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Qlik NPrinting Governance Dashboard - Version 3 Now Available

Last Update:

May 18, 2022 6:54:02 PM

Updated By:

Frank_S

Created date:

Sep 17, 2020 12:43:20 AM

To install or upgrade your existing Qlik NPrinting governance dashboard, simply deploy the new QVF  and reload the app: NPrinting Governance Dashboard - version3

If and only if you have altered the engine.config file(s) on your NPrinting Engine computer(s) to change the default 'resolvers-count' value,  then go to the 'deployment summary' sheet and enter the 'resolvers-count' value under 'Available Resolvers'.  This value sets a baseline that the new concurrency metric can evaluate to ensure your NPrinting environment is not core constrained. 

Please enjoy and post comments/suggestions in GitHub preferably, or in the community comments below.  

 

Version 3.0 (4/12/2022)

Update Details:

-Fixed a bug introduced by NP May 2021 SR3 where the reload fails in the load script:
< Field 'id' not found FROM "nprinting"."public"."task_execution" >

-Updated background colours on the "Task Recipients" Pivot Table to green

 

Version 2.0 

Update Details:

Deployment Summary Sheet:

  • Configurable variable "vResolvers ".  By default this is set to the # logical engine processors. If you have changed  the "content-resolvers" property in the engine.config file(s)  to increase/decrease the number of resolvers in your NPrinting environment,  set vResolvers to the sum of this value in all your engine.config files.  

-New KPI "Peak  Connection Concurrency".  This is the number of unique connections used at any one time by executing publish tasks, subscriptions, on-demand requests, or metadata reload requests. It does not include preview requests.  If this number exceeds 60% of your resolver count, queuing is expected to occur and reports will take longer to run. The metric will turn red indicating it is time to add logical engine processors to your NPrinting Engine(s) to a maximum of 16 logical processors per engine. 

-New KPI "Peak Execution Concurrency". This is the number of concurrent execution requests at any one time . It is the sum of executing publish tasks + executing subscription requests + executing onDemand Requests + executing Metadata reload requests. If multiple reports are running in a single publish task, it counts as just '1' in this resolver . Does not include 'preview' requests.  

Report Delivery Sheet:

-New filters added

Data Connections Sheet:

-New filters added 

-Section Access field (yes/no ) added 

Qlik Lineage Sheet:

-New filters added

-New KPIs added:  Complex reports , Medium reports, simple reports

App Content Sheet:

-new filters added

Task Recipients Sheet:

-new filters added

Execution Analysis Sheet:

  • New time chart:  "Active Connections by Type Over Time".  Shows concurrently used connections over time , stacked bar charts splits the type of request using the connection  (Publish Task, Subscription,OnDemand,Metadata Reload) . A Y Axis limit line shows the peak.  It turns red if it exceeds 60% of the vResolvers variable

-New table "Days when Concurrency Exceeded". Shows the number of days where the peak concurrency connections exceeds 60% of vResolvers.  

  • New time chart:  "Executions by Type Over Time".  Shows concurrent executions over time , stacked bar charts splits the type of request   (Publish Task, Subscription,OnDemand,Metadata Reload) . A y axis limit line shows the peak over time.

-New table "Peak Concurrency by Day". Shows peak concurrency by day.

Report Performance Sheet:

-Container with 4 distribution plots showing execution length for publish tasks, subscriptions,ondemand requests and metadata reloads.  Colored by status (green = success,  red = failed)

-Container with 4 tables showing detailed executions

  • 4 KPIs showing  "Average Publish Task Length", "Average OnDemand Length", "Average Subscription Length", "Average Metadata Reload Length" . 

Users Sheet:

-New Filters added

Execution Log Messages:

-New Filters added

Load Script / Model:

- vResolvers variable set to the sum of logical processors on each NP engine found

  • section access field added to connections

  • New master date table intervalmatched to executions. 

  • vMonthsToLoad variable determines how many trailing months to generate in the master date table (default is 3 months)

 

Upgrade:

For anybody upgrading you will need to re-edit the data source in the load script and if and only if you have changed the resolvers-count setting in the NPrinting engine.config file .... then after reloading the app , go to the deployment summary sheet and update the vResolvers variable to be equivalent to the same value as 'resolvers-count' in the engine.config. If you have multiple NP engines, sum the number together and set vResolvers to the sum of the values found in the engine.config files.

