How to determine host status in a task via python api

Question

Hello all,
using the python api I am having some issues trying to determine the status of a host within a task. For example I have a job, with one task and 10 hosts associated with that task. Eight hosts finish the task, 2 fail. However via the api I can only seem to determine the status of the job and the task. What I want is to be able to generate a report that basically matches what you see via the gui (ie 8 hosts ok, 2 hosts failed). The data structure OnStageTaskData gives me a status and a list of hosts, but not a status for each host. (Note I am not using any of the depricated functions/data structures). Currently my code looks like (minus the api init, etc)...
# list all the jobs for last week
joblist = api.GetJobs()
for job in joblist:
# if the job occured in the last week
if job.c_time > reportstarttime:
print "\nJob name %s Time %s " %(job.name, time.ctime(job.c_time))
try:
jobdetails = api.GetOnStageJob(job.id)
except COsApiJobNotFoundException:
print "Can't find job %s details" %job.name
continue
for tasks in jobdetails.job_data.tasks:
for hostid in tasks.task_data.target:
try:
hostinfo = api.GetHostGroup(hostid)
except OsApiHostNotFoundException:
print "Can't find host details %s" %tasks.task_data.name
print "Hostname %s Status %s" %(hostinfo.name, tasks.status)
which generates output like...
Job name chg233146-sol9 Time Sun Jan 13 10:31:42 2008
Hostname tacnomsrv02 Status Failed
Hostname tacpthsrv01 Status Failed
anyone have another way to doing this or suggestions? Or is this kind of info not available via the api? Thank you.

Answer 1

Hi ConnectSolutions,
As you correctly pointed out, there is some bug in our code
that keeps the room active and you dont receive any events or
notification if you are entering as guest and waiting and the host
arrives. Also, since you havent entered yet i.e your role is still
5 i.e. UserRoles.LOBBY , you can't access any of the UserManager's
collections and will get a length of 0 always. We will be fixing
this with priority .
But you can get around the problem as of now, by having a
small shared model of yours ( any collectionNode or sharedModel
will do) where you create a node and publish a message on it from
the Owner's side whenever the owner/host enters to notify everyone
that he has entered. Just remember to set the accessmodel of
NodeConfiguration of node on which you are publishing to LOBBY ie.
role = 5 , and make the publishModel = 100 so that only owners can
publish on this node. In this way , any users waiting will be
receiving this message and will know the host has arrived. If you
can't get this sharedModel concept to work, let me know. I will try
to run on my side.
And as of our side regarding actual fix, we will fix this use
case and put in the next drop of SDK and also update in forum about
it.
On the host side though, he is always notified when he enters
if there are pending users knocking to enter. See the KnockingQueue
example in case you want to explore that.
Thanks
Hironmay Basu