Creating a baseline job

You create a baseline job for one of the following purposes:

To mark the job or an asset as a baseline.

If you use the baseline feature for the first time, you create a baseline job and use the same job-run as a baseline. Or you create a baseline job and mark an asset from the job as a baseline.
To compare the records with the previous baselines.

You need to create baselines jobs to compare the assets with a job run or an asset that is marked as baseline.

You can create the baseline job for the assets for which the data collection and the evaluation is complete.

Note:

To view the Baselines view, you must assign the View Baselines task explicitly to the user to manage the baselines.

To create a baseline job

Go to Monitor > Jobs and from the Common Tasks select, Baseline Job.
In the Specify Job Name and Description panel, type the name and the description for the baseline job and click Next.
In the Compare with Baseline panel do one of the following:
- If you create the baseline job for the first time, click Next.
- If you already have a baseline created, select Compare with baseline and select a baseline from the list.
  
  Click Next and go to step 5
In the Select Platform, Asset Type, and Data Collector panel, select the platform, the asset type, and the data collector for which the baseline data should be collected.
In the Add Asset Scope panel, browse through the available assets and add the assets to the baseline job.

You can select one or more assets of the selected asset type as scope.

Click Next.
In the Select Fields panel, select the fields for the asset type.

The fields that you select in this panel are used to collect the relevant data for the selected asset type.

Click Next.
In the Specify Asset Field Filters panel you can do one of the following:
- Use the Edit Selected Statement option to edit the existing filter and click Next. Go to step 9
- Use the Delete Selected Statement option to delete the existing filter and click Next. Go to step 9
- Use the Add Statement option to create a new statement.
  
  The Add Statement option displays the Create Filter Statement dialog box. Go to step 9
In the Create Filter Statement dialog use the parameter type and the conditions to create a filter statement.

See Examples of asset filters.

See Filter statement operators.
In the Schedule panel, select any one of the following:
- If you want to run the job after the wizard closes, check Run Now.
- If you want to run the job at a specified interval, check Run Periodically and enter the following information:
  - In the Start On box, enter the start date and time to run the job.
  - Under Run periodically options, if you want to run the job only one time, select Run Once. If you want to run the job after specific days, select the number of days in the Run Every Day list box. Click Next.
In the Specify Notification Details panel, if you want to send the notification of job completion or job failure, do the following:
- Type the subject and message of the notification mail.
- Type the email ID of the sender and the receiver.
In the Summary panel, review the configurations for the baseline job and click Finish.

You can go back to the previous panels and edit the configurations any time.

You can go to the Monitor > Jobs view to monitor the current status of the job.