Managing Scheduled Tasks; About Tasks; Tasks Tab - HPE XP7 Automation Director User Manual

Managing scheduled tasks

About tasks

The dashboard provides a quick way to monitor the tasks. From the dashboard, you can view the tasks
that were generated by the services you submitted, or see the tasks that require a response. The Global
Monitoring Bar Area found at the bottom of every tab in Automation Director provides a collective
summary of the task status.
You can manage tasks from the Tasks tab. Active tasks are categorized by the tags that were assigned to
its service and by task status. Tasks that were generated by testing services are found on the Debug tab.
Archived tasks are found under the History tab. Various actions are available to manage tasks such as
stopping, cancelling, or resubmitting tasks.
Each task has task details to provide more in-depth information about the task and its relationship to the
service. The details contain information such as the task name, description, type of schedule, start time,
and the status of each functional step of the task. This is useful information when monitoring or
troubleshooting a task.
A task monitoring area is provided below the main tasks that provides details for each step associated
with a task. From here, you can see the status of the steps and, if necessary, determine at which step a
failure has occurred.
More information
About task status on page 40
Viewing task details on page 42
Creating a similar task request on page 45
Configuring email and log settings on page 79

Tasks tab

From the Header control area at the top, you can enter a search string to look for a specific task. You also
have the option of toggling the To Do Filter or My Task buttons to show only tasks that have been
specified as TO DO or tasks that have been initiated by the current user. The default for these options is
off. The following information is provided for tasks.
Property
Task Name
To Do
Status
Scheduled Time
Start Time
Completion Time
Schedule Type
Task ID
Description
Service
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Description
The name of the task.
Displays tasks marked as "To Do."
The status of the task.
Scheduled start time for the task.
Actual start time of the task.
Completion time of the task.
Shows a task beginning immediately or on a defined schedule.
Unique ID assigned to the task.
User-specified description of the task.
Service that initiated the task.
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