6. Management Jobs¶
Management Jobs assist in the cleaning of old data from the controller, including system tracking information, tokens, job histories, and activity streams. You can use this if you have specific retention policies or need to decrease the storage used by your controller database. Click Management Jobs from the left navigation bar.
Several job types are available for you to schedule and launch:
Cleanup Activity Stream: Remove activity stream history older than a specified number of days
Cleanup Expired OAuth 2 Tokens: Remove expired OAuth 2 access tokens and refresh tokens
Cleanup Expired Sessions: Remove expired browser sessions from the database
Cleanup Job Details: Remove job history older than a specified number of days
6.1. Removing Old Activity Stream Data¶
To remove older activity stream data, click on the launch (
) button beside Cleanup Activity Stream.
Enter the number of days of data you would like to save and click Launch.
6.1.1. Scheduling¶
To review or set a schedule for purging data marked for deletion, click on the 
button.
Note that you can turn this scheduled management job on and off easily using the ON/OFF toggle button to the left of the Job Name.
Click on the Job Name, in this example "Cleanup Activity Schedule", to review or edit the schedule settings. You can also use the Add button to create a new schedule for this management job.
Enter the appropriate details into the following fields and click Save:
Name (required)
Start Date (required)
Start Time (required)
Local Time Zone (the entered Start Time should be in this timezone)
Repeat Frequency (the appropriate options display as the update frequency is modified.)
The Details tab displays a description of the schedule and a list of the scheduled occurrences in the selected Local Time Zone.
注解
Jobs are scheduled in UTC. Repeating jobs that runs at a specific time of day may move relative to a local timezone when Daylight Saving Time shifts occur.
6.1.2. Notifications¶
To set or review notifications associated with this management job, click the Notifications ( 
) icon.
If none exist, click the Notifications link to create a new notification. Notification types include:
Email
Grafana
IRC
Mattermost
PagerDuty
Rocket.Chat
Slack
Twilio
Webhook
Refer to Notifications in the Automation Controller User Guide for more information.
6.2. Cleanup Expired OAuth2 Tokens¶
To remove expired OAuth2 tokens, click on the launch () button beside Cleanup Expired OAuth2 Tokens.
You can review or set a schedule for cleaning up expired OAuth2 tokens by performing the same procedure described for activity stream management jobs. See Scheduling for detail.
You can also set or review notifications associated with this management job the same way as described in Notifications for activity stream management jobs, and refer to Notifications in the Automation Controller User Guide for more detail.
6.3. Cleanup Expired Sessions¶
To remove expired sessions, click on the launch () button beside Cleanup Expired Sessions.
You can review or set a schedule for cleaning up expired sessions by performing the same procedure described for activity stream management jobs. See Scheduling for detail.
You can also set or review notifications associated with this management job the same way as described in Notifications for activity stream management jobs, and refer to Notifications in the Automation Controller User Guide for more detail.
6.4. Removing Old Job History¶
To remove job history older than a specified number of days, click on the launch () button beside Cleanup Job Details.
Enter the number of days of data you would like to save and click Launch.
注解
The initial job run for a controller resource (e.g. Projects, Job Templates) is excluded from Cleanup Job Details, regardless of retention value.
You can review or set a schedule for cleaning up old job history by performing the same procedure described for activity stream management jobs. See Scheduling for detail.
You can also set or review notifications associated with this management job the same way as described in Notifications for activity stream management jobs, and refer to Notifications in the Automation Controller User Guide for more detail.