Reallocating and load balancing users according to mail domain
Use the NewsEmailDigestService.loadBalanceEmailDigest() command to manually reallocate and load balance users in the different email tranches (or groups of email addresses) used by the email digest.
Before starting
To run administrative commands, use the wsadmin client. See Starting the wsadmin client for details.
About this task
A scheduled task runs every month to load balance the users in the email address groups used by the email digest. This task ensures that users are spread across the groups in a uniform way according to their mail domain. The task is configured in the news-config.xml file and looks as follows. Note that the default settings should not be modified.
<task serverName="unsupported" startby="" mbeanMethodName="" targetName="ScheduledTaskService" type="internal" scope="cluster" enabled="true" interval="0 0 22 1 * ?" description="Job to spread users in tranche" name="PersonSpreadTranche" > </task>By default, the task runs on the first day of every month at 10:00 p.m. If you do not want to wait for the next scheduled task, you can run the task manually using the NewsEmailDigestService.loadBalanceEmailDigest() MBean command.
Procedure
To reallocate and load balance users in the existing email address groups used by the email digest...
- From the dmgr host:
cd $DMGR_PROFILE/bin
./wsadmin.sh -jython
execfile("newsAdmin.py")
If prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path, pick the node where the file is stored.
Enter the following command:
NewsEmailDigestService.loadBalanceEmailDigest()
Reallocates and load balances the users in the email address groups used by the email digest according to mail domain. This command does not take any parameters.
The command returns the number of users who have been reallocated to different email address groups for load balancing purposes.
For example:
wsadmin> NewsEmailDigestService.loadBalanceEmailDigest() 1603
Parent topic
Administer the News repository
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