NetVault 13.2 - Administration Guide

You can monitor the status and progress of deployment tasks from the Deployment Task Status page. The page shows the summary of current and completed tasks in the form of bar charts and provides the progress information for individual machines.

To view the deployment task status:

In the Navigation pane, click Deployment Task Status.

On the Deployment Task Status page, you can view the following information:

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Task Name: Name assigned to the task.

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Start Time: Start time.

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Total: Total number of clients.

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Success: Number of clients on which package installation completed successfully.

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Warnings: Number of clients on which package installation completed with warnings.

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Errors: Number of clients on which package installation failed.

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Updated: Status update date and time.

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Status: Overall status of the task.


	NOTE: NetVault web application supports multiple-column sorting for the tables. For more information, see Sorting records in NetVault WebUI. To view the page size setting, sorting order in the table, export the records, or edit table settings, click the icons at the lower-right corner of the table. For more information, see Customizing tables in NetVault WebUI.

To view the status details for a particular task, select the task in the Task table, and click View Task Target Status.

On the Target Status page, you can view the following information:

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Task status charts: This area displays bar charts for the current and completed targets:

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Current Task Targets: The individual bars represent the number of installation or upgrade tasks that running, deferred, or pending states.

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Completed Task Targets: The individual bars represent the number of installation upgrade tasks that have completed successfully, completed with warnings, or failed.

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Task details table: The table shows the following information:

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Task ID: Task identification number

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Target: Name of the target client

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Status: Task status

To view the task logs, select the task in the Task table, and click View Task Logs.

(If you are on the Deployment Task Status page, select the task in the Task table, and click View Task Logs.)

On the Deployment Task Logs page, you can view the following information:

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Severity: Severity level

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Date: Date and time when the log was generated

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Task ID: Task identification number

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Target: Name of the client for which the log was generated.

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Message: Detailed log message or description.

To go back to the task status page, click Back.

To cancel or retry a deployment task, select the task in the Task table, and click the corresponding button in the Operations pane.

Alternatively, click a link in the Navigation pane to open a different page.

Managing deployment tasks

This section includes the following topics:

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Retrying failed deployment tasks

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Canceling a deployment task

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Cloning a deployment task

Retrying failed deployment tasks

If a deployment task fails or completes with warnings, you can run the task again. The task runs only on those target machines where it failed previously.

To retry a deployment task:

In the Navigation pane, click Deployment Task Status.

In the task table, select the task that failed or completed with warnings, and click Retry Task.

In the confirmation dialog box, click OK.

Canceling a deployment task

You can cancel a deployment that is in progress from the Deployment Task Status page.


	NOTE: If a task is aborted after the deployment agent has started on the remote machine, the agent does not exit. It completes the software installation task. However, if the target is a new client, it is not added to the server.

To cancel a deployment task:

In the Navigation pane, click Deployment Task Status.

In the task table, select the task, and click Abort.

In the confirmation dialog box, click OK.