Autosys

[Shivkumar]

Hi,

What is Autosys ? How are they configured and used ?

Thanks,
Shiv

[Mel Burslan · Accepted solution]

Autosys is a job scheduler in the series of Computer Associates family of system administration products. It is a glorified crontab in my opinion. If you are investigating your options, I'd strongly suggest staying away from autosys and use of a comparable but much better product called Tivoli's Maestro.

How to configure it generally requires a class of few days, not something one can help with a few lines of explanation.

[Rick Garland]

autosys is a enterprise scheduler. Can be very convoluted in its setup and configuration. I think it is a good idea but it can be massive in its scope and its configuration

Stay with cron.

[Arunvijai_4]

Hi Shiv,

Unicenter AutoSys Job Management
Enterprise-Wide Job Management
features at a glance

* Enterprise-wide job management
* A single point of control
* Integration with ERP packages
* Power, scalability and reliability
* Superior Visualization and administration

You can find more information at, http://www3.ca.com/solutions/Product.aspx?ID=253

-Arun

[John Surette]

AutoSys is an enterprise tool for job scheduling.

LOL - cron should be forgotten - step up to the 21st century, my friend!

AutoSys allows for complex job dependencies and calendars, min/max run time, cross/multi platform compatibility, full integration with Unicenter monitoring tools such as EM Console, service desk, etc, run windows, job terminators, one-time run only jobs...

If you are bound by SOX compliance/FIC auditing, it is a great tool for tracking as well.

We run AutoSys job scheduling for FTP jobs, DTS packages, business critical applications, file watchers, reporting - Crystal, MS, home grown...we run jobs on a global scale all over the world using Windows, AS400, and Unix OS.

If you would need business reporting as well - slap JAWS from Terma Labs into the mix for reporting on its histoprical DB. AutoSys does not keep a historical DB - we have it set for 7 days. I think you may be able to keep a year of data, but i would ask the vendor.

I hope this helps?

Thanks,
John Surette