Jobs allow you to schedule portal management operations. A job is a collection of related operations. Each operation is one task, such as a crawl for documents, an import of users, or one of the system maintenance tasks.
You must run jobs to perform the following actions:
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A job folder is any administrative folder that stores a job. An Automation Service is any computer that includes the Automation Service software. For jobs to run, the job folder must be associated with a registered Automation Service. The Automation Service Manager allows you to register Automation Services and associate job folders with them.
You might want to set up several Automation Services that run jobs from the same folder, so that you still have coverage if one Automation Service goes down.
You can use the Automation Service Manager to assign job folders to Automation Services, to register Automation Services, and to view job histories.
The following jobs are created when you install the portal and are stored, by default, in the Intrinsic Operations folder:
Audit Log Management: This job archives old audit messages into files and deletes old audit files.
Bulk Subscriptions: This job subscribes users to communities and portlets when you use bulk add.
Document Refresh: This job performs background maintenance on your search index such as refreshing document links and properties and deleting expired documents.
Dynamic Membership Update Agent: This job updates dynamic group memberships as defined on the Dynamic Membership Rules page of the Group Editor.
Search Update: This job makes sure the search collection is synchronized with the database. You can run multiple instances of this job.
Weekly Housekeeping: This job performs weekly housekeeping on your system, such as deleting expired invitation codes and deleting uploaded files for which links have been deleted.