How to View timer job status
in SharePoint 2013
Description : A timer job runs a specific Windows service for
SharePoint 2013. The timer job contains a definition of the service to run and
specifies how frequently the service is started. The SharePoint Timer Service
runs timer jobs. Many features in SharePoint 2013 rely on timer jobs to run
services according to a schedule. You can view the status of timer jobs that
have been run by using the Central Administration website or Windows Power
Shell
To view
timer job status by using Central Administration
1. Verify that the user account that is
performing this procedure is a member of the Farm Administrators group.
2. In Central Administration, on the home
page, click Monitoring.
3. On the Monitoring page, in the Timer Jobs section,
click Check job status.
4. Timer job status is divided into three
groups: Scheduled,
Running,
and History.
To page through the timer job status data rows, click the paging arrows at the
bottom of these groups.
5. To view the timer job status for a
specific group, click the title of the group. Or, in the Quick Launch, click Scheduled Jobs, Running Jobs, or Job History.
To view
timer job status by using Windows Power Shell
1. Verify that you have the following
memberships:
·
securityadmin fixed server role on the SQL Server
instance.
·
db_owner fixed database role on all databases
that are to be updated.
·
Administrators
group on the server on which you are running the Windows PowerShell cmdlets.
An
administrator can use the Add-SPShellAdmin
cmdlet to grant permissions.
1.
On
the Start
menu, click All Programs.
2.
Click
Microsoft SharePoint
2013 Products.
3.
Click
SharePoint 2013
Management Shell.
4.
At
the Windows PowerShell command prompt, type the following command:
Get-SPTimerJob -Identity <SPTimerJobPipeBind> | Format-Table
DisplayName,Id,LastRunTime,Status
Where <SPTimerJobPipeBind>
can be a valid GUID, in the form 12345678-90ab-cdef-1234-567890bcdefgh; a valid
name of a timer job (for example, TimerJob1); or an instance of a valid
SPTimerJob object.
You can use the value of the Identity parameter to
specify a timer job. If you do not use the Identity parameter, all timer jobs are
returned.
To view the history of a
specific timer job, type the following command:
(Get-SPTimerJob -Identity <SPTimerJobPipeBind>).HistoryEntries | Format-Table -Property Status,StartTime,EndTime,ErrorMessage
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