Viewing Job Details and Job Tasks
 
 
 

Double-clicking on a job name (or selecting a job and choosing Settings from the Action menu) opens the Job Details page where you can view additional information about a job, including its associated tasks, where the tasks have been sent for processing, and their status.

The top of the window displays the following information.

Field Description
Name The name of the job.
Type The processing engine required to complete the job. For example:
  • Burn: The Burn renderer.
  • Command Line Tool: The Backburner cmdjob command-line plug-in allows you to submit batch, executable, or script files to Backburner as “custom” jobs.
  • mio: The MIO adapter is the processing engine responsible for carrying out transcoding jobs.
  • Wire: Installed with Stone and Wire. Can be used to import/export media, perform Wire transfers, etc. Also used by the Wiretap SDK’s background I/O tool, wiretap_bgio_tool.
Node ID The job’s ID as assigned by the Backburner Manager, and used in logs, etc.

The following table summarizes the contents of each tab in the Job Details page.

Tab Description
General Info This tab offers additional information on the selected job, including any error messages. It also includes the ability to set email notifications, and change the job’s priority.
Tasks The Backburner Manager sends the jobs it receives as sub-jobs, called tasks, to render nodes for processing. This tab presents the tasks associated with a job.
Server Assignment Presents the render nodes on the network assigned to the job.
Advanced Info Presents the job metadata sent by the client application to Backburner. Helpful when troubleshooting a job.