Sun Management Center Change Manager 1.0 Administration Guide

Job Queue and Logs

A job is described by a job name and a unique job ID that the Change Manager generates.

You can perform the following actions on jobs:

View the status of submitted jobs
Cancel running jobs
Purge the completed jobs from the job queue

Job Queue

From the Jobs page, view the job queue to monitor current and recent pending, running, and completed jobs. Jobs are initiated on the Change Manager server to perform several tasks, such as installing a managed host. Initiate the jobs from the Hosts section. Then, check the status of the jobs from the Jobs section. There are several job status values:

Canceled: Job that has been terminated.
Cancelling: Job that is in the process of being terminated.
Complete: Job that successfully completed.
Failed: Job that failed to complete successfully. See the job log for failure details.
Pending: Job that is scheduled to run, but the start time has not arrived.
Running: Job that is currently running.

Job queue entries include the following information:

Job ID: The unique generated ID of the job.
Job Name: User-supplied name for the job.
User: The user who initiated the command.
Start Time: The time the job started.
End Time: The time the job completed.
Status: The status of the job.

Job Log

From the Logs page, view the job log to see detailed information about the progress of jobs. A log entry is created to show each change to the job status. The entry includes the following information:

Date/Time: Time the job starts or completes.
Job ID: The unique generated ID of the job.
Command: The command being run.
Host: The managed host on which the job is initiated.
Status: The status of the job, which indicates whether the job has started or completed.
Message: The status of the job. This field indicates that the job has been submitted or dispatched. If the job fails, this field shows the failure message.

Transaction Log

From the Logs page, view the transaction log. The transaction log shows the actions that have been initiated from the Change Manager server. This log shows all actions, not just the long-running jobs included in the job log. Each log entry includes the following information:

Date/Time: Time the job starts or completes.
User: The user who initiated the command.
Operation: The operation being run.
Object Type: The type of object being used by the operation.
Message: Status of the job. This field indicates that the job succeeded or failed. If the job fails, an error message is included with the status.