Task Management

The task management table is a read-only table that lists data about tasks that are currently running within the Alert system.

Access the Task Management page from the left navigation panel.
To view task details, double click the row or click the view icon.

The following table describes tasks that you might see on the Task Management page.

Alert Task	Description

Alert Task	Description
BlackDuckAccumulator	When a Black Duck provider is configured, this task polls the Black Duck system for notification data, and writes that data in Alert to be used for processing distribution jobs.
DailyTask	This daily task runs the distribution jobs to send notifications using the Daily frequency set based on the settings in the Scheduling page.
BlackDuckDataSyncTask	In 6.4.0, this task only pulls data from Black Duck only once per day but Alert now retrieves Black Duck project and user data information directly from Black Duck rather than use the database tables in Alert. In Alert 6.3.0 and earlier versions, when a Black Duck provider was configured, this task pulled data from the Black Duck system in order to process distribution jobs. Before Alert version 6.4.0, this task polled Black Duck every 60 seconds for data.
PhoneHomeTask	Sends Alert usage data to Synopsys.
ProvidersMissingTask	Checks the list of providers and validates the configuration of each one. This task determines if a provider can be reached or not.
PurgeTask	Removes old data from the database based on the Scheduling page settings.
UpdateNotifierTask	Checks if a new version of Alert is available and sends an email to system administrators.

If multiple providers are configured, there will be multiple instances of BlackDuckAccumulator and BlackDuckDataSyncTask on the Task Management page Each Black Duck provider is associated with separate BlackDuckAccumulator and BlackDuckDataSyncTask tasks. To see which Black Duck provider the task belongs to, click the View button on the task row or double-click the relevant row.