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Deleting task results, Command line interface, Applying a time filter – HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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1.

Select Tasks & Logs

View Task Results, and select a task instance from the Task Results list.

2.

Click Stop. If the task instance is in a terminal state, Stop is disabled. If the

task

can be stopped, a

dialog appears, asking if you want to cancel or kill the selected task instance. If the

tool

does not signify

that the task can be killed, the dialog box asks you to confirm the cancellation of the task instance.
Killing a task attempts to interrupt any In Progress commands, while canceling stops Pending systems
from starting and enables any Running or In Progress commands to complete.

Related procedures

Running a scheduled task

Editing a scheduled task

Deleting a scheduled task

Printing reports

Viewing task results

Related topics

Scheduling a task

Task results list

Navigating the All Scheduled Tasks page

Deleting task results

Perform this procedure to delete

task

instances from the Task Results page.

NOTE:

When a user is deleted from HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM), any tasks that belonged to

that user are deleted as well.

To delete an instance:

1.

Select Tasks & Logs

View Task Results.

Select a

task

from the table.

2.

Click Delete. The task instance is deleted from the

database

.

Note: If the task instance is currently running, a message appears, stating that you must stop the running
task instance before it can be deleted.

Command line interface

Use the mxtask command to execute tools immediately and to schedule tasks for later time. Perform this
task from the

command line interface

(CLI). For assistance with this command, see the HP-UX or Linux manpage

by entering man mxtask at the command line or see the Windows command line help. See

“Using command

line interface commands”

for information on accessing the manpage.

Related procedures

Creating a task

Stopping a task

Related topic

Managing with tasks

Applying a time filter

Use time filters to decide when a task should or should not run by applying them to a

task

. Time filters can

be created, copied, edited, and deleted.

Time filters can be created by any user and are accessible to all users.

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