Multi-task jobs enable you to create complex jobs consisting of one or more distinct tasks. Because multi-task jobs can run against targets of the same or different type, they can perform ad hoc operations on one or more targets of the same or different type.

The Job System's multi-task functionality makes it easy to create extremely complex operations. You can create multi-task jobs in which all tasks run on a single target. You can also create a multi-task job consisting of several tasks, each of which has a different job type, and with each task operating on separate (and different) target types. For example:

• Task 1 (OS Command job type) performs an operation on Host 1.

• If Task 1 is successful, run Task2 (SQL Script job type) against Database 1 and Database 2.