Job History

The Job History tab on the Orchestrator Keyfactor orchestrators perform a variety of functions, including managing certificate stores and SSH key stores. Jobs page shows a record of discovery, inventory and management jobs for certificate stores, SSH 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. servers, SSL TLS (Transport Layer Security) and its predecessor SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) are protocols for establishing authenticated and encrypted links between networked computers. endpoints and remote CAs. It keeps the three most recent inventory jobs, whether they have warnings, failed, or succeeded. Information on potential causes of the problem to allow for troubleshooting is provided for failed jobs. The small number that appears on the tab to the right of the title indicates how many failures and warnings there have been, if any, within the last seven days, by default, unless the job has been marked as acknowledged (see Handling Job History Error or Warning Messages). This acts as a reminder to check for failures and warnings. This number of days for reporting is configurable using the Job Failures and Warnings Age Out (days) application setting (see Application Settings: Agents Tab).

The Job History grid includes these fields:

Orchestrator The host on which the orchestrator was 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, the endpoint group name for SSL jobs, or the CA name for remote CA jobs. This field may be blank for some types of jobs. Schedule The time at which or frequency with which a job was scheduled to run. Add and remove certificate jobs, will show Immediately unless they were scheduled for a later time. Renewal and reenrollment jobs will always show Immediately since they don’t support later scheduling, as will fetch logs jobs. Job Type The type of job that was run and in some cases the orchestrator type associated with the job (e.g. F5 SSL Profiles Management, PEM File Discovery, Java Keystore Inventory or CA Synchronization).

Operation Start The time at which the job was run. Operation End The time at which the job was completed. Result The outcome of the job—e.g. Success, Failure, or Warning. Under some circumstances—for example, jobs that are still actively running—Unknown may appear here. Status The status of the job—e.g. Acknowledged, Completed, CompletedWillRetry, or InProcess. If a job shows as CompletedWillRetry, it has failed at least once, is automatically retrying five times, by default (see the Number of times a job will retry before reporting failure in Application Settings: Agents Tab) and cannot be rescheduled because it is still attempting to run. Message The message indicating the reason for the failure or warning, if applicable. Double-click the grid row or right-click and choose Expand Message from the right-click menu to read the error message in full.