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Monitor requests to the centralized installation manager (CIM) for previous versions
After you submit one or more requests to the centralized installation manager (CIM), you can monitor the progress of and view specific details about each installation and uninstallation request.
In the admin console, the Installations in Progress and Installation History panels provide you with information on the status of the installation and uninstallation requests that you submit to the centralized installation manager for processing. However, each panel provides you with different options for using that information to monitor and manage your requests. The Installations in Progress panel provides you with options to view and monitor the progress of each request. We can also cancel any pending requests from this panel. From the Installation History panel, you can monitor the completion status, delete the history records, and access the error messages and log files of each completed request.
- Monitor the progress of requests
Complete the following steps to monitor the progress of requests:
- Click System administration > Centralized Installation Manager > Installations in Progress in the admin console.
- Review the table for specific details about each request, which are described in the following list:
- Host name specifies the name of the workstation on which the request is performed.
- Operation specifies the type of request, such as install, uninstall, or install SSH public key.
- Package and Features specifies the name of the software package and any accompanying features that make up the installation request.
- Creation time specifies the date and time you submit the request.
- Status specifies the progress of the request.
- You may optionally cancel a request if it has not started. Select one or more rows from the table, and click Cancel Pending Request to cancel only the requests that are not yet started.
Review the confirmation panel, and click OK to return to the Installations in Progress page.
- View completion status and request details
Complete the following steps to view the completion status and details of requests:
- Click System administration > Centralized Installation Manager > Installation History in the admin console.
- Review the table for specific details about each request. The table that is displayed on this page lists the same descriptive information as the table on the Installations in Progress page, except the status is displayed as one of the following completion types:
- Succeeded
- Failed
- Installation completed, but errors detected
- Uninstallation completed, but errors detected
- Click Remove to delete the history records from the dmgr. Review the confirmation panel, and click Remove again.
- Click View details to view the log files and any error messages. A new page now displays any errors that might have occurred, and the links to the actual log content.
- Click the specific link to read the content of a log file. If you previously deleted the log files from the remote workstation, an error message is displayed. If you replace existing log files with new ones, the updated content is displayed.
- Click OK to return to the Installation History page.
What to do next
Return to the Available Installations page to resubmit a canceled or failed request, or submit a new request to the CIM.
In the case of certain failed requests, you might need to correct the error on the remote workstations before resubmitting the requests. For installations that are partially successful, examine the logs to correct the problem. We can manually complete the remaining installation steps. With this option, you do not need to resubmit the requests. Alternatively, if the failure state of the request is closer to the starting state, you can return the workstation to the starting state before you resubmit the requests.
Install packages using the centralized installation manager (CIM) for previous versions