What Are Cache Files in the HVR Router Directory?

Question

What are cache files in the HVR router directory?

Environment

HVR 5

Answer

The cache files are the dumps of the contents of the HVR catalogs, created by HVR Load. HVR needs them so that capture and integrate jobs can inspect actions without making an expensive connection to the HVR database located under directory structure $HVR_CONFIG/router/<hubname>/<channel name>/catalog.

These can be inspected using command

$ hvrrouterview hub chn 53ba7f7e_6a5a4.cache > cache.xml

Sometimes there are multiple of these files because HVR Load does not want to delete an old file and create a new one because it's worried that a running job may be reading that file. Instead, it creates a new file with a bigger timestamp in its basename ("53db3914" means "Aug 1 2014" in hex), leaves the file that was 'current' and deletes other cache files.

At the start of each cycle, the running jobs should check if a new cache file has been created and then reload it.