Mbox Information

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Appendix F Using the plist Utility to Obtain Information About TIBCO iProcess Engine Facilities : Mbox Information

Mbox Information

Command

The following command returns the number of messages and the corresponding queue names that belong to the specified Mbox set:

plist -M <MBSetName[,MBSetName[,MBSetName]...][interval]>

where:

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MBSetName is the descriptive name of the Mbox set.

•

interval is the time interval (in seconds) that the command returns an output.

The command keeps returning an output until you stop it. To stop running the command, press Ctrl+C.

Returns

The plist -M command displays the following information.

Column

Description

Timestamp

The time when returning an output.

queue_name

(the first column after the Timestamp row)

The descriptive name of the queue that belongs to the Mbox set you specified in the input.

See Administering Message Queues and Mbox Sets for more information about Mbox sets, message queues, and messages.

number_of_messages

(the second column after the Timestamp row)

The total number of messages in the queue.

Example

Input the SWDIR/util/plist -M BGMBSET, WMDMBSET 5 command where BGMBSET and WMDMBSET are the name of the Mbox set, and 5 is the time interval. The output is shown as follows.

Timestamp 2012-04-13_14:06:53

BGMBOX1 0

BGMBOX2 0

WISMBOX1 0

WISMBOX2 0

Timestamp 2012-04-13_14:06:58

BGMBOX1 0

BGMBOX2 0

WISMBOX1 0

WISMBOX2 0

Column	Description
Timestamp	The time when returning an output.
queue_name (the first column after the Timestamp row)	The descriptive name of the queue that belongs to the Mbox set you specified in the input. See Administering Message Queues and Mbox Sets for more information about Mbox sets, message queues, and messages.
number_of_messages (the second column after the Timestamp row)	The total number of messages in the queue.