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 has entered the task queue and has not yet started running.
Running (Running icon) The task is currently running.
Success (Success icon) The task has completed without any errors.
Failed (Failed icon) The task did not complete. See the messages in the task for more information about the error that occurred.
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. See the messages in the task for more information about the error that occurred.

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.