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Advanced Operations Within the DPF System

This chapter describes advanced operations when using the DPF system:

Activate Configuration Changes

To activate changes made in the the configuration files, you have to restart the DPF system.

If you only have changed parameters or the logging, the changed configuration can be read in at runtime:

  1. Enter the following command in the DPF environment:

    dpfupdate

    The configuration of the DPF system and the DPF Online Documentation are updated.

    Screenshot showing the output of the dpfupdate command in the DPF Shell

    -> dpf service stop -> dpf service start

Delete Log Files

This is how you delete all log files from the data\log directory:

  1. Enter the following command in the DPF environment:

    dpfclearlog

    All log files in data\log are deleted.

    Screenshot showing the output of the dpfclearlog command in the DPF Shell

    Job-specific logs

    dpfclearlog does not delete the job-specific log files located in the correspondent job directory. These are deleted by DPF Job Cleaner when the job files are deleted.

-> das könnte noch gehen, ist aber nicht ausreichend, weil die Service Logs woanders liegen

Delete Jobs

This is how you delete all finished jobs from DPFDATA and the MongoDB database:

  1. Enter the following command a PowerShell:

    dpf clearjobs
    [-A]
    [-F]
    [--job <jobID>]
    [--status <status>]
    [--server <url>]
    [--insecure]
    [-V, --version]
    [-h, --help]

    The following parameters can be specified when deleting the jobs:

    • -A deletes all, even active jobs not yet processed.
    • -F suppresses the prompt for confirmation when deleting multiple jobs.
    • --job <jobID> deletes only the job with the job ID <jobID>.

    • --status <status> deletes only jobs with the given status.

      Available values: Enumeration

      • ERROR: Erroneous, finished jobs will be deleted.
      • SENDING: Pending jobs in sendback state will be deleted.
      • CANCELLED: Cancelled jobs will be deleted.

    • --server <url> specifies the DPF server and its port.

      Default: http://localhost:4304

    • --insecure accepts also an invalid https certificate from the server.

    • -V or --version displays the version of seal-dpf tool.
    • -h or --help displays the list of available options.

    For all jobs specified by the command, dpfclearjobs deletes the directories from DPFDATA. The job information for these jobs is deleted from the MongoDB database. If you have specified -A, this also pertains to active jobs.

Generate the DPF Online Documentation

The DPF Online Documentation lists all processes and working units installed in your DPF system. Therefore, regenerate the DPF Online Documentation after finishing the installation and whenever the installation is changed.

Hint - alias dpfdoku

On Windows, you can open the DPF Online Documentation from the DPF environment by typing the dpfdoku alias.

This is how you generate the DPF Online Documentation:

  1. Enter the following command in the DPF environment:

    generate_doku.pl
    [-clean]
    [-fast]
    [-h]
    [-loglevel level]
    [-pdf]
    [-root <dir>]
    [-target <dir>]
    [-title <text>]

    The following HTML file is generated as starting page for the DPF Online Documentation:

    doku\online_doku\index.html

    These parameters can be specified when generating the DPF Online Documentation:

    • -clean re-generates the DPF Online Documentation.

      Default: The DPF Online Documentation will be generated incrementally.

    • -fast accelerates the generation of the DPF Online Documentation when, for example, dpfupdate.pl -fast is called by DPF Director. Then, caching will be used and no files will be deleted.

      Default: Caching will not be used.

    • -h lists the available parameters of generate_doku.pl.

    • -loglevel specifies the log level.

      Available values: Enumeration

      • info: Info messages will be output to the log file.
      • debug: Debug messages will be output to the log file.

      Default: info

    • -pdf creates a PDF file in addition to the HTML file. For this, Ghostscript is required.

    • -root <dir> generates the DPF Online Documentation for the DPF system installed in the <dir> directory.

      Default: DPFROOT

    • -target <dir> stores the DPF Online Documentation in the DPF system installed in the <dir> directory.

      Default: DPFROOT

    • -title <text> specifies the title of the DPF Online Documentation.

      Available values: String Default: Digital Process Factory

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