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User Guide for Resource Manager Essentials 4.1
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Enabling Approval and Approving Jobs Using
Job Approval
Resource Manager Essentials (RME) applications, such as NetConfig, Config Editor, Archive
Management, and Software Management allow you to schedule jobs to perform their tasks. Job Approval
allows you to require that one of a group of users designated as job Approvers approves each job before
it can run.
Job Approval sends job requests through e-mail to users on a job’s Approver list. If none of the
Approvers approve the job before its scheduled run time, or if an Approver rejects the job, the job is
moved to the rejected state and will not run.
When Job Approval is enabled, applications that use it, require you to schedule the job to run in the
future, rather than immediately. Job approval cannot be enabled for jobs that run immediately.
A user with the appropriate privileges uses a CiscoWorks application to schedule jobs.
When you use Job Approval, different people can perform different tasks:
Note View the Permission Report (Common Services > Server > Reports) to check whether you have the
required privileges to perform job approval tasks.
For the new features in this release, see What's New in this Release.
You can select the log level settings for the Job Approval application using the feature Setting
System-wide Parameters Using System Preferences (Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > System
Preferences > Loglevel Settings).
Job Approval is also referred to as Maker Checker in a few places within RME and Common Services.
For example, in Loglevel Settings and Permission Report (Common Services > Server > Reports) it is
mentioned as Maker Checker.
Role Responsibilities
System Administrator Creates and maintains the Approver lists
Approver Approves/rejects a job, or changes the schedule for a job.