User's Manual

52 Remote Services Operations

Using Job Control

Use this feature to do the following:

• Reporting all Jobs - Enumerate the

DCIM_ConcreteJob

class to report all

the jobs.

• Reporting scheduled Jobs - Enumerate the

DCIM_ConcreteJob

class with

a selection filter of JobStatus=Scheduled to generate a report of all the

scheduled jobs.

• Scheduling Jobs and Job Queues - You can run multiple jobs in a single

reboot of the system using the

SetupJobQueue()

method on the

DCIM_JobService class. If you create a job using the

CreateTargetedConfigJob()

method without setting the start time, use

the

SetupJobQueue()

method to set the schedule and order of execution.

If the start time was set in the

CreateTargetedConfigJob()

method, it

cannot be bundled with the other jobs, and the job is setup for execution

at the time that was specified.

• Deleting Jobs - Delete a specified existing job using the

DeleteJobQueue()

method on the DCIM_JobService class.

For more information on job control, see the "Job Control Profile" on page 67.

Scheduling Separate Jobs for Multiple Actions

To schedule separate jobs for multiple actions (in the following example,

BIOS and NIC update and NIC configuration):

Invoke the

InstallFromURI()

method for the BIOS and NIC firmware

update packages.

The method downloads the BIOS and NIC updates and creates a job ID

for each device update job.

Set the NIC attributes for a NIC (for example, Embedded NIC 1) and

create a targeted job for this set. The method returns a job ID.

Take these job IDs and use the SetupJobQueue() method to schedule

these jobs so that they are executed in the order specified at the specified

start time.

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