Basic monitoring allows you to view all the jobs submitted to Backburner, ensure jobs are being executed in the desired order, check the status of particular jobs, observe progress, etc. It is the starting point for all other interactions.

This section describes how to view all the jobs known to the Backburner Manager, their status and job details.

To find jobs and view their status:

1. Launch a web browser, log in to the Backburner Web Monitor, and connect to a Backburner Manager. See Backburner Web Monitor.
2. Click the Jobs tab.

   The Job list appears, showing all jobs on the system. Their status, progress, and other information is also displayed.

   

3. The following operations are available from the Action menu.

   Select	To
   Settings	Open the Job Details page for the selected job. See Viewing Job Details and Job Tasks.
   Activate	Resume a suspended job from where it was halted. Tasks that were already completed are left as-is, and are not redone. See Suspending and Reactivating Jobs.
   Restart	Restart a suspended job and all its tasks from the beginning, setting the job status to waiting. See Restarting Jobs.
   Suspend	Place the job on hold. See Suspending and Reactivating Jobs.
   Delete	Permanently remove the job from the job queue. See Deleting Jobs.
   Archive	Remove the job from the job queue and add it to the job archive. See Archiving Jobs.

4. To filter the list, type the word you want to match in the Filter by Name field.

   

   The job list is reduced to those matching your filtering criteria.

5. The following table summarizes the contents of the interface.

   Field	Description
   Name	The name of the job.
   Status	Current state of the job: complete: Completed successfully. active: Currently being serviced. suspended: On hold. idle: Not scheduled for service. waiting: Ready, and waiting to be serviced.
   % Done	The number of tasks completed, expressed as a percentage.
   Tasks	The number of tasks completed and total number of tasks.
   Priority	The job priority, from 0 to 100. Zero is the highest priority.
   Submitted	The time at which the job was originally submitted.
   Started	The time at which the job was started, in the following format: YYYY/MM/DD HH:MM:SS. If the job has not yet started, this field is blank.
   Elapsed	The time duration consumed by the task (HH:MM:SS).
   Type	The processing engine required to complete the job. For example: Burn: The Burn renderer. Command Line Tool: The Backburner cmdjob command-line plug-in allows you to submit batch, executable, or script files to Backburner as “custom” jobs. mio: The MIO adapter is the processing engine responsible for carrying out transcoding jobs. Wire: Installed with Stone and Wire. Can be used to import/export media, perform Wire transfers, etc. Also used by the Wiretap SDK’s background I/O tool, wiretap_bgio_tool.
   Owner	The owner of the job, and the host from which it was submitted.

6. Double-click on a job of interest to view its details and settings. Alternately, select a job and choose Settings from the Action menu.

   See Viewing Job Details and Job Tasks.

7. Click the Close button to return to the list of all jobs.