Job Details – Resources Tab

The Resources tab shows information about any resources assigned to a job or a job group. This tab displays the current and required system resource values, along with a column showing the resource status. In the case of a job or a job group that uses an agent list and has not yet been assigned an agent from the list, the current and status columns are grayed out.

The possible statuses for the resource are:

• Available – The resource is accessible. The job or the job group cannot use the resource until all its needed resources are available at the same time.

• Unavailable – The resource is not accessible.

• Waiting – The resource is not available because another job or job group is using the resource.

• Locked – The job is running. All listed resources will display the Locked status. A job cannot run until all assigned resources are simultaneously available. When the resources become available to the job or the job group, the job or the job group locks up its share of each resource until the job completes and the resource is released for use by other jobs.

  A resource in the Locked status cannot be overridden to release it but a user could modify the resource's definition to temporarily increase its limit and make more of the resource available to other jobs or the job groups.

The Resources tab contains these elements:

Resource Consumption

• Type – The kind of resource that is being used, Virtual or Agent.

• Resource Name – The name of the resource associated with the job or the job group.

• Amount Used – The amount of the resource's specified limit that the job or the job group uses. This number cannot exceed the number shown in the Amount Available column.

• Amount Available – The amount of the resource that is available to be used. This number is derived by subtracting the amount of the resource currently in use from the limit specified in the resource’s definition.

• Status – The status of a resource assigned to the job or the job group. There are three possible statuses:

  • Available – The resource is available for the job or the job group.

  • Waiting – The resource is not currently available. The job is unable to run until the specified amount (shown in the Amount Needed column) of the resource is available.

  • Locked – The resource is being used by the job or the job group. The amount of the resource being used by the job or the job group (shown in the Amount Used column) is unavailable to any other job or the job group until this job completes. No resource is locked up until all required resources are available and can be locked simultaneously.

    A resource in a locked status cannot be overridden to release it but a user could modify the resource's definition to temporarily increase its limit and make more of the resource available to other jobs or job groups.

Resource conditions

• Type – The kind of resource that is being used, Published or Custom.

• Resource Name – Displays the name of the resource associated with the job or the job group.

• Current – Displays the current value.

• Condition – Contains the conditional operators depending on the data type of the resource.

• Required – Displays the amount of the resource needed by the job or the job group. This amount is defined in the Resource Requirement Definition dialog.

• Status – Denotes the status of a resource assigned to the job or the job group. There are three possible statuses:

  • Available – The resource is available for the job or the job group.

  • Waiting – The resource is not currently available. The job is unable to run until the specified amount (shown in the Amount Needed column) of the resource is available.

  • Locked – The resource is being used by a job or job group. The amount of the resource being used by the job or the job group (shown in the Amount Used column) is unavailable to any other job or the job group until this job completes. No resource is locked up until all of the required resources are available and can be locked simultaneously.