Job Manager (JM)

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Job Manager is a Windows Service that runs in the background and generates reports according to user-defined schedules. It also has the capability of sending the generated reports to specified recipients via email. The settings of this service are done from the MonitorWare Console Client. This client will only be available to you if you have a valid license for "Windows Reporting Module" or "PIX Reporting Module" or both. Once you open up Job Manager Settings form as shown below, you will be able to schedule all of the reports (whether PIX or Windows) but only those reports will be generated whose license is valid. So, for example, you have PIX Reporting Module license with you, then you will be able to access the screen shown below and configure all of the reports but Job Manager will only generate those reports that are PIX and will not generate any of the configured Windows Report since you dont have the license for it.

Job Manager bases on so-called profiles. You can associate different reports to different profiles and they will be generated according to your specified time and date. You can create as many profiles as you like which means that you can generate the same report as many times as you would like in one day.

Job Manager can also generate those reports that you have saved in the Reporting Module by applying various filters. The reports that are indented in Figure 2 are those reports that had been saved using Report Manager (in our example there is only one saved report).

Job Manager helps you in generating reports on specified days and times. For example, you can tell Job Manager to generate the System Status report at 7:00 am on monday, tuesday and friday. Now, every time you come to office, you will see a complete report on your system on the above mentioned days and you can take necessary actions right away.

To access the client of Job Manager that makes settings for different reports, click on Options button on the main tool bar and then press "Job Manager Settings".

If you have no configured reports at this time, you will see a message box similar to the one shown below:


Figure 1: No configured reports...


No configured reports available

If you have not configured any report yet, it makes no sense to open up the JobManager, so this popup will remind you that you have no reports configured and asks you if you want to switch to the ReportManager now, to configure your custom reports.


Otherwise you will see a dialog like this:


Figure 2: Job Manager Form (General Tab)


JM form will show all the available reports on the left side of the form in a list view. Select the list from this listbox and use other tabs to specify different settings.


Back

Takes you to the previous tab, if any.


Next

Takes you to the next tab, if any.


Save

Saves the settings and restart the service only if it was already running. If it was not running, then it asks you if it should start the service.


Save & Close

Saves the settings and restart the service only if it was already running. If it was not running, then it asks you if it should start the service. After that the box will be closed.


Close

Closes the dialog box.


Selected Profile

All of the settings will be applied to the selected profile. You can create, update or delete the profiles by clicking on "Edit Profiles" button. You can create different profiles and associate the same report with that particular profile. In this way, you can schedule the generation of the same report at different times according to the settings that you have done in that profile.


Edit Profiles

This link opens up the following dialog box:


Figure 3: Job Manager Profiles

Existing Profiles: This list displays a list of existing profiles.

Name: Name of the profile.

Description: Description of the profile.

Insert: Inserts a new profile.

Update: Updates the selected profile.

Delete: Deletes the selected profile.

Close: Closes the Profile window.


Note:
If you feed the JobManager with lots of configured profiles and reports it gets very slow for restart after a while. As advice: keep it simple and put. Further note that the Job Manager Service is only stopped or running if the buttons at the bottom right of the Console window are not all grey.