ActiveBatch Health Service
The ActiveBatch Health Service is a stand-alone windows service that collects usage and analytical data. The data is used to provide you with a Health Report. The reports will provide insight to ensure your ActiveBatch environment is fully optimized, and its features are being effectively leveraged. The data is also used in the AbatConsole Action Center view.
In previous versions of ActiveBatch (V12 and V11), the Health Services were installed separately. The ActiveBatch Management Console (abatmgmt.exe), would launch automatically after the installation.
Note: In the current versions of ActiveBatch, the Health Service cannot be configured using the Management Console.
In V12 SP8 and newer of ActiveBatch, the Health Service is integrated with the Job Scheduler and its configuration is handled automatically during the Job Scheduler's installation and setup.
The default installation location for the ActiveBatch Management Console application (abatmgmt.exe) is:
C:\Program Files\ASCI\AbatHealthService\bin\abatmgmt.exe (for 64-bit systems, with a default installation folder).
Keep in mind that the configuration file itself might not be directly edited, but rather the configuration is done through the ActiveBatch Management Console application. This application allows you to define various settings for the Health Service, such as:
Confirmation Email Recipients: A comma-separated list of email addresses that will receive a confirmation after accepting the terms of the addendum.
API Key: The API Key used for authenticating calls to the backend service, which is accessible at your My ASCI account.
Email Alert Recipients (optional): A comma-separated list of email addresses to be notified when a new Health Report is available. Specify the recipients as quoted strings in JSON configuration. For example: {"ApiKey":”ilr….id9”,"EmailAlertRecipients":”person@company.com”}
Service Account: The Health Service must run under the same Windows service account as the ActiveBatch Job Scheduler. You'll be prompted to enter the password for this account.
Health Service Components:
Health Service: This is a program named AbatHealthService.exe. It is an executable that runs as a windows service. Its function is to launch and monitor the Health Agent process.
Health Agent: This is a program named AbatHealthAgent.exe. It is an executable that connects to the ActiveBatch database to collect and move the data.
In prior versions of ActiveBatch (V12 and V11), it was required that you install Health Services for this feature to work. Since the release of V12 SP8 and most recently 2024, the Health Service has been integrated into the Job Scheduler feature and is installed/configured automatically with the Job Scheduler component.
Health Service requires outbound HTTPS port 443 to be opened for hub.activebatch.com to allow the Health Service to communicate with ASCI Cloud Services. The port must remain open for the Health Service to function properly.
