Tasks & scheduling
Quick answer
The task framework in SailPoint IdentityIQ: task types, scheduling, partitioning and monitoring background work.
Key takeaways
- Aggregation, refresh, reports and cleanup run as tasks
- Schedule tasks and sequence them correctly
- Partition large tasks across the cluster
- Monitor task results to catch silent failures
The task framework
Background work in IdentityIQ runs as tasks: aggregation, identity refresh, certification generation, reports and housekeeping all run through the task scheduler.
Scheduling
Tasks can run on demand or on a schedule. A sensible schedule sequences aggregation before refresh before certifications.
Partitioning
Large tasks partition across multiple hosts in a cluster to run faster and scale to big populations.
Monitoring
Task results record success, warnings and errors. Review them regularly; a silently failing refresh causes stale access data.
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Check your understanding
How do large IdentityIQ tasks scale to big populations?
- A. By disabling logging
- B. By partitioning across hosts
- C. By skipping refresh
- D. By manual runs only
Show answer
B. By partitioning across hosts
Partitioning distributes a large task across multiple hosts in the cluster.