Examples of How a Job is Created

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Example 1 Example 2 Example 3

Example 1

Assign a computer to a configuration group through the helpdesk system.

Table EmpExtSubscribers

ID Name ExpirationDate
1 HelpDesk 09.10.2008

Table EmpTaskQueue

ID ID_EmpExtSubscribers Priority Name ActionType ActionCode TargetObjectType
42 1 NULL Client1 5 10 1
Status AllOrNothing InsertTimeStamp ErrorCode ErrorText LastUpdate
1 NULL 16.11.2007 15:51:40 NULL NULL  

Table EmpTaskParam

ID ID_EmpTaskQueue Name Value ParentID Sequence HasChildren
129 42 ClientName Client1 0 0 0
130 42 Domain Matrix42 0 0 0
131 42 GroupPath Matrix42/sales 0 0 0

Example 2

Activate a computer to be able to install the assigned software.

Table EmpExtSubscribers

ID Name ExpirationDate
1 HelpDesk 09.10.2008

Table EmpTaskQueue

ID ID_EmpExtSubscribers Priority Name ActionType ActionCode TargetObjectType
43 1 NULL Client1 5 20 1
Status AllOrNothing InsertTimeStamp ErrorCode ErrorText LastUpdate
1 NULL 16.11.2007 15:51:40 NULL NULL  

Table EmpTaskParam

ID ID_EmpTaskQueue Name Value ParentID Sequence HasChildren
132 43 ClientName Client1 0 0 0
133 43 Domain Matrix42 0 0 0
134 43 GroupPath Matrix42/sales 0 0 0

Example 3

Modify values for a Computer type variable with a user-defined control through the action Change variable value for computer. The following screenshot shows the variable definition in Empirum for this example:

EIS

In the example above, the Computer type variable is a printer with a user-defined control; such user-defined controls contain many variables which belong to a parent variable. As shown in the screenshot, the Printer variable includes the variables Name, Port and Host.

The following example shows how the values for the variables Name and Port are set:

Table EmpExtSubscribers

ID Name ExpirationDate
1 HelpDesk 09.10.2008

Table EmpTaskQueue

ID ID_EmpExtSubscribers Priority Name ActionType ActionCode TargetObjectType
44 1 NULL Client1 5 2 1
Status AllOrNothing InsertTimeStamp ErrorCode ErrorText LastUpdate
1 NULL 16.11.2007 15:51:40 NULL NULL  

Table EmpTaskParam

Complex example:

ID ID_EmpTaskQueue Name Value ParentID Sequence HasChildren
135 44 ClientName Client1 0 0 0
136 44 Domain Matrix42 0 0 0
137 44 VariableName Printer 0 0 1
138 44 VariableType Computer Variable 137 0 0
139 44 VariableName Name 137 1 1
140 44 VariableType Computer Variable 139 0 0
141 44 VariableValue Copier 139 1 0
142 44 VariableName Port 137 2 1
143 44 VariableType Computer Variable 142 0 0
144 44 VariableValue 515 142 1 0

Simple example:

ID ID_EmpTaskQueue Name Value ParentID Sequence HasChildren
1 1 ClientName Client1 0 0 0
2 1 Domain Matrix42 0 0 0
3 1 VariableName _MTE 0 0 1
4 1 VariableType Computer
Variable		 3 0 0
5 1 VariableValue MTE-Test 3 0 0

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