after upgrading to ncm 5.5.2 I've lost some of the scheduled jobs

all jobs seem to still be located within the windows "scheduled tasks" and the actual jobs are listed in the proper folder (D:\Program Files\Solarwinds\Configuration Management\Jobs) but some jobs simply do not appear in NCM.

NCM 5.5.2

NPM 9.5 SLX

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docwhite

A KB article discusses an issue involving deprecated support for nonalphanumeric characters in naming scheduled jobs in NCM 5.5.2.

If your disappeared jobs were custom and named with special characters, checkout: http://support.solarwinds.com/kbase/ProblemDetail.cfm?ID=1376

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chuco

What server OS are you running 2003 or 2008?

deans701

server 2003.

deans701

another note of interest. I started the jobs residing in the microsoft scheduled tasks window and they showed up as "started" in the ncm web page.

chris.lapoint

Please go ahead and create a support ticket and we'll investigate this further.

viol8tor

I had the same problem and it was due to an "architectural" change within NCM.

NCM no longer supports "special" characters in the scheduled job name.

So, every one of my previously scheduled tasks with a "-" in it would not show up in the NCM Task Scheduler Console.

The solution is to remove the special characters from the <ConfigMgmtJob Name="xxxxxx", in every xxxx.ConfigMgmtJob file, found in your ..\Solarwinds\Configuration Management\Jobs folder.

You'll have to re-enable each job, which will subsequently create a new scheduled task. - Delete the old scheduled task in Windows Task Scheduler.

Yippy Skippy

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docwhite

A KB article discusses an issue involving deprecated support for nonalphanumeric characters in naming scheduled jobs in NCM 5.5.2.

If your disappeared jobs were custom and named with special characters, checkout: http://support.solarwinds.com/kbase/ProblemDetail.cfm?ID=1376

DPW