Automation Tasks

To create, enable, or disable automation tasks, open the IT Management Console and navigate to Angle​ exports >​​​Automation tasks​​.

Here you can schedule automated datastores or program/script files to run at a designated time/event. The datastores or program/script files are defined as a series of actions which in turn are linked to a task.

Your user privileges determine which functionality is available to you:

• You have the manage_system privilege:

  • Create, edit, execute, and delete all automation tasks.
  • Add, edit, execute, and delete actions.
  • Change the approval state of any task or action.
  • Change the Run as user of any task or action.
  • Schedule Angles from the Web Client.

• You have the schedule_angles privilege and you own the task:

  • Create, edit, delete, and execute tasks that you own.
  • Add, edit, delete, and execute all actions in that task.
  • Schedule Angles from the Web Client.

• You have the schedule_angles privilege but you do not own the task:

  • Create, edit, execute, and delete your own actions in any automation task.
  • Execute actions in which you are the Run as user.
  • Schedule Angles from the Web Client.

Automation Tasks Overview

The Automation tasks overview gives information on all current automation tasks. Click any column header to sort the contents alphabetically.

• Name - task name
• Run as user - shows the user that is assigned to the task. You can only perform actions on tasks that are assigned to you.

  Note: If a user with the manage_system privilege creates a task or action, the Run as user field is empty by default.

• Enabled - indicates whether the task is active or not
• Type - schedule, external or event
• Actions - the number of actions defined for the task
• Day - what day should the task run, if the task is a scheduled task
• Start time - scheduled starting time, if the task is a scheduled task
• Maximum run time - maximum time a task is allowed to complete (00:00 means no limit), if the task is a scheduled task
• Status - not started; planned; finished; failed
• Action - edit; copy; execute now; copy command; abort; delete

Tasks History

The Tasks history overview shows the results of executed tasks. For more insights on the usage of Automation tasks, you can use the relevant EA4IT templates mentioned in Angle Management in EA4IT.