Scheduled Jobs

The Scheduled Jobs tab on the OrchestratorClosed Keyfactor orchestrators perform a variety of functions, including managing certificate stores and SSH key stores. Job Status page shows all of the currently scheduled jobs for any approved Android, Java, Native, and SSHClosed The SSH (secure shell) protocol provides for secure connections between computers. It provides several options for authentication, including public key, and protects the communications with strong encryption. Orchestrators and jobs other than remote CAClosed A certificate authority (CA) is an entity that issues digital certificates. Within Keyfactor Command, a CA may be a Microsoft CA or a Keyfactor gateway to a cloud-based or remote CA. sync for approved Keyfactor Universal OrchestratorClosed The Keyfactor Universal Orchestrator, one of Keyfactor's suite of orchestrators, is used to interact with servers and devices for certificate management, run SSL discovery and management tasks, and manage synchronization of certificate authorities in remote forests. With the addition of custom extensions, it can provide certificate management capabilities on a variety of platforms and devices (e.g. Amazon Web Services (AWS) resources, Citrix\NetScaler devices, F5 devices, IIS stores, JKS keystores, PEM stores, and PKCS#12 stores) and execute tasks outside the standard list of certificate management functions. It runs on either Windows or Linux servers or Linux containers.s (SSLClosed TLS (Transport Layer Security) and its predecessor SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. jobs only appear while they are in progress). At a glance, you can see what discovery, inventory, management, and synchronization jobs are scheduled for all the active orchestrators that can communicate with Keyfactor Command.

The Orchestrator Job Status grid includes these fields:

Orchestrator

The host on which the orchestrator is running.

Target

The target machine name followed by the path and file name to the certificate store on the target machine for many types of jobs. This field may be blank for some types of jobs.

Schedule

The time at which or frequency with which a job will run. Add and remove certificate jobs will show Immediately unless they have been scheduled for a later time. Renewals and ODKG (on-device key generation, formerly reenrollment) will always show Immediately since these can’t be scheduled for a later time. SSL jobs will always show Immediately since they only appear in the grid while they are in progress.

Job Type

The type of job—e.g. inventory, discovery, management (add and remove certificate), synchronization.

Requested

The date and time when the job was configured or updated.

The operations available on the Scheduled jobs tab are:

To unschedule a job, highlight the row for the job in the orchestrator job status grid and click Unschedule at the top of the grid or right-click the job in the grid and choose Unschedule from the right-click menu.

To unschedule multiple jobs, do a search for the jobs you wish to unschedule (e.g. JobType -contains "Discovery") and click Unschedule All Jobs at the top of the grid.

If an inventory job for a certificate store is unscheduled, all instances of that job will be removed (as opposed to just the next inventory job) and that store will not be inventoried again until another inventory job is scheduled for it on the Certificate Stores page.

Tip:  SSL discovery and monitoring jobs and SSH synchronization jobs cannot be unscheduled from this page—this should be done in SSL and SSH management instead (see SSL Discovery and SSH Server Group Operations).

Figure 341: Orchestrator Job Status Scheduled Jobs