Ravish Mody

This post is written considering to send an email alert message to Admin’s which would alert them about the hogger threads. Hogging threads can be called as a candidates for stuck threads in other words, those threads that “might” get stuck are called hogging threads. These threads will be declared as stuck threads after “StuckThreadMaxTimeout” seconds which by default value is 600secs.

Steps to Create an Email Alert for Hogger Threads Count

Step1) Create a Directory somewhere in your file system like :  “C:\WLST”

Step2) Write a Properties file “domains.properties” inside “C:\WLST” like following:

admin.url=t3://localhost:7001
admin.username=weblogic
admin.password=weblogic

# This ExecuteThread_Vs_HoggerThreadRatio represtents the division of ExecuteThread/HoggerThreadRatio
ExecuteThread_Vs_HoggerThreadRatio=2

# Number of times the RATIO has to be checked
checkTimes_Number=25

# TIME INTERVAL between number of times the RATIO has to be checked (30000 milliseconds = 30 seconds)
checkInterval_in_Milliseconds=30000

############ Accouding to the above values the checker will run for total 25 times in an interval of 30 seconds each. #############

Step-3) Create a WLST Script somewhere in your file system with some name like “Alert_HoggerThreadCoung.py” inside “C:\WLST” contents will be something like following:

UPDATED [26-04-2011]: This script has been updated based on the comment — >  http://middlewaremagic.com/weblogic/?p=5423#comment-3760, thanks to sathya.

#############################################################################
#
# @author Copyright (c) 2010 - 2011 by Middleware Magic, All Rights Reserved.
#
#############################################################################

from java.io import FileInputStream
import java.lang
import os

propInputStream = FileInputStream("domains.properties")
configProps = Properties()
configProps.load(propInputStream)

adminUrl = configProps.get("admin.url")
adminUser = configProps.get("admin.username")
adminPassword = configProps.get("admin.password")
executeThread_Vs_HoggerThreadRatio = configProps.get("ExecuteThread_Vs_HoggerThreadRatio")
checkTimes_Number = configProps.get("checkTimes_Number")
checkInterval_in_Milliseconds = configProps.get("checkInterval_in_Milliseconds")

i = 0
y = int(checkTimes_Number)

#############  This method would send the Alert Email  #################
def sendMailString():
	os.system('/bin/mailx -s  "ALERT: Hogger Thread Count Exceeded the Limt !!! " abcd@company.com < rw_file')
	print '*********  ALERT MAIL HAS BEEN SENT  ***********'
	print ''

#############  This method is checking the Hogger Threads Ratio  #################
def alertHoggerThreads(executeTTC , hoggerTC):
	print 'Execute Threads : ', executeTTC
	print 'Hogger Thread Count : ', hoggerTC
	if hoggerTC != 0:
		ratio=(executeTTC/hoggerTC)
		print 'Ratio : ' , ratio
		print ''
		if (int(ratio) <= int(executeThread_Vs_HoggerThreadRatio)):
			print ' !!!! ALERT !!!! Stuck Threads are on its way.....'
			print ''
			message =  'ExecuteThreads Count= ' + str(executeTTC) + '   HoggingThreads= '+ str(hoggerTC) +'   ExecuteThreads/HoggingThreads Ratio= '+ str(ratio)
			cmd = "echo " + message +" > rw_file"
			os.system(cmd)
			sendMailString()
		else:
			print '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'
			print 'Everything is working fine till now'
			print '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'
	else:
			print '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'
			print 'Everything is working fine till now'
			print '++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++'

connect(adminUser,adminPassword,adminUrl)
serverRuntime()
cd('ThreadPoolRuntime/ThreadPoolRuntime')

while (i < y):
	ls()
	executeTTC=cmo.getExecuteThreadTotalCount();
	hoggerTC=cmo.getHoggingThreadCount();
	alertHoggerThreads(executeTTC , hoggerTC)
	print 'Sleeping for ', int(checkInterval_in_Milliseconds) , ' ...'
	print ''
	Thread.sleep(int(checkInterval_in_Milliseconds))
	i = i + 1

Step-4) Open a command prompt and then run the “setWLSEnv.cmd” or “setWLSEnv.sh” to set the CLASSPATH and PATH variables. Better you do echo %CLASSPATH% or echo $CLASSPATH to see whether the CLASSPATH is set properly or not. If you see an Empty Classpath even after running the “setWLSEnv.sh” then please refer to the Note mentioned at Step3) in the Following post: http://middlewaremagic.com/weblogic/?page_id=1492

Step-5) Now run the WLST Script in the same command prompt using the following command:

java   weblogic.WLST  Alert_HoggerThreadCoung.py

You will see the following kind of results in the command prompt

Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) ...
]$ java weblogic.WLST Alert_HoggerThreadCoung.py

Initializing WebLogic Scripting Tool (WLST) ...

Welcome to WebLogic Server Administration Scripting Shell

Type help() for help on available commands

Connecting to t3://localhost:7001 with userid weblogic ...
Successfully connected to Admin Server 'AdminServer' that belongs to domain 'Domain_7001'.

Warning: An insecure protocol was used to connect to the
server. To ensure on-the-wire security, the SSL port or
Admin port should be used instead.

Location changed to serverRuntime tree. This is a read-only tree with ServerRuntimeMBean as the root.
For more help, use help(serverRuntime)

-r--   CompletedRequestCount                        2606
-r--   ExecuteThreadIdleCount                       1
-r--   ExecuteThreadTotalCount                      6
-r--   ExecuteThreads                               weblogic.work.ExecuteThreadRuntime[weblogic.work.ExecuteThreadRuntime@78de59f8, weblogic.work.ExecuteThreadRuntime@4de4e6c6, weblogic.work.ExecuteThreadRuntime@6eeaf91d, weblogic.work.ExecuteThreadRuntime@48917cf, weblogic.work.ExecuteThreadRuntime@447a195c, weblogic.work.ExecuteThreadRuntime@2c170a23]
-r--   HealthState                                  Component:threadpool,State:HEALTH_OK,MBean:ThreadPoolRuntime,ReasonCode:[]
-r--   HoggingThreadCount                           0
-r--   MinThreadsConstraintsCompleted               104
-r--   MinThreadsConstraintsPending                 0
-r--   Name                                         ThreadPoolRuntime
-r--   PendingUserRequestCount                      0
-r--   QueueLength                                  0
-r--   SharedCapacityForWorkManagers                65536
-r--   StandbyThreadCount                           4
-r--   Suspended                                    false
-r--   Throughput                                   5.0
-r--   Type                                         ThreadPoolRuntime

-r-x   preDeregister                                Void :

Execute Threads :  6
Hogger Thread Count :  0
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Everything is working fine till now
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Sleeping for  30000  ...

NOTE: This script is using mailx (i.e. but Windows box does not have mailx utility) so please do check if your mailx is configured properly or else script would run properly but the mail would not be sent.

Alert Email

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Regards,

Ravish Mody