Job, Task, and Node Status

Applies To: Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003

Jobs, tasks, and nodes have life cycles, each stage of which is represented by a status flag.

Job status and life cycle

The following table summarizes the job life cycle status flags.

Flag	Definition
Not_Submitted	Job has been created using job new but has not been submitted. Job has job ID.
Queued	Job has been submitted and is waiting to be activated (run).
Running	Job is running.
Finished	Job has completed successfully.
Failed	Job has failed to complete.
Canceled	Job has been canceled.

Task life cycle and status flags are identical to those of the job.

The following table summarizes the node life cycle and status flags.

Flag	Definition
Pending	Node has been added to cluster but not yet approved by administrator.
Ready	Node has been added to cluster and approved by administrator.
Paused	Node has been paused. When a node is in the Paused state, jobs running on the node continue to run but no new jobs from users without administrative rights will be started. New administrator jobs will be started.
Unreachable	System cannot establish a connection between the head node and the Node Manager service on the compute node.