How to find MGP current status: running or not

Question

Hi
We have a system that is making automatic changes to publication items/user subscription parameter values/ users access to applications/ applications etc on Mobile Server, based on our system changes.
We have a class that among other is stopping the MGP job, in order to not affect sync processes while making changes to the repository. We found out in time, that this is very sensitive: making changes to repository or parameters while MGP is running can make
Something like:
public const string MGP_JOB_NAME = "MGP_DEFAULT";
public void StopMGP()
consolidatorManager.disableJob(MGPJOB_NAME);*
public void StartMGP()
consolidatorManager.enableJob(MGPJOB_NAME);*
and in main process something like
t*ry*
_mgpManagement.StopMGP();*
*//do whatever changes*
catch
*//some exception handling*
finally
_mgpManagement.StartMGP();*
Our problem, is that stopping the job is not enough. In this way we just prevent MGP to start, if it is stopped. But we cannot find if is running at that moment or not, in order to wait until ends the work.
We already tried to search for the current cycle, in MGPcycles table, but seems that the current cycle is being maintained in the memory until it is finished, and only after that is being written into the table. Another option may be to see if the sequence used for cycle id (if any) has the current value (nextval()) bigger than the history max_value + 1, but this is more a hack, that may not work in all cases.
We tried also to use class MGPStatus, without success.
If you have some information regarding this issue, would be helpful and appreciated.
Thank you
Florin

Answer 1

Hi
My issue is not a matter of job scheduler beeing started or not.
The situation is like this:
- oracle lite server is started and running for some time( days, weeks it does not matter).
- I'm stopping the job for MGP in a certain moment, in order to apply some changes, but, if the MGP is currently running (it can run sometimes for more than 1 hour) I would like to know if it's running or not.
Or, in other words: using the API, how can I see/retrieve the information available in webtogo application in MGP current cycle page.
Thank you