HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 Technical Reference Guide

Stopping a task attempts to interrupt In Progress commands. Canceling stops pending systems from
starting and enables Running or In Progress commands to complete.
Related procedures
• Running a scheduled task
• Editing a scheduled task
• Deleting a scheduled task
• Printing reports
• Viewing task results
Related topics
• Scheduling a task
• Task results list
• Navigating the All Scheduled Tasks page
Configuring task results settings
HP SIM removes old tasks and jobs created by those tasks. A job is the results of a task that ran, either as
a scheduled task or as a manually ran task. Tasks are removed according to the rules in the following
procedure. HP SIM keeps the maximum configured counts, whichever comes first. Keep task results longer
results in slower response time in HP SIM. For large installations (2000 or more systems), HP suggests
reducing the scheduled task configurations by one half. For example, 5 tasks and 15 days.
1. Select Options→Task Results Settings. The Task Results Settings page appears.
2. To set the schedule for removing scheduled task results, enter:
• Number of results
The default maximum number of results retained per scheduled task is 10.
• Number of days
The default number of days scheduled tasks are retained is 30.
One job is always retained.
3. To set a schedule removing run now tasks, enter:
• Number of results
The default maximum number of task results retained for run now tasks is 300.
• Number of hours
The default maximum number of hours task results are retained for run now tasks is 24.
4. To run cleanup immediately, select Run cleanup now.
5. Click OK. A dialog box appears stating that the settings have been saved.
6. Click OK.
Related procedures
• Creating a task
• Running a scheduled task
• Viewing task results
• Deleting task results
• Printing reports
• Editing a scheduled task
Related topics
• Applying a time filter
• Managing with tasks
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