Jobs

This section details the Jobs interface in the IBM RPA Control Center.

The Jobs page provides information of all scheduled script operations. You can see details of each run after searching for jobs. These are the following fields in this page:

Script
Select a script to search for jobs.

Version
Select the script's version.

Status
Select the status of the job. These are the supported statuses:

  • Canceled
  • Failed
  • Finished
  • Pending
  • Running

Script execution time
Select the script execution time. These are the supported values:

  • Green window
  • Red window
  • Yellow window

For more information about script execution times, see Scripts.

Computers
Select the computer that runs the job.

Interval (M/d/yyyy)
Enter the start and end date, respectively.

Dates

The dates presented on execution logs will be in the browser time zone, as the Start time and End time fields. Downloaded logs will follow the same pattern. On IBM RPA Studio logs, the dates are presented in the local time zone of the machine that generated them.

On IBM RPA Control Center Dashboard, all dates are presented in UTC format. Here is the procedure on how to change it:

  1. Set the desired time zone in an invisible parameter.
  2. Create a column on data set with a formula.
  3. Click Save.

Now, when you select the column that you created, the dates are presented on the configured time zone.

Checking details

After searching, you can see the operation details:

  1. On the wanted script, click the vertical ellipsis button ⋮ > Details.
  2. Select the Log level, or leave it as it is to see all the logs.
  3. Type a log message if you are looking for a specific message.
  4. Enter the start and end date to search for logs.
  5. Click Search.

See more about logs in Logs.

About the log synchronization

The Log Synchronizer is one of the Bot Agent services. It's a local database that saves information from failed API requests. When the client computer runs a bot and the communication with the API fails to notify the start or end time of the runtime, it stores the request information, and then the Log Synchronizer tries to synchronize this information with the API.

It tries to synchronize using the following synchronization attempt frequency:

  • Ten attempts every 5 minutes.
  • Ten attempts every 30 minutes.
  • One attempt every 1 hour for two months.

It also tries to synchronize all pending logs newer than 2 months every time the Bot Agent is started or the connection with the API is restored.