Disable all agents at once in OBIEE 11.1.1.7

User_E9OMM

Hi,

Is there a way to disable/deactivate all agents (Shared folder agents as well as user created personal My agents) at once in OBIEE 11.1.1.7 ?

Gianni Ceresa

There has never been been a one-click-thing to enable or disable all agents in OBIEE, it is something you can write (a few lines of javascript could do it for all the shared agents, for users agents permissions will not let touch them).

I don't remember 11.1.1.7 anymore as it is 8 years old, but it has components already I believe: did you try stopping the scheduler? It wouldn't execute any scheduled agent if it's stopped.

You can also change the SMTP configuration to point nowhere so that agents are executed but emails not sent.

User_CGJM2

Sure Gianni.

Stopping BI Scheduler is one option that we are thinking of. Presently the OBIEE 11g environment is accessible to a limited set of admin users only. In case we stop scheduler service, admin users would also not be able to create/run agent. And just in case BI Services are to be restarted due to some failure, we shall have to make sure that scheduler is to be stopped again.

Making the SMTP configuration to point to nowhere would not sent attachment emails to users. But would that also stop notification (Alerts ! icon) on the header of OBIEE home screen ?

Could you please share your views on these points ?

We were thinking of disabling the agents manually in the users' my folders. We have done this exercise for 1 end user.

Gianni Ceresa

Changing the SMTP doesn't prevent the notifications inside OBIEE because the agent still run, it just fail on the delivery side.

Technically even an admin isn't supposed to have access online to the users personal folder, practically the catalog you can either "destroy" the default security model to open the door or go into the catalog offline and that's has little to no limits, so it's doable for sure.

User_E9OMM

Okay. Got it. We will go with stopping BI scheduler service.