How to get information about all ATG Nucleus components

Dyn Admin has useful feature - Configuration reporter: http://localhost:8080/dyn/admin/atg/dynamo/admin/en/config-reporter-property-representation1.jhtml

There are two variations of the report: Property representation report - PRR (shorter version) and Bean representation report (BRR). The PRR does not report properties that have default values, while BRR is reporting current values of all properties. Compare the sizes

-rw-r--r-- 1 miro 2.2M Jul 12 14:07 bean1
-rw-r--r-- 1 miro 2.5M Jul 12 14:07 bean1.xml
 
 
-rw-r--r-- 1 miro 275K Jul 12 13:50 file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 miro 572K Jul 12 13:51 file1.xml

In both cases first creates binary file with properties and then transforms it to XML format:

Both files will be saved in the home directory of the JVM.

In development, it will be most likely the ATG module directory - from where the Start script was run.

You can format it

xmllint –format file1.xml >file1-formatted.xml

after which it looks like this (PRR)

...
</component>
    <component NAME="/atg/devtools/ArchiveDirectoryCache">
      <property NAME="$scope"><![CDATA[global]]></property>
      <property NAME="directoryAgent"><![CDATA[./ContainerAppDirectoryAgent]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingInfo"><![CDATA[true]]></property>
      <property NAME="logListeners"><![CDATA[atg/dynamo/service/logging/LogQueue,atg/dynamo/service/logging/ScreenLog]]></property>
      <property NAME="schedule"><![CDATA[every 30 minutes]]></property>
      <property NAME="stagingDirectoryRoot"><![CDATA[{serverHomeDirResource?resourceURI=j2ee/archive-cache}]]></property>
      <property NAME="$description"><![CDATA[server-side J2EE application and stand alone archived application cache]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingWarning"><![CDATA[true]]></property>
      <property NAME="logging.logListeners"><![CDATA[atg/dynamo/service/logging/LogQueue,atg/dynamo/service/logging/ScreenLog]]></property>
      <property NAME="$class"><![CDATA[atg.ui.j2edit.model.CachingJ2eeArchiveDirectoryAgent]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingError"><![CDATA[true]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingDebug"><![CDATA[false]]></property>
      <property NAME="enabled^"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/Configuration.j2eeArchiveCachingEnabled]]></property>
      <property NAME="scheduler"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/Scheduler]]></property>
    </component>
    <component NAME="/atg/devtools/ComponentIndex">
      <property NAME="logging.logListeners"><![CDATA[atg/dynamo/service/logging/LogQueue,atg/dynamo/service/logging/ScreenLog]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingWarning"><![CDATA[true]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingDebug"><![CDATA[false]]></property>
      <property NAME="moduleManager"><![CDATA[/atg/modules/ModuleManager]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingInfo"><![CDATA[true]]></property>
      <property NAME="excludeDirectories"><![CDATA[/docroot,/atg/dynamo/servlet/sessiontracking/SessionManager,/atg/dynamo/servlet/pipeline/RequestScopeManager,/atg/reporting/contentviewed,/atg/reporting/profilegroup,/atg/reporting/requests,/atg/reporting/userevents]]></property>
      <property NAME="componentIndexFile"><![CDATA[{serverHomeDirResource?resourceURI=data/componentIndex.ser}]]></property>
      <property NAME="$description"><![CDATA[Index of all configured global components in Nucleus]]></property>
      <property NAME="logListeners"><![CDATA[atg/dynamo/service/logging/LogQueue,atg/dynamo/service/logging/ScreenLog]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingError"><![CDATA[true]]></property>
      <property NAME="componentManager"><![CDATA[ComponentManager]]></property>
      <property NAME="$class"><![CDATA[atg.ui.component.model.GlobalComponentIndex]]></property>
    </component>
    <component NAME="/atg/devtools/ComponentManager">
      <property NAME="loggingDebug"><![CDATA[false]]></property>
      <property NAME="loggingError"><![CDATA[true]]></property>
...

or this (BRR):

