Grouper Users - Open Discussion List

["Waldbieser, Carl" <>]

At Lafayette College, we have been running the Grouper Loader as a system 
service from /etc/init (according to the host's man pages, "init - Upstart 
process management daemon").
This has typically worked well for us, though I was a bit surprised today 
when my Grouper status URL reported that a few new SIMPLE_SQL jobs I recently 
added had not run in a couple days.
The logs showed no errors, and if I ran the jobs from GSH, they ran without 
issues.

I finally ran a report from the database and realized the jobs were not 
recorded as having been run.

I tried changing one of the job times, and I could see in the grouper logs 
that a session started and ended at the appropriate time, but there was still 
no log entry.
Finally, I rescheduled the job *and* stopped and restarted the Loader 
process.  Now the job was picked up and recorded in the loader history table.

Based on these observations, I am assuming that an existing Loader session 
won't see newly scheduled jobs.  

I was wondering if I am running the Loader in the expected manner, and it is 
just an operation step to bounce the service to get it to recognize new jobs, 
or if it was intended to be run intermittently or perhaps something else.

Thanks,
Carl Waldbieser
ITS Systems Programmer
Lafayette College