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Jobs

Jobs are long-running tasks that run asynchronously in the background. If a long-running task targets multiple resources, a separate job is created for each resource.

While a job is running, the Jobs dialog uses a progress bar to show the current progress. You can hover over the progress bar to see the current status and percent (if the job is running). If you close the dialog, you can monitor the status of all jobs that are currently running from the Jobs panel that is accessed from the Monitor tab.

To view a list of all jobs, click See jobs from the Jobs panel to display the Jobs page. You can drill down to view detailed information about a specific job by clicking the job in the table to display the job details page. From this page, you can see information about each subtask in the job. Click the job or subtask on this page to display more details in the Job Logs panel.

A job can be in one of the following states.
  • Job pending icon This job is in the process of waiting or pending another action.
  • Job running icon The job is running without issues. This includes jobs that are initializing, investigating, uploading, validating, or running.
  • Job running with warnings icon The job is running but some warnings have occurred.
  • Job running with errors icon The job is running but some errors have occurred.
  • Job ended with warnngs icon The job ended with warnings. This includes jobs that were stopped, completed, canceled, or interrupted.
  • Job ended with errors icon The job ended with errors. This includes jobs that were stopped, completed, canceled, or interrupted.
  • Job compelted icon The job ended without issues. This includes jobs that are resolved or completed.
  • Job stopped icon The job was stopped. This includes jobs that were stopped, skipped, interrupted, expired, blocked, aborted, canceled or being canceled.

Jobs that are running for more than 24 –36 hours are stopped and placed in the Expired state.

Only jobs that are completed or expired can be manually deleted.

The jobs log can contain a maximum of 1000 jobs or 1 GB. When the maximum size is reached, the oldest job that completed successfully is deleted when a new job starts. If there are no jobs that completed successfully in the log, the oldest job that completed with warnings deleted when a new job starts. If there are no jobs that completed successfully or with warnings in the log, the oldest job that completed with errors deleted when a new job starts.