This page is for PhixFlow administrators who need to monitor PhixFlow activity.
Overview
The System Console provides details on active and completed tasks, files imported and exported by PhixFlow, and the audit trail of changes made to PhixFlow's configuration. Access to the console, depends on your privileges. Application users, analysis modellers and application designers are notified of errors that prevent their work, but are not notified of system warnings. These are only reported to the console. This means it is important for the PhixFlow administrator to monitor the console for warnings and to determine what action is required.For logs with information related to server and Tomcat traffic, see Server Log Files.
For information about the properties toolbar, and about the sections Parent Details, Analysis Models, Description and Audit Summary, see Common Properties. For a full list of all the PhixFlow property tabs and windows, see Property Tabs.
Console Information
The following buttons are available at the top of the System Console:
 | Opens the System Logging Configuration tab where you can configure the logging for data analysis models and objects. |
 | Opens the task plan list. |
There are five tabs that show information about the system:
Task Logs
Active Tasks
Displays a log file summary for each Task Plans that is currently active. Right click on the task and select Show Log File on the context menu to bring up the detailed log file.
Active Tasks can be stopped at any time, if required (this may be useful when testing new models) by pressing the 
button.
Completed Tasks
Displays a log file summary for each Task Plans that has completed.
The following buttons are available for Completed Tasks:
| Apply a filter to the list of Completed Tasks. |
| Refresh the list of Completed Tasks. |
Log file entries are colour coded as shown below:
Red | This log file contains errors |
Orange | This log file contains warnings |
| Blue | The initiator of this log file is currently suspended which is why the task has not run. |
The following details are available for each log file:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Started | The date and time that this Analysis run was started. |
| Finished | The date and time that this Analysis run finished. |
| Archive Time | The date and time that this Log File was archived. |
| Name | The name of the Task which has been run. |
| Cancelled | Whether this Analysis run was cancelled by a user. |
| Status | An icon will indicate if the stream sets generated by the Analysis run were rolled back from the Stream Sets tab in the system console. See below for details. |
| Tasks | The number of individual Tasks that were run as part of this Analysis run. |
| Messages | The total number of messages in the Log File. |
| Info | The number of information messages contained in the Log File. |
| Errors | The number of error messages contained in the Log File. |
| Warnings | The number of warning messages contained in the Log File. |
| Initiator Type | The PhixFlow object that was used to launch this Analysis run. |
| Login name | The user that stated this run. |
| Action | Whether the task was a stream action. |
To display a log file, right-click its name to open the context menu, then select the Show Log Details.
For stream sets that have been rolled back from the system console Stream Sets tab:
- If the stream sets generated by an analysis run were rolled back and the analysis repeated (see Tab: Stream Sets, below), the log file entry is displayed with a
button in the Status field. Click to open the new log file from the rerun of analysis. - If the stream sets generated by an analysis run were rolled back, the log file entry is displayed with a
button in the Status field. Click to open the log file for the rollback.
Tab: Messages
The log messages for the currently selected log file. For each message the following fields are shown:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Type | The type of message e.g. INFO, WARN, ERROR or DEBUG |
| Code | The numeric error message code. |
| Message | The summary message output by the analysis engine. |
The following buttons are available for log messages:
| Apply a filter to the list of log messages. |
| Refresh the list of log messages. |
Log message details
Double-click on a log message to see further details. In addition to the standard fields, you will also find, on its own tab, the message detail:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Message Detail | Displays the values of the variables in the parser or detailed stack trace. Populated if an error occurs during analysis or a debug attribute function has been processed. |
Tab: Stream Sets
The Stream Sets for the currently selected log file.
If the Stream Sets generated by an Analysis run produced a number of Cycles, and one or more Cycle was rolled back and repeated, then Status field will contain a symbol to indicate whether:
this Stream Set was originally generated as part of this Analysis run, but has been moved forward into the log for the Analysis to generate those Stream Sets which were rolled back and repeated.
this Stream Set was moved forward into this log from the original Analysis run, along side new Stream Sets generated in this Analysis run - the new Stream Sets are those that were rolled back to be redone from the original log.
