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Audit Trail

Jobs and tasks are the two fundamental concepts of the deployment system. A deployment job specifies one or more configurations to be installed on one or more target systems. Each individual installation of a software package on a target system is represented by a task. Deployment job reporting provides the ability to query the status of deployment jobs.

You can create, control and inquire the state of deployment jobs. When the job is started, its individual deployment tasks are delegated to available distribution servers which perform the actual deployment. You can track the progress of the job as it occurs, to verify that the deployment is going well and to quickly identify and correct any problems.

Remote deployment is able to provide the following information:

• Which deployment jobs are currently:
  • Inactive (not yet started)
  • Active
  • Completed, and of those, which were:
    • Successful
    • Partially successful
    • Unsuccessful
• Which deployment jobs are:
  • Associated with a specific target machine
  • Associated with a specific package/package group
• What packages have been deployed to a specific target machine
• Which user created/started deployment of a specific package
• Which machines are targeted in a specific deployment job
• Which machines are targeted by active deployment jobs

Note: Remote Deployment supports deploying software to UNIX/Linux systems with /tmp file system mounted with noexec flag.

The Jobs pane in the UI displays a table of all created deployment jobs that lists the job ID and description, the packages included, job status, and so on. From this table, you can drill down to view more details about a specific job, including why a job failed. Click the Jobs folder in the UI to access this view. For more information, see the Online Help.