Background Jobs in App Volumes Manager

App Volumes Manager has jobs running in the background. These jobs perform a specific task and run automatically at scheduled intervals.

The following background jobs run within App Volumes Manager:

• Import Storage Groups

  Imports volumes from any Storage Group which has auto import configured.

  When the Automatically Import Application Packages check box is selected, this background job runs as per the default or configured interval in the App Volumes Manager UI. When this background job runs, an ImportStorageGroupJob is triggered for every datastore in the storage group. The ImportStorageGroupJob schedules a background job for any .vmdk file present in the default storage path or any path that contains an application package.

  The Automatically Import Application Packages check box can be used when there are multiple App Volumes Manager instances using different databases, but having a shared storage or using an NFS datastore which is visible to all the instances. This check box must be enabled on the App Volumes instance that imports application packages from another instance.

• Refresh Domains

  Discovers and updates the state of domain controllers.

• Audit Vms

  Checks the virtual machine state and ensures that the attachments are in sync.

• Collect Logs

  Collects logs periodically.

• Expire Sessions

  Closes stale agent sessions and user-interface sessions that have been idle for more than 30 minutes.

• Fulfill Writables

  Checks Groups and Organizational Units (OUs) for new members and schedules creation of writable volumes for the new members.

• License Extension

  Checks for license extension.

• Marshal Writables

  Schedules jobs to marshal Writable Volumes

• Refresh Attachments

  Ensures that the volume for each attachment remains attached.

• Refresh Computers

  Ensures that the state of each computer is online.

• Refresh Machines

  Ensures that each virtual machine exists. Removes the virtual machines if they no longer exist and are not in use.

• Refresh Usages

  Refreshes application usage data at the configured interval.

  When the job runs at the scheduled Interval, Concurrent Usage data and Peak Usage data of an application and its packages are updated. A Last Updated time stamp is displayed for Concurrent Usage data which indicates the time at which the data is updated. For more information about application usage data, see View Application Usage Data in App Volumes.

• Remove Stale Storage Locations

  Ensures that each storage location (datastore) is online and accessible. Removes stale storage locations that no longer exist in the vCenter and are no longer in use.

• Replicate Storage Groups

  Starts replication jobs for StorageGroups.

  When the Automatically Replicate Application Packages check box is selected, this background job runs as per the default and configured interval in the App Volumes Manager UI. When the background job runs, a ReplicateStorageGroupJob is triggered for every datastore in the storage group. The ReplicateStorageGroupJob schedules a ReplicateVolumeFileJob for any package that is not present on the rest of the datastores in the storage group. The ReplicateVolumeFileJob is scheduled for each .vmdk file to every other datastore that does not have this file.

• Sweep Vms

  Ensures that each available virtual machine exists. Removes the virtual machine if they no longer exist.

• Sync Ad

  Verifies the state of directory service entities such as users, computers, groups, and organizational units and keep these entities in sync.

• Sync Instances

  Synchronizes application packages from the source App Volumes instance to the target App Volumes instance periodically at regular intervals.

  For more information about synchronization, see Configure Multiple App Volumes Instances for Application Synchronization.

• Sync Integrations

  Periodically synchronizes App Volumes applications to a third-party service when App Volumes is integrated with the third-party service.

  For example: When App Volumes Manager is integrated with Azure Virtual desktop, all CURRENT packages and certain application properties are periodically synchronized at the configured interval.

  If you do not want to wait for this scheduled job and instead want to immediately trigger synchronization for an integration, then you can manually synchronize App Volumes Manager with the third-party service using the Synchronize functionality.

  For information about integrating App Volumes Manager with a third-party service and manual synchronization, see Integrate App Volumes with Third Party Services.

• Synchronize Storage

  Synchronizes Hypervisor Storage on Hypervisor Multiple vCenters

• Update Timeseries

  Collects usage statistics for dashboard graphs.