HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

11.4.1.1 Stopping a task
When you select the Stop button in the Task Instance area, the task status is immediately set to
Cancelled. The stop process attempts to cancel the task for all targets with non-terminal statuses,
regardless of whether or not they have begun running. The stop operation does not affect targets
that have already reached a terminal status.
In Insight Control for Linux, it might not be possible to cancel a task immediately after you select
the Stop button because an operation might be at a point on a target where it cannot be
interrupted. This can result in a task changing from the Cancelled state to a Complete or
Failed state because the cancel operation could not be processed in time.
A task End Time is initially set to the time when you select Stop. This time is updated to the
time the task finished stopping on all running and pending targets when the final task status is
Cancelled. Or, this time is updated to the time that the task finished when the final task status
is Complete, Some Failures, or Failed.
If a task takes a long time to cancel, the task level information might stop refreshing (although
the target and operation information continues to refresh). If this is the case, you might not see
the accurate task status or end time.
Do one of the following if you feel that task results are not being refreshed:
• If the task level information has stopped refreshing and you are viewing task results
information for only that one task, select Tasks & Logs→View Task Results… and select
your task from the lists of tasks.
• If you are viewing the View Task Results… screen, switch to another task and back to the
original task to refresh the task status.
11.4.2 View control options and summary status area
As illustrated in Figure 11-3, when you run an Insight Control for Linux task, you can elect to
view task results in the SIM standard format (the default), which reports tasks results based on
target, or you can elect to view task results in a scalable view, which reports task results based
on the operations contained within a particular task.
The Summary status: area provides a graphical summary of the task on one line.
Figure 11-3 View of the summary status area
11.4.2.1 View printable report button
Selecting the View Printable Report button opens a new window. If a task was run on a single
target, the report is displayed immediately. If the task was run for multiple targets, you have the
option to display the report for the currently selected target on the Task Instance Results screen
or to view the report for all targets of the task.
The printable report screen does not refresh automatically; it always displays the status
information current at the time you selected the View Printable Report button.
The following information is included on the printable report:
• A Print link in the top right corner
128 Understanding tasks and task results