Tasks

Tasks that run in the background, like Metadata Batch Updates can be seen on the Tasks list

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Each task can be inspected and can be rerun on some Items if they have failed.

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Background Tasks

To help monitoring the system we have Flower as part of the Background Tasks monitoring, that monitors all Celery tasks in the system.

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More information about how Flower works can be found at http://flower.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Celery workers

Below follows a description of the different queues and what they are used for within Cantemo.

celery@portal.archiver_long

This worker is used by the Archive Frameowrk for the long time operations, like Archiving and Restore.

celery@portal.archiver_short

This worked is used by the Archive Frameowkr for the shorter operations, like status check and delete.

celery@portal.celery-portal

This is the default worker for example Users, Transfers, Metadata and Comments.

celery@portal.celery

This worker is only used for Active Directory integration.

celery@portal.indexer

This worker is used when Cantemo reindex is in progress.

celery@portal.notifyindexer

This worker is where Vidispine notifications are sent.

celery@portal.re3

This worker is used when Rules Engine updates metadata that it has processed and item.

celery@portal.re3_polling

This worker is used by Rules Engine when polling on Item and Shapes.