Monitoring background tasks

While background tasks (for example, a publishing job) are running, you can monitor their progress and their effects on server performance. You can also review the history of tasks that have run in the past.

Notes

• A publishing job will appear as one task in the Tasks list but may publish many documents. To view the status of individual documents, view the Publisher queue instead as described in Viewing the Publisher queue.
• Changes to documents in the source system (including references) will not appear in the destination system if the documents fail to publish successfully as the result of a failed publishing task. To determine why they failed, see Solving common problems .

To monitor the background tasks:

• In Meridian Enterprise Server Configurator, in the System Management group, click Tasks. The Tasks page appears and lists the background tasks that have been created and their status.

To filter the Tasks list by job status:

• In the menu, click the status of the jobs that you want to monitor. The list is filtered by the selected status.

To filter the Tasks list by job name:

• Type the beginning of the job name in the Job code box and then click the filter icon . The list is filtered by the text that you typed.

To filter the Tasks list by the name of the user that submitted the job:

• Type the beginning of the user's name in the User box and then click the filter icon . The list is filtered by the text that you typed.

To remove a filter:

• Remove the text that you typed and click the filter icon . The full list of jobs is shown.

To view additional details about a task, see Inspecting a background task.