Submitting jobs to collect inventory data

In a flexible management environment, we can submit the Inventory job to refresh data on job types and on managed resources of the job manager. Resources include applications and servers of each node. If you installed a product that adds job types on a managed node, run the Inventory job to refresh data on job types and node resources. We can view the refreshed data in the job manager console or by wsadmin scripts.

Ensure that the nodes for which you want data are registered with the job manager:

• To register a stand-alone appserver with the job manager, first use the admin agent registerNode command to register the stand-alone appserver with the admin agent. Then, use the admin agent console or registerWithJobManager command to register the stand-alone appserver node with the job manager.

• To register a dmgr with the job manager, use the dmgr console or the registerWithJobManager command.

Start the job manager and the target nodes. If a target node is a stand-alone appserver, also start the administrative agent.

Use the admin console of the job manager to submit a job that refreshes data on job types and on applications and servers of managed nodes. From the job manager console, choose the Inventory job, specify the nodes, schedule the job, review the summary, and submit the job.

You do not need to run the Inventory job unless you installed a product that adds job types on a managed node. The inventory job runs automatically when you start an admin agent or deployment manager that is registered with the job manager.

This page describes how to run the inventory job using the job manager console. Instead of using the job manager console, we can run the inventory job script in the AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types topic.

 

1. Click Jobs > Submit from the navigation tree of the job manager administrative console.

2. Choose the Inventory job and click Next.

3. Choose job targets.

   1. Select a group of nodes from the list, or select Node names.

   2. If you selected Node names, then specify a node name and click Add, or click Find and specify the chosen nodes on the Find nodes page.

   3. If user authentication is required, specify the user name and password.

   4. Click Next.

4. On the Specify the job parameters page, click Next. There are no job parameters for the Inventory job.

5. Schedule the job and click Next.

6. Review the summary, and click Finish to submit the job.

 

Results

The job manager runs the job and refreshes data on job types and on applications and servers of the target nodes.

 

Next steps

On the Job status page, click the ID of the job and view the job status. If the job is not successful, view any error messages that result from running the job, correct the error condition, and submit the job again.

If the job is successful, the data on the Node resources page is updated. Click Jobs > Node resources to see the resource status.

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Related tasks Set up a job manager environment Starting and stopping the job manager Starting and stopping the admin agent Starting and stopping the dmgr Check job status Submitting jobs to collect status on managed servers and applications Related reference Administrative job types using wsadmin scripting Find nodes Find node resources Node resources collection

   

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Last updated Nov 10, 2010 8:23:07 PM CST