23.2 Managing Jobs for Driver Sets

OpenText Identity Console enables you to schedule events using the Jobs option for all the driver residing in the respective driver set.

The Job Scheduler page contains the job's name, whether the job is enabled or disabled, when it is scheduled to run, and the job description. Click the job name to bring up the Jobs page. Click the enable/disable icon under the Enabled column to enable or disable the job. Click the job's description to see the job's full description.

Access the Jobs page by selecting IDM Administration > Click on the context menu (three dots) of the appropriate Driver Set > Driver Set Properties > Advanced tab from the OpenText Identity Console main page. The Jobs tab contains a table showing the existing job objects for the selected driver, listing its fully distinguished name in the Driver entry.

The Job Scheduler page allows you to perform the following tasks:

  • Create the Job: Click icon to create a new job.

    In the New Job pop-up, to create a new job perform the following steps:

    1. Enter the job name.

    2. Enter the job type.

    3. Click the icon and select the server where you want to run the job, from the available list of servers. Otherwise, specify a server name and then select the server.

    4. Click the Create button.

  • Start the Job: Enable the preferred job check box, click icon.

  • Stop the Job: Enable the preferred job check box, click icon.

  • Enable the Job: Enable the preferred job check box, click icon.

  • Disable the Job: Enable the preferred job check box, click icon.

  • Get Status: Enable the preferred job check box, click icon.

  • Delete the Job: Enable the preferred job check box, click icon.

Click a job to access the Job Property page. Here you can set up how you want the job to run.

General: Shows the Java class name of the job. Use this page to enable or disable the job, delete the job after it runs, select the server or servers where this job should run, specify the email server, and give the job a different display name and description.

Schedule: Allows you to set the runtime of the job. Specify the Start job at to set the time, and whether to run the job daily, weekly, monthly, yearly. You can also customize when you want to run the job, or you can choose to enable the toggle to run the job manually.

Scope: Allows you to define the objects where the job gets applied. An object can be a container, a dynamic group, a group, or a leaf object. Click Add to select the object or you can use the Browse button to select an object, then click OK. To remove an object from the scope list, select a scope object by clicking the box to the left of the DN object, click Remove.

When an object is added, select it to display more options. If you select a group object, you have the option to apply the job to the group's members, or to the group only. If you select a container object, you have the option to apply the job to all descendants in that container, to all the children in the container, or to the container only.

Parameters: Allows you to add additional parameters to the job and to view the parameters as they are presently set up. These parameters change, depending on the type of job selected.

Results: Allows you to define what you want to do with the job results. The Results page is divided into two parts: Intermediate Result and Final Result, with the following results allowed: Success, Warning, Error, and Aborted. To the right of the Results column is the Action column. Click the Action column to setup the notification for each result. Actions include sending an audit result or sending an email when the result completes. If you do not select an option, no action is taken for the result.

In the Trace tab, you can configure trace for a specific driver. For more information, see Configuring Trace Level