topic RE: Get controller of pool in Product Forum

Get controller of pool

RichardLorenz — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 04:50:00 GMT

Is there a way to easily find out which machine is the controller of a pool without logging onto one of the run time resources in the pool?

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Richard Lorenz
CoE Manager
Computershare
Australia/Melbourne
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RE: Get controller of pool

david.l.morris — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 12:39:00 GMT

I don't use pools, so I'm not 100% sure, but I always assumed the asterisk * displayed next to the Resource in Control Room under the pool indicates that it is the controller of the pool.

Can anyone confirm?

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Dave Morris
3Ci @ Southern Company
Atlanta, GA
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RE: Get controller of pool

AmiBarrett — Wed, 21 Aug 2019 14:18:00 GMT

The wording of this is a little confusing to me, perhaps you could clarify.

Typically, a controller (IE: the App Server) does not show up in the resource manager from the Blue Prism front-end. However, a bot can also be running on that same box. In which case, it would show up just like any other resource.

In a pool, I'm pretty sure it just executes against the first system on the list, then continues down sequentially. Is this maybe what you meant instead?

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Ami Barrett
Lead RPA Software Developer
Solai & Cameron
America/Chicago
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RE: Get controller of pool

RichardLorenz — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:39:00 GMT

Thanks @Dave Morris I don't see a star. What version(s) of BP have you seen a star in?

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Richard Lorenz
CoE Manager
Computershare
Australia/Melbourne
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RE: Get controller of pool

RichardLorenz — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:41:00 GMT

Hi @AmiBarrett when you setup a pool (at least in v5.0.24) one of the bots takes on the role of the controller. In some cases the controller can get in a bad state meaning that the pool no longer functions. Finding the controller and rebooting it usually fixes the problem. The issue is knowing which bot is the controller.

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Richard Lorenz
CoE Manager
Computershare
Australia/Melbourne
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RE: Get controller of pool

david.l.morris — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 02:46:00 GMT

Version 6.x several versions. I can't remember if I saw this in 5.x. Maybe it's newish

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Hi @AmiBarrett when you setup a pool (at least in v5.0.24) one of the bots takes on the role of the controller. In some cases the controller can get in a bad state meaning that the pool no longer functions. Finding the controller and rebooting it usually fixes the problem. The issue is knowing which bot is the controller.

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Richard Lorenz
CoE Manager
Computershare
Australia/Melbourne
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RE: Get controller of pool

GopalBhaire — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 03:54:00 GMT

You can check out connections on your BP Server by http://servername:port/connections the outbound list will show the pool controller. The http://servername:port/controller will directly show you the controller, I guess.

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Gopal Bhaire
Analyst
Accenture
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RE: Get controller of pool

RichardLorenz — Thu, 22 Aug 2019 04:12:00 GMT

Hi Gopal, this gives me USER NOT SET. I tried the USER and PASSWORD commands but that gives me AUTHENTICATION FAILED. We use AD authentication and the user/password combination was my AD account. Am I doing something wrong?

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Richard Lorenz
CoE Manager
Computershare
Australia/Melbourne
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