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The Activity Monitor allows you to issue commands against task instances. You can also issue commands from the Task Instances list (and the Task Instances list for a specific task). In cases where the task Details did not instruct the Controller to retrieve output automatically, you can retrieve output manually from any completed task.
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Accessing the Activity Monitor
From the Automation Center navigation pane, select Task Instances > Activity. The Activity Monitor displays task status information based on the settings in the Activity Monitor Selections Task Bar 63554693.
When you first log in to the Controller, the Activity Monitor does not automatically monitor Controller activity, since the Activity Monitor Automatically user preference value, by default, is set to No. You can change this value at any time.
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Instance Name | Name of this task instance. | ||||||
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Status | Current status of this task instance. | ||||||
Invoked By | How the task instance was launched. One of the following:
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Start Time | Date and time the task instance started. | ||||||
End Time | Date and time the task instance ended. | ||||||
Updated | Date and time that this task instance was last updated. |
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Activity Monitor Task Bar
An Activity Monitor task bar displays across the top of the Activity Monitor, which allows you to select which task instances display on the Activity Monitor.
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Time Constraint
The Time Constraint drop-down list in the Activity Monitor Selections task bar allows you to select a time frame for which you want task instances to display on the Activity Monitor.
The default time constraint, as specified by the Activity Time Constraint user preference, is 48 hours.
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Quick Filter
The Quick Filter menu in the Activity Monitor Selections task bar allows you to filter the list with simple, pre-defined criteria so that only task instances matching that criteria within the selected Time Constraint and any selected Filter display on the Activity Monitor.
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To see which Quick Filters have been applied to the list, hover your cursor over the Quick Filter button.
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Filter
The Filter field and Filter icon in the Activity Monitor Selections task bar allows you to filter the list with complex, user-defined criteria so that only task instances matching that specified criteria within the selected Time Constraint and any selected Quick Filter display on the Activity Monitor.
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See Filters for detailed information an applying and saving filters.
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Refresh
The Refresh button enables you to perform a manual refresh of the information displayed on the Activity Monitor.
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When you click the Refresh button, the button is disabled (the icon turns grey) until the refresh is complete. The Refresh button also is disabled if the Activity Monitor has not been started and is not monitoring activity.
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Activity Monitor Display Task Bar
An Activity Monitor Display task bar displays across the bottom of the Activity Monitor, which allows you to select which task instances on the Activity Monitor to view and how often the data for those task instances is refreshed.
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Settings
The Settings drop-down list provides the following selections:
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Hover tour cursor over Refresh Rate on the Settings drop-down list to select a refresh rate for the data displayed on the Activity Monitor (default is 10 seconds).
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Start and Stop Activity Monitor
Start and Stop buttons on the Activity Monitor allow you to start and stop the monitoring of activity on the Controller.
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| Starts monitoring Controller activity. The Activity Monitor displays task instances according to the current Time Constraint setting and any applied Filters. |
| Stops monitoring Controller activity. All task instances are removed from the Activity Monitor display. |
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Page Navigation Buttons
Page navigation buttons allow you to scroll through the pages of task instances that are displayed according to the current Activity Monitor settings.
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You also can specify a specific page number to go to (see Page Numbering, below). |
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Page Numbers
Page Numbers buttons in the task bar identify the number of the currently displayed page and the total number of pages.
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Enter a page number and click the Go button to navigate to that page.
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Displaying Task Instance Details
To display Details for a specific task instance displayed on the Activity Monitor, click the Details icon next to the Instance Name of that task instance.
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Displays Metadata for the task instance, including a status history. | |
Displays complete database details for the task instance. | |
Displays a list of all variables available to the task instance, including any variables inherited from the parent or embedded (sub-Workflow) Workflow of the task instance. |
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Issuing Commands Against Task Instances
Where applicable, you can manually intervene in processing by issuing a command against one or more task instances.
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