Optivity Telephony Manager: System Administration - BT Business

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Jobs and tasks
The Scheduler represents scheduled activities (such as, data collection, synchronization
and reporting) as jobs and tasks.
What is a job?
A job contains the scheduling properties of an activity. This includes such information
as the activity’s initial execution time; interval for additional executions, status, name,
and queue assignments. The job also contains the actual task that identifies the activity’s
actions. That is, each task that runs that actual activity is assigned to a job. This way, the
task can be scheduled. Only jobs can be scheduled; individual tasks cannot be scheduled
without a job.
What is a task?
A task contains the actual command used to invoke the activity from the OTM
application. This includes such information as the activity’s command line (the code
used to invoke the activity); its priority in the list of tasks (when it should be executed
in relation to any other tasks in the list); and any dependencies associated with it
(physical resources on your PC that are needed to execute the activity).
In most cases, one job has one task. This simplifies the process of defining and
scheduling activities. You simply schedule the activity, assign it as a task to a job, and
then enter its scheduling criteria. There are instances, however, when it is beneficial to
assign multiple tasks to a single job (such as in situations where you want to run multiple
tasks all at the same scheduled time). The Scheduler allows you to assign multiple tasks
to each job after they have been defined.
Execution of tasks in the Scheduler queue
Any task in the Scheduler queue can be executed immediately by right-clicking the task
in the Scheduler window and selecting Start Now. Tasks in the queue that have the same
priority and are scheduled to occur at the same time are executed simultaneously. When
tasks in the queue have different priorities and are scheduled to occur at the same time,
the higher priority tasks execute first and are followed by the lower priority tasks.
About the Scheduler window
The following sections describe the Scheduler window and the menus of the Scheduler.
The main Scheduler window (Figure 108) contains sections that list the scheduled jobs
and queues. These sections provide the interfaces for the Job, Queue, and Dependency
Queue Managers, and list the running tasks for each job. Use these sections to view and
access your jobs and queues.
553-3001-330 Standard 3.00 August 2005