To Confirm Tasks

If you create a policy, you can predefine which actions should be done automatically (see To Create a Policy). If you chose the predefined Always ask me policy, or if the selected policy did not answer all actions, the job will pause for your confirmation. In this procedure, you will confirm or deny actions of a task of a job. The confirmation answers apply to all hosts selected for the job.

1. Make sure the Jobs panel of the main window is available. From the View menu, choose Jobs.

2. From the Jobs list, click a paused job, indicated with the confirmation icon.

   The tasks of the job appear in the Tasks list.

3. Select a task name with the confirmation icon.

4. Do one of the following:

   • From the tool bar, click the Confirmation button.

   • Right-click the selected task and choose Confirmation.

   • From the Jobs menu, choose Tasks -> Confirm.

     The Confirmation window opens, displaying suggested actions.

     

5. If a confirmation question deals with a component for which you need more information, select the question and click the Details button.

   The Component Information window opens.

6. When you have the information you need, click OK to close the Component Information window. You are returned to the Confirmation window.

7. In the Confirmation window, select Yes to the questions you confirm and No to those you do not want Sun Update Connection – Enterprise to perform on the selected hosts.

   There are different types of questions, and your answers will cause different effect.

   Question	Yes	No
   Install, Uninstall, Upgrade, Downgrade	Sun Update Connection – Enterprise will perform this action.	The DR will execute again, searching for a solution that does not include these actions.  If another solution is not found, the job fails.
   Apply Fix	Sun Update Connection – Enterprise will fix the dependency, security, or bug issue.	Sun Update Connection – Enterprise will not apply the fix in this job.
   Perform action (Mandatory)	Sun Update Connection – Enterprise will perform some action that is necessary to apply the deployment on the selected hosts.	The job will fail.
   Perform action (without Mandatory)	Sun Update Connection – Enterprise will perform some action that is necessary to apply the deployment on the selected hosts.	The Host Progress window shows Attention! You do the listed action manually.
   Accept	You accept that you have to do the special action manually.  Until you handle the action, the job will be marked as failed.	This action does not concern you; possible effects:  The Host Progress window will show a reminder that this action should be done by someone at some point. If the action is mandatory, the job will fail.

8. Click OK.