:SET_UC_SETTING

Script Statement: Changes the system settings while the system is running.

Syntax

:SET_UC_SETTING Setting, Component, Value

Syntax	Description/Format
Setting	The system setting to be changed. Format: AE name, script literal or script variable Allowed values: WORKLOAD_MAX = Maximum number of resources provided by the agent for file transfers and jobs. WORKLOAD_MAX_FT = Maximum number of resources provided by the agent for file transfers. WORKLOAD_MAX_JOB = Maximum number of resources provided by the agent for jobs. SET_TRACE = Trace options for the work processes of an AE system or an agent. SERVER_MODE = Type of server process.
Component	The system setting component to be changed. Format: script literal, script variable, AE name or script function For WORKLOAD_MAX, WORKLOAD_MAX_FT and WORKLOAD_MAX_JOB: Name of an active agent or agent group For SET_TRACE: Name of an AE system or agent. For SERVER_MODE: Name of the server process.
Value	New value assignment for the system setting. Format: script literal, script variable or script function For WORKLOAD_MAX, WORKLOAD_MAX_FT and WORKLOAD_MAX_JOB: Any value between -1 and 100000, or UNLIMITED. Values grater than 100000 are handled as UNLIMITED values. For SET_TRACE: 16-digit trace options. For SERVER_MODE: Server type. Values allowed are "D" for switching to a dialog process and "W" for switching to a work process. It is not possible to change a work process to a dialog process if it performs a Server role.
Trace Target	Target traces are written into. Format: AE name, script literal or script variable For SET_TRACE: FILE: Traces will be written into a file. MEMORY: Traces will be written into the agent's or server processes' internal memory.
Memory Buffer Size	Size of memory provided to be written. Format: AE name, script literal or script variable For SET_TRACE: Buffer size in MB.
Search Text	Text to be searched for within the traces. Format: AE name, script literal or script variable For SET_TRACE: Search text.

Comments

Currently, you can use the script statement :SET_UC_SETTING in order to change three system settings. Your modifications are valid until a new value is assigned or until the server processes or the agent are terminated.

To change the system settings, you need the authorization "Modify at runtime" and the privilege "Create diagnostic information".

This script statement has the effect that all the script's open transactions are written to the AE database.

If you change trace options for WPs, you may change them only for all of them together. It is not possible to change them for individual WPs.

You should change the trace options for CPs one at a time.

Changing Trace Options

By setting trace options, you can use a script to log the behavior of work processes and agents in exceptional cases. Neither the work processes nor the agents need to be terminated for this purpose but setting trace options can result in a lot of data that is accumulated and performance losses can be a result thereof.
Automic recommends setting trace options only in close cooperation with our support team.

To modify the trace options, you can use the Setting SET_TRACE. The Value is a 16-digit string. Each digit corresponds to a particular trace flag (such as the first position in a TCP/IP trace).
The order of the trace flags complies with the order that is used in the Administration perspective's properties dialog for server processes and agents.

If you reboot only one work process, it will use the trace options that are specified in the INI file. All other work processes use the values that are specified by using the script statement :SET_UC_SETTING until they are rebooted.

Examples

The first example sets the number of resources provided by the agent WIN01 for jobs and file transfers to 1000. The result is written to the activation report.

:SET_UC_SETTING WORKLOAD_MAX, WIN01, 1000
:SET &RET# = GET_UC_SETTING(WORKLOAD_MAX_JOB, WIN01)
:PRINT &RET#

The second example retrieves the name of the AE system and then activates the TCP/IP trace for its work processes.

:SET &TRC# = GET_UC_SYSTEM_NAME()
:SET_UC_SETTING SET_TRACE, &TRC#, "1000000000000000"

The following example changes the server process AE#WP003 to a dialog process provided that it is active.

:IF SYS_SERVER_ALIVE("AE#WP003") = "Y"
: SET_UC_SETTING "SERVER_MODE", "AE#WP003", "D"
:ELSE
: SEND_MSG "ADMIN","AE","Work process AE#WP003 is not active!"
:ENDIF

In this example, the trace options for the AE system are set with noted values to look for the first Job that ended abnormally (error message 11003).

If such message is found on a trace, the trace is written into a file , and not into the memory.

:SET_UC_SETTING SET_TRACE, &$SYSTEM#,"2400000000000000", "MEMORY", "128", "U00011003"

For more information see the agent's properties dialog in the Administration perspective.

In this last example the trace options for the agent WINAGENT01 are set with noted values to look for the first FileTransfer that ended abnormally.

If such message is found on a trace, the trace is written into a file , and not into the memory.

:SET_UC_SETTING SET_TRACE, "WINAGENT01", "2400000000000000", "MEMORY", "128", "FileTransfer * ended abnormally."

For more information, view the agent's properties from in the Administration perspective.