Cisco Cisco Workload Automation 6.3 User Guide

Managing Jobs in the Production Schedule

Estimated and Excessive Durations

Click Yes in the Confirmation dialog, and then click OK at the Information dialog.

The job re-enters the Waiting On Dependencies status. If the job’s dependencies were met, the job would launch.

Overriding a Dependency

You can also override job, file, time and variable dependencies with the Override command. For this exercise, we will 
override the time dependency.

Right-click the on Prod Job 3 job and from the Job Control submenu select Override.

Click Yes in the Confirmation dialog, and then click OK at the Information dialog. The job launches even though the 
dependencies have not been met.

Note: When a dependency is overridden, the Job Detail dialog for the job whose definition includes the dependency will 
show which dependency was overridden.

Estimated and Excessive Durations

Two of the most common questions asked of system operators and schedulers are “How long is this job going to run?” 
and “Which job is going to run next?” To help answer these questions, Cisco Workload Automation provides the 
Estimated Duration feature. 

When a job enters the production schedule for the first time, if an estimated duration time is specified in the Job 
Definition dialog, that time will be displayed in the Job Activity pane. The Estimated Duration Time value is 
automatically updated after each job occurrence runs, creating a historical average that is used for subsequent 
submissions. Of course, you can override this value in the job definition at any time.

For unattended operations, you may want a job to: 

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Terminate if it runs over its maximum time.

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Notify an operator if it completes under its minimum time.

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Perform other actions automatically.