User manual
Table Of Contents
- NMS300 Network Management System Application
- Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Get Started
- 3 Discover and Manage Resources
- Discovery concepts
- Use quick discovery to discover devices on your network
- Use a discovery profile to discover devices on your network
- View and manage the wired and wireless devices on your network
- View device information
- View wireless device information only
- Modify the name, location information, and contact information
- Remove device information
- Synchronize a network device
- Log in to a device
- Ping, perform a traceroute, or reboot a device
- Use the SNMP MIB browser
- View and export the Inventory table and Interface List table
- Manage device groups
- Search for the switch to which a host is connected
- 4 Monitor Devices and the Network
- Monitor the network
- Monitor the top 10 widgets for all devices
- Customize the top 10 page
- View the wireless summary and monitor the top 10 widgets for wireless devices
- View device details and interface details
- Monitor wireless clients and view client details
- Manage the configuration monitors
- Customize the optional network dashboard
- View and export audit logs
- View firmware version information
- View the NMS300 server information
- View application notifications
- 5 Manage Configurations and Firmware
- 6 Manage Alarms and Logs
- 7 Manage Maps and Topologies
- 8 Manage sFlow
- 9 Generate and View Reports
- 10 Manage Jobs
- 11 Manage Users and Security Profiles
- 12 Manage Global Settings and Backups
- 13 Manage Licenses
- 14 Register Devices
- A Technical Specifications
- B Device Details
- 1 Index
NMS300 Network Management System Application
Manage Jobs User Manual257
Schedule jobs
The application supports regular and time-consuming jobs that are used for configuration and
management tasks. You can schedule these jobs for future execution on a one-time basis or
on a recurrent basis for batch operations.
The application supports the following jobs, which are scheduled when you complete the
corresponding procedures (see the section references in the following list):
• Configuration file backup. Both one-time and recurrent jobs are supported. For more
information, see
Schedule a backup job on page 131.
• Configuration file restore. One-time jobs are supported. For more information, see
Restore the configuration of a single device on page 138 and Restore the configuration
of several identical devices on page 148.
• Firmware upgrade. One-time jobs are supported. For more information, see
Execute or
schedule a firmware upgrade on page 165.
• Report generation. Both one-time and recurrent jobs are supported. For more
information, see
Schedule a report on page 250.
• Resource discovery. Both one-time and recurrent jobs are supported. For more
information, see
Schedule or reschedule an existing discovery job on page 47.
Output files from completed jobs are saved for the data retention period. For more
information, see Set the data retention period on page 271.
View and manage jobs
You can view job detail and status information. You can also enable, disable, and delete jobs.
For information about modifying or rescheduling jobs, see the section references in the
previous section,
Schedule jobs.
When you delete any of the following items from the Jobs table, the application deletes its
corresponding profile or template from its database:
• Discovery job.
You can create a discovery profile. For more information, see Add or
modify a discovery profile on page 42.
• Backup job.
You can create a new backup profile. For more information, see Add or
modify a backup profile on page 126.
• Report generation job.
You can create a report template. For more information, see
Manage report templates on page 243.