Job Processor Overview

Learn about the job processor and how it reserves and queues jobs.

The Job Processor is a separate application that reserves queued jobs and pulls them from the job server to process them. Since the job processor is installed along with the Vault client, any workstation with the appropriate edition of Vault can be used to process jobs.

From the Job Processor dialog a user can pause and resume processing, set the Vault user account that is used to process jobs, and view the types of jobs that the Job Processor is configured to process.

Job Processor Dialog Details

Detail Description

Job ID

Displays the number of the job currently being processed.

Job Type

Displays a description of the job being processed.

Description

Displays more information about the job in the queue.

Status

Displays the current state of the Job Processor.

Status Bar

Displays the server name and the user account.

Processing Start Time

Time at which the Job Processor began working on a job.

How It Works

Jobs are submitted to the job server when:

Job Processor Licensing

The Job Processor consumes one Vault server license during the time it connects to the server to reserve a job. The Job Processor is not continuously logged into the Vault server while it processes the job and so the Vault server license it acquired is released. If a job being processed requires Inventor, an Inventor license is consumed while the job server processes the job and is released when the job finishes.

Basic Job Processor Tasks

Following are basic tasks you can perform with the Job Processor. 

Customize the Job Processor

You can customize the job types list and configure job check frequency, task scheduling, and other Job Processor functions to suit your work environment my modifying the JobProcessor.exe.config file.

Individual jobs are processed by Connectivity.JobProcessor.Delegate.Host.exe, a separate application, but the jobs are controlled by JobProcessor.exe.

Job Processor Customization Tasks