Monitoring and Managing Jobs

The job monitor is part of the Monitoring section in the navigation bar and gives a central overview of all jobs and their statuses on all managed servers in any queue. From the job monitor jobs can be monitored as they execute and you can perform a number of actions on the jobs. The job monitor displays a number of properties of jobs in columns, which can be customized, to give you an up-to-date overview of the jobs and their states.

The job monitor consists of two panes:

The job monitor pane displays a hierarchy of all jobs that match a chosen filter.
The job preview pane displays extensive run-time data of the currently selected job.

The preview pane will show job details. A diagram similar to the job chain edit diagram is available from the context menu for job chains. To view the details of a job chain or call, choose the job id.

Note Note

On clusters with multiple nodes, job id's are not necessarily sequential in time. Each node in the cluster will have arrange of job id's.

End of the note.

Editing Jobs with a Recurrence

When you edit a job, you can change the scheduled start time, queue or other properties of a single job, as long as it has not reached the Running status. This is done, using the actions under Scheduling.

You can also edit the properties for jobs of a recurrence; this is done using the actions under Recurrence. Changes performed on a job in the recurrence, regardless of its status, will generally have effect on all jobs of the recurrence that have not reached the Running state at the time of the change. If you want control over which jobs are affected, put the job on Held to make sure you have enough time to perform the change. Once you have finished adapting the recurrence, do not forget to release all jobs you held.

Actions

Jobs support the basic actions of Help, Refresh, Close tab, and Close all other tabs.

Jobs have additional actions:

Action	Description
Remove Old Jobs	Remove old jobs that have reached a final status
Add Note	Add a note to the job
Explain Job Status	Explain the current job status, only works if the current job status is Queued
Recurrence > Delete Recurrence	Delete the jobs of the job group that have reached a final status.
Recurrence > Edit Recurrence	Edit scheduling data of the job group.
Recurrence > Hold Recurrence	Pause the recurrence; this can be performed on any job of the job group regardless of its status.
Recurrence > Release Recurrence	Resumes a paused recurrence.
Recurrence > Cancel Recurrence	End a recurrence.
Recurrence > Restart Recurrence	Create a new job group with the recurrence.
Scheduling > Edit	Edit scheduling data of the job. To edit a job, the job must be in an initial state, not Running.
Scheduling > Resubmit	submit a new job based on this job (same definition, parameters, and so on). This will pop up the new window to edit the values before the job is submitted.
Scheduling > Hold	this will hold the job, preventing it from being executed until it is manually released.
Scheduling > Release	this will release the job, allowing it to be executed automatically when all its scheduling constraints are met.
Scheduling > Enable	this enables a previously disabled job chain step or call.
Scheduling > Disable	this disables a previously enabled job chain step or call.
Scheduling > Kill	kill a running job by sending it a signal to stop running. Killing a job may not always be instantaneous.
Scheduling > Cancel	cancel a job that has not yet started running. This will prevent the job from ever starting.
Scheduling > Restart	submit a new job based on this job (same definition, parameters, and so on). This will submit the job immediately, without prompting.
Scheduling > Cancel recurrence	Cancel all recurrences of the job (if the job is submitted with a recurrence).
Show diagram	Show the job in a diagram, useful for job chains and SAP process chains.
Delete	Delete the job, it has to be in a final state. If its state is pre-running, you must cancel it first. If the job is running, you must kill it before you can delete it.
New Alert Rule	Allows you to create a new alert rule for the job with a default Name and Name Pattern.
Get Support Files	Allows you to retrieve the log files that might help you troubleshoot a problem. Only available for jobs that have not reached status Completed.
Filter > Create Filter	Create a job filter
Filter > Edit Filter	Edit the current job filter
Filter > Delete Filter	Delete the current job filter

The detail pane shows the different values listed in the Values section below. Among these are Job files, which can be viewed, downloaded, and deleted once the job has completed.

Procedure

To view parameters of a job:

Choose Monitoring → Jobs .
Choose the Refresh to update existing jobs and show new jobs.
Choose an auto-refresh interval.
Expand a job chain, notice the child steps.
Expand a step.
Select a job, notice that the detail pane appears.
Scroll down and expand the Parameters group.
The overview displays the value when the job started (In Value) and the value once it finished (Out Value) of every parameter (if applicable).
Expand the Files node. These are the output files of the job.
Choose a file to view its contents.

Values

More information about the available columns in the job monitor can be found in the Available Columns in the Job Monitor section of the documentation.