Re: Job Schedulers (preferably Open Source)
From: Kevin Collins (spamtotrash_at_toomuchfiction.com)
Date: 12/20/04
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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 17:13:47 GMT
In article <cq1qpk$1mb$00$1@news.t-online.com>, Wolfgang Gräper wrote:
> Kevin Collins wrote:
>
>> I am looking into a Job Scheduler to replace extensive cron use on HP-UX
>> and Linux systems. Last I worked with this type of product was at least 5
>> years ago, when the big 3 commercial products were Maestro, Control-M and
>> AutoSys.
>>
>> I would love to find an open source tool to do this, as I am not running
>> production batch scheduling (primarily monitoring and administrative
>> scripts).
>>
>> Features I think are minimum:
>>
>> 1) date/time based scheduling
>> 2) event-based (file creation, external trigger, etc) scheduling
>> 3) notification on success/failure if desired (prefer a script/command
>> trigger
>> to SNMP)
>> 4) job chaining/dependencies
>>
>> Features I'd like to have:
>>
>> 1) ability to run jobs against servers in NIS or LDAP groups
>> 2) ability to script changes to the schedules
>>
>> If anyone wants to share their opinions of software they've used and liked
>> (or not), or other features they regularly use (or not), I would greatly
>> appreciate it.
>>
>> And again, if you can point me to a decent open source tool or two, that
>> would be great.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Kevin
>
> We are about to publish some software to the open source community. That is
> we have not done that yet.
>
> One of that is a scheduler that may meet your needs.
> It is written in perl.
> It is basically event based. (It was written to react on input files for
> long running batch jobs)
> It has internal job chaining facilities.
> It does not support date/time based scheduling out of the box because I
> thought cron can do that better. However this can easily implemented.
>
> The open source archive shall be available somewhere in the beginning of the
> next year.
> But if you are interested it's no problem to send you a tar ball of the
> software as it is to look into it.
>
> Did you browse sourceforge.net?
>
> Wolfgang
Thanks for the response, Wolfgang. I would be interested in seeing your code
once it is released. I do browse sourceforge - in fact, I searched it for
schedulers before making this post and didn't find anything that would work.
What is the name of your project?
Kevin
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