Interactive Mode vs. Batch Mode
Support Tools supports two primary modes of operation; Interactive Mode which is the standard
mode to use when querying a single system, and Batch Mode which allows you to query several
systems at a time for any of the specific tools.
Interactive Mode immediately operates on the currently selected system.
Batch Mode allows you to schedule jobs for multiple systems at any point in the future.
This section contains the following topics:
•Working in Interactive Mode, page 39
•Working in Batch Mode, page 39
•Pending Jobs, page 40
Working in Interactive Mode
Using interactive mode simply involves selecting the system that you want to query using the
Select System tool, then using any of the tools that fall under the Interactive Mode menu.
For some tools, such as System Interrogate, more detail is available in Interactive Mode because
the support tools server first queries the selected system to determine the additional types of
information that can be retrieved and presents these choices to the user. Whereas in batch mode
this cannot be done since several systems of different node types may be queried during a batch
mode process, and there is no user-intervention to select specific results from a server query.
Working in Batch Mode
Batch Mode allows you to query several servers at once by scheduling a tool to run at any time
in the future.
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