Process Manager

The Process Manager window controls the mooServer Process Manager. The process manager executes processes in serial by default.

The controls available on the Process Manager window differ depending on the database user connected.

Users logged in as MOOUSER (normal users) have no control and are only able to view Processes being

Users logged in as MOOSERVER (Application DBA) users have full control of the Process Manager.

Process Manager (logged in as MOOSERVER)

Controls

Pressing the Start button will start the Process Manager and allow for execution of any jobs already in the queue.

This control is not available to users connected as MOOUSER.

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Pressing the Stop button will stop the Process Manager immediately. Any processes already running will be terminated. If Play messages is running, pressing Stop will disable Play messages, it can be re-enabled on Start.

This control is not available to users connected as MOOUSER.

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Play messages will display the output of any Process or Workflow in the Processing now pane:

This control is not available to users connected as MOOUSER.

Play messages will spawn a second session on the database which will be visible from Session Manager, playing messages will not interfere with the Application DBA using other controls in the Process Manager window. Exiting Process Manager will stop the second session. Messages are updated every 15 seconds.

Refreshes the queue-grid displaying the status of processes running, queued and completed.

Copies the contents of the queue-grid to the Windows clip-board.

Changes the Poll duration that the Process Daemon (MOOSERVER.PRD$PRD) checks for Processes waiting to be executed.

This control is not available to users connected as MOOUSER.

Calendar Control

Enables you to set the From and To dates which you want to see displayed in the queue-grid. Select a From and To date and then press the Refresh View button.

Queue grid

The queue grid displays information about Processes.

The following table explains the data presented in the queue-grid.

Object	Description
ID	A unique ID that has been assigned to a specific Process. The unique ID is derived from POSIX time of submission. This ID can be used when analyzing the Audit log MOOSERVER.SUBDATA
User	The user who submitted the process, this is not the database user, but the application user stored in EXPRESS$ME_USER
Process Name	The Process name (PR.ROW) that has been submitted for processing.
Submitted	The date / time the process was submitted.
Scheduled	The date / time the process was scheduled to start.
Started	The date / time the process started.
Completed	The date / time the process completed.
Status	The Status: Queued, Started, Finished, Errored
Duration	The length of time the process took to complete.
Seq	The sequence (order (integer)) of jobs waiting to be processed.
AW	The name of the Oracle OLAP Analytic Workspace which the specified process or workflow is executing within
RO/RW	The mode; Read-only or Read-write for the specified process
DBMS Process	The name of the DBMS_SCHEDULER job which is running the specific Process or Workflow
Icon	Quick-glance, Queued [Pause Icon] Started [Play Icon], Completed Success [Tick Icon], Errored [Warning Icon], Unknown State [myObjectiveOLAP Icon]

Instrumentation

The instrumentation display shows the number of Employed Process Managers, The number of Process threads can be set within the system configuration. If no tasks are running then only the one monitoring Process will be running; stepping up to the maximum specified Process Managers.

Display System Tasks

Internal tasks, for example: AW Syncing, Report Generators, Object Creation are hidden from the default view so that only business tasks are visible in the queue grid. Enabling this option means that all tasks are displayed in the queue grid.

Quick Selection Reports

A number of predefined reports are available from the Quick Selection menu, all ignore the time selected in the Calendar control:

	All processes that are queued
	Last 25 processes that have been processed
	Last 10 processes that have failed.
	Displays the last 25 processes based on the selection in the Type drop-down list of Processes.

Individual Process Management

Right-clicking a process within the Process Management queue enables the Process Quick Access Menu:

Options within the QAM are summarised below:

QAM Option	Purpose
Show details	Displays details of the execution of a specific task within the Information panel:
Schedule	Enables an administrator to re-schedule a queued or completed task to run at a specified date and time.
Delete Process	Deletes a queued process from the queue.
Re-activate process as Queued	Re-enables a previously executed process to a queue state
Run the Process Manager for the first task only	If the Process Manager is stopped this will ask the Process Manager to create a single PM Thread and run the first waiting task in the queue.
Kill this DBMS Process	This enables an administrator to kill the PM thread running the selected process without having to completely shut down the Process Manager, which may be executing other parallel processes or workflows.