topic Re: WorkFlow question in ExtremeCloud IQ- Site Engine Management Center

WorkFlow question

XTRMUser — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 22:40:38 GMT

I have a couple of workflows that take time to run (one is about a minute, the other is a few minutes). Is there some way I can have an update showing on the screen to say it still running? Both of these workflows traverse all the switches, so switch IP's would be one possibility.

Thanks.

Re: WorkFlow question

Markus_Nikulski — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 16:33:46 GMT

use the Workflow Dashboard, please. You will be able to see if a workflow is running or witch which results in they ended. But you will not see any activity details during runtime.

Re: WorkFlow question

XTRMUser — Fri, 01 Mar 2024 14:29:50 GMT

Thanks for this. I was thinking this would be the solution, but hoping for better.

Re: WorkFlow question

Markus_Nikulski — Sat, 02 Mar 2024 08:59:19 GMT

I forgot to mention that you can use the Python log facility to write to STDOUT and a file. This gives you several good opportunities. in regard to real-time log inspection (tailing the file) and enabling or disabling debug logs as required.

Below a code example.

import logging

logFile = '/tmp/'+ emc_vars['workflowName'].replace(' ', '_') +'_'+ time.strftime("%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%S") +'.log'

log = None

########################################################################

def setupLogger():

global log

log = logging.getLogger()

log.setLevel( logging.DEBUG )

screen = logging.StreamHandler()

screen.setLevel( logging.INFO )

screen_formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s.%(msecs)03d %(levelname)-7s %(message)s', datefmt='%H:%M:%S')

screen.setFormatter( screen_formatter )

log.addHandler( screen )

if emc_vars['DEBUG'].lower() == 'true':

log.info("write LOG file " + logFile)

file = logging.FileHandler(logFile, mode='a', encoding='utf-8')

file.setLevel( logging.DEBUG )

formatter = logging.Formatter('%(asctime)s %(levelname)-7s [%(filename)s:%(lineno)d] %(message)s')

file.setFormatter( formatter )

log.addHandler( file )

########################################################################

def main():

setupLogger()

log.info("Hello World!")

########################################################################

main()

Re: WorkFlow question

XTRMUser — Tue, 05 Mar 2024 15:09:38 GMT

Thanks. I'll look into this as well.