Job Scheduling Overview

What's New:

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• Job Scheduling & Event Automation In A Heterogeneous IT Environment


• ActiveBatch Job Scheduling Scalability, Manageability and Integration


• Built-In Job Libraries For Scriptless Scheduling


• Active Directory, ADAM, Windows Security With Kerberos For ActiveBatch Objects


• Compliance And Control


• SQL Queries, Web Services, And More ACTIVE Variables


• Job, File, Resources And Variable Constraints For Improved Job Management Control


• Job And Plan Triggers Eliminate “Wait” Time For Job Startup


• Customizable Alerts Using E-mail, BlackBerry Wireless, Messenger, Or SNMP


• Load Balancing And High Availability Fully Integrated Into ActiveBatch


• Monitoring Enterprise Applications


• View ActiveBatch Job Scheduling And Event Scheduling Yourself

Job Scheduling & Event Automation In A Heterogeneous IT Environment:

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ActiveBatch® Enterprise Job Scheduling goes far beyond traditional “Batch Scheduling” systems that for decades were implemented on monolithic single environment mainframe systems.

Today, IT Processing requires that jobs may be batch or real-time and they must execute on or across more than a single system, triggered by events, date or time or triggered by a predecessor job status with minimal operator interaction and without experts using a Job Control Language to control the logic.

ActiveBatch Job Scheduling Scalability, Manageability and Integration:

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ActiveBatch's uniquely scaleable job scheduling architecture provides users greater manageability as well as flexibility and control for addressing job scheduling requirements across the Enterprise. ActiveBatch supports the reliable execution of job and plans on:

Linux (Red Hat & SUSE) IBM AIX Sun Solaris SPARC, x86, x64 Windows Vista/2003/XP/2000 32 and 64-Bit Window Systems

HP-UX HP Tru64 Unix OpenVMS

ActiveBatch is a proven job scheduling solution, designed to be customer installable and incorporates many Microsoft, Oracle, HP and other technologies to help organization standardize to provide the best balance for a reduced learning curve and cost of operations.

ActiveBatch’s high performance capabilities allow separate departments within organizations to share “private” job scheduling capabilities as a corporate utility inside or outside of the data center to avoid in advertent changes to objects. Directory Services allows for access via a Published name.

ActiveBatch is script language independent to allow jobs, scripts, exe's, etc. to be scheduled, monitored and ran based upon date and time, events or simply on-demand on heterogeneous platforms across domains and around the world.

Built-In Job Libraries For Scriptless Scheduling:

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ActiveBatch incorporation of Built in Job Libraries allows developers and users a “scriptless solution” for automating workflows. With ActiveBatch you can create and execute Database (e.g. DTS, SSIS, T-SQL, etc.) along with our unique job types (Secure FTP, Email, File Operations, etc.) using flow control with iterations to build into integrated workflows using job step(s) across a diverse group of applications and scripts.

Active Directory, ADAM, Windows Security With Kerberos For ActiveBatch Objects:

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Enterprise applications, such as ActiveBatch must provide a secure environment, which does not impose incremental costs of implementation and maintenance. ActiveBatch fully utilizes the Microsoft security model including Kerberos. Active Directory is fully integrated into ActiveBatch a core technology for IT security groups to manage and authenticate IT users allowing an organization to make full use of their existing accounts and groups for operational use day one.

Compliance And Control:

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Audits are an integral part of each ActiveBatch object and system and allow for the creation of policies that allow for the establishment of customized fields that may be set as mandatory or option on various modifications to the object.

ActiveBatch’s additional flexibility to compare the specific changes and approvals for each revision level to a previous or baseline change over time clearly identifies what has changed and the supporting documentation, such as approval levels, description of the changes etc. for each update.

SQL Queries, Web Services, And More ACTIVE Variables:

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Variables are supported in a hierarchical fashion to allow job designers to easily pass information between jobs. You may initially populate variables from a constant or from a wide variety of data sources. Data sources include SQL query, WMI's WQL query, XML file, Registry and more. Jobs can inherit plan variables and active variables may be used as a constraint.

Job, File, Resources And Variable Constraints For Improved Job Management Control:

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ActiveBatch uses a series of constraint or dependencies to control the workflow to ensure timely and accurate results.

Job And Plan Triggers Eliminate “Wait” Time For Job Startup:

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ActiveBatch supports the triggering of Jobs and Plans by Events, such as File arrival or modification, system startup, runaway processes or thousands of events that can be managed by our full support of Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) or SNMP

There is the option to use the completion Status of a Job or Plan to conditionally trigger additional workflows, based on the predecessor’s completion status. Specify exit code values, to test on, in addition to the general "success" or "failure" terms to trigger specific jobs or plans.

Easily interrogate Data by using Active Variables, allow specific Data to be used as alternate approach to trigger jobs.

ActiveBatch supports flexible date and time scheduling by the Calendar or using Fiscal Year.

Business Calendars can be associated with jobs or plans so days may be excluded and identified for previous or next day scheduling or allow them to run based on the next scheduled date.

Fiscal days and fiscal quarters can be specified (for example, last fiscal day, etc). Using ActiveBatch’s Date Arithmetic functions and built in interface to create specific Date Tags like EOM (end of month) or BOQ+7 (seven days after the start of a new fiscal quarter).

Customizable Alerts Using E-mail, BlackBerry Wireless, Messenger, Or SNMP:

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Alerts are issued to Operators and/or Administrators and are delivered by E-Mail (Emails are customizable and support attachments), Pagers, Phones, BlackBerry Devices, or the NT Messenger service.

Customizable Alerts now allow a job designer the ability to “provide” the alert text for any event action. Designers can specify your own text, including variable substitution, as appropriate. SNMP traps are supported as an alert action.

In addition, other jobs may also be triggered from one of the alert conditions or the Event Log can be written to on the Scheduler, Execution system or the Client system to be reviewed at a later time.

ActiveBatch enterprise job scheduling software allows for multiple alerts of any type or delivery using any of the mechanisms described above and allows the creation of Alert Objects. Alert Objects are used so that one or more alerts can be grouped together for each change management when personnel or situations change.

Load Balancing And High Availability Fully Integrated Into ActiveBatch:

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ActiveBatch Job Scheduling algorithms allow ActiveBatch to distribute jobs or plans across an association of servers, referred to as a Generic Queue, based on one of several algorithms to ensure that SLA’s are achieved.

ActiveBatch jobs can be restarted or restarted from the last good checkpoint on the same or even different servers based on availability.

ActiveBatch supports several High Availability options to address your organizations specific needs.

Monitoring Enterprise Applications:

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ActiveBatch a robust Enterprise Job Scheduling and Management application provides monitoring of key operational functions through its integrated support of several of the industries leading operations management solutions.

ActiveBatch Monitoring Solutions include:

View ActiveBatch Job Scheduling And Event Scheduling Yourself:

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Check out our Overview presentations or set up a one hour complete product demonstration over the Web to address your automation requirements and learn why the ActiveBatch job scheduler has become an industry leader for developing and providing a robust feature set with a reduced cost of operations.