Monitor Recent Task Status

The Recent Task status includes all the tasks initiated from

VMware Aria Operations

. You use the task status information to verify that your tasks finished successfully or to determine the current state of tasks.

You ran at least one action as part of an alert recommendation or from one of the toolbars. See Run Actions from Toolbars in

You can monitor the status of tasks that are started when you run actions, and investigate whether a task finished successfully.

In the menu, click

Administration

, then select

History

from the left pane.

Click

Recent Tasks

To determine if you have tasks that are not finished, click the

Status

column and sort the results.

Option	Description
In Progress	Indicates running tasks.
Completed	Indicates finished tasks.
Failed	Indicates incomplete tasks on at least one object when started on multiple objects.
Maximum Time Reached	Indicates timed out tasks.

To evaluate a task process, select the task in the list and review the information in the

Details of Task Selected

pane.

The details appear in the Messages pane. If the information message includes

No action taken

, the task finished because the object was already in the requested state.

To view the messages for an object when the task included several objects, select the object in the Associated Objects list.

To clear the object selection so that you can view all the messages, press the space bar.

Troubleshoot tasks with a status of

Maximum Time Reached

Failed

to determine why a task did not run successfully. See Troubleshoot Failed Tasks.

VMware Aria Operations 8.17.1