Monitor jobs and task flows that are currently in progress, have completed, or have failed in Metadata Command Center to ensure that background jobs and task flows are running as expected.
Prerequisites
Verify the following privileges to manage jobs:
•To view running and completed jobs, you must first define the required role. You need to then select the Manage Jobs option for that role when configuring privileges for Metadata Command Center service in IDMC Administrator.
•To cancel another user's job, you must first define the required role. You need to then select the Manage Access Control option for that role when configuring privileges for Metadata Command Center service in IDMC Administrator.
•To download the export file for another user's job, you must first define the required role. You need to then select the Manage Access Control option for that role when configuring privileges for Metadata Command Center service in IDMC Administrator.
For more information about feature privileges that the organization administrator can configure for user roles, see the Introduction and Getting Started help.
Monitor jobs
The Jobs tab on the Monitor page displays the list of all jobs. You can monitor the status of jobs for technical assets, the bulk import of business assets, and synchronization for the pushdown of data access assets.
The following image shows an example of a Monitor page in Metadata Command Center:
The following table describes the job details on the Jobs tab of the Monitor page:
Field
Description
Job Name
Name of the job.
Submitted Time
Time when the job was submitted.
Start Time
Date and time when the job was started.
End Time
Date and time when the job was completed.
Duration
Duration of the job.
If the job is complete, the field displays the total time taken to complete the job. If the job is in progress, the field displays the elapsed time since the job started.
Status
Whether the job is completed or failed. If the job is in progress, the field displays the completion percentage.
You can perform the following actions on the Monitor page:
•Add or hide fields: Right-click any field name to add or remove fields if you want to see more or less information about the jobs. The Type and User fields for jobs are hidden by default.
•Filter jobs: Click the Filter icon and click Add Field to refine the list of jobs that appear on the page by their name, type, start time, end time, the user that started the job, or the status of the job. By default, the Monitor page displays all the jobs triggered by the user who is logged-in. You can remove the User field from the filter to display the list of jobs triggered by all the users in your organization.
•Cancel an ongoing job: Hover over an ongoing job listed on this page, click the Action menu and select Cancel Job.
•Download or view job logs: Hover a job listed on this page and click the Download Job Log icon to download the job log to your local computer. Or, click the View Job Log icon to view the logs for all the tasks in that job. If the job fails or completes with errors, click the View Job Log link to directly go to the Logs page to view all the tasks that failed or caused errors.
•View more details of the job: Click the job name to go to the Overview page for more details about the job.
You can monitor the status of the following types of jobs:
System and IDMC metadata jobs have a retention period of 30 days and user jobs have a retention period of 90 days. All jobs older than their retention periods are automatically deleted from the Monitor page.
