Abnormal job termination is one of the main reasons why scheduled jobs fail to run as planned. One way to ensure that jobs run as planned is to restart from any jobs that terminate abnormally.
Systemwalker Operation Manager makes it possible to register an executable file for handling problems (referred to in this manual as a recovery job) as a scheduled job and to run this recovery job automatically whenever an executing job terminates abnormally. If the recovery job terminates normally, the original job that terminated abnormally can be restarted without the need for intervention by operations staff.
Even if a recovery job is not registered, jobs that underwent an abnormal or forced termination can be restarted manually.
The ability to restart jobs provides the following security-related benefit:
The effects of unexpected interruptions to schedules such as abnormal job terminations can be kept to a minimum, thereby helping to ensure that jobs run as planned.
Refer to the following sources for more information:
Refer to "Recovery Jobs" in the Systemwalker Operation Manager User's Guide for more information. The operations for changing or deleting recovery jobs are the same as the operations for normal jobs.
Refer to "Operating Scheduled Jobs" in the Systemwalker Operation Manager User's Guide for more information. To perform more detailed job recovery operations, refer to "Recovering Scheduled Jobs" and "Job Recovery Operations and Actions" in the Systemwalker Operation Manager User's Guide.
Systemwalker Operation Manager also provides the following monitoring windows as a way of checking the status of jobs:
This window displays the status of all job nets running for the current day, and the job net execution schedule for the current day. A chart showing historical information can be displayed by specifying a past date.
This window displays a list of the job nets that can be viewed by users connected to clients.
This window displays information relating to a job net and a list of the jobs registered with the job net.
This window displays information relating to a group and a list of the job nets registered with the group.
Refer to "Monitoring Jobs" in the Systemwalker Operation Manager User's Guide for more information about how to check the status of jobs, and "Status and Operations of Jobs, Job Nets and Groups" in the Systemwalker Operation Manager User's Guide for more information about the statuses of jobs and job nets.