...
</component>
<component NAME="/atg/devtools/ArchiveDirectoryCache">
<property NAME="schedule"><![CDATA[schedule every 30 minutes without catch up]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingTrace"><![CDATA[loggingTrace false]]></property>
<property NAME="adminServlet"><![CDATA[adminServlet atg.nucleus.GenericService$1AdminServlet@5d6142fe]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingWarning"><![CDATA[loggingWarning true]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingDebug"><![CDATA[loggingDebug false]]></property>
<property NAME="nucleus"><![CDATA[nucleus /]]></property>
<property NAME="scheduler"><![CDATA[scheduler /atg/dynamo/service/Scheduler]]></property>
<property NAME="absoluteName"><![CDATA[absoluteName /atg/devtools/ArchiveDirectoryCache]]></property>
<property NAME="serviceConfiguration"><![CDATA[serviceConfiguration atg.nucleus.PropertyConfiguration@1c756197]]></property>
<property NAME="enabled"><![CDATA[enabled true]]></property>
<property NAME="purgeInterval"><![CDATA[purgeInterval 4]]></property>
<property NAME="nameContext"><![CDATA[nameContext /atg/devtools]]></property>
<property NAME="stagingDirectoryRoot"><![CDATA[stagingDirectoryRoot /Users/miro/src/TRAINING/twc-training2/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache]]></property>
<property NAME="logListenerCount"><![CDATA[logListenerCount 2]]></property>
<property NAME="running"><![CDATA[running true]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingInfo"><![CDATA[loggingInfo true]]></property>
<property NAME="adminServletUseServletOutputStream"><![CDATA[adminServletUseServletOutputStream false]]></property>
<property NAME="j2eeAppInfoCache"><![CDATA[j2eeAppInfoCache {/Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/PubPortlet/:PubPortlets.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@3f9e8e2f, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669459-30/:screenscraper=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@4288d04a, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-7.0.37/webapps/:host-manager=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@2422cc66, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/ATGDBSetup/j2ee-apps/:ATGDBSetup=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@68994f12, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/Service11.1/Service/CRMIntegration/j2ee-apps/:getAgentPasswordHashAlgorithm.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@29165c64, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/tomcat/training_dev01/webapps/:dyn=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@7b0bbe4e, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/WSRP/admin/:admin=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@3ffb31fe, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/Portal/gear-template/helloworld_war/:helloworld.war=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@48f3b83, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/TWC-TDD/j2ee-apps/:TDD.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@578c17cb, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/WSRP/producer/:producer=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@2e6e3d54, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669406-28/:quicklinks=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@477c6d9c, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669177-22/:exchange=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@3a00416e, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/DCS-UI/Versioned/j2ee-apps/:DCS-UI-Versioned.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@66c7ba81, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/Service11.1/Service/CRMIntegration/j2ee-apps/:loginAgentUser.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@42a59fde, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676667174-7/:Fcc=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@7a2ca01, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/tomcat/training_dev01/webapps/:dyn#admin=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@507c0b91, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/BIZUI/j2ee-apps/:bizui.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@7fdb85de, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676668997-14/:alert=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@2531f366, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669691-37/:xmlprotocol=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@7262c09d, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669036-16/:bookmarks=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@3153be16, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/Portal/slotgear/:slotgear-war=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@70e4afa6, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676667067-4/:atg-bootstrap=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@35c7f531, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/DPS-UI/j2ee-apps/:DPS-UI.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@5ab27f8c, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676666956-0/:orderapproval=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@7cd3eed8, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669537-33/:soapclient=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@3de5e6ee, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669140-21/:docexch=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@409c3301, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/twc-training/servers/atg/training_dev01/j2ee/archive-cache/1436676669302-26/:settings=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@4ed8a7ca, /Users/miro/ATG/ATG11.1/ContentMgmt-UI/j2ee-apps/:ContentMgmt-UI.ear=atg.ui.j2edit.model.J2eeAppInfo@71e
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<property NAME="name"><![CDATA[name ArchiveDirectoryCache]]></property>
<property NAME="logListeners"><![CDATA[atg.service.configurationreporter.MultiValueProperty@76711470]]></property>
<property NAME="serviceInfo"><![CDATA[serviceInfo server-side J2EE application and stand alone archived application cache]]></property>
<property NAME="root"><![CDATA[root /]]></property>
<property NAME="cache"><![CDATA[cache {}]]></property>
<property NAME="adminServletOutputStreamEncoding"><![CDATA[adminServletOutputStreamEncoding UTF-8]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingError"><![CDATA[loggingError true]]></property>
<property NAME="class"><![CDATA[class class atg.ui.j2edit.model.CachingJ2eeArchiveDirectoryAgent]]></property>
<property NAME="directoryAgent"><![CDATA[directoryAgent /atg/devtools/ContainerAppDirectoryAgent]]></property>
</component>
<component NAME="/atg/devtools/ComponentIndex">
<property NAME="loggingTrace"><![CDATA[loggingTrace false]]></property>
<property NAME="adminServlet"><![CDATA[adminServlet atg.nucleus.GenericService$1AdminServlet@1a9a8c3d]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingWarning"><![CDATA[loggingWarning true]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingDebug"><![CDATA[loggingDebug false]]></property>
<property NAME="nucleus"><![CDATA[nucleus /]]></property>
<property NAME="absoluteName"><![CDATA[absoluteName /atg/devtools/ComponentIndex]]></property>
<property NAME="serviceConfiguration"><![CDATA[serviceConfiguration atg.nucleus.PropertyConfiguration@186d0670]]></property>
<property NAME="componentIndexFile"><![CDATA[componentIndexFile /Users/miro/src/TRAINING/twc-training2/servers/atg/training_dev01/data/componentIndex.ser]]></property>
<property NAME="enabled"><![CDATA[enabled true]]></property>
<property NAME="excludeDirectories"><![CDATA[atg.service.configurationreporter.MultiValueProperty@79f501cf]]></property>
<property NAME="moduleManager"><![CDATA[moduleManager /atg/modules/ModuleManager]]></property>
<property NAME="rebuilding"><![CDATA[rebuilding false]]></property>
<property NAME="nameContext"><![CDATA[nameContext /atg/devtools]]></property>
<property NAME="logListenerCount"><![CDATA[logListenerCount 2]]></property>
<property NAME="indexAvailable"><![CDATA[indexAvailable false]]></property>
<property NAME="running"><![CDATA[running true]]></property>
<property NAME="loggingInfo"><![CDATA[loggingInfo true]]></property>
<property NAME="adminServletUseServletOutputStream"><![CDATA[adminServletUseServletOutputStream false]]></property>
<property NAME="name"><![CDATA[name ComponentIndex]]></property>

