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Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise ships!

Submitted by Editor on Wed, 03/18/2009 - 9:32am
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Provides Job Scheduling Across UNIX, Linux, and IBM i Servers

Help/Systems, the world’s leader in software solutions for Power Systems running IBM i, announces the release of Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise, the enterprise job scheduling software. Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise extends the power of Robot/SCHEDULE, the job scheduling and batch job management software, to UNIX and Linux servers.

Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise allows users to automate job scheduling and event monitoring on their UNIX and Linux servers. Users control these activities from their PC using the Robot/SCHEDULE Explorer, Job Completion History, Schedule Activity Monitor, Job Schedule List, and more. Users can monitor UNIX and Linux servers for events such as the creation, deletion, or modification of a file or directory; whether a file is growing; when processes start or end; or even create their own manual events. These events then can be used for event-driven job scheduling in Robot/SCHEDULE.

For example, a file arriving on an UNIX server can launch a process on a Linux server, which can then start a job on a System i. Agent jobs—the jobs that run on UNIX and Linux servers—use three job scheduling objects: commands that need to run; an environment to run them in; and return codes to let the operator know how the job completed.

Users can share scheduling objects with multiple jobs on any system, making it easy to update their jobs. Instead of updating the settings for every job, users can update the scheduling object just once and each agent job that uses that object is updated automatically.

Robot/SCHEDULE Enterprise provides commands that run on agent systems to automate network processes when the Robot/SCHEDULE Explorer is unavailable. Users can send messages to other Help/Systems products, Robot/ALERT recipients, the Robot/CONSOLE Message Center, and the Robot/NETWORK Status Center. Users also can send a status message to a user, or a job completion message to Robot/SCHEDULE.

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