Continuously polling and downloading data(every minute) from operational model

karank_*4578

Hi All , 

 

I have a requirement to continually poll(every 1 min) and export data from an operational Anaplan model .  

I expressed my concerns about locking / slowing down model therefore to test it out i wrote a script which runs every min and downloads data from an operational model . Data to be downloaded is relatively small 20 rows and 2 columns . Script mimics what a middle ware would do i.e authentication , get ids , run export , download data . I have the script running every min for an entire day in production model while users were logged in and going about their day to to activities . Script has been tested and cofirmed working . 

 

To my surprise no one reported any degradation / slowness of model . No one reported unexpected blue pop up stating something running . I didnt notice / feel slowness nor i noticed the blue pop thing . 

 

Question : is any one out there doing such kind of frequent polling ? Am i missing something here ?

personally i am not a big fan of polling operational model every min however i need a reason to back my unlikeness.

 

thoughts ?

 

Thanks  

Misbah

@karank 

 

Well I had posted a similar query a few weeks ago where in I wanted to use Keep Alive Scripts which would have basically kept my model alive and it wouldn't have let model hibernate when there was an inactivity for more than 60 minutes. But that approach was turned down by David Smith stating its wise to let model hibernate like any other computer.

 

Although you are not doing it exclusively to Keep Alive your model but indirectly you are keeping your model up and running all the time, which might have consequences in the long run - (don't have anything to back that up with facts)

 

Thanks,

Misbah