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Manage Scanning Jobs

In the Administration console, you can perform the following tasks.

Create a scanning job

Right-click a file scanning server and click Create New Job.

Run or restart a scanning job

Right-click a scanning job and click Run Job Now.

If you restart a stopped job, CA DataMinder ignores items that have already been scanned in the current job. To do this, CA DataMinder performs hash checks to identify those files that can be excluded from the scan when it restarts. However, these hash checks can take a long time for very large scanning jobs.

Note: For each scanned item, the scan database contains a hash to uniquely identify that versin of the file plus its 'last scanned' date.

Note: You can also run scanning jobs from a command line.

Stop a scanning job

Right-click a scanning job and click Stop Job.

Reschedule a scanning job

Right-click a scanning job and click Schedule.

The Schedule Job dialog appears.

Clone or copy a scanning job

The Clone and Copy tools let you quickly create multiple scanning jobs. Right-click a scanning job and click:

Clone

Creates a new scanning job on the current file scanning server.

The new job has identical settings to the existing job, but with a different name.

Copy To

Copies the current scanning job to a different file scanning server. The new job has the same name and identical settings to the existing job.

After both Copy and Clone operations, you can customize the settings in the new job. For example, you can specify different scan locations.

Import a scanning job

Click a file scanning server and click Import Job File. You can select the XML scanning job definition that you want to import.

You may need to import scanning jobs if you have upgraded from CA DataMinder 6.0.

View scan logs

CA DataMinder maintains scan logs for each scanning job, each file scanning server, and each FSA stub, wgnfstub.exe. (The FSA Remote Connector uses an FSA stub.) To view:

Job logs

Right-click a scanning job and click View File Scanning Logfiles.

Server logs

Right-click a file scanning server and click View File Scanning Logfiles.

FSA stub logs

You cannot view these logs from the Administration console. These logs are saved to a WgnFStb_<date>.log file on the machine hosting wgnfstub.exe. These logs are saved in CA's \data\log subfolder of the Windows All Users profile.