Automating Cache Initializer after reload or recycling services.

Mccutchan1 — Wed, 05 Feb 2020 14:59:13 GMT

I have both Cache Initializer and QSST working but not sure how to automate either one of them after a reload or after the services have been recycled.

Thanks

Re: Automating Cache Initializer after reload or recycling services.

Levi_Turner — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 13:38:02 GMT

> after reload

The cleanest, but more complicated, route is to use External Program Tasks: https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Architecture-Deep-Dive-Blog/Chaining-External-Program-Tasks/ba-p/1592800

Alternatively, you can schedule things outside of Qlik Sense Enterprise using something like the Qlik-Cli which then would allow you to chain it to the execution of the CacheIntiailizer.exe file.

> after services have been recycled

The easy mode answer would be just to schedule things using something like Windows Task Scheduler every X hours / minutes. That'll give you an approximation but not strictly speaking be exactly aligned with service restart.

For a closer approximation of 100% alignment, it'll be a much more complicated series of things. The method that seems the most straight-forward is something like this:

Script which checks the status of Engine(s). Example QRS API call: GET /qrs/servicestatus/full?filter=(serviceType eq 3)
- This then writes the timestamp value (or serverNodeConfiguration > hostName & timestamp values for a multi-node environment)
Another script (or in the previous one): Checks the timestamp value against the prior row. If there's a difference then it executes CacheInitializer

This would be a fast reactive but still reactive method.

For a fully automated solution, you'd want to use something like the QRS's Notification Capability. Here's some demo code for recording the Engine uptime to csv using this approach: https://github.com/levi-turner/60f3cacb-c4ee-47d3-8a40-9f23530c0267

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