Working with the job viewer

Using the Job Viewer, you can see what configuration jobs are queued, scheduled, and waiting to be submitted, and what jobs are complete.

Changes to configuration objects, including the creation and deletion of objects, are submitted as jobs. You can submit a change to an object as a job to be run immediately, or placed in the Held Job queue to run later. With this mechanism, you can change a held job over time, based on factors such as your schedule and the need to conduct further research. You can also schedule a job to run automatically at a later time. After all changes to the object are in place, you can start the held job to submit the job to accomplish all the changes at one time.

You can view jobs in the Job Viewer by selecting Queued Configuration Jobs or Completed Configuration Jobs on the Configure Servers menu. When you submit a job that involves more than one server, Sterling Customer Center creates a separate job for each server.

For a queued job (shown on the Queued tab of the Job Viewer), you can do these tasks:
  • View job properties
  • Change those properties
  • View and run component job steps
  • Start a job
  • Hold a job for later
  • Cancel a job

For a completed job (including a failed one), you can view and change job properties or job step properties, rerun the job, or rerun individual steps. For jobs with a non-zero return code, the entire row for that job is highlighted in color.