Collector Jobs

The Collector jobs button opens a drawer that lists collection jobs and their tasks across all networks in the organization. Use it to watch active jobs, review recently finished ones, drill into per-source progress, and cancel a job that is queued or running.

Opening the drawer

The Collector jobs button sits in the application toolbar in the top-right corner, near the notifications icon.

When no jobs are active, it shows a list icon labeled Collector jobs.
While jobs are running, it becomes a pill showing a spinner and the count, for example 4 jobs in progress.

Click the button to open the Collector jobs drawer.

note

The button is visible to users with the Network Operator role or higher. It does not appear in Software Central deployments.

Active and history tabs

The drawer has two tabs, each with a count:

Active — jobs that are queued or in progress.
History — jobs that have finished, including completed, failed, timed-out, and canceled jobs.

Collector jobs drawer, Active tab

tip

Jobs are not always run in the order they were queued. Prioritization depends on the characteristics of each job.

Job table columns

The columns shown depend on the tab and on whether the organization uses multiple collectors per network.

Column	Tab	Description
Triggered at	Both	When the job was queued. Hover to see the exact timestamp.
Triggered by	Both	The user who started the job.
Network	Both	The network the job runs against.
Collector	Both	The collector running the job. Labeled Collectors when a network uses more than one.
Job type	Both	The kind of job (see Job types). Filterable.
Tasks	Both	The number of tasks (sources) the job covers.
Status	Both	A progress bar for running jobs, or the final status for finished jobs.
Time	Active	Run time for a job in progress, or elapsed wait time for a queued job.
Queue time	History	How long the job waited in the queue before starting.
Run time	History	How long the job took to run.

The History tab replaces the Time column with separate Queue time and Run time columns:

Collector jobs drawer, History tab

Status values are queued, in progress, completed, failed, timed out, and canceled.

For a canceled job, click the Cancel details icon in the Status column to see who canceled it, when, and the reason given.

If a running job's collector is offline, a warning icon appears next to it: Collector is offline. No progress can be made until it's back online.

Job actions

Each row offers actions, subject to permissions:

Action	When available	Result
Job progress	A running or finished job that has tasks	Opens the Job progress drawer.
View log	A running or finished job with no subtasks	Opens the collection log in a new browser tab.
Cancel job	A queued or running job	Opens the cancel dialog.

Job progress

For a job with tasks, the Job progress action opens a drawer titled Job progress (or Job details once the job has finished).

Once the job finishes, the same drawer is titled Job details and shows each task's final status and run time:

The drawer shows:

A Task status summary with counts for queued, in-progress, completed, canceled, failed, and timed-out tasks.
A Tasks table listing each task. Queued tasks are excluded, and at most 1,000 tasks are shown.

The task table has these columns:

Column	Description
Task	The task description, usually the source being collected.
Status	The task's current status. Filterable.
Collector	The collector running the task (shown only with multiple collectors per network).
Note	Any note recorded for the task, such as a cancellation reason.
Current operation	The step in progress (network-collection jobs only).
Start time	When the task started, or not started if it has not begun.
Run time	How long the task has been running or took to run.

You can view the log for an individual task, or cancel a task that is queued or running.

Canceling a job

Selecting Cancel job opens a confirmation dialog titled Cancel this job?.

Enter a Reason for the cancellation, then confirm with Yes, cancel job.
For a running network-collection job, you can instead choose Skip remaining sources to stop the pending sources while keeping the sources already collected, or Abort all to cancel everything.

Canceled jobs remain visible in the History tab for two days.

Permissions

Capability	Who can do it
View the Collector jobs drawer	Network Operator and above.
View job details, logs, or cancel	Org Admins, Network Admins of the job's network, or the user who started the job.

A user without the required permission sees a tooltip explaining that they can contact the job owner or an admin.

Job types

The Job type column can hold any of the following values:

Job type	Description
collection	A network snapshot collection.
connectivity test	A device connectivity test.
device discovery	Discovery of devices for a network.
host discovery	Meraki host discovery, part of Cisco Meraki setup.
subnet scan	An end-host subnet scan.
collector upgrade	A collector upgrade.
collector extension	Installing or removing a collector extension.
end host scanner test	A test of the end-host scanner.
http endpoint test	A test of an HTTP endpoint.
dns connectivity	A DNS connectivity check for a DNS zone transfer.
dns transfer	A DNS zone transfer.
apply certificates	Applying trusted certificates to a collector.

Opening the drawer​

Active and history tabs​

Job table columns​

Job actions​

Job progress​

Canceling a job​

Permissions​

Job types​

See also​