"New" status not documented in the Job statuses table

[tleverresmith]

I am writing some code that checks the status of runbook jobs on an automation account. I was missing some jobs in my counts, and it looks like they are in an undocumented state.

The "New" status is used for recently submitted jobs and should be documented in the table for completeness.

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• ID: bf4da869-3f32-d2bb-d804-62679c1c3cbd
• Version Independent ID: 49ec3073-a31e-a0ab-882d-17d3a7a420b0
• Content: Runbook execution in Azure Automation
• Content Source: articles/automation/automation-runbook-execution.md
• Service: automation
• Sub-service: process-automation
• GitHub Login: @SnehaSudhirG
• Microsoft Alias: sudhirsneha

[TPavanBalaji]

@tleverresmith
Thanks for your feedback! We will investigate and update as appropriate.

[AnuragSingh-MSFT]

@tleverresmith, thank you for the feedback. Did you see the job remain in the "New" status for a prolonged period of time? Interestingly, I have never seen that status with my Runbook jobs (or I might have missed it).

@SnehaSudhirG, could you please review this feedback and share your thoughts. Thank you

[tleverresmith]

@tleverresmith, thank you for the feedback. Did you see the job remain in the "New" status for a prolonged period of time? Interestingly, I have never seen that status with my Runbook jobs (or I might have missed it).

The new jobs do not stay in that status for long, 10 seconds or so at the most from what I can see. I do not see the status when looking at the portal either, only when querying using Get-AzAutomationJob.

In my scenario I am using a Runbook to read a csv from storage and start subsequent jobs from that CSV after a few checks. I put in a limiter so it cannot start too many jobs at once. That limiter checks the status of previously started jobs for their status, to see if there is any room for more, and that is where I saw the "New" status on the freshly spawned jobs.