Job results - New UI

SECURITY  Refer to Jobs > Active Jobs in Permissions.

NAVIGATION  New UI > Automation > Jobs > click a job

NAVIGATION  New UI > Device Summary > Activities card > click a job link. To learn how to access the Device Summary page, refer to Device Summary - New UI.

About

The Job Results page allows you to review all relevant information about a specific job.

The table below lists all available action buttons. To access all action buttons, click the Job Actions icon at the end of the row.

Action Button Description
Edit Job Refer to Editing a job.

Copy

Create a copy of the job.
The copy will be named Copy of [existing job's name] by default. The copy will be automatically configured with the same components, targets, schedule, notification settings, and execution setting as the original job. You can modify these details as necessary and click Create Job to create the copy.
Delete At the confirmation dialog box, click Delete again. The job will be removed from the list and deleted permanently.
Retire Any job that has at least one future occurrence can be retired. Retiring a job prevents it from running again, and any targeted devices that have not yet run this job will be unable to do so. You can review previous results for this job by filtering on Completed jobs on the Jobs Overview page. Refer to Jobs overview - New UI.

NOTE  A job cannot be retired if it is already inactive.

Enable/Disable

 Enable or disable the job.

The Details section displays the following information:

Field Description
Components A list of the components included in this job. Refer to Components. For jobs with a longer list of components, click the more link to expand the list. Click Show Less to collapse the list.
Targets A list of targets this job will run against. Refer to Targets.
Schedule The schedule for this job. Refer to Schedule.
Expiration Displays when this job will expire. Set to Does not expire by default for Quick Jobs. Refer to Quick jobs - New UI.
Created Displays when this job was created.
Created by The user who created this job.
Last edited The user who last edited this job, as well as how long ago the job was edited.

The progress section displays the job's progress in real time. The devices the job is currently running against or scheduled to run against in the future are grouped by their respective statuses. Refer to Job Status.

Clicking a status in this section activates the Job Status filter in the Devices section below, which shows all jobs with the selected status. Refer to Devices.

The Devices section displays the list of devices this job ran against.

The action buttons are grayed out if no row is selected or if the action is not applicable to the selected rows. The selection box allows you to select one or more rows. Select all rows shown by checking the selection box in the table header. To access all action buttons, click the Row Actions icon. The table below lists all available action buttons.

Action Button Description
Quick Job Refer to Quick jobs - New UI.
Create a Job Refer to Creating a job.
Rerun Job on Selected Devices If the job succeeded on some devices but expired or failed on others, select this action to immediately rerun the job on the selected devices without creating a new job schedule.
Create a Device Group Creates a new group that includes the selected devices. Refer to Creating a Device Group or Site Device Group.
Add to Existing Device Group Adds the selected devices to an existing group. Enter the group name, then click Add, or click Cancel to return to the list of devices.

NOTE  If a Site Device Group is entered and any of the selected devices are not included in the site, a message will be displayed indicating that these devices cannot be added to the Site Device Group.

NOTE  The Add button will only become available once a group has been specified.
Remove from Existing Device Group Removes the selected devices from a group. Enter the group name, then click Remove, or click Cancel to return to the list of devices.

NOTE  The Remove button will only become available once a group has been specified.
Export Selected StdOut/StdErr Launches a dialog box that lets you configure export options for StdOut (standard output) and StdErr (standard error) messages pertaining to jobs that ran on the selected devices:
  • Include StdOut: This option, selected by default, allows you to obtain completed job results. Clear this check box to omit standard output information and include only standard error information.
  • Include StdErr: This option, selected by default, allows you to obtain job error information. Clear this check box to omit standard error information and include only standard output information.
  • Output only (no job summary information): Select this check box to omit job summary information from the message (such as number of devices the job was run on, and so forth).
  • Use custom file extension: Select this check box to specify a certain output format (for example, output tab-delimited text as .csv).

    NOTE  The default file extension is .txt.

You can choose how you access the results:
  • Download now (default): Select this option to download the job output file immediately.
  • Send via email: Select this option to configure an email notification that contains the downloadable job output file. Upon selecting this option, you will be prompted to enter the email specifications, including the sender and recipient email addresses (From and To fields, respectively) and the subject line and body of the email (Subject and Message fields, respectively).

    • NOTE  The From field is pre-populated with the current user's email address. The Subject field is pre-populated with the job name. Each email text field is required and can be edited.

    NOTE  The email link to download the output file expires after seven days.

Once you have completed configuration, click Export, or click Cancel to return to the list of devices.

NOTE  StdOut/StdErr email notifications can also be configured when creating a job. Refer to Automatically Email StdOut/StdErr Options.
Export Selected Rows to CSV In the confirmation dialog box, select whether to show table headers in the file by toggling the Show table headers in the exported CSV button. Click OK to download the file. Any column selections, filters, and sorting that have been applied to the table will also be applied in the CSV file. A maximum number of 500 rows can be exported to a single CSV file. The Export all (max. 500) rows to CSV action is available without selecting any row in the table.
Export All (Max. 500) Rows to CSV
Uncheck All Clears all selected rows. The number of selected rows is indicated in parentheses and next to the Row Actions icon.

The table displays the following columns:

Field Sortable? Description
Hostname The name of the device. Click the link to go to the Device Summary page for this device. Refer to Device Summary - New UI.
To narrow the list, click the Filter Menu icon, enter a term, and click Search. To see the full list, click Reset.
Status Displays whether the device is online or offline. Click the Filter Menu icon and click Online or Offline to filter by the status of the devices. To see the full list of devices, click All.
Site The site this device belongs to. Click the link to go to the Site Summary page. Refer to Site Summary - New UI.
To narrow the list, click the Filter Menu icon, enter a term, and click Search. To see the full list, click Reset.
Component Results   The results of the components that ran as part of the job. The job may have succeeded on some devices and failed on others; all of the results will be listed grouped by their respective statuses. For longer lists, click the more link to expand the list. Click Show Less to collapse the list.
Ran On How long ago this job was run.
Job Status   The overall result of the job. As with the component results, the job may have succeeded on some devices and failed on others; however, the logic for this field is such that the most negative status of all the component results is displayed. For example, if a job has two component results, one of which is a success and the other is a warning, the overall status that will be displayed is Warning.

Click the Filter Menu icon to filter by the status of the jobs. To see the full list of statuses, click All. Otherwise, select from the following status options:
• Expired (clear)
• Pending (white)
• Running (blue)
• Success (green)
• Warning (orange)
• Failure (red)
• Cancelled (clear)
StdOut/StdErr

 

 Click the link to view the StdOut (standard output) or StdErr (standard error) results. Click the Download button to download the associated file.

The table density is set to condensed theme by default. To change it to relaxed theme, click the density toggle icon. The selection will persist across all pages.

The number of results displayed can be specified by selecting the desired number from the pagination control. This selection will persist the next time the page is accessed.