Main Settings (Job)

To learn about jobs and the Automation Service Manager, click here.

To specify operations to run, when to run them, and what to log when they run:

1. Under Add an Operation, you can perform the following actions:

• To run operations with this job, click Add Operation; then, in the Select Job Operations dialog box, select the operations you want to add and click OK. Each time this job runs, each of these operations is executed, in order, starting at the top of this list.

• Because the operations run in the order listed (one operation must complete before another begins), you might have to change this order. For example, you might want to run an authentication source operation to import new users and then run a profile source operation to import profile information for those new users.
  
  To change the order of operations, perform any of the following actions:

• To move an operation to the top of this list, click .
• To move an operation up one space in this list, click .
• To move an operation down one space in this list, click .

• To move an operation to the bottom of this list, click .

• To remove an operation, select the operation and click .

• To select or clear all of the operation check boxes, select or clear the box to the left of Operations.

2. Under Schedule, specify when you want this job to run:

• If you do not want to run this job, leave the default setting (Unscheduled).

• If you want to run this job immediately, choose Run Once - Now.

• If you want to run this job at a specified date and time, choose Run Once. By default, the date and time are set to the current date and time. To change this setting, type a different date and time in the appropriate boxes. To choose the date from a calendar, click . After this job completes, it resets itself to Unscheduled.

• If you want to run this job on a regular basis:

1. Choose Run Periodically.

2. In the Next boxes, type a date and time you want to start running this job on this schedule. To choose the date from a calendar, click .

3. In the Every box, type a number and, in the drop-down list, choose a period.

4. In the Do not run after boxes, type a date and time you want to stop running this job on this schedule. To choose the date from a calendar, click .

5. If there are particular times during weekdays that you do not want this job to run, select Suspension Times for Content Crawler Jobs and select the beginning and end of the suspension times in the From and To drop-down lists, respectively. You might want to avoid running long, resource-intensive jobs during normal business hours so you do not slow down other jobs.
   
   Note: The suspension times do not affect crawler jobs that start before the beginning of the suspension time and are still running when the suspension time begins. Crawler jobs that are already running when the suspension time begins will continue normally.

3. If you want this job to be stopped if it does not complete in a specific amount of time, in the Timeout period box, type a number and, in the drop-down list, choose a period. First the portal asks the job to stop processing. If the job does not respond to this request within ten minutes, the portal forcibly stops the job.

4. By default, if an operation fails, the remaining operations are not attempted. If you want the portal to attempt to run the other operations even if one operation fails, select Ignore errors and run all operations.

5. In the Logging Level drop-down list, choose the amount of information you want to record in the job history logs.
   
   Note: If you set the logging level to Silent, no information is recorded.

6. If this job includes content crawler operations that process information for long periods, you might want to record periodic notes in the log to show that the job is still running (you can view the job log for this job in the Job History page of this editor or for all in-process jobs through the Job History page of the Automation Service Manager). Select Save checkpoints every and, in the box, type the number of minutes you want to wait between checkpoints.
   
   Note: This setting only applies to content crawler operations.

• To display the page associated with this help topic:

1. Click Administration.
2. Open the Job Editor:
• To create a new job:
1. Open an administrative folder.
2. In the Create Object menu, click Job.
• To edit an existing job:
1. Navigate to the job you want to edit.
2. Click the job name.