Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

Getting Started with the CWA Client

Monitoring Jobs

If you click the header more than once, the sort order toggles back and forth from ascending to descending order.

To perform a secondary sort, hold down the 

 key while clicking the column header. The secondary sort displays 

a double arrow in the column header.

For example, click the Name column heading. The items in the column are alphabetized from a to z (because the 
column contains alphabetical data). Clicking again reverses the order z to a. Click the

 Time column header while 

holding down the ALT key and the jobs remain in alphabetical order but are now organized also by numerical order 
(since this column contains numerical data). Now the jobs are arranged in alphabetical order and each numerical 
segment is organized from earliest time to latest time. Clicking again on the secondary sort column while holding 
down the ALT key reverses the secondary sort to latest time to earliest time.

If you click the header more than once, the sort order toggles back and forth from ascending to descending order.

Sorting Jobs Using the Job Filter Dialog

From the Navigator pane, select Operations>Job Activity

 to display the Job Activity pane.

Click the Filter button on the CWA toolbar or right-click the Navigator pane and select Filter from the context menu 
to display the Job Filter

 dialog.

Checking or clearing the options for status or hours enables you to sort jobs using those criteria. You can also sort 
using other criteria listed including by job name, by agent, by queue, by command, etc.

  The Job Filter dialog includes filter options that affect sorting. For example, if you want to sort by the status 

column, and some statuses have been filtered out, those statuses will not be used for sorting.

  When a Status column is clicked for sorting within the Job Activity pane, the order is defined by the settings 

on the Job Status Order tab in the System Configuration dialog.

Stopping or Starting Jobs in the Job Activity Pane

From the Navigator pane, select Operations>Job Activity

 to display the Job Activity pane.

Select the job on which to perform job control.

Right-click the job to display the Job Activity context menu.

From the Job Control submenu, select one of the following job control options:

Select Override to override a job’s dependencies. The job enters a queue and becomes active. Override 
ignores all dependencies and launches the job immediately.

Select Hold/Stop to stop a job from running or to keep a job from launching. The job enters the Held or Stopped 
status. If the job cannot be held or stopped, you cannot select this menu item. 

 Windows jobs cannot be suspended, therefore this menu item is unavailable for active Windows jobs.

Select

 Release/Resume to release a held job, or a job waiting for operator release or to start a stopped job. The 

job enters the Active or Waiting On Dependencies status. If the job can’t be released or resumed, you won’t 
be able to select this menu item.

Select Cancel/Abort to cancel a job before running or to abort a job while running (Canceled jobs cannot be 
rerun). The job enters the Canceled or Aborted status. If the job can’t be canceled or aborted, you won’t be 
able to select this menu item.