Job Management (General)

Use this dialog box to set the job alive check interval, to influence the way jobs are preempted, and to establish the priorities of individual jobs.

General

• Job Alive Check Interval (Mins)

  Allows you to specify the time interval (in minutes) by which active jobs are monitored (default=2 minutes).

• High Watermark Level

  The total number of jobs (total streams) allowed in the CommServe.

  The value of high watermark is set to a default of 10 for SRM Reports.

• Queue Jobs if other conflicting jobs are active

  Specifies that jobs started that conflict with other running jobs will be started in the Queued state. Once the conflicting jobs have completed, the queued jobs will resume automatically. Jobs conflict with other jobs if the operation is performed on the same CommCell object, such as a subclient, CommServe database, or storage policy.

  On Demand Data Protection jobs will always queue because the directive and content files can change with every run.

• Queue Jobs if activity is disabled

  Specifies that jobs will go into the Queued state if activity control for these jobs is disabled. Once activity control for these jobs is enabled again, the queued jobs will resume automatically.

• Allow running jobs to complete past the operation window

  Specifies that jobs that run past the operation window rule set for these jobs are allowed to run to completion. Without this option selected, the jobs will go into a Pending/Queued state.

• Queue Scheduled Jobs

  Specifies that all scheduled jobs start in the Queued state. These jobs can be resumed manually using the Resume option, or by disabling this option.

Job Pre-Emption Control

• Restore Preempts Other Jobs

  When selected, restores and index restores will preempt other jobs of lower priority. When cleared, restores will not preempt other jobs of lower priority.

• Backups Preempts Other Backups

  When selected, backups will preempt other backups of lower priority. When cleared, backups will not preempt other backups of lower priority.

• Backups Preempts Auxiliary Copy

  When selected, backups will preempt auxiliary copy jobs. When cleared, backups will not preempt auxiliary copy jobs.

Job Priorities

• Priority Precedence

  Establishes the precedence by which priorities of individual jobs will be assigned (Client or Agent Type). Job priorities are a three digit number in which the first digit represents the operation priority, the second digit by default represents the client priority, and the third digit represents the assigned agent priority. Changing the priority precedence from client to agent reverses the order of the second and third digits so that the agent priority is now the second digit and the client priority is the third.

  To establish job priority settings for specific client computers, use the Job Configuration tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box.

Indicates the priority setting for operations that originate from each agent (e.g., Exchange Mailbox etc.). Each setting applies to all instances of the agent in the entire CommCell. If necessary, click the priority for each agent and type in a new value.

Job Priority is not applicable to SRM Operations.

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