cfg job status queue is yellow

Products

• DX Infrastructure Management
• NIMSOFT PROBES

Issue/Introduction

cfg_job_status_queue is yellow and we don't know what it is used for in UIM. ace.log shows:

Apr 10 16:01:50:862 INFO  [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.probe.service.ace.Configurator] Starting configuration. 
Apr 10 16:01:50:891 DEBUG [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.probe.service.ace.Configurator] Running configuration at Wed Apr 10 16:01:57 EDT 2019 (NIS time) 
Apr 10 16:01:50:893 DBLOW [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.probe.service.ace.Configurator] The HashSet: '(ComputerSystems To Configure', indexed by the key: 'csId' has the following members: 
Apr 10 16:01:50:894 DBLOW [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.probe.service.ace.Configurator] The HashSet: '(Changed Computer Systems)', indexed by the key: 'csId' has the following members: 
Apr 10 16:01:50:894 DBLOW [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.probe.service.ace.Configurator] The HashSet: '(Retry Computer Systems)', indexed by the key: 'csId' has the following members: 
Apr 10 16:01:50:904 INFO  [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.probe.service.ace.Configurator] Configuration complete. 
Apr 10 16:02:32:589 ERROR [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimServerSession] Exception in NimServerSessionThread.run.  Closing session. 
Apr 10 16:02:32:591 ERROR [attach_socket, com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimServerSession] (2) communication error, sockRead: Couldn't get I/O on session (S) com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimServerSession(Socket[addr=/10.xxx.xx.xx,port=51571,localport=48026]): Connection reset 
    at com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimSessionBase.sockRead(NimSessionBase.java:1064) 
    at com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimSessionBase.recv(NimSessionBase.java:915) 
    at com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimServerSession.recv(NimServerSession.java:90) 
    at com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimServerSession$NimServerSessionThread.handleMessage(NimServerSession.java:154) 
    at com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimServerSession$NimServerSessionThread.run(NimServerSession.java:123) 
Caused by: java.net.SocketException: Connection reset 
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:209) 
    at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(SocketInputStream.java:141) 
    at com.nimsoft.nimbus.NimSessionBase.sockRead(NimSessionBase.java:1056) 
    ... 4 more 

Cause

- ace probe is no longer required as of UIM 8.5.1 or higher

Environment

- UIM v8.5.1
- ace 9.03

Resolution

The cfg_job_status_queue queue is used by the ACE probe (automatic configuration engine). 

For CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.0 and v8.1, ace is responsible for storing alarm data in the UIM database.

For CA Unified Infrastructure Management v8.4, only customers using the SOC feature need ace. All other customers can deactivate ace on the Primary Hub. 

http://https://docops.ca.com/ca-unified-infrastructure-management-probes/ga/en/alphabetical-probe-articles/ace-automatic-configuration-engine 

If you are on UIM v8.51, SOC (service oriented configuration) is a deprecated feature, you are safe to simply delete that queue.