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Status Not under consideration
Workspace Rational Other
Categories Build Forge
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 4, 2013

Have Selector choose a Server based on box CPU load so jobs don't fail on busy boxes

Add the functionality to have the Console choose whether a job should run on a given Server based on the current CPU load of the box hosting the agent. Right now some built-ins allow getting CPU load info, however, that info is gathered only at the time the manifest is refreshed.
If the manifests could be refreshed for a selected group of Servers at the time a job is to execute then the CPU load info could be used to determine which box has the CPU load available to run the job.
It is not feasible to have the manifest refresh run on every Server object say every two minutes to get the CPU load info as we have ~ 160 Server objects.

Idea priority High
RFE ID 29956
RFE URL
RFE Product Rational Build Forge
  • Guest
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    Sep 15, 2022

    As part of the review process, we strive to be transparent about our intentions with each enhancement suggestion. The offering team has carefully reviewed this idea and has decided that it does not fit into our current plans or the age of the RFE suggests it is outdated or has been delivered over the time, so the idea will be closed. The idea will be kept in IBM's ideas repository and may still be voted on. It might be reassessed or reopened for additional feedback in the future. We value your feedback and thank you for allowing us the privilege of partnering with you in developing our products.

  • Guest
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    Sep 24, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Application Platform
    Product - Build Forge

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Product & application lifecycle management
    Product - Build Forge

  • Guest
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    Jun 19, 2013

    Feature prioritized, This feature will not be in the next release, but we will give strong consideration for the following release.

  • Guest
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    Mar 12, 2013

    This RFE is consistent with our strategy and product roadmap and IBM is continuing to evaluate.

  • Guest
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    Jan 28, 2013

    Hello, thanks for the update. One thing I forgot to mention is we hard code our Selectors, which means one Selector = one Server object. It would be very useful to have a BuildForge feature that checks if the box is too busy to start the job and if it is then log a message stating something like "the box is too busy to run the job" as "Selector cannot choose a Server" is cryptic and very generic to end users and BuildForge admins.
    Question - Can we get a feature added to return "the server is too busy to run the job" or something similar? We don't need the rest of the manifest info most of the time. We do need BuildForge to tell us when the box is too busy to run a job. I have to login to the box and run a top command to find that info myself which is a time waster as BuildForge can get that info for us - the problem is that the feature to do it does not exist.

  • Guest
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    Jan 22, 2013

    Thank you for your information. In fact, it is a balance between performance and accuracy when we designed this feature. If the information collection is trigerred by job execution. Once many jobs are executed in a short time, the network traffic cost will be huge and in most of cases, the information is duplicated. That's the reason we have a system parameter to collect server information periodically (default is 120s). Welcome to have more discussion with me.