The BRR file seems to have syntactic issues:

➜  dev01 git:(d1-150/main) ✗ xmllint --format bean1.xml
bean1.xml:10865: parser error : Char 0x0 out of allowed range
14:10:9f:1f:cd:04@fe80::1610:9fff:fe1f:cd04._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.,4500/4279,
                                                                               ^
bean1.xml:10865: parser error : CData section not finished
jmDNS   ---- Services -----
        Service: wanderlust.l
14:10:9f:1f:cd:04@fe80::1610:9fff:fe1f:cd04._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.,4500/4279,
                                                                               ^
bean1.xml:10865: parser error : Premature end of data in tag property line 10852
14:10:9f:1f:cd:04@fe80::1610:9fff:fe1f:cd04._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.,4500/4279,
                                                                               ^
bean1.xml:10865: parser error : Premature end of data in tag component line 10845
14:10:9f:1f:cd:04@fe80::1610:9fff:fe1f:cd04._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.,4500/4279,
                                                                               ^
bean1.xml:10865: parser error : Premature end of data in tag component_list line 95
14:10:9f:1f:cd:04@fe80::1610:9fff:fe1f:cd04._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.,4500/4279,
                                                                               ^
bean1.xml:10865: parser error : Premature end of data in tag repository line 1
14:10:9f:1f:cd:04@fe80::1610:9fff:fe1f:cd04._apple-mobdev._tcp.local.,4500/4279,
                                                                        ^

This offers very useful posibilities for using standard Unix text tools.

For example: list all components using other components:

grep -n '/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource' file1-formatted.xml
255:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
1205:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
1344:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
1854:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
2335:    <component NAME="/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource">
2370:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
5497:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
6229:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
6489:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
6536:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
6815:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
6833:      <property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
  
grep -n '/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource' bean1.xml
785:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
7397:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
7756:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
9027:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
10605:<component NAME="/atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource">
10649:<property NAME="absoluteName"><![CDATA[absoluteName /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
10732:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
19875:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
20312:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
20460:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
20608:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
30639:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
31097:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
31340:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
32131:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>
32279:<property NAME="dataSource"><![CDATA[dataSource /atg/dynamo/service/jdbc/JTDataSource]]></property>

Custom report

This allows possibility to report only part of hierarchy. You have to provide control file (complete hierarchy can be generated at

http://localhost:8080/dyn/admin/atg/dynamo/admin/en/config-reporter-output-hierarchy-titled.jhtml?_DARGS=/atg/dynamo/admin/en/config-reporter-output-hierarchy-titled.jhtml.2&_dynSessConf=-8731147233557828105

The file is not XML file, it contains lines for components and directories:

...
<component>/atg/userprofiling/RepositoryItemGroupRoleCacheAdapter</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/ProfileTools</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/UserCacheAdapter</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/PageEventTrigger</component>
<directory>/atg/userprofiling/email</directory>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/email/HtmlContentProcessor</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/email/TemplateEmailPersister</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/email/BatchEmailPeriodicService</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/email/TemplateEmailSender</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/email/TemplateEmailBatchPersister</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/email/TemplateEmailBatchServerPersister</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/ProfileRequestServlet</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/FolderCacheAdapter</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/ProfileUserDirectoryProperties</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/PropertyManager</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/ProfileSessionFailServiceSharable</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/FolderPathCache</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/ProfileItemFinder</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/DPSMessageSource</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/CookieManager</component>
<component>/atg/userprofiling/ExpiredPasswordService</component>
...

I have generated file, left only sub-tree of ‘/atg/userprofiling’:

This file is then used as input. If you leave file in the directory it was generated in, that is the safest way how it will be found.

Here is the output:

 -rw-r--r-- 1 miro 146K Jul 12 14:28 bean2
 -rw-r--r-- 1 miro 198K Jul 12 14:29 bean2.xml

Weakness and issues

This tool would be much more useful if many important classes provided override ‘toString’ methods.

For example, this is what you get from ProfileAdapterRepository’s DatabaseTableInfo

...
<property NAME="databaseTableInfo"><![CDATA[databaseTableInfo atg.adapter.gsa.DatabaseTableInfo@74924b8c]]></property>