in the workflow properties. For more regarding debug in workflow properties, refer to Debug Type in the Execution Tab. |
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- To view events for all agents in the workflow, click Select All from either of the Agent debug panels.
- To only view events for some selected agents, click on Select agent(s) to monitor event from either of the Agent debug panels and select only the agents you want to view events for.
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Building | When a workflow, or any of a workflow's referenced configurations, are being re-built, for example when saving or recompiling, the workflow will be in the Building state. When a workflow is in the Building state, in the worklow monitor, the text "Workflow is building will " is also be displayed. Workflows started by scheduling configurations will wait until the workflow leaves the Building state before they start. | |||||||||||
Executed | A Workflow becomes Executed after one of the following:
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Hold | A workflow that is in the Idle state and is being imported - either by the mzsh systemimport r | sr | sir | wr or by the | |||||||||||
Idle | A workflow is in Idle state if there is no activity going on in the workflow. It means that the workflow is not running, or, not in process of starting or stopping, or not in any other state (Invalid or Hold). After execution, although the workflow is indeed idleIdle, the state space on the display might may remain as one of the following states:
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Invalid | The workflow configuration is erroneous. Once you correct the error, the workflow assumes the Idle state.
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Loading | The platform is uploading the workflow to the Execution Context. When the transfer is complete, the Execution Context initializes the agents. When the workflow starts running the state changes to Running. | |||||||||||
Running | The workflow is currently executing. | |||||||||||
Unreachable | If the Platform fails to establish connection with the EC where a workflow is executing, the workflow enters the unreachable Unreachable state. When the workflow server successfully reestablishes the connection, the workflow is marked as Running, Aborted, or Executed, depending on the state that the workflow is in. An Unreachable workflow may require manual intervention if the workflow is not running any more. For further information see Execution Context in Desktop User's Guide. | |||||||||||
Waiting | The Waiting state applies only to workflows that are included as members in a workflow group. In the Waiting state, the workflow cannot start execution due to two parameters in the workflow group configuration: The Startup Delay parameter, and the Max Simultaneous Running quota. A workflow in the Waiting state will change changes to Running when triggered either by a user, the scheduling criteria of its parent workflow group, or by a more distant ancestor's scheduling criteria. For further information see Scheduling. |
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The workflow execution state provides granular information about a workflow's current execution status. In APL, there are function blocks that are called for each workflow execution state. For more information about which APL functions that may can be used in each state, see Analysis Agent.
Real-time agents only have three different execution states, that will occur at every execution of the workflow.
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| This state is only applicable for batch workflows. At every start of a new batch, the batch collection agent will emit emits a | |||||
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| This state is only applicable for batch workflows. When all UDRs within a batch have been executed, the agents enter the | |||||
| This state is only applicable for batch workflows. The collection agent will call calls for the | |||||
| This state is only applicable for batch workflows. Once the batch is successfully processed or sent to the ECS, the | |||||
| This is the last execution state for each workflow invocation. The agents clean and release resources, such as memory and ports, and stop execution. | |||||
| This state is only applicable for batch workflows. If an agent fails the processing of a batch it may emit a
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| This state is only applicable for batch workflows. If the last execution of the workflow aborted, the agents will enter the |
Viewing Abort Reasons
In most cases if a workflow has aborted, one of its agents will have has a red square outline surrounding it. Double-clicking such an agent will display displays the Agent Status dialog containing with the abort reason. The System Log also holds valid information for these cases.
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In a batch workflow, a detected error causes the workflow to abort and the detected error will be is shown as part of the abort reason and inserted into the System Log. A real-time workflow handles errors by only sending them to the System Log. The only time a real-time workflow will abort aborts is when an internal error has occurred. It is therefore important to pay attention to the System Log or subscribe to workflow error events to fully understand the state of a real-time workflow.
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Although a workflow has aborted, its scheduling will is still be valid. Thus, if it is scheduled to execute periodically, it will be is automatically started again the next time it is due to commence. This is because the abortion might be a lost connection to a network element, which could may be available again later. Therefore, a periodically scheduled workflow, which has aborted, is treated as Active until it is manually deactivated. |
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Created | The agent is starting up. No data may be received during this phase. This state only exists for a short while during workflow startup. |
Idle | The agent is started, awaiting data to process. This state is not available for a real-time workflowworkflows. |
Running | The agent has received data and is executing. For agents that are running, there will be is a green square outline surrounding the agentsthem. |
Stopped | The agent has successfully finished processing data. |
Aborted | The agent has terminated erroneously. For an agent that has is aborted, there will be is a red square outline surrounding the aborted agent. The error reason can be tracked either by double-clicking the agent or by examining the System Log. |
Agent Configuration
Some agents allows allow parts of them to be reconfigured while active. When double-clicking the agent in monitor mode, the agent's configuration is shown in the displayed dialog if the agent can be reconfigured. When the configuration has been updated it can be committed to the active workflow using the Dynamic Update button in the toolbar.
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Example of the TCP/IP configuration in a running Realtime workflow.
To be able to dynamically update TCP/IP Host and Port parameters, you need to set them to either Default or Per Workflow in the Workflow Properties dialog box. See the figure The Workflow Table Tab in Workflow Table Tab.
To update, click on Dynamic Update. On the bottom left of the workflow monitor, the text Dynamic Update followed by a number appears. It represents the number of times that you have updated the workflow configuration while running it, that is, since the last time you started it.
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Example of a dynamic update status after clicking on the Dynamic Update button.
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