Housekeeper Moolet
The Housekeeper Moolet performs the following tasks:
Periodic background tasks required for the Auto Close feature and for the moving of data to the historic database. See Configure Historic Data Retention document and the Historic Data Utility Command Reference for more information.
Gathers statistics from the system, for example Team Insights.
The Graph Analyser task to calculate the Vertex Entropy for the nodes in your topologies. See Create and Manage Topologies and Configure Topology-based Clustering with Vertex Entropy for further information.
To verify that the Housekeeper Moolet is running, use the HA Control utility with the view argument:
ha_cntl -v
See HA Control Utility Command Reference for more information about this utility.
Configure the Housekeeper Moolet
You can define the behavior of the Housekeeper Moolet by editing the configuration file: $MOOGSOFT_HOME/config/moolets/housekeeper.conf
Moolets are capable of supporting multiple Moobots. By configuring a Moolet to run multiple Moobots, you can customise the functions of the default Moobot. You can use this feature to customise the actions for Workflow Engine. To do this, locate the moobot property in the Moolet configuration file and add a comma-separated list of the Moobots you want to run.
Housekeeper properties
The Housekeeper Moolet properties are as follows.
run_on_startup
Determines whether Housekeeper runs when Moogsoft Onprem starts. If set to true, Housekeeper performs its background tasks from the moment the system starts, without you having to configure or start it manually.
Type: Boolean
Default: true
metric_path_moolet
Determines whether Housekeeper is factored into the event processing metric for Self Monitoring. See Moogfarmd Reference for more information.
Type: Boolean
Default: false
standalone_moolet
Determines whether the Housekeeper can listen for events generated by other Moolets within the same Moogfarmd instance without being in a processing chain.
Type: Boolean
Default: true
moobot
A comma-separated list of Moobots the Housekeeper Moolet will run.
Type: String
Default: Housekeeper.js
Example configuration
An example Housekeeper Moolet configuration as follows:
{
run_on_startup : true,
metric_path_moolet : false,
standalone_moolet : true,
moobot : "Housekeeper.js"
}