Simulation Job Manager (Flex Version)

Modify the default behavior of the Simulation Job Manager using the Preferences dialog box.

Attention: For convenience, the abbreviation SJM is used to represent Simulation Job Manager for the remainder of this page.

To access Preferences, click the icon in the upper-right corner of the user interface. The Preferences dialog box contains the following tabs:

• General
• File Transfer
• Local Solve
• Advanced

Each of these tabs is detailed in the sections that follow.

General Preferences

The General tab of the Preferences dialog box contains the following options:

• Launch on system startup: (Enabled by default.) This option causes SJM to start automatically when the local workstation is started. It is a good practice to leave this option enabled so that scheduled jobs are run even if the computer is restarted. If this option is disabled, SJM starts when Simulation Mechanical Flex is started.
• Block sleep mode during file transfers: (Enabled by default.) This option prevents the local workstation from entering sleep mode while file transfers to or from the cloud are in progress.
• Show tasks: (Disabled by default.) When running solutions on the cloud (Flex version), files are uploaded to the cloud, and the results are downloaded to the computer after solving. The Upload, Solve, and Download stages are indicated in the Status column of the List view when this option is enabled. Expand the Solve line to see the additional task data. Uploading and downloading tasks do not occur for local solutions. Therefore, the Show tasks option does not provide any additional useful information when solving a model locally.
• Number of days to show finished jobs : (Default = 7.) Jobs launched within this time period are listed under the Complete heading of the SJM user interface (unless deleted). Increase or decrease this value to show more or fewer jobs, respectively.
• Refresh rate in seconds: (Default = 5.) While jobs are running, information on the job status and progress is updated at the specified time interval. Increase this value to devote more processing time to the solution and less to updating the job status. When running solutions locally, network traffic from status updates is not a concern. Also, processor time needed for updating the job status is minimal. The default refresh rate works well in most cases.
• Number of seconds to show a notification: (Default = 10.) The amount of time that Notification messages appear on the screen. You can use this parameter to increase or decrease the appearance time of Notification messages.
• Number of seconds to delay file transfer at startup: (Default = 5.) If a file transfer immediately resumes when SJM is automatically started (during a Windows® startup), network errors can occur. These errors are often due to a delay in the initialization of the relevant network drivers and connections controlled by Windows®. Use this value to avoid network errors (by delaying when the Simulation Job Manager starts data transfers after the system is first started). This setting is only relevant when solutions are run in the cloud.

File Transfer Preferences

The File Transfer tab of the Preferences dialog box contains the following options. You can use them to control how files are managed between the local workstation and the Autodesk® storage service.

• File transfer chunk size in MBs: (Default = 5 MB.) The Simulation Job Manager divides job files into finite pieces called chunks. Use this option to increase or decrease the size of these chunks. Increase the size if you have a very fast network with high bandwidth. Decrease the size if your network is not as fast or if you are experiencing bandwidth issues.
  Note: In the event of a failed transfer (because of a network interruption or workstation reboot), Simulation Job Manager restarts from the last completed data chunk.
• Maximum concurrent uploads: (Default = 0 = no limit.) Use this option to limit how many jobs are transferred to the Autodesk® storage service at the same time. This is useful if you experience network or bandwidth limitations while launching many concurrent jobs.
• Maximum concurrent downloads: (Default = 0 no limit.) Use this option to limit how many jobs are transferred from the Autodesk® storage service to the local workstation at the same time. This is useful if you experience network or bandwidth limitations while launching many concurrent jobs.
• File transfer temporary folder: Specifies the folder on the local workstation in which SJM stores temporary files during file transfers. Change this location if you experience disk space limitations or would rather place the temporary files elsewhere.

Local Solve Preferences

• Minimum free disk space (%): (Default = 10.) When the amount of available disk space falls below this value, SJM issues a warning to let you know that your disk is nearly full.
• Block sleep mode during Local Solve: (Enabled by default.) Prevents the operating system from going into sleep mode while jobs are running on the local computer.

Advanced Preferences

• Verbose logging: (Enabled by default.) When this option is enabled, extra details are output to the Support Log.
• Show time details: (Disabled by default.) Enable this option to display the detailed time history of jobs while in the List view mode. The Scheduled Time, Started Time, and Completed Time are listed in separate columns. When unchecked, time information is presented in a single Time column, in which case only the completed time is reported.
  Note: The time details are always shown in the Details view, regardless of the setting of this option.
• Collect analytic information: Understanding how people use our products is an important tool for continually improving them. Therefore, we collect nonpersonal product usage information using Google Analytics. For this process to be effective, we need to know what product you are using and to understand that you are a unique user. As a result, unless you choose to deactivate this option, we collect the following information:
  • Number of jobs submitted by product
  • Software version used for each job
  • Where jobs are run (on the cloud or locally).

  This information is collected and transmitted when a job finishes.

  Note: We collect information regarding how many jobs are run and where they are solved. We do not collect any information about the jobs themselves, nor any information beyond the items in the preceding list. This information is not used to identify or contact you.
• Language: Select the displayed language of the SJM user interface.
• Reset Columns: Restore the default arrangement of the columns in the List view.
• Show Support Log: Click to view a log of all interactions between SJM and the local workstation. This file contains records of current and historical jobs for the currently logged-in user.
• Show Server Support Log: Click to view the job server log. This file records the job management activities of the job server, which is a separate Windows® service running along with SJM. The server support log is not user-specific.
• Text editor to use to view logs: Specify the locally installed text editor program that you prefer to use for viewing SJM log files.