Monitoring Job Status Overview

View a summary and drill into details of install, configure, and import jobs in Lifecycle Manager. Monitor the progress of running jobs.

View a summary of install, configure, and import jobs in Lifecycle Manager. View a summary of the status of all jobs and details about the job type, target, and its job ID. Monitor the progress of a running job. Abort a job that might be taking an excessive time to execute.

Deep transparency into currently running, completed, or failed jobs is available. Drill into details of a failed job to conveniently troubleshoot the root cause of the failure from within the Jobs workspace before resorting to reviewing logs. Investigate any failed jobs or those that are taking an excessive time to run.

The status of each job is clearly indicated with icons and their descriptions in the Status column of the Jobs workspace. Refer to the Job status legend for further details:

Job status legend
Status Icon Description
Not Run
The initial install job has not been run. This indicator displays in the Clusters workspace.
Pending
The job is in the queue waiting to run.
Running
The job is currently running.
Success (Completed)
The job ran successfully.
Failure
The job failed. Investigate the issue by drilling into the job details. Try running the job again.
Note: An ORPHANED status only appears in logs upon startup if there were any jobs left in a RUNNING status. An ORPHANED status indicates a job failed because OpsCenter was restarted while a job was running. A WILL_FAIL status in the logs indicates that a job was marked early in processing as guaranteed to fail, which might be informative from an API troubleshooting perspective. The ORPHANED and WILL_FAIL statuses only appear in logs and do not appear in the UI.
Idle
A job was actively running but has at least one node that failed to recently report progress. An idle job is still running and will never automatically fail, since a node could be successfully executing a slow operation. To stop a job in an idle status, you must manually abort the job.
Note: The defaults for timing out a job and marking it as idle can be changed with idle timeout configuration options in the [lifecycle_manager] section of opscenterd.conf. For details, see configuring idle timeout thresholds for jobs.
Aborted
The job was manually aborted. Aborted jobs appear in logs with a TERMINATED status.
The Jobs page keeps a complete historical record of all jobs performed in Lifecycle Manager.
Note: The data (cluster topology models, configuration profiles, credentials, repositories, job history, and so forth) for Lifecycle Manager is stored in the lcm.db database. Your organization is responsible for backing up the lcm.db database. You must also configure failover to mirror the lcm.db.

lcm.db 

The location of the Lifecycle Manager database lcm.db depends on the type of installation:

  • Package installations: /var/lib/opscenter/lcm.db
  • Tarball installations: install_location/lcm.db
Note: The data (cluster topology models, configuration profiles, credentials, repositories, job history, and so forth) for Lifecycle Manager is stored in the lcm.db database. Your organization is responsible for backing up the database. You must also configure failover to mirror the lcm.db.

opscenterd.conf 

The location of the opscenterd.conf file depends on the type of installation:

  • Package installations: /etc/opscenter/opscenterd.conf
  • Tarball installations: install_location/conf/opscenterd.conf