MonitorWare Console - Job Manager

Article created 2004-04-01 by Tamsila-Q-Siddique.

With the purchase of either Windows Reporting module or PIX Reporting module (or both) Job Manager is shipped, which is used for scheduling of reports.

Reports in MonitorWare Console can be scheduled using Job Manager. Job Manager is a Window Service that runs in the background and generates the reports according to user-defined schedule. 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, 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. For example, you have PIX Reporting Module license, then you will be able to access 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 don't have the license for it.

We have introduced Profiles for Job Manager. 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 in Job Manager which means that now, you can generate the same report as many times as you would like in one day.

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.

Job Manager can now also generate those reports that you have saved in the Reporting Module by applying various filters. With Job Manager you can not only schedule the reports such that they are saved on the hard disk but also you can schedule the reports such that they are sent via email to specified recipients.