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Chapter 20 Enabling Approval and Approving Jobs Using Job Approval
Approving and Rejecting Jobs
• Software Management. See Using Job Approval for Software Management for details
Prerequisite
Make sure the approver list is assigned to the application, before you enable approval for the application.
Note View the Permission Report (Common Services > Server > Reports) to check whether you have the
required privileges to perform this task.
To set up Job Approval:
Step 1 Select Resource Manager Essentials > Admin > Approval > Approval Policies.
The Approval Policies dialog box appears. You can enable or disable Job Approval for the following
applications:
• NetConfig
• NetShow
• Config Editor
• Archive Management.
• Software Management.
Step 2 Set up Job Approval for the various applications that support job approval, by doing one of the following:
• Select the Enable check box that corresponds to an application, to enable Job Approval.
• Deselect the Enable check box that corresponds to an application, to disable Job Approval.
• Select the All check box to enable Job Approval, for all the applications to which it is applicable.
• Deselect the All check box to disable Job Approval, for all the applications to which it is applicable.
Step 3 Click Apply to apply your changes.
After you enable Job Approval, two additional fields appear in the job schedule wizard of the
applications. These are:
• Maker Comments—Job creator’s comments.
• Maker E-mail—Job creator’s e-mail address.

Approving and Rejecting Jobs

Use the Approve or Reject Jobs option to approve or reject a job for which you are an Approver. The job
will not run until you or another Approver approves it. If no Approver approves the job by its scheduled
run time, or an Approver rejects it, the job is moved to the rejected state and will not run.
For periodic jobs, only one instance of the job needs to be approved. If one instance is approved all other
instances are considered approved, and vice-versa.
When a job for which you are an Approver is created, you are notified by email.
An Approver can edit the job schedule at the time of approving the job.
The e-mail displays these details: