[Anthill-pro] Select a list of agents from an environment

[Varban]

Peter,

we already have a fix for this in place, it will be available in the 
next release. Let Steve know if you need a build right away. The only 
change as far as you are concerned is that we'll pass all the agents 
that are configured (online or otherwise) to the script and after the 
script run we'll verify that whatever is returned is online otherwise fail.

Regards,
Varban

Peter Steele wrote:
> As I have pointed out in my thread “Is this a feature, a bug, or user 
> error?”, the problem with this approach (as we have recently discovered) 
> is even if one agent is the environment is down, the secondary workflow 
> will not run. It doesn’t matter if the user doesn’t include this agent 
> in his list; if the filter specifies -1 as the agent count for the 
> filter, Anthill seems to require all agents to be up in the selected 
> environment before the workflow will run. This is a big issue for us; 
> not sure what to do for a workaround…
> 
>  
> 
> *From:* anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com 
> [mailto:anthill-pro-bounces at lists.urbancode.com] *On Behalf Of *Steve Boone
> *Sent:* Tuesday, May 27, 2008 9:07 AM
> *To:* AnthillPro user and support list.
> *Subject:* Re: [Anthill-pro] Select a list of agents from an environment
> 
>  
> 
> To make it truly dynamic, the way you have it set up is the best solution.
> 
> It is a bit tedious to have to type the names of the agents in, but this 
> does have some benefits.  It will ensure that only those agents are 
> used, and that an agent that should not get a job delegated to it, won't.
> 
> On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Peter Steele <psteele at maxiscale.com 
> <mailto:psteele at maxiscale.com>> wrote:
> 
> I am writing a deploy job that will be run as a non-originating 
> workflow. We have set of machines that a build can potentially be 
> deployed to, and I have these machines grouped in their own environment. 
> On a given run of the deploy workflow I want to be able to filter the 
> list of agents that will be selected from this environment, for example 
> as a comma separated list that the user fills in when the secondary 
> process is run:
> 
>  
> 
>     Workflow:                  deploy server artifacts
> 
>     Environment:             qa test servers
> 
>     Servers to Populate:   qa-dataserv1,qa-dataserv2,qa-dataserv3
> 
>     …
> 
>  
> 
> and so on. The "Servers to Populate" field is a simple text field which 
> the user fills in with the list of servers (agents) that he wants to 
> deploy the build to. So, although the "qa test servers" environment 
> might have 50 servers in it, on a given run the use can select the 
> specific systems he's interested in.
> 
>  
> 
> I created the agent filter below to accomplish this, and it seems to 
> work well. My only issue is that requiring the user to enter the agent 
> names is a bit tedious, especially if they have to enter more than three 
> or four. Is there a better way I could accomplish what I'm trying to do 
> here? Being able to present the user with a full list of agents that 
> they could select multiple entries from would be better for example. As 
> for the script itself, are there any improvements I could make?
> 
>  
> 
> import com.urbancode.anthill3.domain.agent.Agent;
> 
> import com.urbancode.anthill3.runtime.scripting.helpers.*;
> 
>  
> 
> Where anyWhere = new Where()
> 
> {
> 
>     public Agent[] filter(Agent[] agents)
> 
>     {
> 
>         String agentNames = BuildRequestLookup.getCurrent().getProperty("agentNames");
> 
>         List agentList = new ArrayList();
> 
>  
> 
>         for (String agentName : (agentNames +",").split(","))
> 
>         {
> 
>             for (int i = 0; i < agents.length; i++)
> 
>             {
> 
>                 if (agents[i].equals(agentName))
> 
>                 {
> 
>                     agentList.add(agents[i]);
> 
>                     break;
> 
>                 }
> 
>             }
> 
>         }
> 
>         Agent[] selectedAgents = new Agent[agentList.size()];
> 
>         for (int i = 0; i < selectedAgents.length; i++)
> 
>         {
> 
>             selectedAgents[i] = (Agent)agentList.get(i);
> 
>         }
> 
>         
> 
>         return selectedAgents;
> 
>     }
> 
> };
> 
>  
> 
> return Where.is(anyWhere);
> 
> 
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