Queue Monitor Widget

The Queue Monitor widget provides an overview of tasks statues per queue. The Monitor displays queues that you have permissions to view.

Screenshot showing an example of a Queue widget

The color-coded boxes indicate the total number of tasks per status in the queue:

  • Red: Aborted or abnormally ended
  • Yellow: Blocked
  • Blue: Waiting
  • Green: Active

The icons on the displayed on the right indicate the status of the queue. A red square for stopped and a green triangle for active queues.

Configuring the Widget

  1. Hover your mouse over the widget to view its toolbar.

  2. Click the setting icon to open the Settings pane at the bottom half of the widget.

    The widget is expanded to occupy the entire dashboard and allow you to make your changes. When you have finished, click the maximize/minimize button on the widget toolbar.

  3. The Settings tab is displayed by default.

    1. The default Title of the widget is Queue Monitor. You can rename it here.
    2. In Refresh Frequency specify the interval at which the contents of the widget is automatically refreshed.
    3. In Filter, you can restrict the contents of the widget to specific queues
  4. Click Save and close the pane.

Setting a Filter

Right-click a queue and select Set Filter to open the Process Monitoring perspective and filter the list of Tasks using the selected queue.

Starting and Stopping a Queue

Right-click a queue and select Stop/Start Queue.

Modifying the Queue

Right-click a queue and select Modify. On the Modify Queue dialog that you can change the following parameters:

  • Maximum Slots

    Maximum number of tasks that can run in parallel in this Queue. The default value is unlimited. You can enter a value from 1 and 100000.

    When an object starts, the Queue slot is reserved before any other objects are checked, such as Sync objects, available resources, maximum number of parallel tasks allowed for a particular object, agent, and so on.

  • Priority

    Objects are processed based on their priority. You can enter a value from 1 and 255, the default one being 200.

    The priority that is defined in the Queue object is checked before the priority define in the task. If two tasks have the same Queue priority, the priority that is specified in the task is used.