HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

11 Understanding tasks and task results
This chapter addresses the following topics:
• “Task results overview” (page 125)
• “Understanding task results” (page 125)
• “Task results page” (page 125)
• “Common task results” (page 127)
• “SIM standard task results format” (page 130)
• “Scalable task results format” (page 134)
11.1 Task results overview
HP SIM and HP Insight Control for Linux enable you to manage systems by scheduling and
running tasks. You can run many tasks, such as Linux OS installation, image capture, and image
deployment tasks, immediately or you can schedule them to run in the future.
Regardless of whether you run a task immediately or schedule it to run at a later date, task results
are available as follows:
• When you run a task by selecting the Run Now, button the Task Results page for that task
appears automatically, which enables you to follow the progression of the task from start
to finish.
• When you schedule a task or select a Run Now button to run a task immediately, you can
access the task results screen from the Tasks & Logs→View Task Results… menu item.
• When you schedule a task, you can use the Tasks & Logs→View All Scheduled Tasks...
or Tasks & Logs→View Task Results… menu items to view the results of a specific task.
This chapter describes how the task results screen has been customized for tasks that run HP
Insight Control for Linux tools.For details about managing and viewing HP SIM tasks, see the
HP Systems Insight Manager online help.
11.2 Understanding task results
Task percent complete is the number of completed targets divided by the number of total targets.
The percent complete of individual targets is not considered in the calculation.
The auto-refresh of the different sections of the task results screen might happen at slightly
different times. As a result, you might see more up-to-date information in one section than you
do in another. This is only temporary and will be fixed in a subsequent auto-refresh.
11.3 Task results page
Figure 11-1 illustrates the Task Results page, which opens when you select Run Now to run a
task or use Tasks & Logs→View Task Results… to view task results.
When you run an Insight Control for Linux task, you have the option to view the task results in
the standard HP SIM view, which is target based, or in an Insight Control for Linux scalable
view, which is based on operation, not target.
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