Monitoring activities with tasks

You can use tasks to monitor the progress of administrative changes, such as adding appliances to the collective.

About this task

You can view the state of a task from beginning to end. A task has an overall status of queued, success, or failed.
Table 1. Overall task status icons
Icon Description
Queued (Queued icon) The task entered the task queue and is not yet running.
Running (Running icon) The task is running.
Success (Success icon) The task completed without any errors.
Failed (Failed icon) The task did not complete. For more information about the error that occurred, see the messages in the task.
Each task consists of one or more messages that give more information about the task status.
Table 2. Task message icons
Icon Description
Information (Information icon) The message contains information about a step of the task that is running.
Error (Error icon) The task did not complete. For more information about the error that occurred, see the messages in the task.
[Version 2.5 and later] Warning (Warning icon) The message contains information for your attention that might lead to a task failure. However, the task might succeed.

Procedure

  1. In the user interface, click Tasks.
  2. You can view a specific task by clicking the task name for more information. Each task includes information such as the type of task, started and completed date and time of the task, and a list of specific status messages to show more specific information about task progress. Until the task completes with a state of Success or Failed, the page refreshes every 10 seconds to update the status of the task.
  3. [Version 2.5 and later] Optional: Delete completed tasks. A completed task has success or failed status. Click Delete all completed tasks (Eraser icon). After you click the icon, you must verify that you want to delete all tasks. After you click OK, all completed tasks are deleted. Tasks with queued or running status are not removed.