Job Monitoring

This section discusses multiple actions that an HCL BigFix CLM Admin or Provider User can perform:

  • View History of Jobs
  • Job Parameters
  • Scheduling
  • Reinitiate Jobs

To manage jobs, Admin needs to follow the following steps:

  1. Click on Administration, then Platform, then Job Monitoring.
    Figure 1. Job Monitoring Home Page

    Refer to the table below to understand the fields mentioned in the above figure:

    Table 1. Job Monitoring
    Field Description
    Job ID Unique ID of the job
    Platform Applicable Cloud Platform
    Component Lists all the components of HCL BigFix CLM
    Job Name Name the job
    Job Description Displays the job description
    Cloud Account Displays the name of the environment (cloud endpoint)
    Organization Name Displays the name of organization
    Action Lists the actions that are performed for respective jobs. e.g., History, Reinitiate, Job Parameter and Scheduling.
    Last Success Run Date Displays the date and time of the successful run.
    Next Run Date Displays the next scheduled run date and timing of the job.
    Active Displays if the job is Active or not.
    Status Displays the current status of the Job.
  2. Select Filters and Component.
  3. Jobs are displayed in a tabular form as shown in Job Monitoring à Home Page.

Reinitiate Job

To Restart a job, Admin user needs to check the box adjacent to the job.

  1. Click on Bulk Actions and select Reinitiate Job.
    Figure 2. Reinitiate Job
  2. A Confirmation message appears as below.
    Figure 3. Job Reinitiate Confirmation Message
  3. Click Ok.
    Figure 4. Reinitiate Job Success Message
  4. Finally, the Status becomes Reinitiate and the color changes to blue.
    Figure 5. Reinitiate Job Status

Refresh Jobs

To check the status of the job, click the Bulk Actions and select Refresh.
Figure 6. Refresh Job Status

Enable Jobs

To enable a job, Admin users need to check the box adjacent to the job.

  1. Click the Bulk Actions and select Enable Jobs. To check if the job is enabled, the status of Active column should be “Yes”
    Figure 7. Enable Job Status

Disable Jobs

To disable/deactivate any job, Admin users need to check the box adjacent to the job.

  1. Click the Bulk Actions and select Disable Jobs. To check if job is disabled, the status of the Active column should be “No”.
    Figure 8. Disable Job Status