Broadcast Status during Server reboot (maintenance, patch, others..)

Hi Chakra,

Thanks for reaching out to support with your question. As a general best practice, if you are going to be doing server maintenance on your Yellowfin instance, I would recommend to make these changes outside of your scheduled broadcast times. You also have the option to stop the Yellowfin service manually, which would delay the broadcast task until the service is restarted. I'd recommend this practice as well, as I myself am unsure of what happens if, say, the "javamail" task is interrupted during a restart.

I can consult with some higher-ups to try to find out the details of this process, would you like to know more?

Thanks,

Eric

Hi Eric,

Thanks for your response.

Yes, I'd like to get more information on the process. Thank you!

Also, I'm not much familiar with YF servers or services. Is there a dedicated services in YF that handles broadcast tasks?

Hi Chakra,

I talked to my colleague about this - to clarify, scheduled broadcasts will attempt to be run after the scheduled time, so long as the broadcast has not failed.

If you have a broadcast that is running when the service is stopped or things get reset, the report would be run once the service is restarted.

However, I could see a scenario where, say, the internet connection is disconnected before Yellowfin, and the broadcast fails due to an SMTP or data source connection error. In this case, broadcast would not be restarted.

You can see the history of your broadcasts on the backend via the ReportBroadcastResult table -

Does this help answer the question?

Thanks,

Eric

Hi Eric,

Yes. Thanks for confirming and providing additional details. Appreciate it!

Regards,

Chakra

Happy to assist, Chakra, I'll go ahead and mark this question as Answered. Feel welcome to reach out to support with further questions or issues.

Thanks,

Eric