About Job Types

A job type is a named set of properties and rules for processing all jobs within the job type. Job types usually refer to WMS and GIS events (such as Retrieve, Submit, Complete, Merge and Post) and are configured as a set of COM components containing the programming logic required by Bentley OpenUtilities Designer Server.

Job type records are defined in a table that is loaded with Bentley OpenUtilities Designer Server during implementation. Once job types are defined, the administrator can configure or modify the settings for a particular job type to manage job-processing tasks. These settings are selected using the Job Type Preferences dialog box.

Bentley OpenUtilities Designer Server is delivered with two default job types that support special features:

• Mail Agent
• Purge Agent

The Mail Agent

Bentley OpenUtilities Designer Server’s Mail Agent is a special feature that manages e-mail notifications when job types hang up or generate other errors. The Mail Agent is controlled by a repeating job type of the same name, which can be configured the same way as any other job type using the Job Type Preferences dialog box.

The various Run Parameters settings determine how often the Mail Agent checks to see whether an e-mail alert needs to be sent. For a given job type, the Mail Agent combines all notifications into a single e-mail and sends it to the specified mail recipient. Each subsequent e-mail includes only those errors logged since the Mail Agent job type was last run.

The Purge Agent

The Purge Agent automatically clears the entries in the Server Log Grid at regular intervals. The frequency of the purge depends on the number of retention days that are specified for entries during configuration. Two separate retention settings are provided—one for non-error entries and another for error entries. Note that repeating job types are not purged from the log.

Bentley OpenUtilities Designer Server is delivered with the following defaults:

• Non-error entries (displayed on the All page of the Server Log Grid): retained for 5 days
• Error entries (displayed on the All page and the Errors page): retained for 20 days

The scheduling of the Purge Agent is controlled by the run-time parameters of the repeating job type of the same name. By default, the Purge Agent job type is set up to run on a daily basis. As with regular job types, these settings can be changed using the Job Type Preferences dialog box.

The Server Log Grid can also be manually cleared by right-clicking anywhere in the grid and selecting Clear All on the shortcut menu.