Display results of an unhealthy REST call

In this topic, you introduce an error to see how this affects the health score of the server. Edit the openedge.properties file and add an activate.p procedure as the session activate procedure. This procedure is run when a session is started by REST call. In this example, the procedure explicitly raises an error so the HealthScanner will detect the problem.

1. Use an editor to modify the openedge.properties file located in the instance\conf directory to specify a sessionActivateProc=activate.p

   

2. Save changes to openedge.properties.
3. Use the editor to create an activate.p procedure that returns an error and string.

   RETURN ERROR "Fail".

   

4. Save the file to the instance\openedge\activate.p which puts the file in the PROPATH for the instance.
5. Restart the server. Enter the following:

   tcman pasoestart -restart

6. Test the REST service again.

   

7. This time there will be an error introduced by the activate.p, the unformatted output is this:

   

   The formatted output is this:

   

8. Poll the details of the all the probes again with http://hostname:8899/health?view=details.

   

   Note: As a result, the PASOE HealthScanner score lowered to 77%.
9. Use Ctrl+f to search for REST Ping Health. Stop at the first occurrence.

   

10. Modify the openedge.properties file located in the instance\conf directory to reset the value for sessionActivateProc= to the original blank value to avoid any future problems.