How to empty a queue with 200+ messages?
Hi all,
We are using Solace in combination with Boomi. We're looking for a solution to empty a queue quickly. No matter how many messages are in that queue.
From the Solace Cloud console, the max is 50 per page. JMS Toolbox is refusing to empty a queue when it contains 200+ messages. How to solve this? Ideally, we would like to have a button in Solace Cloud to do this. For example, today, we have been testing with 3000+ messages. It would take 60 clicks in Solace Cloud to empty the queue. Not really efficient IMO.
Thanks!
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however, you can achieve this using the SEMP V1 API.
Yup, you can do with a single HTTP POST!
Otherwise, you could also just drain the queue with a standard consumer app. But that kind of blurs the line between "messaging app" and "management utility".
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@rlawrence said:
HiI believe his feature will be added to the Solace Web UI in a future release. In the meantime, however, you can achieve this using the SEMP V1 API. See an example script here.
Hope this helps
RichardThat's an acceptable workaround. Btw: what's the priority of this feature? It's one of our top 3 admin feature requests in the Solace Cloud UI. Others are
- moving messages from a queue A to B. For example, moving messages from a DMQ to the originating queue
- view message payloads => this is the number 1
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@Aaron said:
however, you can achieve this using the SEMP V1 API.
Yup, you can do with a single HTTP POST!
Otherwise, you could also just drain the queue with a standard consumer app. But that kind of blurs the line between "messaging app" and "management utility".
Thanks Aaron. True!
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@rlawrence said:
HiI believe his feature will be added to the Solace Web UI in a future release. In the meantime, however, you can achieve this using the SEMP V1 API. See an example script here.
Hope this helps
RichardHi Richard,
I have tried it from Postman using a POST {{url}}/SEMP and the following payload:<rpc> <admin> <message-spool> <vpn-name>my VPN</vpn-name> <delete-messages> <queue-name>my queue</queue-name> </delete-messages> </message-spool> </admin> </rpc>I get an HTTP 200 OK response, but nothing happens. If I send an invalid XML payload (removing a tag), I still get an HTTP 200. The documentation says:
_An HTTP response of “200 OK” is returned if the command was accepted by the event broker (even if it was not successfully executed).
_How does the SEMP V1 operation work?
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It could be an error returned from the broker, such as invalid queue name for example. Try running curl with verbose -v option. Feel free to send me the output in a private message and I can take a look.
In terms of the other requests, there is a tool for resending queue messages, such as from a DMQ, you can try here
For browsing queues and viewing message payloads, I used SDKPerf with options: -qb -md -q
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In terms of the other requests, there is a tool for resending queue messages, such as from a DMQ, you can try here
Cool tool @rlawrence! I didn't know that existed. It might be worth making a separate post in the community about it with a title that folks might google search for so it's more easily findable.
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I'm missing the cli for that task :-)
ena admin message-spool message-vpn my_vpn delete-messages queue my_queue home exit
(if you compare, that's the direct translation between SEMP and cli)
The bad thing: There is no easy way to reach cli on a solace-cloud instance :-(
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Hi @rlawrence and @Aaron ,
Is there an update regarding this feature request for the Solace Cloud UI? Thank you.
Sjaak
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Hey @sjaak! Welcome back. I'm not sure, I'll go ask. Actually, I'll go test...
Well, good news! This option is now available in my 10.4.0 broker:
Not sure exactly when they added it, would you like to know what the min version is?EDIT: it was added in 10.0.1. But never release noted. So it's been in the product for about half a year now.
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HI @Aaron, thanks! 👍️ Btw: we are using 20+ Solace Cloud services. And Solace is, as we speak, upgrading them to 10.0.
🤔 The newest service we created last week is 10.2. I don't know when 10.4 will become available for upgrades.It works on 10.0.x Solace Cloud. Cool! 😃
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Nice! For completeness, this feature was added in 10.0.1, but it's not in 10.0.0. The latter would have been a Preview release anyway, and Solace Cloud would not upgrade to that. 10.0.1 is an LTS version. All Solace Cloud production brokers should be on 10.0.1 or 10.2.1; 10.4.1 Cloud upgrades are currently scheduled for August. See: https://solace.com/support/support-dates-for-release-versions/
Glad it's working! Sorry we didn't ping this thread to let you know.
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