About the Discovery Tasks Panel

This topic contains:

Task Statistics
Task Status

Task Statistics

Task statistics are displayed at the top of the Discovery Tasks tab. Each cell displays in real-time the number of tasks that currently exist in that particular status.

Task Status

Example of the Tasks table with the default columns displayed:

The columns in the Tasks tab are explained in the following table:

Tasks Column

Meaning

Type

The task type. Can be any of these values:

Discovery Scanner (folder)

Indexer (folder)

Table Indexer

Relationship Scanner (folder)

Column Scanner

Cross Column Scanner

Relationship Analysis

Multicolumn Indexer (folder)

Multicolumn Table Indexer

Multicolumn Relationship Scanner (folder)

Multicolumn Relationship Key Scanner

Post Process

Name

The paths and names of the resources involved in the task. For Table Indexer tasks, also includes the number of rows and columns in the table.

Status

The task status can be:

Running—The indexing or discovery task is running.

Finished—The indexing or discovery task has finished.

Fail_Waiting—One or more of the task’s child tasks has failed but other child tasks are still running.

Failed—The indexing or discovery task has failed.

Cancel_Waiting—One or more of the cancelled tasks is still running.

Cancelled—The indexing or discovery process has been cancelled by the user.

End Time

The time the task finished. While the task is in progress, displays a progress bar for each task.

Duration

The duration of the task.

Time Remaining

The amount of time remaining in this task.

Rows Processed

The number of rows processed by this task.

Start Time

The time the task started. Not displayed by default.

Error Message

The error message if one was generated by this task.

Processing Time Remaining

The amount of time remaining in this task.

Owner

The user who initiated this task.

You can perform any of these actions in the Tasks table:

Expand and collapse the tree. You can use the + and - buttons to expand or collapse all branches, or you can use the down or right arrows to expand and collapse specific branches.
Get task details.
Sort tasks differently by clicking a column header.
Filter tasks.
Purge all indexes and relationships.
Open the Index and Relationship Task Scheduler to index or discover relationships for a data source.