Monitoring FTP Jobs

When you execute an object in Automic Automation, the corresponding task is visible in the list of Tasks in the Process Monitoring perspective. Process Monitoring gives you the full range of possibilities to monitor, analyze, identify, and remediate problems. It displays comprehensive data on active and inactive tasks, it provides tools to filter and group tasks. In this perspective, you can modify active tasks, open their reports, and execution lists and troubleshoot.

If you want to learn more about how to monitor your jobs, please refer to the Automic Automation product documentation at Monitoring Tasks.

Monitoring FTP Job Details

Go to the list of tasks in the Process Monitoring perspective.
Find the FTP task.
Select the task and select the Details button to open a pane with information about the task execution.

The General and Job sections of the Details pane display information about the object configuration and its execution. The Object Variables section displays information only if you have defined variables on the Pre-Process page definition. For more information, see, see Common Properties and Using Variables in FTP Jobs.

FTP Agent Connection

If the Agent stops working or loses connection, the Job execution stops but resumes as soon as the Agent is connected again.

Reports

When jobs are executed, Automic Automation generates output files and reports that you can open from the user interface. Combined with the Execution Data, these reports provide comprehensive information about the status and the history of your executions. This information tracks all processes and allows you to control and monitor tasks, ensuring full auditing capability.

Reports are kept in the system until they are explicitly removed by a reorganization run. During a reorganization run, the Execution Data can be kept. Keeping the execution data is an advantage, because reports can consume a large amount of hard drive space. Removing the reports from your database does not mean loss of important historical data.

The following reports provide a comprehensive insight into the executions of your jobs:

Report (REP)

This report provides information about the execution of the commands in the Job JCL. It contains all relevant information about the job execution and its results, no matter if it succeeds or fails.
Agent log (PLOG)

This report logs all the functions that the Agent has executed for the specific Job. It contains the summary of the job configuration.
Directory

This report provides the list of job output files that the job has created for this particular execution and that are available for downloading.

To Access the Reports

Do one of the following:

From the Process Assembly perspective
- After executing a Job, a notification with a link to the report is displayed. Click it to open the Last Report page.
- Right-click a job and select Monitoring > Last Report.
In either case, the most recent report that is created for the object opens up.
From the Process Monitoring perspective
- Right-click a task and select Open Report.
  
  The report of that particular execution opens up. Its runID is displayed in the title bar to help you identify it.
- In the list of Executions for a particular task, right-click and select Open Report.