Listing scheduled tasks

Use SearchService administrative commands to list the scheduled tasks defined in the Home page database.

To use SearchService administrative commands, you must use the wsadmin client. See Starting the wsadmin client for information about how to start the wsadmin command-line tool.

To list the scheduled tasks defined in the Home page database, complete the following steps.
Start the wsadmin client from one of the following directories on the system on which you installed the Deployment Manager:

Linux: [app\_server\_root](../plan/i_ovr_r_directory_conventions.md)\profiles\dm\_profile\_root\bin

Windows: [app\_server\_root](../plan/i_ovr_r_directory_conventions.md)/profiles/dm\_profile\_root/bin

where app_server_root is the WebSphere® Application Server installation directory and dm_profile_root is the Deployment Manager profile directory, typically dmgr01.

You must start the client from this directory or subsequent commands that you enter do not execute correctly.
After the wsadmin command environment has initialized, enter the following command to initialize the Search environment and start the Search script interpreter:
```
execfile("searchAdmin.py")
```
If prompted to specify a service to connect to, type 1 to pick the first node in the list. Most commands can run on any node. If the command writes or reads information to or from a file using a local file path, you must pick the node where the file is stored.

When the command is run successfully, the following message displays:
```
Search Administration initialized
```
Use the following commands to list tasks defined in the Home page database.

SearchService.listTasks() : Lists all Search scheduled task definitions (indexing and optimize) defined in the Home page database.
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This command does not take any input parameters.
```
SearchService.listIndexingTasks() : Lists all scheduled indexing task definitions defined in the Home page database.
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This command does not take any input parameters.
```
SearchService.listOptimizeTasks() : Lists all scheduled optimize task definitions defined in the Home page database.
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This command does not take any input parameters.
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Parent topic:Configuring scheduled tasks

Related information

SearchService commands

Scheduling tasks

Deleting scheduled tasks for Search

Adding scheduled tasks for Search

Listing Search tasks that are currently running