On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Shangzhong zhu <shanzh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All, > > We are developing a wrapper on top of oozie to automate failed/killed > coordinator action rerun. > > To rerun a coordinator action, seems I have two options. > > 1. Using coordinator action rerun: > oozie job -rerun <coord_Job_id> <-date XXXX> > > 2. Since the failed action is a workflow job, I can also rerun that > workflow job by setting oozie.wf.rerun.failnodes to rerun from the failed > action. > > Questions: > 0. which option is preferred? > > 1. For option 1, can I choose to rerun from the failed action like the > oozie.wf.rerun.failnodes option in workflow rerun? > > If I recall correctly you cannot do this. > 2. For option 1, seems I cannot change the job configurations. But for > option 2, I have more flexibility in changing the configurations, say I can > change the job name so that I know how many rerun has been made for that > workflow. > > no need for this, there is a WF rerun count. > 3. If I chose option 2, does it mean that the rerun workflow job is not > part of the coordinator actions any more? In another word, if I killed that > coordinator job, that rerun workflow job will be still running? It should get killed as well as the WF job ID is still the same as. Wit Option #2 though I'm not sure what will happen with the status of the corresponding COORD action. > > Thanks > -- Alejandro
