Key Terms
Child Job: A job that runs within the context of a parent job. Child jobs can have their own child jobs and tasks.
Environment: An Itential Platform deployment context (development, staging, or production) that contains isolated job and task data.
Job: A workflow execution instance that may contain child jobs and tasks. Jobs represent the execution of a specific workflow.
Parent Job: A job that contains and controls child jobs or tasks beneath it in the hierarchy. Parent jobs can be either root jobs or child jobs themselves.
Root Job: The top-level job in a hierarchy. Root jobs are not triggered by other jobs and have no parent job above them.
Task: An individual unit of work within a job that performs a specific function. Tasks can be Manual, Operation, or Automatic.
Task Requiring Action: A manual task that needs user intervention to proceed with execution.
Workflow: A defined sequence of tasks and logic that automates network operations. Workflows are executed as jobs.
Status Definitions
Active States
- Scheduled: Task is queued for execution
- Running: Job or task is currently executing
- Error: Job or task encountered an error during execution
- Paused: Job execution has been temporarily stopped
Finished States
- Canceled: Job or task was stopped before completion
- Complete: Job or task finished successfully