Submitting jobs to collect inventory data

In a flexible management environment, you 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. You can view the refreshed data in the job manager console or by wsadmin scripts.

Before you begin

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

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

About this task

You can use the administrative 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 target. You can run the Status job to obtain the same data for managed resources without regathering the job type data.

Instead of using a console, you can run the inventory administrative job of the submitJob command in the AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types topic.

Procedure

  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 your 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.

What to do next

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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