The Job Manager continually updates the status of all the analysis jobs in the model database. In addition, ABAQUS/CAE prints any error messages from the analysis products to the message area and creates diagnostic files in your current working directory.
You can monitor information concerning a submitted job by selecting Job
Monitorjob of your choice from the main menu bar or by selecting the job of your choice and clicking Monitor in the Job Manager. The job monitor dialog box for that job appears, as shown in Figure 18–2. You can display as many job monitors as necessary to view information on multiple jobs.
The top half of the dialog box displays the information available in the status (.sta) file that ABAQUS creates for the analysis. The bottom half of the dialog box displays the following information:
Click the Log tab to display the start and end times for the analysis that appear in the log (.log) file.
Click the Errors and Warnings tabs to display the errors or the warnings that appear in the data (.dat); message (.msg); and, for ABAQUS/Explicit analyses, status (.sta) files. If a particular region of the model is causing the error or warning, a node or element set will be created automatically that contains that region. The name of the node or element set appears with the error or warning message, and you can view the set using display groups in the Visualization module. (For more information on display groups, see Chapter 52, “Using display groups to display subsets of your model.”)
ABAQUS/CAE may not perform all consistency checks when it creates an input file, which can result in warnings or error messages during an analysis. If your analysis generates warning or error messages, consider running a Data check analysis (see “Selecting a job type,” Section 18.2.5) to diagnose and fix possible problems in your model.
Click the Output tab to display a record of each output data entry as it is written to the output database. In addition, if you requested that ABAQUS monitor the values of a degree of freedom of a particular node to the message and status files, the Output tabbed page records each time this information is written and the value of the degree of freedom at that point of the analysis. (For more information, see “Understanding output requests,” Section 14.4, and “Degree of freedom monitor requests,” Section 14.5.4.)
The information presented in the job monitor dialog box is updated continually as the analysis progresses. If the job fails, the Errors tabbed page appears in front of the other tabbed pages automatically to help you determine the cause of the failure. In addition, an exclamation point appears on the tab if any error or warning messages are output.
The job monitor is based on the current model database. If you start monitoring a job and then exit ABAQUS/CAE, close the current model database, or open a new model database, ABAQUS/CAE will stop updating the job monitor. The job will continue to run; however, the job monitor will not report the status of the job or update the increment information.
If you requested DOF Monitor output on a particular degree of freedom for a particular node, ABAQUS/CAE provides another opportunity to monitor the job by plotting the values of the degree of freedom over time. The plot appears in a new viewport that is generated automatically when you submit the job. If the visible part of the canvas is already filled with one or more viewports, the new viewport may be placed on a part of the canvas that is not visible; in this case you should tile or cascade the viewports or enlarge the canvas to bring the viewport into view. (For information on requesting output for a particular degree of freedom for a particular node, see “Degree of freedom monitor requests,” Section 14.5.4.)
If necessary, you can terminate the analysis job by clicking Kill at the bottom of the job monitor dialog box.
