Job Management Concepts

A job consists of a task or activity and a set of filtering criteria used to define the objects to which that task applies. You can submit a job to run when you define the job. Alternatively, you can schedule a job to run at a specific time or on a repeating schedule. For example, you might define a job that sets several attributes for several data properties that apply to several modules. Another example of a job might be to set a single attribute for several hosts within a domain. The remainder of this chapter describes how to define, schedule, and manage jobs.

Manage Jobs Window

You use the Manage Jobs window to define and schedule jobs. For any defined jobs, the Manage Jobs window displays the following information:

• Job name

• Date and time that the task was added to the server database

• Domain to which the job applies

• Name of any filter that applies to the job

• Indication of whether the job is run at user request or according to a periodic schedule

• Current state of the job

Features in the Manage Jobs window enable you to define and modify jobs. For more information, see the following tasks:

• To Define a Job

• Using Filters

• To Define a Task

• To Create a Module Task

• To Create a Data Property Task

• To Create a Module Table Task

• To Create an Agent Update Task

• To Schedule a Job

• To Modify a Task