3.6 Modifying the Association Statistics Job Configuration

The Association Statistics job runs on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly basis.

  1. On the General page in iManager, configure the following options:

    Enable Job: Leave this option selected unless you do not want the job to run.

    Delete the Job After it Runs Once: Select this option if you want the job to run one time only and then be deleted.

    Servers: Select the servers where you want the job to run. Multiple servers are available only if the driver is running on multiple servers.

    Email Server: To monitor the job, you (or others) can receive e-mail notifications whenever certain results occur for the job. You configure e-mail notification on the Results page. However, to enable the e-mail notification, you must specify the e-mail server that will be used to send the notifications. Click the button to locate and select the Default Notification Collection object or any other notfTemplateCollection object that defines an SMTP mail server.

    Email server password: Use this option to set your email server password.

    Display Name: Displays the name assigned to the job.

    Description: Displays the description assigned to the job.

  2. On the Schedule page, specify when you want the job to run:

    Run on a Schedule: Runs the job on a daily, weekly, monthly, or yearly schedule. You can also specify a custom schedule; use the crontab standard when specifying a custom schedule. By default, the job is checked every week to see if it is running. If the job is not running, it is started.

    Run Manually: Runs the job only when you initiate it through the Run Now option (see Section 5.0, Starting a Job).

  3. Ignore the Scope page, it does not apply to this job.

  4. On the Parameters page, perform the following actions:

    Count no-reference associations: To calculate the no-reference associations, select True. By default, the value is set to False, which allows the association statistics job to calculate only reference-based associations.

    IMPORTANT:To obtain the no-reference associations, add the StatisticsJob object (created under the driverset) as a trustee of the data container (where the associated objects reside). You need to have default set of rights. For example, All Attribute rights should have Compare and Read rights and Entry rights should have Browse rights.

    Persist Result DN’s: To export and view the identities, select True. If you select False, the identities are not exported and a message is displayed stating that Results discarded due to configuration settings. Enable "Persist Result DN's" in StatisticsJob parameters and recompute to view DN's.

    Specify System Objects: This list contains objects which are considered for system class.

  5. On the Results page, define the actions you want to be performed based on the results for the job.

    Each time the job runs, it generates intermediate results and a final result. The possible results are success, warning, error, and aborted. Intermediate results are generated at various points throughout the job. The final result is generated when the job is finished. For each result, you can specify the action to be performed when it occurs: 1) generate an event for Novell Audit or Novell Sentinel and 2) generate an e-mail notification.

    To define an action for a result:

    1. Click the No action link next to the result to display the Result Notification dialog box.

    2. Select Audit result if you want to generate an event for Novell Audit or Novell Sentinel.

      or

      Select Send email, then fill in the recipient and e-mail template information.

    3. Click OK to save your changes.

  6. When you have finished configuring the job, click OK to save your changes.

    The job is added to the job list.

  7. Select the job in the list (by selecting the check box next to the job name), then click Get Status.

    The Job Status dialog box displays any configuration errors.

  8. Click Grant rights, then click OK to confirm the action.

  9. If other errors are displayed, resolve the errors. Otherwise, click Close to close the Job Status dialog box.

  10. In the Misc tab, you can see the trace levels for the association statistics job. For more information about trace levels, see Section 9.0, Tracing a Job.