You
can submit the Test connection job
to verify access to remote hosts. After a remote host computer is
registered with a job manager, you can use the Test connection job
to check the connection between the job manager and the remote host.
Before you begin
Before you can
run the Test connection job,
the job manager must be running and the remote host must be a target
of the job manager.
If the host is not currently a registered
target, complete the following steps to make the host a target of
the job manager:
- Start the job manager.
- In
the job manager console, click and complete the fields on the New targets page.
A
host is a computer. A remote host typically is a different computer
than the one on which the job manager is installed.
To run the Test
connection job, a WebSphere® Application Server product does not
need to be installed on the remote host.
Using the
console New Host option or
a registerHost command to make a remote host a target verifies access
to the host. Immediately after making a host a target, you do not
need to run the Test connection job. The Test
connection job is useful if the host has been registered
for a while and you want to verify that the password specified using
the job manager is still valid.
About this task
You can use
the job manager console or the deployment
manager console to submit a job that checks the connection from the
job manager to a host. From the console, choose the Test
connection job, specify the host computer, specify job
options, review the summary, and submit the job.
Instead of
using a console, you can run the testConnection job script in the
AdministrativeJobs command group. See the Administrative job types
topic.
Procedure
- Click from the navigation tree
of the administrative console.
- Choose a job
to manage the profiles of a remote host target.
- Select the Test connection job
type from the list.
The Test connection job
is only available in the list if the job manager has a host as a target.
Stand-alone application servers or deployment managers registered
with the job manager are targets, but not hosts.
- Optionally specify a description of the job.
- Click Next.
- Choose the job targets.
- Select a group of targets from the list, or
select Target
names.
- If you selected Target
names,
then specify a target name and click Add, or
click Find and specify the chosen targets on
the Find targets page.
On the Find
targets page, the job type is automatically set to testConnection to
filter search results. Click Find on this page
to view the list of hosts in the Excluded targets list.
Select the target, click > to move the host
name to the Chosen targets list, and then click OK.
- If user authentication is required, specify
a user name,
password, or any other authentication values as needed.
- Click Next.
- Specify job parameters.
Click Next.
There are no parameters for this job.
- Schedule
the job.
- Review the summary, and click Finish to
submit the job.
Results
The job manager runs
the job and attempts to access the
host.
What to do next
On the Job status page,
click the
ID of the testConnection 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.