iTop extension: molkobain-background-tasks-control-center

• Description
• Online demo
• Compatibility
• Downloads
• Installation
• Configuration
• Change log
• Q&As
• Contributors

Support

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Description

Manage background tasks (pause, resume, removed), check their execution time. Also visualize async. tasks currently in queue.

Use cases:

• Avoid to have a system access to the DB to handle the following operations.
• Pause a background task that keeps crashing to allow other task to continue running.
• Reschedule a task to another time frame (e.g. for balancing server load).
• See async. tasks in error and rerun them.

Background tasks

Async. tasks

Task reschedule

Online demo

You can try this extension on the online demo. There are some background and async. tasks as an example. Just click on the links below to access it:

• Administration console (admin / admin)

Compatibility

Compatible with iTop 3.2+

Downloads

Stable releases can be found on GitHub.

Installation

Installation procedure is the same as for any iTop extension, just follow the instruction on the iTop official documentation here.

Dependencies

This extension embeds some resources that are necessary for it to work.
Everything is included in the distributed packages, no extra effort needed.

iTop modules

• Module molkobain-handy-framework
• Module molkobain-newsroom-provider

Configuration

No configuration needed, the extension can be used out of the box!

Parameters

Some configuration parameters are available from the Configuration editor of the console:

• task_lists_refresh_interval Interval in seconds between 2 auto refresh for the background and async. tasks lists. Default is 10.

Example:

'molkobain-background-tasks-control-center' => array (
  'task_lists_refresh_interval' => 10,
),

Q&As

I don’t see any background tasks in the dedicated tab

For background tasks to display, you must have iTop’s CRON job running. Check the documentation for more information on how to run it.

I don’t see some actions (notifications, webhooks, …) in the “async. tasks” tab

For actions to display in the “async. tasks” tab:

• First ensure that iTop’s CRON job is running (see documentation)
• Then for each type of actions check the Asynchronous field
  • If set to Yes, you are good to go
  • If set to False, ensure that you actually want it to be asynchronous then changed it to Yes or Use global setting accordingly
  • If set to Use global setting, check that the global setting relative to the type of the action is set to true
    • For email action: Core conf. param. email_asynchronous
    • For newsroom action: Core conf. param. notifications.itop.send_asynchronously
    • For webhook action: Module combodo-webhook-integration conf. param. prefer_asynchronous

Licensing

This extension is under AGPLv3.

Contributors

I would like to give a special thank you to the people who contributed to this

Names

• Stetina, Pavel a.k.a @Stetinac