I’ve seen a few posts about this, but we quite regularly get the message :
"Warning: Agent is performing full text operations on database ‘mail\xxxx.nsf’ which is not full text indexed. This is extremely inefficient. "
every time an agent is run from a mail file.
I understand what the message is saying, and we made a conscious decision not to FT index the mail files.
However, every time this message is displayed/generated, the Agent Manager shows up in a “Warning” state on our R5 Admin consoles’ “Server Monitor” screen (yellow circle with questionmark). I haven’t confirmed whether or not this occurs on a LND6 admin client.
Is there any way to prohibit this behavior?
Is the agent manager REALLY generating a warning state, or is the Domino server generating the warning state based on the message being displayed?
If the latter is true, is there any way to turn the message display off (i.e. log level setting)?
Subject: Amgr & extremely inefficient FT operations
Re: The warning state: The agent manager task logs that message, at this point it doesn’t have any severity, it’s just text. The event task then picks it up and matches it against the events4.nsf database, which has this particular message defined with a Event severity of “Warning (Low)”. You find it in the “Advanced\Event Messages by Text” view.
So, simply edit this event document and change the severity to “Normal” and you’re all set. No need to restart anything either, the event task will auto-recache your change.
Subject: RE: Amgr & extremely inefficient FT operations
Thanks Thomas.
While this sounded like exactly what I was looking for, after changing the severity to “Normal”, the task still kicks into a Warning state, and clutters up the administrator monitor. I’ve even tried bouncing the event task to no avail.
Subject: RE: Amgr & extremely inefficient FT operations
Set the notes.ini variable “debug_events=1” in your server and reload the events task. Ignore the startup output.Then, after the amgr runs with the message, it would be helpful to see the debug output from that…
Subject: RE: Amgr & extremely inefficient FT operations
(debug_event=1)
02/24/2003 03:53:04 PM AMgr: Start executing agent ‘Users agent name’ in ‘mail\xxxxx.nsf’ by Executive ‘5’
02/24/2003 03:53:04 PM AMgr: ‘users name/ou1/ou’ is the agent signer of agent ‘Users agent name’ in ‘mail\xxxxx.nsf’
02/24/2003 03:53:04 PM AMgr: 'Agent ‘Users agent name’ in ‘mail\xxxxx.nsf’ will run on behalf of ‘users name/ou1/ou’
02/24/2003 03:53:04 PM Warning: Agent is performing full text operations on database ‘mail\xxxxx.nsf’ which is not full text indexed. This is extremely inefficient.
Looking up error code AGENT MANAGER0x33A0
Looking up error code AGENT MANAGER0x3385
Looking up error code AGENT MANAGER0x3387
Looking up error code 0x1A93
Suppression interval = 0
And of course, this time it makes a complete liar out of me and supressed the alert. Perhaps restarting the Event task had something to do with it.
I’ll leave the debug setting on and let you know if I capture anything different.
Subject: thanks for this info. this is a great way to implement it …
and having a way to figure out this extensive search operations can be really useful. Everyone should at least once see this message before he makes the decision to disable it or not. Having this in Events is a great option.
We are right now tuning large AIX boxes at a enterprise customer and this is one of the problems we see (they are still on R5.0.11). We enabled the FT search debugging and found a lot of on the fly search requests generating a lot of temporary FT index builds. It’s always a trade-off between space/indexing time and usage of the search.
But having this warning is a first nice way to show this possible bottleneck…
Subject: Amgr & extremely inefficient FT operations
From the point of view of the Agent Manager generating this message, you can stop the warning from appearing by full text indexing the database, otherwise you cannot supress its generation, it is considered serious.
Subject: RE: Amgr & extremely inefficient FT operations
Yeah – why don’t you full text index mail databases? That’s extremely obnoxious. When I think how many times a day I search my mail for some information I know someone sent me year before last…
Subject: RE: Amgr & extremely inefficient FT operations
IMHO when you have lots of mail users on a server having lots of FTI isn’t really a good idea. There are issues of disk space and processes to perform index maintenance.
Do you really have messages in your mail file from the year before last? Maybe an archive should be in your future. It would definetly help with the performance of your mail file and it would surely make your Notes admin a happier person. (“I am serious, and don’t call me Shirley.” You gotta love Airplane.)