 

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JonnyPoole
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@Steven_Haught    thats a good enhancement request.  i'll jot it down for if/when i look to expand the app.   Off the top of my head these are three that i've heard that would take "some effort" to include. 

1 - A QVW version

2 - A future schedule / execution map 

3 - Integration with Nov 2020 Audit Trail feature

JonnyPoole
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Employee

@rafalcqlik   .  I have thought about it but was concerned about scope creep.  It may be that the audit trail feature just needs a whole 2nd Qlik Sense app to analyze the new audit logs and do them justice.  The new audit logs  are prepared from the brand new postgresql NP audit database.    In Qlik Sense there isn't any one analyzer app that does everything and the NP Governance Dashboard has tons of tables and fields in it already.  

JonnyPoole
Employee
Employee

Hi just a heads up everyone.  

With the release of NPrinting November 2020 , there was a minor change in the NPrinting repository schema that causes an error when reloading the NPrinting Governance Dashboard. 

A patch was added to the github repository.  

Please download the latest NPrinting Governance Dashboard when you upgrade to NPrinting November 2020.  https://github.com/eapowertools/NPrintingGovernanceDashboard/releases/tag/v1.0

There was also a bug with the 'complexity' analysis page and all reports showed as 'complex'  .   That has also been fixed in the patch released yesterday  (11/24/2020). 

cheers, 

rafalcqlik
Contributor III
Contributor III

Thanks!

One more thing I'd like to ask to be updated. In Execution Analysis sheet, there is that chart with average execution times. Time format on X axis is set to 'mm:ss'. Could you please change it to 'hh:mm:ss' in next release? We have few reports that take more than one hour to execute and it looks weird without hh part 🙂 Not a big deal and very easy to update in our environment but maybe there are more people that have such cases. 

Thank you!

JonnyPoole
Employee
Employee

Yep  .  i've seen a fair bit of hour long reports too. I made the update in github. I also noticed the very same measure was using time() which isn't right either.  The 4 usages of the measure on this sheet have all been updated to interval( <expression>,'hh:mm:ss') 

santhoshkumar
Contributor III
Contributor III

@JonnyPoole  Thanks for this wonderful dashboard. Currently this dashboard gives me last 30 days data. Is there a way i can extract the historic data by changing any date parameters? or extracting data from different tables?

JonnyPoole
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Employee

@Santo   the app doesn't filter anything out.  The 30 day history is most likely tied to NPrinting.    For on-demand at least you can go past 30 days with this configuration option:  https://help.qlik.com/en-US/nprinting/November2020/Content/NPrinting/On-Demand/Admin-On-Demand.htm

i'll check if there are other internal settings that are limitting NP to 30 days

santhoshkumar
Contributor III
Contributor III

@JonnyPoole  Thanks for your reply. That article helps. when i queries the public.on_demand_request table it was having only 30 days data. I believe the settings needs to be corrected.

 

Please share your feedback if something comes up

JonnyPoole
Employee
Employee

So there is an "executions-dtf" switch that can be enabled to control history in days. 

<add key="executions-dtk" value="365" />

Here is a sample of a scheduler.config file with the setting added. 

JonnyPoole_0-1610390069197.png

keep in mind that this almost certainly going to make your NPrinting repository larger.  

Since its not a used setting i'm not sure the performance impact as more history then normal accumulates in the repository.  Its not a big repository in the first place but i would advise pausing and thinking about why you may need this ? 

For instance in November 2020 there is a new 'audit' feature that dumps more granular audit activity about NPrinting into a brand new audit database.  We will have more experience with accumulating detailed logging through this out of box feature then turning on a hidden setting that almost nobody knows about.  

So my recommendations for more history are to:

1)  investigate the new audit database capabilities .  it can even be used to develop a new audit logging Qlik Sense App.  You can size the audit database to be as big as you want. You may need more C: space on the NP server for this. 

2) Enable the setting above but not before resizing your NP Server component (this is not an engine featuer) on the machine running NP Server specifically.  You may need more C: disk space to accommodate more growth in the postgresql instance and later in the year more CPU .  

 

santhoshkumar
Contributor III
Contributor III

@JonnyPoole  thanks for the details. super helpful.

one doubt.

may be not relevant to this main topic but still asking.

is it possible to integrate the "plan monitor" (nprinting url/admin/plan) data in this dashboard?

Simply to track and understand how stressed the cpu cores are when the concurrency loads/ondemand goes up. how much waiting happening,etc..

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