If a large number of job execution results are retained, operation of the Remote Installation Manager may slow down. For this reason, you should log only the execution statuses requiring checking and delete those for terminated jobs. You can set the execution results to be logged for each destination attribute on the Log Options page of the Server Setup dialog box of Software Distribution Manager Setup.

(a) Normal job

For a normal job (other than an ID group job or all-lower-clients job), you can select Error, Installation rejected, and/or Completed as the execution status to be logged in the managing server.

For the following jobs, this setting is ignored, in which case all execution statuses are logged in the managing server:

• Send package, allow client to choose job
• Get system information from client job with a client execution time specified
• Get software information from client job with a client execution time specified

(b) ID group job

For an ID group job, you can select Error, Finished, Installation rejected, and/or Completed as the execution status to be logged in the managing server.

This setting applies to all job types for jobs on clients that belong to the ID group managed by the relay system. This setting does not apply to normal jobs (as defined in (a) Normal job above) on clients that belong to an ID group managed by the managing server. In this case, all execution statuses are logged in the managing server.

(c) All-lower-clients job

For an all-lower-clients job, you can select Error, Installation rejected, and/or Completed as the execution status to be logged in the managing server.

For the following jobs, this setting does not apply and all execution statuses are logged in the managing server:

• Send package, allow client to choose job
• Get system information from client job with a client execution time specified
• Get software information from client job with a client execution time specified

The managing server monitors job execution status at specified intervals. You can specify this monitoring interval in the Job Environment dialog box.

A short monitoring interval increases the workload, resulting in adverse effects on other applications. In JP1/Software Distribution Manager, specify an interval of between 30 minutes and 1 hour; in JP1/Software Distribution Client (relay system), specify an interval of between dozens of minutes and several hours.

To display the Job Environment dialog box, in the Job Status window, from the Options menu, choose Job.

Figure 8-22 Job Environment dialog box

Monitor job

Specify a job monitoring interval. When the Enable monitoring check box is selected, the system monitors the job execution status. You can specify a job monitoring interval of as little as 1 second or as long as 10 days, 23 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds. The default is that this check box is selected and the monitoring interval is set to 15 minutes.

When a job monitoring time is specified, the status of the item currently selected in the left-hand section of the Job Status window and of all items in the right-hand section are updated each time the monitoring time is reached. When no job monitoring interval is specified or when you want to update status outside the job monitoring interval, double-clicking on an item in the left-hand section of the Job Status window updates the status of all items located one level below it in the hierarchy.

Read clients

You can control the number of hosts to be displayed in the Job Status window.

• Match window size
  Loads approximately twice the number of hosts as can be displayed in the window at one time. Those hosts that are not loaded are loaded when the vertical scroll bar is moved.
  
• Specify the number
  Specify a number in the range from 1 to 2,147,483,647. Loads the number hosts you specify when they are ready to be viewed, regardless of the number of hosts that can be displayed on the screen. If you need to view job execution results from hundreds or thousands hosts, use this option to limit the data that must be loaded. However, if the specified number of hosts is smaller than twice the number of hosts that can be displayed in the window, approximately twice the number of hosts as can be displayed in the window are loaded.