About Job Manager

AdminStudio Enterprise Server 11.5 | Job Manager

Edition: Job Manager is included with AdminStudio Enterprise Edition.

You can use Job Manager to automate time consuming tasks such as package import, validation, conflict analysis, and conflict resolution. Job Manager provides:

Increased efficiency—With Job Manager, you can schedule common tasks—such as package import, conflict analysis, and conflict resolution—to run automatically at scheduled times (such as when system availability is highest), and no human intervention is required.
Enforcement of consistent business practices—Job Manager enables organizations to enforce consistent business practices in the deployment preparation process. It allows you to perform the exact same series of steps on any package before it is deployed in your enterprise, such as checking against specific ICE or ACE rules, and against a specific operating system.
Dynamic group content identification—You can create a Job that will perform actions on whatever packages are in a selected group at the time the Job is executed. You can schedule a reoccurring Job to automatically perform actions on the exact contents of a group without ever having to select any packages or create any new Jobs. This allows you to enforce consistent business practices on a group’s contents even as the content changes.

This section includes the following topics:

Job Steps: Tasks You Can Automate
Template Jobs vs. Custom Jobs
Selecting Contextual Packages in a Custom Job
Dynamic Group Content Identification
Conflict Resolution and the Software Repository
User Permissions and Job Manager