Job Priorities and Priority Precedence - How To

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Set the Priority Precedence of a Client or Agent

Set the Priority of an Agent

Set the Priority of a Client

View the Priorities of All Jobs

View the Priority of a Specific Job

Change the Job Priority of an Active Job

Change the Job Priority of Groups of Active Jobs

Change the Job Priority of an Immediate Job

Change the Job Priority of a Scheduled Job

Set the Priority Precedence of a Client or Agent

Before You Begin

Job Priorities are a based on a 3-digit number. The first digit represents operation priority.
If Client priority precedence is chosen, the second digit of the job priority number represents client priority and the third digit represents agent priority.
If Agent Type priority precedence is chosen, the second digit of the job priority number represents agent priority and the third digit represents client priority.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To set the priority precedence of a client or agent:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the CommServe, click Control Panel, and then click Job Management.
Click the Job Priorities tab.
Select either Client or Agent Type from the Priority Precedence list.
Click OK to save your changes.

Set the Priority of an Agent

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To set the priority of an agent:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the CommServe icon, click Control Panel, and then click Job Management.
Click the General tab of the Job Management dialog box.
From the Job Priorities pane, click the Agent whose priority you want to modify, and enter a new value in the Priority column. Remember that the lower the value, the higher the priority.
Click OK to save your changes.

Set the Priority of a Client

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To set the priority of a client:

From the CommCell Browser, right-click the client computer icon, and then select Properties from the short-cut menu.
From the Job Configuration tab of the Client Computer Properties dialog box, click in the Job Priority (0-9) field and enter a new client priority value. Remember that the lower the value, the higher the priority.
Click OK to save your changes.

View the Priorities of All Jobs

To view all job priorities for each job in the Job Controller window:

From the CommCell Console, click the Job Controller icon.
Click the Table Menu located in the extreme right (double arrows) on the Job Controller and select Choose Columns and select Priority.

The Priority column in the Job Controller is displayed, which indicate the job priority number for all jobs listed.

View the Priority of a Specific Job

Before You Begin

Job Priorities are a based on a 3-digit number. The first digit represents the following operation priorities:
- Data Recovery Operation - 0
- Data Protection Operation - 1
- Synthetic Full - 1
By default, the second digit of the priority number represents the client computer priority, and the third digit represents the agent priority.
The following default priorities are pre-assigned by the Job Manager and cannot be changed:
- Data Aging, Export Media (Not applicable)
- Inventory, Install Updates, Download Updates = 0
- Data Verification = 366
- Erase Media = 466
- Disaster Recovery Backups = 66
- Auxiliary Copy = 266

To view the priority of a job:

From the CommCell Browser, click the Job Controller icon.
Right-click an active job that you want to view, and then click Detail from the short-cut menu.
You can view a data protection job's overall priority in the Priority field in the General tab of a Job Details dialog box.

Change the Job Priority of an Active Job

Before You Begin

The job priorities of an auxiliary copy, data protection, and data recovery operations can be changed.
The lower the job priority number, the higher priority the job.
A job with a higher priority will be allocated with resources before a job with a lower priority.
A job with a higher priority can only interrupt another job if that job is allowed to preempt the job.
The priority of a data protection operation can be changed after it is scheduled.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the job priority of an active job:

From the Job Controller of the CommCell Console, right-click the job whose priority you want to change, then select Change Priority from the shortcut menu.
From the Change Job Priority dialog box, enter or select a new priority (from 0 to 999).
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Job Priority of Groups of Active Jobs

Before You Begin

The job priorities of an auxiliary copy, data protection, and data recovery operations can be changed.
The lower the job priority number, the higher priority the job.
A job with a higher priority will be allocated with resources before a job with a lower priority.
A job with a higher priority can only interrupt another job if that job is allowed to preempt the job.
The priority of a data protection operation can be changed after it is scheduled.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the job priority of groups of active jobs:

From the Job Controller of the CommCell Console, right-click the job (or highlight groups of jobs) whose priority you want to change, then select Change Priority from the shortcut menu.
From the Change Job Priority dialog box, enter or select a new priority (from 0 to 999).
If you are changing the priority of:
- all active jobs, select the All Jobs option.
- all highlighted jobs, select the All Selected Jobs option.
- only jobs for a particular client, select the All Jobs for this Client option, and then choose a client. You can also change the priority of jobs for a particular agent by selecting the Only Jobs for this Agent Type field.
- only jobs for a particular MediaAgent, select the All Jobs on this MediaAgent option, and then choose a MediaAgent.
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Job Priority of an Immediate Job

Before You Begin

The job priorities of an auxiliary copy, data protection, and data recovery operations can be changed.
The lower the job priority number, the higher priority the job.
A job with a higher priority will be allocated with resources before a job with a lower priority.
A job with a higher priority can only interrupt another job if that job is allowed to preempt the job.
The priority of a data protection operation can be changed after it is scheduled.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the job priority of an immediate job:

From the dialog box of the appropriate data protection, data recovery, or auxiliary copy operation, click the Advanced tab (the placement of the Advanced tab may differ for each operation).
In the Advanced Options dialog box select the Startup tab.
On the Startup tab, select either the Default Priority Value or the Change Priority button to enter a New Priority Value from 0 (highest priority) to 999 (lowest priority).
Click OK to save your changes.

Change the Job Priority of a Scheduled Job

Before You Begin

The job priorities of an auxiliary copy, data protection, and data recovery operations can be changed.
The lower the job priority number, the higher priority the job.
A job with a higher priority will be allocated with resources before a job with a lower priority.
A job with a higher priority can only interrupt another job if that job is allowed to preempt the job.
The priority of a data protection operation can be changed after it is scheduled.

Required Capability: See Capabilities and Permitted Actions

To change the job priority of scheduled job:

From the Schedule Jobs dialog box select the appropriate schedule job.
Edit the scheduled job and navigate to the Advanced tab (the placement of the Advanced tab may differ or may not apply for each operation).
In the Advanced Options dialog box select the Startup tab.
On the Startup tab, select either the Default Priority Value or the Change Priority button to enter a New Priority Value from 0 (highest priority) to 999 (lowest priority).
Click OK to save your changes.