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10 Job Control Management

10.1 Description of Job Management

The Dell Common Information Model (CIM) class extensions for supporting update and attribute

configuration job control are defined in the Dell Job Control Profile

and related MOF files

. The

diagrams representing the classes that are implemented by the Lifecycle Controller firmware can

also be found in Dell Job Control Profile.

Profile and Associated MOFs:

http://www.delltechcenter.com/page/DCIM.Library.Profile

10.2 Remote Job Control Examples

10.2.1 Setup Job Queue

The SetupJobQueue() method takes in an array of

jobids

and schedules them to run immediately or

at a later time. The

jobids

are acquired using enumerating

DCIM_LifecycleJob

as described in

Section 10.2.3. When there is a

Reboot Job,

in a job array that contains multiple jobs, the system will

reboot the UEFI (Unified Extensible Firmware Interface) at the scheduled time.

Invoke SetupJobQueue() with the following parameters and syntax:

JobArray: The

jobids

are listed in the

JobArray

element. Multiple jobs are listed in the order of job

execution sequence. If a system is to reboot at the scheduled start time, a reboot job will need to be

added to the list. This reboot job has a prefix of

RID_

for its

jobid

Note: Scheduling a job that is already scheduled will display a message indicating an error.

If there is no reboot job in the job array, the system will schedule the jobs for execution at the

specified start time. The jobs will not be executed until the system is rebooted by something other

than Lifecycle Controller. At the specified

UntilTime

, any jobs that have not been executed are failed

with an error indicating that the job was not executed in the specified maintenance window. For some

component updates such as Diagnostics, USC, and iDRAC firmware, a system reboot is not needed.

EXAMPLE:

wsman invoke -a SetupJobQueue

http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/

2/root/dcim/DCIM_JobService

?SystemCreationClassName=DCIM_ComputerSystem,

CreationClassName=DCIM_JobService,SystemName=Idrac,Name=JobService

-h $IPADDRESS -V -v -c dummy.cert -P 443

-u $USERNAME -p $PASSWORD -J SetupJobQueue.xml

-j utf-8 -y basic

The syntax for SetupJobQueue.xml is:

<p:SetupJobQueue_INPUT

xmlns:p="http://schemas.dmtf.org/wbem/wscim/1/cimschema/

2/root/dcim/DCIM_JobService">

<p:JobArray>JID_001249463339</p:JobArray>

<p:JobArray>RID_001265817718</p:JobArray>

<p:StartTimeInterval>TIME_NOW</p:StartTimeInterval>

<p:UntilTime>20100730121500</p:UntilTime>