Managing jobs

Use the Jobs pane to create, edit, clone, delete, and view related jobs.

The Jobs pane includes the following functions:

Add	Create new jobs per specific devices.
Edit	Edit the selected job.
Clone	Clone the selected job.
Delete	Delete the selected job(s).
Column Settings	Click to select the columns to display or click Reset to Default to display the default columns: Name, Devices, Description, Plugin, Plugin Option, Activity, and Action.

It displays the following job information:

Name	The name of the job.
Devices	The devices to be managed.
Description	The description of the job, optional.
Plugin	The plugin selected for the job.
Plugin Option	The configurations of plugins such as config files and command lines.
Activity	The activities of latest five times. At most five icons are displayed here with three status, Successful , Failed , and Cancel .
Action	Launch : Manually launch the job. Create Schedule for this job : Schedule to launch the job.

For settings specially for "install-config-using-restfulapi", "push-command-file-to-fortiweb", and "push-command-to-fortiweb", see Plugins for details.

Creating jobs

Follow steps below to create a job:

1. Click Add.
2. Configure the following settings:
   
   

   Name	Enter a job name that can be referenced by other parts of the configuration.
   Description	Enter a description for the job. Optional.
   Device	Click to select one or more devices, or a device group.
   Notification	Enable this option and click Add Notifications to choose a notification method. Currently, only the method email is supported. You can enable Success or Failure to determine the condition to send the notifications. Click the selected notification method to navigate to Edit Notifications page.
   Plugin	Click to select one of the eight plugins from the right list. See Plugins for specific settings of each plugin.
   Plugin Option	The parameter descriptions of plugins.

3. Click OK.
4. Click to manually launch the job.
5. Or click to create a schedule for the job.
   
   
   
   

Viewing job events

Once you launch or schedule the job, it goes to Job Events pane automatically.
You can view the execution results from Job Events. Also, you can delete one or more job events from the event list with the Delete button.

The tab includes the following information:

Name	The name of the job.
Type	The type that the job is executed, Scheduled, Manual, Relaunch, and Workflow.
Devices	The name of the device to be managed.
Finished	The time when the job finishes executing.
Action	Click to view the job event details. Click to relaunch the job.

In the example below, the job is launched successfully.

You can relaunch, cancel, or delete the job event with the buttons on the top right.

The icon is only available when the job status is Pending, Waiting , and Running.

The icon is only available when the job status is Successful, Failed, and Error.

FortiWeb Manager does not save the logs to local disk, but obtains them in real time from FortiWeb by the RESTful API.

You can schedule automatic deletion of job events from System Settings > Advanced > File Management. Check the box for job events, and set the time periods and deletion time accordingly.