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Viewing a Task

You can view the progresses and results of scheduled and instant tasks on the Task Center page.

You can view and manage the following instant tasks:

  • Creating DB instances
  • Rebooting DB instances
  • Binding EIPs to DB instances
  • Unbinding EIPs from DB instances
  • Switching primary/standby DB instances
  • Changing single DB instances to primary/standby
  • Scaling up storage space
  • Creating read replicas
  • Restoring data to new DB instances

You can view and manage the following scheduled tasks:

Upgrading the OSs of Microsoft SQL Server DB instances

Viewing an Instant Task

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
  3. Click Service List. Under Database, click Relational Database Service. The RDS console is displayed.
  4. Choose Task Center in the navigation pane on the left. On the displayed Instant Tasks page, view the task progress and result.

    • To identify the target task, you can use the task name and DB instance name/ID or enter the target task name in the search box in the upper right corner.
    • You can click in the upper right corner to view the progress and status of tasks in a specific period. The default period is seven days.

      A task can be retained for a maximum of one month.

    • You can view the instant tasks in the following statuses:
      • Running
      • Completed
      • Failed
    • View the task creation and completion time.

Viewing a Scheduled Task

  1. Log in to the management console.
  2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region and a project.
  3. Click Service List. Under Database, click Relational Database Service. The RDS console is displayed.
  4. Choose Task Center in the navigation pane on the left. On the Scheduled Tasks page, view the task progress and results.

    • To identify the target task, you can use the DB instance name/ID or enter the target DB instance ID in the search box in the upper right corner.
    • You can view the scheduled tasks in the following statuses:
      • Running
      • Completed
      • Failed
      • Canceled
      • To be executed
      • To be authorized

Parent topic: Task Center