Job ID number is inconsistent or not advancing

Symptoms: Job IDs appear incorrect or the same for several jobs.

Cause: Sentinel saves the last job number as a key in the registry. This key must have write access permission for all the users using the system. If not defined for all users (usually full control for everyone for this specific registry key), then Sentinel cannot advance the last job ID and the job numbers remain the same.

Another possibility is that Sentinel can’t access the registry key at all. In this case, Sentinel assigns a random number as a job ID, but if there are many jobs, the numbers can sometimes collide.

Resolution: Add write permission to the Sentinelregistry key.