Submitting jobs to manage files

In a flexible management environment, you can submit jobs to collect files from managed nodes and copy them to the job manager, to distribute files to managed nodes, and to remove files from managed nodes.

Before you begin

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

Your ID at the job manager must be authorized for the administrator role or the operator role to submit jobs. When you submit a job, you can specify a user name and password for authentication and authorization at the target node or nodes. When you submit a job to multiple target nodes, the user name and password or the credentials for the submitter must be applicable to all of the job targets.

About this task

You must distribute files to managed nodes before you can submit jobs that use the files. For example, you must distribute an enterprise application before you can install or update the application on managed application server nodes. Similarly, you must distribute a properties file to managed application server nodes before you can apply the file to configure the application servers. You also must distribute a wsadmin script file before submitting a job that run the script.

The topics in this section describe how to administer files by running jobs in the job manager console. Instead of using the job manager console, you can run jobs in the AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types topic.

Procedure

Results

The collect file job copies a file or directory into the job_manager_profile/config/temp/JobManager/jobToken/nodeName directory.

The distribute file job copies a file into the downloadedContent directory of the administrative agent or deployment manager profile.

The Remove file job deletes a file from the downloadedContent directory.

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.




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