Auto shutdown of idle applications

Question

We have a lot of older applications that are periodically used by our user group. These applications may be used once in the morning then sit idle, taking up memory and system resources for the rest of the day until all applications are stopped for the backup process. Is there a way to configure Essbase to shutdown applications that have been idle for a specified period of time?
Thanks.
Glenn

Answer 1

API is overkill for this, MaxL can do it just fine. Here is an example using the Essbase.py module (code is similar for the Essbase Perl module)
import Essbase
esb = Essbase.Essbase()
esbUser, esbPwd, esbSvr = 'UserId', 'mysupersecretpassword', 'localhost'
esb.connect(esbUser, esbPwd, esbSvr)
# Get set of active applications and databases
stmt = "display database all"
esb.do(stmt)
actDbs = set([tuple(row[0:2]) for row in esb.rows() if row[31] == 2])
actApps = set([dbs[0] for dbs in actDbs])
# Get all session databases
stmt = "display session all"
esb.do(stmt)
sessions = [row for row in esb.rows()]
sessionDbs = set([tuple(row[3:5]) for row in sessions if row[4]])
sessionApps = set([row[0] for row in sessionDbs])
# Active but not in a session = Inactive
inactiveDbs = actDbs - sessionDbs
inactiveApps = actApps - sessionApps
# Unload inactive databases
for app, db in inactiveDbs:
stmt = "alter application '%s' unload database '%s'" % (app, db)
esb.execute(stmt,timefmt="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")
# Unload inactive applications
for app in inactiveApps:
stmt = "alter system unload application '%s'" % app
esb.execute(stmt,timefmt="%m/%d/%Y %H:%M:%S")
esb.disconnect()
Essbase.py is available at http://essbasepy.googlecode.com
Edited by: dwelden on Dec 10, 2010 11:45 AM