The stream set in the console also provides the following buttons:
| Roll back the data for each Stream Set, and run Analysis again. Note that when data is rolled back, any subsequent - "downstream" - Stream Sets will also be rolled back. After "reprocessing" a Log File in this way, the Log File will be flagged as "Reprocessed", and no Stream Sets will be associated with it. |
| Roll back the data for each Stream Set. Note that when data is rolled back, any subsequent - "downstream" - Stream Sets will also be rolled back. |
Tab: Imported/Exported Files
A list of files that have been read into PhixFlow by File Collectors or produced by PhixFlow File Exporters. This is found on the Imported/Exported Files tab on the System Console, on the Imported/Exported Files tab in the System Console tab on the System Console, or when viewing the details of an individual file.
By right clicking on a file you can select Show Log File from the context menu. This will bring up the log file of the Analysis run that handled this file - whether as a file imported or exported.
By right clicking on a file you can select Show File Importer/Exporter. This will being up the configuration of the importer or exporter used to handle this file.
Imported/Exported Files
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Cycle | The analysis cycle in which the file was processed. |
| Processed At | Date and time that file was processed |
| Type | Imported or Exported |
| File Importer/Exporter | The Importer or Exporter used to handle this file. |
| Status | Status of the file. |
| Records | The number of records in the file. |
| FTP Site | The FTP Site the underlying file handler is attached to, if there is one. |
| Location | The location of the file on the file system. |
Email Messages
Emails which have been created by the system, from task plans or file exporters.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Created Date/Time | The date and time at which the email was created. |
| Send by Date/Time | The date and time at which the system will stop trying to send the email. |
| Status | The status of the email (ready, sent, failed, etc). |
| Status Message | A message associated with the status, such as the reason for failure. |
| Email Subject | The subject of the email. |
| Email Message | The message of the email. |
| From | The email address the message is being sent from. |
| To | A list of the email addresses the email will be sent to. |
| Cc | A list of the email addresses the email will be Cc to. |
| Bcc | A list of the email addresses the email will be Bcc to. |
| Creator Name | The name of the PhixFlow object which created the email. |
| Creator Type | The type of the PhixFlow object which created the email. |
| Zip all attachments | Whether any attachments are being added as a zip file. |
| Zip file name | The name of the attached zip file. |
PDF Chore
PDF Chores are the PDF converstion processes that have been created by file exporters.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Created Date/Time | The date and time at which the PDF Chore was created. |
| Status | The status of the Chore (ready, failed, etc). |
| Status Message | A message associated with the status, such as the reason for failure. |
| Creator Name | The name of the PhixFlow object which created the object. |
| Creator Type | The type of the PhixFlow object which created the object. |
| Source File Path | The Path of the source file. |
| Source File Name | The name of the source file. |
| Target Path | The Target Directory Expression |
Audit Summary
Summary details of audited actions performed on PhixFlow objects.
All Audit Summaries can be viewed from the Audit Summary tab on the System Console. Details for an individual Audit Summary can be viewed by selecting an Audit Summary from this view, and double clicking.
The System Administrator uses Privilege Codes to configure which operations should be audited. If a given privilege has been configured for auditing, PhixFlow tracks details of every associated action and presents these in an Audit Summary.
PhixFlow database administrators can directly query the PhixFlow database for audit information in the audit_summary and audit_detail tables. Audit records that pre-date the upgrade to version 8.1.0 of PhixFlow will not have an entry in the message_text column.
Form: Audit Summary
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Date/Time | The date/time the audited action took place. |
| Username | Name of the User who performed the audited action. |
| Action Summary | A summary description of the audited action. |
Audit Details
The Audit Details of an audited action can be viewed with the details of an individual System Console.
Form: Audit Details
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Audit Details | A detailed description of the audited action. |
Forms: Audit Summary for Object
This form shows summary details of audited actions performed on a particular PhixFlow object.
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| Date/Time | The date/time the audited action took place. |
| Username | Name of the User who performed the audited action. |
| Original Name | Original Name of the Object that was changed. i.e. if the name of the object was up dated, this is the original value. |
| Action Description | A summary description of the action. |