NightlyMoveThreshhold

Hello All,

I implemented a NightlyMoveThreshhold to allow Conquest 1.4.16 to span 2 volumes but it doesn't seem to work. The following should move studies from MAG0 to MAG1 when the amount of free space drops below 60GB but for some reason the move does not happen:

# Configuration of disk(s) to store images
MAGDeviceThreshhold = 0
MAGDeviceFullThreshHold = 30
IgnoreMAGDeviceThreshold = 0
MAGDevices = 2
MAGDevice0 = E:\images\
MAGDevice1 = F:\images2\
NightlyCleanThreshhold = 0
NightlyMoveThreshhold = 60000
NightlyMoveTarget = MAG1

Should NightlyMoveTarget be changed from "MAG1" to "MAGDevice1"?

Does the GUI need to be open at 2:00 a.m. for this to work?

This is a Windows 2008 R2 Server.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Thanks Marcel! GUI's now open.

Ah, I see. Thank you Marcel. I was just going to post that NightlyMove failed last night. I will bring them up to 1.4.16c or 1.4.17. Does the GUI still need to remain open? Also, this server is using dbaseIII. I presume this is not a problem.

Hi Marcel,

I checked on the server this morning and found the NightlyMove had failed. I was met with a Windows alert that dgate64.exe had quit. The GUI was open (but minimized) and a blank Command Prompt window was open.

This is from the maintenance.log file:

2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM Making space at night by moving LRU patients to: MAG1
2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM Amount of MB to move: 24128
2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM [BACKUP] ---------- Start archival operation -----------
2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM [BACKUP] Creating index on field 19 for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF with 1408728 records
2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 100000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 200000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:00 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 300000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:01 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 400000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:01 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 500000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:01 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 600000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:01 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 700000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:01 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 800000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:01 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 900000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:01 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 1000000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 1100000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 1200000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 1300000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 1400000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Index for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF finished in 2044 ms; total space = 9901805 records
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Creating index on field 0 for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMPatients.DBF with 21751 records
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Index for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMPatients.DBF finished in 483 ms; total space = 152885 records
2/26/2014 2:00:02 AM [BACKUP] Creating index on field 15 for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMSeries.DBF with 179198 records
2/26/2014 2:00:03 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMSeries.DBF: 100000 records processed
2/26/2014 2:00:03 AM [BACKUP] Index for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMSeries.DBF finished in 562 ms; total space = 1259564 records
2/26/2014 2:00:03 AM [BACKUP] Creating index on field 13 for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMStudies.DBF with 49001 records
2/26/2014 2:00:03 AM [BACKUP] Index for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMStudies.DBF finished in 62 ms; total space = 344423 records
2/26/2014 2:00:03 AM [BACKUP] Creating index on field 0 for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMWorkList.DBF with 0 records
2/26/2014 2:00:03 AM [BACKUP] Index for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMWorkList.DBF finished in 172 ms; total space = 10000 records
2/26/2014 2:00:03 AM [BACKUP] Creating index on field 1 for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\UIDMODS.DBF with 0 records
2/26/2014 2:00:04 AM [BACKUP] Index for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\UIDMODS.DBF finished in 234 ms; total space = 10000 records

After logging in to the server this morning the following was created in the daily maintenance log:

2/26/2014 5:45:35 AM failed selecting patients for nightly moving
2/26/2014 5:45:35 AM [BACKUP] ---------- Start archival operation -----------
2/26/2014 5:45:35 AM [BACKUP] Creating index on field 19 for C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF with 1408728 records
2/26/2014 5:45:37 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 100000 records processed
2/26/2014 5:45:38 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 200000 records processed
2/26/2014 5:45:38 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 300000 records processed
2/26/2014 5:45:42 AM [BACKUP] Indexing C:\dicomserver\Data\dbase\DICOMImages.DBF: 400000 records processed
2/26/2014 5:45:50 AM failed nightly moving

Conquest responded to a DICOM Echo this morning when I logged in but the Windows Event Viewer (time stamped at 2:00:17) showed that dgate quit apparently when starting the NightlyMove:

Faulting application name: dgate64.exe, version: 0.0.0.0, time stamp: 0x527bf354
Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.18247, time stamp: 0x521eaf24
Exception code: 0xc0000374
Fault offset: 0x00000000000c4102
Faulting process id: 0x458
Faulting application start time: 0x01cf32c8bf65c839
Faulting application path: C:\dicomserver\dgate64.exe
Faulting module path: C:\Windows\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll
Report Id: 0732a605-9ebc-11e3-bf46-005056bc5cb9

When I upgraded this server to 1.4.17c I did so by copying all new files and replacing the previous ones (with the exception of the windows manual). I halted the dgate process prior to doing the copying.

I'm not sure how to proceed.

Thank you

Well, that was easy. Apparently the GUI needs to be open, not minimized. The only change I made was leaving the GUI open, rather than minimized, and last night the NightlyMove was successful. So, in this case "open" really means OPEN. I'm surprised it makes a difference but it apparently does...

Hi Marcel,

Yes, you are correct. It makes no difference whether the UI is open or minimized. I'm not sure why I had some problems initially but NightlyMoveThreshhold is working fine now minimized or not.

Thank you for your help.