topic Re: batch schedulers in Operating System - HP-UX

batch schedulers

Neil Wildenmann — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 12:30:58 GMT

I am looking for a batch scheduler to run on our Unix system. We are running
HP/UX 10.2. We are also using progress databases for our ERP package. Any
suggestions for a good batch scheduler.

Re: batch schedulers

Evan Day_1 — Mon, 10 Apr 2000 13:06:32 GMT

Well, there's always cron ;)

We use Maestro (from Tivoli Software) to run all of our scheduled batch
processing on production systems. I'm not directly involved with operations,
but it seems to do a fine job. They seem to be changing the name to Workload
Manager, but a search for Maestro on their web site comes up with lots of hits.

-Evan

Re: batch schedulers

Atif Malik_2 — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:48:51 GMT

Another good job-management tool is Autosys from Platinum Technology.

Re: batch schedulers

Dave Wherry_1 — Tue, 11 Apr 2000 13:04:04 GMT

I agree with using Maestro. I used it on a previous
job. Due to time contraints we just moved all of our
jobs out of cron and into Maestro. It gave us better
tracking of run times and completions and failures.
The next phase, when time allowed would be to start
using some of Maestro's recoverability features, job
restart and such. Take a look.

Re: batch schedulers

Neil Wildenmann — Wed, 12 Apr 2000 04:31:20 GMT

Thanks for the response, Has anyone heard of or used a batch scheduler called
COSBatch from OSM?