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Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

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Workflow and action job records

NetWorker represents each Workflow and Action resource with a job record in the jobsdb. Some actions create child jobs to perform the tasks that are associated with the action. NetWorker creates a unique job record for each child job and stores session information about each child job. NetWorker associates each piece of information about a job with an attribute. Each job record is composed of a group of attributes, including the job id attribute. The job id attribute is a numeric value that uniquely identifies the job record. NetWorker groups attributes together by type. A type contains unique attributes and attributes that are common to all job types.

Job record types

To display information about a job record, build queries that are based on the job type. The jobsdb contains the following policy-related job record types:

  • Backup action job —Job that is created for a traditional or snapshot backup action. A traditional backup action job starts child jobs, for example, the save job and the savefs job to perform action tasks that NetWorker requires to complete an action.
  • Bootstrap save job — Job that is created for the server database backup action. The bootstrap save job starts child jobs, for example, an index save.
  • Check connectivity job action- Job that is created for the check connectivity action.
  • Clone job — Job that is created for a clone action. A clone action job starts child jobs to perform action tasks that complete an action.
  • Discover job action —Job that is created for a NAS discover action.
  • Generate index action job —Job that is created for a generate index action.
  • Probe action job —Job that is created for a probe action.
  • Utility job — Is an action that performs a maintenance task, for example, the expire action, the vba-checkpoint-discover action, and the vba-checkpoint-backup action. A job can start a child utility job to perform tasks that the parent job requires to complete an action. For example, the server backup action job starts a child job that runs the mminfo -B command.
  • Vbasave job — Child job that is created by a VMware backup action job.
  • Workflow job — Job that is created for a workflow.
NetWorker clears the information about a job from the jobsdb and deletes the associated log files at the interval that is defined by the Jobsdb retention in hours attribute in the properties of the NetWorker Server resource. In NetWorker 9.0.1, the default jobsdb retention is 72 hours.

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