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Task management
You can be notified about decisions that are made by autonomic managers. Notifications can represent either planned or unplanned events.
- Planned events
- Planned events are events for which the runtime environment has an action plan. For example, you might have a health policy defined that has an average response time that is breaching its configured limit, which might trigger an increased footprint of a dynamic cluster. If the product is operating in automatic mode, then the action plan runs, and you can view a notification of the action that was taken. In supervised mode, you can view and approve the action plan. The interaction modes can vary in your configuration. A mix of automatic and supervised mode activities by dynamic clusters and health policies can exist, for example.
- Unplanned events
- If an event occurs and it is not assigned to an action plan, then you can be notified that something unexpected has happened. After you receive the notification, develop a plan to correct the situation, if it is a valid issue.
- Runtime tasks
- A runtime task is generated when an event occurs. Runtime tasks
provide information from which you can accept, deny or close the recommended
action plan. Tasks that have taken action or expired tasks stay in
the runtime task list for 24 hours by default. You can change this
default by setting a cell level custom property. For more information
on how to set the custom property, read about runtime task custom
properties.
Runtime tasks reside in the deployment manager memory, and are logged in <was_root>/profiles/<Dmgr_profile_name>/tmsStorage as well. When the deployment manager is restarted, the deployment manager reads the runtime task entries in the tmsStorage log.
- Event logging
- You can enable logging for events. For more information, read about task management service event logger.
- Notifications
- You can have email notifications sent to specified users when runtime tasks occur. For more information, read about defining email notification.