Hacking Hyperion

Lately I've been working on creating a function in bash so that I can generically call MaxL scripts and process return codes from them so that I can do some error handling and possibly send a notification via email or SMS message depending on the situation. How the essbase_run_task function works is like this:

So I decided today that I wanted to be able to check validation URLs much like the previous post I wrote Bash Check Validation URLs  but this time I didn't want to have to login to each EPM environment to do it. I simply wanted to open a terminal and run a command to check the validationContext URL's that are stored in the registry.html file. In order to do this

Here's a simple bash function that with the use of the 'curl' command can run some simple tests to see if your application is actually up and running. We know in the monitoring world of Hyperion it's not enough to just check the port. The java process could be bound and listening to a port but the Java webapp might not have initialized due to many possible reasons.