Requesting a Status Report
This report contains a wide variety of information about the Arbortext PE Request Manager and its Arbortext PE sub-processes. This report is available from the Status link on the Arbortext Publishing Engine index page. Check this report to review all the setup information about Arbortext Publishing Engine. The information in this report is helpful for troubleshooting. It includes the configuration settings defined in the e3config.xml configuration file. You can check stylesheet and publishing configuration caching as well as the set of allowed functions. You can also check the location where Arbortext Publishing Engine stores transaction archives.
The Arbortext Publishing Engine status report contains:
• Information about the Arbortext Publishing Engine installation, including version, build number, binary path, and run-time data
• System information about the Arbortext Publishing Engine environment
• COM server information as set by the Arbortext Publishing Engine Configuration program
• Allowed functions, by type and pattern, as configured in the e3config.xml file
• Global parameter settings for temporary file locations and naming conventions, including the installation path, the temporary directory with prefix and suffix values, and the active and archived transaction directories. Values for debugging and temporary file deletion are also reported.
• Configuration summary for each Arbortext PE sub-process pool defined in the e3config.xml file, including their parameter values (if the pool is enabled). If the pool is enabled, the configuration summary includes run-time data and whether Request Tests have been configured.
• Configuration summary for each Cache Manager defined in the e3config.xml file, as well as associated run-time data. By default, the publishing configuration and stylesheet cache managers are defined.
• Queue manager configuration and run-time data, if available
• Configuration summary for each Request Handler, as implemented and configured in the e3config.xml file
• Summary of Request Selector tests and their parameter values as configured in the e3config.xml file. Request Selector tests are associated with specific Subprocess Pools (also configured in the e3config.xml) as filters for routing requests to a particular pool. The Request Selector tests are listed in the Request Test Criteria section for each pool.
• Configuration summary for Initializers as defined in the e3config.xml file and associated run-time data if it's available. By default, the publishing configuration and stylesheet transformations are initialized at startup.
• A list of Arbortext applications installed on the server, such as the Technical Information Application. These applications are installed in the application directory of the Arbortext Publishing Engine installation tree.
• Transaction archive configuration and status, including location, size, log level, number of transactions, and age of oldest transaction stored.
The following is an example of the Arbortext Publishing Engine Status report, showing the first sections of the report:
