We have the Task “DB Compactor” scheduled to start running every evening at 7pm. Is there a way to have this task scheduled to shut off by a certain time … say (7am)?
In the Server config. Doc., under programs is where I have added this task to be scheduled …“Start Time” of 7pm every evening. I don’t understand why Domino wouldn’t put a “Stop Time” in this scheduled area???
thank you
Subject: DB Compactor - Can it be scheduled to stop
Well I’ve never tried this but it should work in theory…
Create a Program Doc to run at the desired time,
program name: COMPACT
command line: quit
and you’re right, it would be nice if there was a duration field like they have for scheduled replication tasks.
Subject: RE: DB Compactor - Can it be scheduled to stop
Well, I added this but it did not work.
Command = Compact
Option = Quit
Server = name of Domino Server
I did a test and scheduled this to take place 5 minutes after the compact started, but it did not shut down the instance.
Subject: RE: DB Compactor - Can it be scheduled to stop
Jack Dausman has a great write-up about getting your compact tasks under control. I haven’t implemented his program, but I do use manually-created Indirect Files to compact certain items each day.
Jack Dausman: Secrets of the Administration Guild #9: Targeted Compacting
Chris Whisonant
Subject: RE: DB Compactor - Can it be scheduled to stop
try it this way instead:
Program name: nserver
Command line: -c “tell compact q”
I just tested it and it worked fine. This command is for Windows Platform.
Subject: RE: DB Compactor - Can it be scheduled to stop
Oh Yeah, That worked.Thank you very much Paul, muco appreciated.
Subject: DB Compactor - Can it be scheduled to stop
Not directly.
You may want to compact just a few each night to ensure that all get compacted each week. Do one folder on Monday, another Tuesday, …
I did a quick test on my test server and confirmed that this will stop it:
TELL COMPACT QUIT
The console shows:
01/17/2007 09:30:27 AM Error compacting AA.nsf: Operation stopped at your request
01/17/2007 09:30:27 AM Database compactor process shutdown
(Presumably compact ends cleanly without leaving inconsistencies in the database.)
Fortunately, I know a way to schedule a server command – code it into the following agent. You could even enhance the agent to read commands from some central config database to add flexibility to it. If so, post it back to this forum.
Basically the agent has one line of code which tells the NSERVER task to run a command. Use “NSERVER” on Windows servers – something else on other platforms. I don’t remember ever trying the second approach shown in the comments.
Here is the code:
Sub Initialize
Print "sched agent to start STATS and HTTP"
taskId% = Shell ( "nserver.exe -c "+Chr(34)+"sh tasks"+Chr(34) )
taskId% = Shell ( "nserver.exe -c "+Chr(34)+"load stats"+Chr(34) )
taskId% = Shell ( "nserver.exe -c "+Chr(34)+"l http"+Chr(34) )
%REM
— another way to do the same thing —
http://www-10.lotus.com/ldd/nd6forum.nsf/0/a0981a4e9add646285256d81005ec1ae
Great tip, but it may be better to write it using the new SendConsoleCommand function (so it will also work on non-windows servers):
Call notesSession.SendConsoleCommand( db.server, {Tell Adminp Process Interval})
— another way to do the same thing —
see
http://www.greentechnologist.org/domino/LotusScript/
and
http://www.greentechnologist.org/domino/LotusScript/ConsoleCMD.lss
Send server console commands
ConsoleCMD.lss
This allows a client or server-side script to send console commands to the server. It should read the output but that isn’t reliable. It is good about actually sending the results.
Dim Console As RemoteConsole
Dim Command as String
Dim Msg as String
Set Console = New RemoteConsole(“Server01/Something”)
Results = Console.Exec(“tell http q”)
’ … wait until the httpd stops (and check for it exlicitl)
Result = Console.Exec(“load http”)
%END REM
End Sub