|  |     It would be nice as part of a 'manage the manager' feature, to be able
    to ask about all recording going on - even if that means building a
    table somewhere everytime a entity record is started.  The output would
    show record status, entity, partition, domain, attributes, etc... There
    have been times that my export files were getting larger, but I
    couldn't find out why - without walking the tree for my entities.
    
    bill
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>    1)	When I look at the "Last export time = " item, it doesn't
>    show the last export time, but the time before last. Not very
>    important, but IT IS WRONG.
     The meaning of the "Last export time" is "time when Exporter FM
     does mcc_calls to obtain requested data" but NOT "time when these
     data is written in the data base".
     
     "Last export time" is updated when all data for the same data base
     row are returned. Due to the the nature of statistics 
     attributes they are returned with delay in duration (export 
     period).
      |<---export period---->|<---export period---->|
     -x----------------------x----------------------x---->time
      T1                     T2                     T3
                            |<- Last Export Time->|
			    |   = T1              |
                            v                     v
                       data T1 are            data T2 are
                       returned              returned
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>    SHOW EXPORT NODE4 *, goes tru every single registered node and 
>    tells me if it has an EXPORT or not. But it does not show if
>    the one of the node's children does have an export, or if the
>    export target file is not the default "MCC_EXPORT.RDB", etc...
     From SRM 5.3 "Entity Wildcarting":
     "The PM will attempt to enumerate all global entity instance
     wildcards entered as entity in a command, then converting the 
     user command into one call per global entity."
     So the Exporter FM does not see "NODE4 *" you entered in the
     command. If you try SHOW EXPORT NODE4 <node_name> LINE *
     you will see exporting requests for all lines of the specified 
     node.
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>    What is needed, is for the command not to go tru the hole entity
>    registration database.    But rather go to the MIR, and directly
>    extract the KNOWN EXPORTS and give them to the user. 
from .1:
>    It would be nice as part of a 'manage the manager' feature, to be able
>    to ask about all recording going on - even if that means building a
>    table somewhere everytime a entity record is started.  The output would
>    show record status, entity, partition, domain, attributes, etc... 
    
     On our list we have function you are asking for. I call it "List Exporting"
     and "List Recording". This function will return the same information
     as "Show Exporting/Show Recording" but only for entities those 
     exporting/recording request exists. This command will accept a target
     entity as an argument (not as entity). This allows global entity
     wildcarding be passed to the Exporter/Historian FM.
     The user will be able to set up different filters, for example, 
     state = ACTIVE. In addition to this the user will be able to set up 
     different output formats.
     
>    3)  I have not checked if the SHOW RECORD command has similar
>    "features", but if so, they too should be fixed.
     Historian FM records information on per partition basis. Please note
     that statistics attribute partition can NOT be recorded. The following
     schema illustrates the "Last Polling Time" parameter:
      |<---polling period--->|<---polling period--->|
     -x----------------------x----------------------x---->time
      T1                     T2                     T3
        |<-Last Polling Time ->|
        |      = T1            |
        v                      v
   data T1 are            data T2 are
   returned               returned
     Global entity wildcard expansion is common for all FMs.
	Sam
    
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