Understanding the results of execution

One thing that you may have noticed is that after running the job, the entries were marked with a green tick, as shown in the following diagram:

Ticks indicating the result of the execution

These ticks indicate that the entries ran successfully. In general, every single entry in a job ends with a result: success or failure. Let's perform a simple test to see the options, as follows:

  1. Double-click on the Ping a host entry and change the host to an invalid one. Adding a special character will be enough; for instance, you can type google.com@.
  2. Close the window, save the job, and run it.
  3. This time, the

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